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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1931
Page
5
A fragmented Elgin Echo page lists wanted ads and sales items including farm and city property listings with buyers ready if priced right. Several entries mention dairy cows, an upright piano, old-fashioned lamp with crystals, and office supplies. Subscriptions promo covers Fayettte and Clayton counties.
Fayette barbers quarrel over price cuts with main street shops at 80 cents for a haircut and 20 cents for a shave while a private residence shop has 26 and 16 cents. History recalls a 20 cent shave and 10 cent trim in a protracted feud. Three shops operate on the main street as locals compare value and location.
Mary Anderson of Ginyang Horan China, after 34 years in Lutheran missions, visits relatives in Clermont including Mrs Nels Helgerson Mrs Henry Pot eron Mr Geo Hanson and others. She founded a girls school in China and now plans New Year’s day missionary talks at East church. Local families host Christmas guests and note plan to aid Lutheran churches here.
Hyde, an itinerant scammer, traveled Arlington area Saturday afternoon attempting to cash checks drawn on a First National Bank supposedly in Topeka Kansas. He swindled several businesses out of $20 to $25 before hiring a local man to drive him to Oelwein using a counterfeit check. Sheriff A A Robertson leads the manhunt as residents report the bogus paper.
In memory of Melvin Nyborg who died Dec 22 last year. The family recalls your presence and mourns your absence one year later. Mrs Vern Nyborg and daughter Doris note the empty chair and enduring love you left behind.
January schedule for Farm Bureau includes township meetings in Smithfield Fairfield Scott Eden Fremont Jefferson Tlyrin Union-Dover and a district Poultry Show in Oclwein with dates January 1 through 22. Also notes winter weighing errors due to ice and cold affecting scales and a Want Ad in the Echo.
Numerous families and friends shared meals and visits across homes from Christmas Eve to Sunday. Gatherings included the Dennler, Frieden, Friederich, Lerch, Christen, Hofer, Baumgartner, and Leuchtenmacher households among others, with multiple extended family groups present in Elgin, West Union, and nearby areas.
An unnamed farmer recounts city life to his brother, describing a day of motoring to a club for lunch and dancing. The farm brother replies with a rural tour of town, playing ball, and tilling the cornfields until sundown, highlighting contrasts between country and urban pleasures.
Prank Greenley stayed at home while Robert Greenley lingered with grandparents. Alta Vista and Portrils families visited Mr and Mrs Frank Shipton and others. Hospital update notes Mrs Lacis Holm’s post op stay at Postville. Firestone Tire Co. reports 118,707,282.56 in business. Chicago officials debate bathing suit ordinances and potential changes. Arm injury for Lerch requires ten stitches at G Friederich home. Visitors Rose Kocher and Erma Yout in town. Pauline Dasert heads to Cedar Rapids for winter. Community notices include local gatherings, society remarks, and pending winter arrangements.
A report on the Local Leaders Day features Geraldine Brainard and Mrs M E Talcott presenting talks on nutrition, with Ruth Soltagiver and 4 H Chiba contributing. Jurisdictional leaders from Jefferson, Scott, and Center townships attend as singing groups perform. Echo ads marketing radio buys illustrate growing local commerce.
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