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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1919
Page
2
The Elgin Echo lists post office entry at Elgin as a second class mail matter with ad space in local columns. Ads run on separate lines for each insertion and all display and local ads continue until discontinued. Subscription rates are one year for $1.50 or six months for 76 cents.
Two men famed for food related links died, Dr Wanner aged 87 once survived forty days without sustenance, Horace Fletcher aged about 70 studied diet and outpaced athletes. A $1,000,000 Red Cross grant to the National Tuberculosis Association marks part of a $2.59 million 1919 allocation for TB work. Local notices include visits, events, sales, farm moves, and a car accident on McGregor island.
A long list of local notes reports Mrs. Benson and Mrs. Rauder ill and sisters living apart on Center street. Alf Weibel visits Duluth but stays at his mother Mrs. Ben Weibel’s home. Joe Lehman from Dakota recovering from flu in St. Paul hospital. Wayne youth Buster Robbins buys a suit with Buffalo nickels, a new engine at the mill is revived, and plans for logging and a Turkey log drive are noted. Superintendent Schwartz resigns March 1 to farm. Local social items, deaths, and transfers appear along with farm sales, basketball results, and a few obituaries.
A December 4 Paris gathering of Armenian patriots approved independence steps and named Nubar Pasha as their first president. The note praises Armenia as a nation deserving sympathy among small states gaining autonomy. L. L. Martin of McHenry Dakota visited the area, reporting strong farming success and severe winter weather with sixteen inches of snow and temperatures 38 below zero.
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