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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
5
Local items list shipments sales and visits around Eldora including Brown’s department store offers coats hats and dresses, Miss Maud Garrels returns home, marriages and licenses issued, and Cornell College students invited to join societies. Community theater, fraternal memberships, and civic plans appear amid varied notices from Oct. 1920 era.
An assorted page of local commerce lists Dr Horton near First National Bank and a string of bargains. It promotes 200 ladies cloaks priced five to twenty five dollars, Cap Cod cranberries at ten cents a quart, linen waists at 175 each, Virginia sweet potatoes at 25 cents for seven pounds, a sale on a $45 graphophone dropping daily to 28, and Hickory Hut washed eggs sold by Davis and Moser.
SPECIAL ATTENTION is being given by our institutions to banking by mail. We have customers across the United States who use Uncle Sam's mail service to handle checks, keep money, and accrue interest. Endorse checks to the bank and mail them for prompt credit and receipts, with rubber stamps available for large amounts. Harpin County SAVINGS BANK and Harpin County NATIONAL BANK invite deposits and withdrawal options. Mr and Mrs W J Tiffany hosted a Sunday dinner. Mrs Lee Anderson and daughter Bernice, and the E F Rogers family attended. Two to three hundred bushels of frozen apples linger on trees in the area. Mrs Lee Anderson hosted the Wednesday and Embroidery Clubs, with refreshments served. Ed Corfe is recovering from two weeks of illness. Mrs Foster Hauger’s health is not improving rapidly.
Evangelist Jesse Smith preached his first sermon to a fair crowd Sunday morning. Mrs. Nell Miles and Mrs. Jim Jacacon visited from Mason City and Iowa Falls. Attendees joined the district federation of Women’s Clubs in Marshalltown Wednesday. The first lecture was given Thursday by Mr. Wiggham. Mrs. Seabury learned her son-in-law Frances Dunn died in Excelsior Springs Missouri and was buried in Wisconsin. Her daughter Hattie Seabury survives with three children.
After a week at the First Methodist in Marshalltown Rev. W. F. Pitner, known across Iowa, was formally appointed Wednesday as pastor of the Cays Avenue Methodist Church in Detroit Michigan. He will depart for his new field early this week. The Semi-Weekly Herald and the Des Moines Capital report the arrangement through January 1 1911 for $3.00.
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