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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1929
Page
3
A brisk winter morning menu features grape fruit with juice, waffles, farm sausage, and hot milk or cocoa. Recipes include waffle batter with milk, eggs, butter, and flour, and syrups made from butter and brown sugar or honey. Hot milk gains flavor with a pinch of salt and cocoa paste at table.
A meeting at the West Union courthouse assembly room on Tuesday December 3 launched a county level organization for marketing livestock. Representatives from Iowa Livestock Shippers and the Elgin association backed by Harry Wenger discuss unifying selling through one manager to secure better buyers and higher returns.
This ad offers ideas for Christmas gifts including General Electric refrigerators and lighting plants for the farm home. It suggests car items like tires and motors and notes a tip to prevent cow kicking by tying a rope around the cow’s body. It promotes McCormick-Deering cream separator oil and asserts the store is a convenient place to buy farm machines.
Practical guidance on pest control with dusting for cockroaches and shoe design details. It covers fabric choices for warmth, laundering tips for bluing water, and a recipe emphasis including a rich ice cream base and an apple chutney with numerous ingredients and steps for preparation and canning.
Ruth and LaVerne Schneider spent Monday night at their grandfather Jacob Gehrig's Cheery tand high school in Elgin during vacation. Ruth Rothlisberger visits relatives in West Union with Mrs Chas Rothlisberger, Helen, Hagel. Viola Foxwell visits Gelwein home over the week. Don Stringer of St Paul and Mary Alice Arnold join in Thanksgiving with Delbert Lyons, Manchester. Delbert Lyons sick in bed. Schweitner at home. Arnold family illness prevents morning outing.
Transcribed notes show previous meeting read and approved. Bills audited and allowed by unanimous vote. Motion to adjourn carried. Clerk: C J Harrington. Powell: Corp. stress lights 588 90.
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