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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
10
The Elgin Echo announces weekly publication with local ads and display notices. It lists ad rates and insertion policy, including one line per insertion and continued display until discontinued, and subscription prices of 2.00 per year or 1.00 for six months.
Local notices report a December 23 big Christmas dance at the Elgin Opera House with Dexter's Serenaders set to play. Also advertised is the film Worlds Apart at the Opera House December 19, plus various community happenings, church events, and local sales across Clermont and West Union.
A nostalgic profile recalls a Davy Crockett style lumberjack, dubbed the ax and peavy “soood qualities,” noting his tough living, loyalty to the boss, and survival rheostat through spring log drives and Western frontier shifts. It links Old North Woods heroes with Paul Bunyan legends and laments disappearing lumberjacks as modern tools replace horse and haul. The piece also notes wartime name fads in the United Kingdom census, citing children named after battles and leaders, with George rising in popularity.
A comic quip from a London Weekly Telegraph piece mocks a Scottish clergyman who struggles with sermon headings. The anecdote ends with a parishioner shouting misheard thirdly and hurriedly, prompting the crowd to stifle laughter as the preacher tumbles.
Lignite, long used as fuel, arroaches new method combining drying with partial gasification to recover by products and produce a ground semicoke fuel. Recommended thin gasification temperature is 900 to 1000 degrees F, with rotary cement kiln tests proving satisfactory.
Fragmentary text hints at an inquiry on Center Street about an individual named Satel tite George Schrampter. No clear event or outcome is visible, leaving the exact matter and parties undetermined.
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