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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1930
Page
8
Classified column lists wanted rates for notices, sales and miscellany from Elgin area. Items include Rawleigh business opportunity entries, farm produce offers such as corn oats hay and clover, incubators milk machines, furniture items, pullets, seeds, books, dictionaries, and office supplies. Names include Harold Opland Alfred Ruskdaschel and Thos Howard Sr. from Elgin. Postville and Freeport addresses appear in notices.
A county meeting in Fayette outlines steps to cut a 40 million pound butter surplus and protect farmers from at least 600000 dollars in losses in 1930. Creameries will inform patrons, advertise butter value, urge consumption, and post in stores to counter cheaper substitutes and imports. Local dairies Elgin Clermont Arlington Oelwein Maynard Fayette Randalia Westgate join the coordinated campaign.
A brief excerpt presents Calvin Coolidge's view on civilization as the discovery of the laws guiding humanity and living in harmony with those laws, described as essential to the process of civilization.
Information from the U S Department of Agriculture covers feed handling for dairy cows, fat content in beef, lice control in cattle, poultry banding, and marketing age for steers. It also mentions ear tick treatment with pine tar and cottonseed oil, and a fire response by Elgin chemical truck crews aiding a Central States building blaze, plus a local auction note from Berg.
Grace Foxwell of Hlyria is elected Cheery Valley school teacher succeeding Elizabeth Schupback who died last week. Mabel Rennison is the other teacher in the two room school. Bess Stohr was home over the weekend after visiting West Union for company.
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