Pioneer Iowan Moir to Plow Fifty Years in Garden
Eldora note profiles William J. Moir a long time Hardin County lawyer born in 1830s who began spring plowing in 1855 and has served as insanity commissioner treasurer of local I.C.O. nine for decades and helped build Iowa Industrial School. Also mentions 50 silk shirt waists from $9.98 at Brown's direct from New York.
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Eldora
William J. Moir
Iowa
Moir
Hardin County
I. C.0
Iowa Industrial School
Brown’s
Direct Front
New York
The Editor in Our Town Divinely Feared and Praised
A poem by Rev George W Crofts extols the editor as a tireless, unsung hero who bears the burdens of truth, guides battles for justice, and lights men’s paths, while quietly laboring for a community newspaper. The piece ends with a shoe department note and Delft souvenirs.
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Hamdsomte
Royal Niue Delft
Mills Along the Hardin River Chronicle County Losses
A reminiscence traces failed and surviving mills along the Hardin County Town River. It catalogs Alden, Eagle City, Hardin City, Rice, Steam boat Rock, Eldora, Nenia, and Union mills, noting dams, floods, fires, and changing ownership. The piece contrasts hopeful early ventures with destructive ice and high water, leaving many sites abandoned or ruined.
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Hardin County
Our
Alden
Lowa Falls
Henry Alden
Sumner Kemp
G. M. Woodbury
Marshalltown
Winch
Jno. Fossler
Ackley
Hardin City
Hayden
Rice
Lathrop
Eldora Mills
Wright Brothers
Brown & Temple
Nenia
U'nele
John G. Parham
Ms. Lorenz
William Patton
Postmaster Haecker Dies From Blood Poisoning
Hamp ton postmaster T J Haecker died of blood poisoning after a sliver puncture on his finger. A former school teacher and county superintendent, he edited the Hampton Chronicle for four years before being named postmaster, a role he held for over seven years. News ends with an advertisement for silk shirt waists from Brown's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Haecker
Hampton
Waecker
Hlumpton Chronicle
Wampton
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Herald
Hardin County Teachers
Acckley
Christiana Althouse
Carrie Fossler
Grace Ermish
Mae Toole
Letta Slater
Bertha Heinz
Rosetta Sprung
Pear Louck
Alphretta Louck
Ella Lutterman
Emma Awe
Maude Harris
Daisy Keyser
Mayme Kane
Addie Whipple
Beulah Kellogg
Fay Bigelow
Maggie Lutterman
Jennie Miller
Mabel Olson
Lillian Porter
Emma Wachter
Lena Wachter
Margaret Geary
Olive Shepard
Buckrye
Luella Kinney
Expona
Catherine Aylesworth
Ida Allshouse
Jeanette Cobb
Mildred Smith
Mabel Collins
Elpha
Landes
Garden Crvy
Mrs. & M. Johnson
Regina Vallem
FORD
Florence McDonald
Clara Marling
A. R R. Miller
Lillian M. Wright
Mayme Daniels
Susie Sharpe
Mabel Witmer
Estell McMillen
Nina Smuck
Ethel Speers
Mabel Sterns
Nelle Walker
Islethera White
Maude Weaver
Ethel Evers
Ethel Price
Ora King
Ettie Marling
Cartha H. Bryson
New Providence
Della Kavender
Lottie Gibbs
Hannah Howard
Della Winslow
Elizabeth Lundy
C. A. Norman
L. B. Mills
Florence Morris
Cora L. Duane
Waldo Reece
Fannie Park
Owasas
Sadie Adams
Leonard Knight
RaAvcLirvve
Lesther Bateson
Mabel Jones
Carrie Jones
Mildred Hiscrodt
Mrs. Almary
Florence Alcorn
Alberta Grobe
Ropertson
Myrtle Hathaway
Bess Strahorn
Steamboat Rock
Mary Neessen
Lottie Cartwright
Ciella Sfinster
Chrissie Sharpshair
Dora Wickham
Union
Anna Boylan
Coral Hall
Mabel Miller
Cleora Lepley
Lillie Lepley
Inez Lovell
Lil
Scroll of Fame
Ruti
Pihiok Tt
George W. Crofts
Foote
Besi
Ben Talbot
Town Falls
White’s Mill
Iowa Walls
Simonds
John Barrett
Kelley & Son
Rocksylvania
Eagle City
Mgr. Kidwiler
Sanderson
Gifford
Union Mill
Murdin County
Brown Dry Goods Company
Lebee
Bes Clo Obe
Worth
Style Supreme
Eldora Exclusive Dry Goods
Your. B. ‘King
the Citizens Bank
L. W. Harris
Haecker
Royal Baking Powder CO
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