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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1930
Page
8
Local notices list workers opportunities and sales. Rawleigh Co promotes home business potential with large resources and 17 million in assets. Ads detail baby chicks price lists, farm equipment, feed, and sale items from Elgin area sellers including corn oats clover seed milking machines and a Webster’s dictionary priced at $15.00.
Echo Office advertises adding machine rolls and other supplies at lower prices. A separate sale lists 1000 bushels or more of good yellow and white corn from Reuben K. Mark of Elgin. The piece also provides a basic method to make whitewash from lime, plus a Ridpath history set for sale at $12.00 and a note on self examination.
Classified notices from Elgin feature items for sale including a galvanized stock water tank and a team of mates with harness. Also offers work by month on farms near Elgin and a new stock of harnesses and horse collars at Fetler's Hardware in West Elgin. Several wanted ads seek sewing machines, a Klondike incubator, and a school board secretary seeks equipment and help.
North of Gunder the Farm Bureau club women hosted an all day meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Wells with noon dinner. Local residents and visitors including Gilman Knutson from Sioux Falls and Embertson of Wagner were noted among weekend guests and callers. The Marion congregation formed a committee to set the church assessment for the coming year.
Cheery Valley notices a flurry of visits and dinners among Dennler, Christen, Frieden, and Dennler families. Relatives from West Bend Hudson Slater Elgin and Rock Valley visit, host, and attend birthdays and weekend gatherings in the vicinity near West Union.
Notice to Harry Stillman and others of Fayette County Iowa that John Falk, as executor of John Burk deceased, has filed a final report and petition for discharge. Hearing at 10 a.m. February 14, 1930, in West Union Court House, with failure to appear leading to judgment as requested.
Under certain conditions blasting stumps with dynamite is the cheapest method and saves time. Stumps few or scattered or work done in spare moments or with large stumps to be broken up suit blasting. Circular No 191 C from U S Department of Agriculture provides full safety directions.
An optimist is a man who, finding himself in hot water, decides that he needs a bath anyhow. There is one thing that cannot be purchased on an easy payment plan. That's experience. The greatest successes in life have been made out of a sorry lot of mistakes just like yours that were corrected. Cheer up.
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