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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
5
The Cardinals routed the Hawkeyes 15 to 1 in Elgin, seizing top spot as Elgin's bats exploded for seven runs in the third and seven more over the final innings. Key hits came from Kipie, F Kipie, and Lalone, with Elgin runners repeatedly on base. Next Sunday Elgin visits Clermont to wrap the year’s series, hoping for a late-season upset.
Seventy seven purebred calves compete in Fay ette county 4 H calf clubs. Holstein club lists forty seven calves with twenty two in senior class nine in yearling class seven in under three two year olds and nine in Holstein Bull Calf Club. twenty six members. Guernsey club shows twelve calves with five in senior and seven in yearling. eleven members. Milking Shorthorn club has fifteen calves with ten in senior and five in yearling. ten members.
Four patrons at Elgin Farmers Dairy Co. earned over two hundred dollars for butterfat in May. Brackin Bros led with 243.67, Harold Opland 211.85, Selmar Groth 207.44, and Henry Frieden 202.44. May output reached 66,429 pounds, up 11,000 from a year earlier, with higher home consumption under the Eat More Butter campaign.
The seventh annual Groth family picnic and reunion will be held Sunday, June 29, at the east park in Mason City. Relatives from Elgin and Clermont plan to attend if weather permits. The group began east of Elgin and now spans northeastern Iowa and southern Minnesota. The event grows in popularity each year.
The McCord Players cooperate with the band for a conflict free event in the park. Concert starts at 7 80 and ends at 8 30 with complimentary specialties offered. Come early to enjoy the program and the show.
Three masked men robbed the Strawberry Point bank on Tuesday at 4 p.m. They escaped with about $11,000 in cash in a tented car traced from a Dubuque garage. No further clues have been found.
On next Monday evening June 30 at 8 o'clock our semi annual installation will be held and it is earnestly desired that we have a specially good attendance. Ray DeSart, Secretary. A R Craft is again located at Sioux City Iowa 211 Perry street. He arrived there recently from Denver Colorado and says he travelled through sixteen states but not one of them came up to good old Iowa. Games Next Sunday Elgin at Clermont Elkader at Hawkeye Ft Atkinson at Wancora St Lucas at Arlington.
The Echo reports 500 new Northwestern Bell directories for the Elgin exchange will reach subscribers soon. Discard old books and use the new. changes improve service. Local printer praise emphasizes accuracy and community support, noting Bell’s local investments, tax payments, and local employment.
The twelfth annual American School of Wild Life Protection will run August 4 to 16 at McGregor Heights. Faculty spans Iowa and U S scientists with field study texts covering birds, plants, streams, geology, Indigenous sites, and outdoor classroom experiences, ending with the steamboat excursion. Executive secretary is F G Bell of McGregor.
Thirty three towns and villages in North Dakota have joined the Honor Roll by offering no oleo margarine or butter substitutes for sale. The piece argues dairy importance and compares to Iowa urging similar action.
Fayette and adjoining counties are invited to West Union for the evening of the 3rd and all day on the 4th. The agricultural society has arranged an unusually large show likely the day's highlight. Dyersville and Fayette County Boosters meet the 4th. Milton Miller and George Vaughn, bricklayers at the West Union School house, were laid off from last Wednesday until Monday during floor pouring.
Elgin residents packed the streets for the first band concert of the season. The new bandstand boosted attendance and the band showed strong progress from winter practice. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Glen McKellar, the Berndt sisters, and Mr. Klingman, aiding the event. A Cheery Valley trio number drew an encore as plans call for special pieces at future concerts. The second concert is set for tonight with another balanced program.
The Elgin Opera House presents Honey a singing romance featuring Nancy Carroll with a 100 strong chorus of Southern black singers. The outdoor sequence includes Mitzi Green comedy and a cast led by Stanley Smith with ZaSu Pitts Lillian Roth Skeets Gallagher Jobyna Howland. Final shows Sunday and Monday June 29 and 30.
Last Friday evening Elgin enjoyed a rich musical scene with a Baptist church quartet and a Piney Woods Singers performance at the M. E. church. Earlier the Ramblers, a group of colored performers, gave two street concerts, drawing solid crowds to all venues.
Pedestrians should walk on the left side along highways to see and avoid oncoming vehicles. Even careful drivers may not avoid pedestrians on the right if faced with an approaching car. The McCord Players have drawn good crowds in Elgin and are praised as among the best shows here. Remember the band concert at Elgin park tonight.
A road gang south of Elgin expects to finish by Saturday then move to near Westgate for three miles of similar work. Rainy weather and boggy spots slowed progress. The Clear Lake Construction Co. employs about fifteen men with mules on dump wagons. Some teams have seven years on the job and appear well cared for. A bootlegger lost control near Centenary church, tipping a Ford coupe into a ditch. Sheriff Robertson located no driver. 117 gallons of alcohol valued around 1100 dollars were found in the wrecked car, photographed with the sheriff. The liquor was transported to West Union. the sheriff continues search for the bootlegger.
The sixth annual Fayette County tour to the Experiment Station at Iowa State College in Ames will depart Oelwein Park at 2:00 a.m. Sunday June 29. Route includes Independence Waterloo Cedar Falls Grundy Center and Marshalltown with stops if weather allows. About 185 miles of paved or graveled roads, lodging at Ames for 1.00 per person. Monday focuses on field livestock and machinery inspections with return Monday evening. Notify Farm Bureau to participate.
The Monona Leader reports that two men promoting a "Patronize Home Stores" campaign collected $6 from merchants, printed circulars, promised sales tickets and prizes, then disappeared with no firm in Davenport, Town, existing. Merchants received only a set of cheap silverware and loss of funds.
Inwood Iowa residents Ed Metzger Chas Halstenson Mr. and Mrs. John Weberg and Mrs. Nels Nelson arrived Tuesday to visit relatives while a local patient was confined in the hospital. Nalgon and Halatencon were noted as visiting family homes nearby.
County Superintendent L Q Mayer oversees exams for about twelve teachers June 25 to 27 and has sent a letter to all school board presidents to read July 1. In it he recommends annual repair and equipment budgets, avoids home style Victrola heaters, favors room furnaces, emphasizes proper seating, and condemns seats that leave students with dangling feet.
Mrs Cobb reported four men in a model T Ford abducting her 15 year old step-daughter Marian Yeager near her farm outside Oelwein. An all night search led to Marian's location at Emil Wagner's home in Oelwein, where she denied the kidnapping.
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