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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
2
A diverse local column notes in favor of constructing a dam and power plant. The items recount community responses, visits, and scattered news from Granite Falls and nearby towns, including incidents, auctions, and local personalities, reflecting early 20th century regional life and concerns about roads, taxes, and industry.
Community items report a crabbed leak search, Grimes orchestra traveling to Spirit Lake for a Sunday engagement, and Miss Nelle Mattoon at Wart Union hospital. Visitors called on the Mattoon family, Bertha Kiple helps with berry gathering, crop shortages due to lack of rain, a child drank gasoline and was treated, hog houses at the fair grounds to be built west of the pavilion, two new hog houses 100 feet long will boost fair capacity. Dr. G. D. Darnall sails to Des Moines as Iowa delegate to a national education conference. A Cedar Rapids hunt misidentifies a West Union couple. Arthur Humphry and Edith Cammack sought by deputies.
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