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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1930
Page
6
Elgin residents note visits among neighbors, travel to see relatives, and local happenings. Warder Phillips and Meyer from Postville visited Falk home. Brabhams hosted guests. Mosbys traveled to Fort Atkinson to view Bily Bros clocks. LaVelle of Postville died after a long illness. many locals attended weddings and moved papers. Gamble ads pop up amid everyday life.
The church announces Wednesday prayer meetings at 8 p m and choir rehearsal. The B Y P U votes to celebrate its 40th anniversary in August with officers named: President M Zurbriggen Vice President Fred Schaer Secretary Elizabeth Jacob Treasurer Lawrence Muehlthaler Librarian Mabel Rennison Pianist Leo Grether. Dr A W Caul to preach July 13 at Sumner. Ph Lauer Pastor.
J J Snyder is minister with La Fonda Shaffer as pianist. Sunday school at 10 15 morning worship at 11 15. Epworth League meets at J M Shaffer home. July 4 church picnic opens 10 00 with a seven inning baseball game for single and married men. Dinner from 12 to 10 past? band music readings duets and speeches. Indoor baseball tourney 2 4 with races and games. Pop and ice cream sold. All friends and former residents welcome.
J J Snyder, minister and Mrs Louis Klingman, pianist. Services at 10 am with Sunday school at 11 am. Mrs Sam Lehman to host Ladies Aid Society this Thursday afternoon.
Iowa supplied New York City with 28 percent of butter and 11 percent of eggs in the first quarter of 1930. Hawkeye butter use totaled 16,012,143 pounds and Iowa dressed poultry shipments reached 6,409,757 pounds, valued over $10,000,000 at wholesale prices. Also noted are social visits: Mr and Mrs John Baldwin with daughter and J E Ritchie to J D Shaffer home. Rex Stark and daughter from Des Moines visiting Mrs M A Nicklaus.
The article advises treating grass stains with hot water and soap, bleaching on white fabrics if needed, and storing cereals in tight containers to prevent weevils. It promotes steam pressure canning for nonacid vegetables, offers free timetables from Washington, and shares a spiced cherry relish recipe with steps and measurements. It ends with an advertising aside about Dr. and Mrs. Frank Mock visiting Manghoates Sundaes.
Mr and Mrs William Walthers and son Leo of Elkader spent Sunday with Elgin relatives. A M Weibel and sons William and Harold and Mrs Frank Greenley visited Bertha Mealey in Oelwein. Nora Olson of Detroit came Monday for a two week visit with her Olson relatives in the area. Frank Beshear and three sons of Danville Illinois traveled from northern Minnesota to visit the Strauc home. They had been on a two week fishing trip and noted good luck along with many mosquitoes and wood ticks.
The Baptist Mission Society met at the home of Mrs Edwin Bauman on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Boise Capper of Postville visited in the Mrs Lenni Benson home Sunday. Loraine Carpenter went to Corydon Town Sunday to keep house for her father AiJ1 Carpenter. Mr and Mrs J DB Shaffer spent Sunday in the Ray Shaffer home near Fayette. Vivian Kamps of Dubuque visited in the George Pollitt home from last Tuesday to Sunday. Wm Walthers and son Leo of El Kader, N W Evans and son Kenneth and Gus Boger were callers in Waukon Sunday.
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