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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1923
Page
7
Utility paper reads published weekly by FR WH Hughes at the Elgin post office. It lists annual subscription at $2.00 in advance and six months at $1.00. The notice repeats insertion rules and display and local edition details, with publication like a small town paper description.
The paper reports a mother weighing 110 pounds gave birth to twin girls one weighing 81 4 and the other 93 4 pounds both healthy and alike aside from size. It notes visitors from Decorah, local business ads, and a column touching prohibition, oil industry notes, a Fayette creamery meeting, veteran reminiscences, life expectancy trends, and a sheriff sale notice in West Union.
A jumble of notes recounts home life, a 1924 ball captaincy for A A Ray DeSart and companions, and visits from Magon City. It mentions a Sonoma geyser electricity project, a surge of new autos in Iowa, rural humor about a pig and a baby, and light anecdotes from West Union, Ostwein, and Waukon with local figures like Walter Falk and Dr Roy DeBart.
In a Chicago and Northwestern No 19 westbound journey, two brothers separated for years were reunited thanks to a traveling newsboy. One brother boarded in Chicago bound for Denison. the other joined later in Cedar Rapids, and the pair discovered their kinship when the elder was surprised to find his brother in the next car. The reunion occurred as passengers disembarked at Denison to begin their new life together. Hi A Reiners, D C, Fayette County Pioneer Chiropractor, will be in Elgin Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 11 to 2 for free analysis and consultation. Chiropractic keeps you fit. Free premiums with your ex Silver Savers. Notice our window display, W. W. Luce. The gardens around town aren’t in best condition.
The item lists prices at Lehman's Hardware and Independence Produce Station. It notes Mrs. Delaney and Mr. Becker hosting in Waterloo and West Union musicians rehearsing with the Masonic band for Fayette county court house corner stone ceremony. It reports the engagement and wedding of Miss Sarah Irene Sava to Mr. Benjamin Sommer in Peoria and plans for H W Fath and Rudy Crandall moving into the Weibel property on Center Street with families preparing to avoid the hot upstairs rooms.
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