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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1927
Page
4
Cheery Valley residents hosted and visited across many households including the Dennley, Dennler, Butikofer, Christen, Pulver, Hanson, and Christens families. Visitors traveled from Elgin, La Grange Missouri, West Union, Minnesota, and Rock Valley. A Sunday music event and several church and picnic outings are noted, along with Silos advertised by Schori & Kuster in Elgin.
Beamer's Tire Shop in West Union, Iowa offers fast and clean car washing with a new air and water auto washer. They provide top building and repairing, glass cutting, ground setting, tire and boot vulcanizing, over shoe vulcanizing, and radiator repairs.
Dorothy and Harold Herman visited Adolph Hanson. Ellen Hanson hosted Mrs. Eugene Woodworth. Families from Elkader, Cheery Valley, West Union and Oak Grove joined for a two week vacation, fairs, and farm work. Illyria Community Day and Home Coming attracted guests from Brainard Elgin Oelwein West Union Alpha Fayette Lima Hazelton Wadena and visitors from California and Rock Island Illinois.
Miss Bradley of Oelwein and Mrs Eliza Boleyn hosted visits in Wadena as Frank Bates and wife from Oelwein called on friends. Several readers report illnesses, travel, and church activities including a Fayette tent meeting and services at Garden Prairie. Fort Des Moines trainees Wayne Frey and others prepare for month away. Perry Hummell and son Roy ready school interiors. a car accident near Harl Wetzel followed by travel to Detroit.
The Iowa Superintendent of Banking approves Elgin Savings Bank to transact savings business after confirming full incorporation compliance and adequate paid up capital. The initial board of directors is A. B. Haug, J. D. Shaffer, August Benson, Fred Reichert, and Hans Winkler, with the certificate dated August 1, 1927.
Sven Blockhaus and family visited Aus tin while Mrs K Stearns stayed with Albert Gulsvig. Iena Simerson and Tom Landsgard visited relatives, and an ice cream social drew many. A Marion Lutheran wedding for Merlin Feller and Ida Mark occurred August 11 with Rev. Tysdal officiating, followed by a dinner and trip to Minneapolis. A 14 member class was confirmed and a Marion family reunion plus various visits wrapped the week.
Mr and Mrs Frank Lyons were guests Sunday at the Sidney Patterson home. Mr and Mrs Martin Hovey attended the fair at Decorah Thursday afternoon.
Rye is seeded in September when weather allows to furnish fall and early spring pasture for hogs and livestock. Farmers across the state plant rye for late fall and early spring grazing, sowing about 5 pecks per acre. It can be sown in corn fields or stubble, with some using single row drills or broadcasting and cultivating.
The Extension Service at Iowa State College Ames describes and illustrates three new four-page leaflets on horse hitches using the tying in and bucking back system. They require only two lines for teams of four or more head and are available free upon request.
A school inspector asks how many days in a year. The boy answers seven by listing days of the week, insisting there are no other days. The exchange provokes laughter as the inspector clarifies the question.
In a colored neighborhood dispute, Sambo and his wife face charges for disturbing the peace after a heated argument over laundry money. He explains a chain of escalating actions including a skillet, a chair, hot coffee, and a fight, as the judge probes the events.
A tramp laments homelessness and lack of money while another voices disbelief at his supposed fortune. The exchange contrasts no taxes, rent, or bills with the dire need for work and security during a period of rising dairy prices.
A humorous reader letter asks for relationship guidance between a homely woman he loves and a wealthy but uninterested option. The editor’s quip suggests marrying the one he loves and to share the other suitor’s name and address.
A light collection notes urging improved egg quality for better prices, getters for storage, and marketing. It also praises country schools as builders of good American citizens, highlighting a rural high school as a future leader maker.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Blanchard and son and Mrs Elgin Blanchard and daughter Eva of Waucoma visited in George Craft home Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Will Brabham were guests at Jim Bartlett Doris Lyons and Marion Petterson spent last week at Paul Patterson home near West Union. Cecil Appleman visiting Harry Stillman this week. Mr and Mrs D H Craft and daughter Dorothy attended Home Coming day at Illyria. The Charley Appleman family near Hawkeye visited Herman Beyer family Sunday. Mr and Mrs Sidney Nutting and
President Homer H. Seerley of the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls addressed the Creston summer extension teachers. He urged them to join church and community life, spend money locally, and consider themselves residents of the communities they teach in.
The text notes a shift in meaning of the word editor from Latin to use in the United States. It contrasts Latin origin with American sense described as a struggle to find food, depicting action as scratching around like blazes to obtain sustenance.
A dressed man posing as a traveling buyer visited three Independence grocery stores last Monday. In each shop he presented as a new line representative, earning no real attention, and in one case the proprietor questioned his identity. He claimed to be a circus buyer spending about 8800 on goods from a merchant who gave him the chance.
An editor of a town paper explained its reach by saying it covers from Canada in the north to Mexico in the south and from Maine in the east to California in the west. He joked that sustaining the paper keeps him and his wife working around the clock to prevent it from going to hell.
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