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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1929
Page
7
The Clermont Enterprise, established 1905, is published in Clermont Iowa. No additional news content is available beyond the post office recognition and historical masthead statement.
A wide set of neighbor notices, illnesses, visits, and social events from Clermont area. Mary Haas ill at home. Mrs. Nelson visits her granddaughter. Mrs. Ed Jones of McGregor visiting. diary of dinners, hospital trips, and social gatherings. Includes jury draw for Charles Bigler in West Union and a forty five year marriage anniversary for Julius and Mary Johnson with church celebration.
A budget meal shows how to feed four adults for one dollar using canned soup spinach tomatoes rice and Vienna sausages. The recipe blends onions, fat, and seasonings with fruit desserts using peaches figs pecans and evaporated milk.
Fragmentary quatrain-like verse urges fortification of reputation and interior virtue to resist outsiders while insiders see a steadfast self. It emphasizes internal judgment over external scrutiny and warns against unreliability from without.
The H. 8. Declamatory Contest was held in the school auditorium with experienced readers. Winners were Herschel Roiss first in oratorical, Myrtle Amundson first in dramatic, Anna Mae Haas second, Esther Hoag third, Janet Larrabee first in humorous, Hugo Hackman second, and Leverle Olson third. The winners advance to the state preliminary at West Union in March.
The first mask ball in years drew a full house at the Clermont Opera House under new management. Music by Jack Pringle's Iowa Cardinals kept guests dancing as prizes were awarded at 11 o clock for best and comic costumes.
The Eight and S Club held its regular Saturday session led by Mrs. L. D. Hungerford. Members answered current events in roll call. Mrs. J. C. Halverson reviewed the August Mentor. Guest Mrs. Ed Jones of McGregor attended. The club hosted husbands Monday evening with a seven oclock picnic and a card evening at Dr. and Mrs. R. V. Brandts home.
The article explains that while the U S president cannot veto parts of a bill, about three-fourths of state constitutions grant governors the power to veto or strike out individual items in appropriation bills. This approach is commonly called the item veto.
Favored Statesman Schuyler olfax of Indique was the only fan to preside over both branches of congress. He served as speaker of the house for six years immediately before his election to the Vice Presidency on the Grant ticket.
The group adopted an official hunting ethics code titled the Sportsman Platform. The declaration emphasizes fair pursuit and placing value on responsible hunting, urging members to hunt with integrity and minimize unnecessary harm to game and wildlife.
A permanent commission named the United States and Mexico International Boundary Commission operates at El Paso Texas to monitor occasional changes in the boundary due to shifts in the Rio Grande course.
The first supervised playground in the United States began in Boston in 1800 and included eight so called rind garden areas, marking an early civic effort to provide structured recreation for children.
Cow testing associations help locate poor cows and identify better feeding and management methods. They assess sire value via daughters and evaluate cream separator efficiency. About 2400 town farmers receive this assistance.
A brief moral note urges wealth is close if one follows practiced industry and frugality as the two guiding virtues. The adage compares wealth to a market path, emblematic of steady effort and prudence.
A fragmented OCR excerpt attributes a Miltonian meditation on destroying a book and the wage of God, mentioningGod's image and a perilous act that harms both the work and the believer. The garbled text hints at a polemical or philosophical reflection on killing ideas and the divine order.
Divine worship in English at eleven o'clock. Luther League meets at seven thirty p.m. Mission Society will meet next Thursday February twenty eighth at the church parlors. Mrs. Andrew Nordhus will entertain.
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