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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
7
Local column notes postal matter and display ads. Subscription one year in advance costs 3.00, six months 1.00. Published each Thursday by GHES.
A compressed glimpse of 1929 markets notes hog prices reaching ten dollars in Chicago boosting farmer optimism as surplus corn and steady retail prices squeeze through. Also references cold spells, a Massachusetts high school's anti slang society and shifts in social etiquette at dances.
Irregular clippings describe farm purchases, feed prices, and a note on a Nelson sale. Weibel Mill Company offers Foll-O-Pep Dry Mash and Scratch Grains with prices from $1.60 to $3.20 per 100 lb. bag, and $1.75 to $2.50 respectively. A 79 year old woman wins butter prize in Buena Vista county. A staged county study center report visits in Storm Lake and announcements for Maynard, Clermont Fayette County Union, and upcoming study centers. Also reports on a marriage ruse case in Oelwein and Pope John XXIII’s death noted with non-Catholic reactions.
The article explains that electric refrigeration, once costly and commercial, is becoming affordable for households. It notes that electricity powers compressors, not freezing itself, and compares the simplification of the system to moving from steam engines to automobiles, predicting widespread home use and elimination of traditional ice delivery.
A real garden lover can extend window boxes through winter with hardy begonias and ferns to keep a room lively. Albino green arrangements use amatl palms and Boston ferns with asparagus trailing over the edge. Primrose and Irish ivy add color while chrysanthemums provide late autumn notes if the room stays cool.
In planting a winter garden remember plants do not thrive near steam heat. If a radiator is under a window, place a broad shelf six inches above it and set the box back on the shelf so hot air does not reach the foliage. The simple effort yields a beautiful indoor display for home lovers.
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in England restored five century old drinkstone dwellings in Suffolk by careful renovation. The project cost 3612 dollars including freehold site, versus at least 4760 dollars for a new cottage with no site. The society aims to save historic homes, proving restoration can be cheaper and more enduring than rebuilding.
A jumble of advertisements and brief notices covers Garber and Pocahontas scenes. It mentions bargain-island offers at a furniture store, Denims at sale prices, and a fire in a city business area. Community updates include civic talks, a ministerial meeting, a new Pocahontas public school building, corn-for-flour trades, and the appointment of a new pope, Pius XI.
Fatb s cash prices dip at Freiburghaus Co. Read them if you need furniture now. Taniac is vegetable and made from roots herbs and bark. City Drug Store. If you want an oxford with style and durability at a fair price, see C S Halstenson. Isabel reads March 22. consider renewing. Mr Mrs William H Topp of Bummer mourn loss of son Eugene Willard age 2 2 months from bronchial pneumonia on Feb 6. Brook Rapids man seeks 10000 damages for alleged wife infidelity. Rev F O Hillman visits Waterloo from Monday to Wednesday. Mrs Hillman improving and plans to return to Elgin when parsonage ready. Ben Schneider and daughter Minnie of Higin Town visited Habager home. Ben returned, Minnie staying longer. West Bend Journal.
Charles Capper of Elgin Iowa advertises leghorn chicks at 15 dollars per hand eight for the C B Reds and Barred Rocks priced at 16.76 and White Rocks at 17.50 with mixed lots totaling 912.75 offering a range of chick breeds for poultry farmers.
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