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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1904
Page
8
Herald contributors share brief notes on neighbors and happenings across Alden and nearby areas. seeds, new wagons, farm names, moves, church activities, and visits are mentioned along with scattered township mileage and telephone company data. officials and residents are identified by name, with multiple towns and farms noted.
Paullina resident Wilbur Barnard visits parental home while Ed Nelson hosts over Sunday guests. J H Merrick returns from a week at the St Louis Exposition. W A Wentworth back in Oskaloosa after a relatives visit. Eldora residents enjoy a checker contest at R Collins home. E A Osborne adds 16 by 24 foot addition to farm house with John Blair doing mason work. J D Rash and family call Eldora Friday and visit Emery Adams north of Zearing Sunday. J S Kersey and wife visit C D Martins. C A Rubottom and family attend Grant Center church.
Damaged OCR lists tele phone company assessments by county and township. It cites Eldora and Owuss Telephone Co and Eldora Rough Woods Point Pleasant lines with mileage values per mile and total values, plus several township and district allocations across Jackson and Pleasant townships and various road and wire districts.
Herald recalls the first term of Hardin County court held in Eldora in October 1854 with Judge C I McFarland and officials listed. Grand and petit jurors named include Cyrus Bowen and Leonidas Smith. some jurors and the town’s founder Thos Bennett are noted as deceased or living in later years. One Minute Cough Cure advertises quick cough relief by Smith & Reed.
A weekly miscellany from Eldora detailing social and business movements. Highlights include visits by F. T. Clampitt from Prov Detree, Elmer Estabrook from Steamboat Rock, and Miss Mabel Nichols from Wellsburg visiting relatives. county and church officials in town. trips to Des Moines and St. Louis for fairs and conferences. farm, auctioneering, and railroad news. and notes on residents’ comings and goings across nearby towns and states.
Mrs Moir shows steady recovery under a doctor’s care after a taxing world fair visit. Sumner Hall of Chicago and his wife and daughter stayed with relatives here before traveling to St Louis to see exhibits. Hall, born in Eldora, excels in the engineering department of the C N W Railway. Burdock Blood Bitters promoted as a cure for dyspepsia.
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