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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
2
A dated notice encourages Pocahontas customers to place refill orders now and plan for a "Home of your Own" with free advice. It promotes buying lumber carefully for durability, offers consultations, and notes carporters are available. The message ends with contact for SCHORI & KUSTER, Lor, Co. Elgin, Iowa.
Dover Mills reports visiting relatives and neighbors including Mr. and Mrs. Learn, Mr. and Mrs. Brause, and the Johnsons. Mrs. H. E. Foster dies after a long illness in West Union, as Farm Bureau notes record a July meeting with sixty two attendees and a quilting activity. John Osmundson sells his farm. Melvin Halverson and Patricia Mavis transport Kloster home.
Sophia Loftegard and siblings visited in Clermont with extended kinship at several homes. Local residents sickness updates and hospitality events fill the week. The Marion Telephone Co plans its annual meeting at Center school house on Saturday afternoon. Community figures attend dinners and church society gatherings across Clermont, Postville, Somerset, and nearby farms.
Community notices advertise rug weaving January and February by L. vendors. CG W Doty of Elgin Iowa Route 2, Ile offers sale of about 400 white oak posts and grain supplies via E Hunsberger or Geo N Schori. Cattle and oats deals, dictionary sale with discounts, and requests for news items featured by Echo office.
Hunsberger and Schori advertise ongoing availability of corn and oats at their undersigned location with a claim of constant stock and low market prices, urging customers to call on them for supply.
An advertisement lists a seller offering a kitchen cabinet an ice box a mahogany gate leg table a breakfast set several small rugs a walnut bedroom suite a mohair davenport and chair and other articles. Enquiry through E G Stochr.
The Clermont Enterprise remains published and will consolidate subscriber lists with the Echo so all readers receive both papers for the price of one. This move reduces duplication of work and strengthens the paper's position in national advertising.
For sale scratch pads of all sizes at the Echo Office priced at one shilling per pound.
Iowa plans 600 miles of paving and 800 miles of gravel plus 600 miles graded and bridged by 1928 end under the Iowa State Highway Commission program. Total paving 1600 miles and gravel surfacing 8800 miles by year’s close, at an estimated cost around 28 million dollars, second only to Illinois in annual paving. Also reports a local case: Miles Coonfare pled guilty to assault with intent, given one year in Fort Madison reformatory for striking Wm Vorwald with an auto crank, Vorwald treated at Postville Hospital.
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