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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
7
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R P Strauch and is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
December 2 1926 items note home grown sorghum by Max Thoma and Dr L S Hutchinson dentist with twenty one years in Elgin. Wool chailie dresses $7.75 at Warner Hoover. Measles keeps Clyde Smith from Lehman hardware. Thanksgiving visits include Mrs Carrie Larson and son Perry with the Thos Knudtsons. Schedule of visits, birthdays, parties and trips across Elgin area with real estate listings and garage displays.
Thirty members attended regular band practice and enrollment stands at thirty. The band plans to play at the basketball opening game on December 10. A tardiness incident occurred November 23 with Gladys Bowen in seventh and eighth grade. Over half of these grades achieved perfect attendance and punctuality in six weeks. Honor list includes several seventh and eighth grade students. Betty Kohler has been ill for two weeks but is hoped to return soon.
Fayette County voters elected two women to township justice positions, first in the county. Addie Potter of Eden and Cora Rothlisberger of Illyria were chosen by Republicans with solid majorities. Potter, a former teacher from Waucoma, and Rothlisberger, wife of farmer John Rothlisberger, won clear ballots.
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society held a Thanksgiving bazaar and dinner with liberal patronage. About two hundred people were served starting at noon and nearly all the fancy work sold. Letters from former Gilmore City residents Frank and Mrs Seaver were read, extending greetings to Elgin friends. Dr Hadsel and Mrs Patterson left for Chicago to aid Robert Earle amid his extended illness.
Community notices recount visits to the Foster and Shaffer homes, Thanksgiving dinners at Grimm and Schori households, and a ten year sentence for automo bile theft. Individuals mentioned include Robert Peters Lambert Bailey Lucille Clemens Margaret Wilson and the Frieden and Hanson families along with the Rothisberger and Hughes families. A brief contrast notes fashion shifts from long to short skirts with a remark on chastity.
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