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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1938
Page
8
The Easter cantata Victorious King will be presented at Myria church on Easter Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The item reflects community religious activity and features participation by church members and local groups.
Ida Christen visits from Elgin as locals share a week of gatherings. Numerous friends and relatives attend dinners, suppers, and Sunday visits at homes including the Friederich, Dennler, Lehman, Meyer, and Baumgartner households across Highland and nearby areas.
Eva Meyer visited near Volga while Harold Kimball hosted Sunday afternoon guests. West of Elgin families Frank Shaffer and Daline Shaffer joined Geraldine Yearous birthday observance at J. M. Shaffer home. Numerous relatives from Elgin Oak Grove Wa d ena West Union Fayette Cresco and Waterloo gathered for dinners visits and outings including Opal Dennler at Chrig Dennler home and Cathryn Ogle on enforced vacation from Waterloo.
Mrs. Harry Gilson and guests visited Waterloo on Sunday while families and neighbors across Oak Grove gathered for birthday celebrations and Sunday visits. Multiple households hosted relatives and friends from West Union IA Iowa City and Arlington with dinners, card games and picnics reported.
Brainard and nearby families gathered at the Glen Boyer residence Saturday and Sunday. Visitors included the Peters, Belknap, Boyer, Hanson, and Bartlett families from Fayette Elgin Des Moines Waterloo and Rochester Minnesota. Church notes report Sunday school at 10 and a preaching service Tuesday at 7:45 conducted by Rev Skow of Manchester.
A brief public notice urges readers to phone in their news tips to station 20 early. It emphasizes immediate reporting and warns against delaying information. The call encourages timely community updates and prompt contact for faster coverage.
Grand Meadow residents hosted and visited in numerous local homes from Sunday to Saturday. Families including Olson, Lyngaas, Buraas, Erickson, and others shared meals and guest visits across Arthur Olson, Julia Landsgard, Gilbert Anderson, and Bert Lyngaas households along with trips to nearby towns. Delores Erickson ill with mumps and Elroy Jacobson visiting from Charles City are noted.
Prices show corn hog relations favorable to hog feeding with 20 bushels of corn per hundredweight of hogs on March 15 down from 17.1 on Feb 18 and 8.6 a year ago. Hog prices rose 90 cents to 5.60 per hundredweight but lag the year’s average. Corn at 43 cents a bushel, down 2 cents from a month earlier, and 1.10 a year ago. Beef and lamb prices up but below a year ago. lambs at 7.70 per hundredweight, up 1.00 from last month and 2.20 below last year. Eggs 14.4 cents a dozen, butterfat 32 cents per pound, hay down to 7.70 per ton. Seed prices up with red clover at 23.00 and timothy at 1.50 per bushel. Political joke from Sumner Gazette and local want ads note.
Ray Jacobin held his annual horse sale at his farm southeast of Postville. Twenty one native horses were offered, selling at an average price of 150 dollars as good weather and strong turnout accompanied favorable prices, per the Postville Herald.
Secretary Cordell Hull testified before the Senate Finance Committee against new excise duties on pork and canned beer imports in the proposed tax bill. The photo includes Mull, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, and a Finance Committee member.
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