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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
4
Found pair of black leather gloves may be claimed at Echo office for a 25 cent advertising fee. Typewriter paper size 8 14 by 11 medium weight clear white, 500 sheets per ream, 60 cents per ream. Supply limited, get it at the Echo office.
The post holiday results reveal Elgin as the only undefeated league team in the boys division after Stan ley and Randalia drop from the top. Clermont remains the sole undefeated team in the girls league with a 20 17 win at Hawkeye.
Fred Biermann reflects on early January 8 encounters at the Capitol, stairs and cloakroom memories, and walking from a nearby residence. He compares dueling to wholesale killing as outmoded, notes gossip about Harding and the little green house on K Street, and predicts a dawn of better governance in 1984.
County officials say the Winneshiek County Fair may not be held this year absent a county tax levy. The disclosure came at a meeting of officers and directors held a week ago Monday. Construction paper-get it at the Echo Office. Adv. 1tfp.
The column lists advance notices for meetings and events in Elgin. Free programs are scheduled at the Elgin opera house on December 20 and 27, with the Church of Youth on December 21 and 28. I C C F meeting appears January 22 and FP meeting January 29.
Corn hog program cooperators from Illyria Pleasant Valley Clermont Westie Dover and Union townships will meet at the court house in West Union Friday January 19. The meeting runs 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It serves as a training school to acquaint cooperators with program phases so they can carry on work more efficiently in their communities.
A letter from Nicholas Johnson in Elgin to R P Strauch discusses finances and taxes for hog farming. Johnson complains about taxes rising on hogs and doubts government aid will help farmers, noting a $2.00, $4.50, and $5.00 in figures and referencing March taxes. The tone is critical yet courteous.
The Winklers thank Elgin Fire Department and neighbors for prompt help during a home fire. The Commoner notes Bryan’s early sobriquet and Lincolns publication. Cuba copper history, trials of rail and motor travel, and Congressman Biermann’s Washington role are discussed. The Mississippi River’s shallow periods and dam battles are mentioned with local commentary from Straw berry Point Press.
On Thursday January 18 1984 at two o clock P M the Board of Directors of the Elgin Farmers Dairy Co will sell the buttermilk from its entire output to the highest responsible bidders The sale follows last year plan with each day's churning separate for a one year term beginning February 1 1934 The board may reject any or all bids Also mentions new 1934 Globe ranges at Feller’s Hardware West Elgin.
Buddha, married with a family, left home at age thirty to seek happiness, beginning a life of exploration and personal pursuit.
A fragmented collection of distractingly odd statements. It mentions boners as humorous exam tidbits, aquatic plants entirely surrounded by their environment, Napoleon at Waterloo fleeing to St Helens, a pyramid shaped as a large triangular cube, and guano deposits in Anatole France, with stray notes about an 1983 syndicate and WNU services.
House passage of the liquor control bill shifts to the Senate where a lengthy process awaits. The measure would place state control of liquor stores under a three member commission and create a half million dollar revolving fund for operation. Tax revision plans emerge in Senate File 230, aiming to tax gross sales and incomes to fund state revenues while relieving property taxes. Highway patrol proposal seeks 38 mounted state troopers to police lanes of traffic.
The article hints at hemp promotion exposes in Des Moines and warns of looming political maneuvering. It notes potential candidacies in the Senate and references the Hauer bill as a pivot to rally a political machine while predicting partisan clashes ahead of legislative action.
Gunder News reports Mia Olzon Waldo Einbertson host Dorcas Society gathering at former home on Saturday January 20. Trustees of Marion congregation held a church business meeting Friday afternoon.家庭 visits include Henry Mark family at Henry Largon home and many neighbors calling on Olson and Houg households.
Rose Guyer daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Guyer and Richard Olson son of Mrs. Elliot Olson were married Saturday January 6, 1094 at the Lutheran parsonage in Clermont with Rev. G Gunston officiating. The couple plans a farm home near Clermont on the Arthur Loftagard place after a wedding supper hosted by the bride’s parents.
According to Smith's Dictionary of Mythology Sataspes a Persian faced Xerxes for rape and was condemned to impalement. On his mother's plea he was spared execution to circumnavigate Africa. He fasted during the voyage but faced discouraging monsoon winds and currents.
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