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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
4
Want ads list rates, payment terms, and small classified notices. Items include bale light bobsled inquiry, auto parts trades, selling milking machine, adding machine rolls and supplies, Webster’s dictionary sale, sales books, and construction paper for teachers with prices and contact notes at the Echo Office in Elgin Iowa.
The undersigned will have his saw mill set on the H. W. Helms flat this spring and anyone who has logs which they wish sawed into lumber may call anytime now. Imar Pinney, who has been doing my work, will again have charge and will do your sawing just as you want it. 14-16¢ F. W. Bigler, Clermont.
An advertisement touts Munyon's Solidified Linimes as a pure mineral unguent base with seven medicaments to open pores soothe congested nerves and restore normal circulation without internal dosing or heart-depressing drugs. It claims to replace old time remedies and urges purchase through druggists.
Oak Grove residents host and visit across a busy week. John Luchsinger and family joined Ed Lehman’s supper guests. many neighbors like the Shaffers, Bennetts, and Howards visited various homes in Brainard Clermont Arlington Volga City and surrounding areas.
The Fayette Leader reports both Dunham's Grove and Lima funerals required snow-clearing to reach their destinations. Bastian Torvick organized county crews with a snow plow and a shoveling squad from American Legion and Payette volunteers. Snow drifts reached ten to twelve feet in places before the process.
Eve Leslie, long admired for her studies, weighs love and independence as she sees suitors come and go. Peter Allen, a clever bank heir, calls on her in the cozy Leslie home where shared chats, ice cream, piano, and a budding romance unfold, ending with a marriage proposal and a car as a wedding gift from Peter’s grandfather.
Carrie Nelson came from Osage to help care for her ailing brother Halver Halverson. I H Skarshaug of Decorah made a business call in the vicinity. Will Bergan and family visited in the home of Mrs. T Kjosa. Various neighbors hosted dinners and visits. The assessor Sven Blotkhis toured the area last week and stayed with the Althur Landsgard home. Gilbert Loftegard drove to Hawk Eye with cattle for Olson brothers. Mrs. Ole Loftegard hosted the Mission Society. Mrs. Ole E Olson planned a Dorcas meeting for Feb 16. A miscellaneous shower honored Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Damundson at Oscar Nyborg’s. gifts were given and best wishes extended. Otto Gisleson visited Clarence Kirkeberg. Lou Loftsgard conducted business in Gunder. Agnes Houg helps in the Joe Lind home. E. Landsgard and family visited the Clar mont home. Mrs. Wm Olson helped with Mareng Rypestol work. Mrs. Roy Engelhart of St Olaf visited daughter Mrs. Melvin Peterson. Julia Wittleson visited her sister Mrs Harold Opland. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Casten called on Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lind. Elmer Osmundson and Oscar Nyborg hosted dinner. Several locals took eighth grade exams in Elkader. Maynard Lantz traveled from Osage for a few days’ visit. N T Loftegard and Nelvin stayed with Albert Jellum in Wagner Township. Alma Opland and Eileen Guising went to Postville. The community was shocked Monday by Marcus Rypester’s death.
A fatal mistake in hog butchering led to arsenic being mistaken for lye in a carcass. Dr T N Walsh advised against using any part of the meat after Renwick alerted Mia. The doctor warned the liver could be fatally poisoned as poison travels through the body. The hog was valued at about $14. Hawkeye Bacon reported the incident.
J J Potter of Stnnekt visits his parents Bir and Mrs T J Cappet and other relatives during a stay in town.
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