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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
3
John F. Cooley is listed as editor and member of the Lewa Press Association and the National Editorial Association. The item notes dispatch through the Clermont Fayette County post office as second class mail matter.
Local residents and visitors fill Clermont area during Christmas and New Year holidays. Families travel from Waterloo Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Chicago while others host gatherings dinner parties and social meetings. notable events include births and civic club activities plus several relatives returning home for vacations.
Christmas greetings and family visits fill the holiday period across Lansing Po ville and surrounding towns. Ed Wede and relatives in Lansing, Adolph Frederick and Al visit friends, Ed Burt dines with daughter, and Roy Buser recovers from flu. Myrtle Bilden home from Forest City while Alma Roland teaches at Jefferson. Many households host relatives, with Frank Powers returning from Madison and Gerald Gunsten home from St Olaf. Donald Dugstad returns from Waterloo as flu affects gatherings, yet business prospects improve.
A Traer Star s Clipper report notes fourteen Iowans fined for game law violations including hunting on a public highway and railroad rights of way, carrying assembled guns, and trapping muskrats out of season. A farmer and neighbor killed two raccoons that invaded the dooryard weighing about 35 pounds, while 1932 rabbit crops show mixed success amid heavy snows and predators.
Farmers should balance fuel wood gathering with wildlife protection by leaving brush piles and sheltered areas to support bobwhite quail and other birds. Experts urge preserving the short-eared owl, a pest predator against mice and insects, which is rapidly becoming scarce in Iowa.
A Toledo Blade note reflects on recognition and memory. It contemplates achievements that outlast fame and tribute, noting enduring traces in memory recalled through Quincey’s reflections.
An obscure excerpt notes Hbertida dwindling as Pichecanthropod places a sewing machine in the corner of a cave called her husband’s den. The fragment originates from the Atkanadé Gaxette and reflects a curious, unfinished narrative.
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