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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
4
Notice outlines want ad pricing: up to 25 words cost 25 cents per insertion, each extra word adds 1 cent, with a 10 cent weekly handling charge for office submissions. Cash with order. telephone acceptances allowed but payment due before month end. End of month billing incurs 20 cents per line.
Elgin watches offered at 24.75 for a new model with 15 jewel movement in yellow gold cases. Available in ladies and gent sizes. Display at Wm. E. Baumgartner, Jeweler, Elgin.
Prices for Iowa farm products held steady overall February 15 1940 with gains for chickens and eggs while butterfat and wool fell. Eggs, horses, mules up. soybeans down. butterfat decline marks end of earlier rise. corn steady. hog prices slip keeping the Hog-Corn ratio at 10.4.
A vintage kitchen note details making six servings of stuffed sweet potatoes with a cranberry raisin nut stuffing, plus a topping of butter brown sugar and salt. It offers tips on trimming pie crust, sugaring doughnuts, speeding white sauce, and a glue based cleaning solution for painted woodwork and floors.
A recipe notes citrus fruits are healthful and plentiful and provides Orange Bread with 11 2 cups sifted flour, 2 1 2 tsp baking powder, 1 2 tsp salt, 1 2 cup minced candied orange peel, 2 tbsp shortening, 1 4 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 2 cup milk, 1 4 cup orange juice. Mix dry ingredients, cream shortening with sugar, add egg, blend, add flour mixture with milk, stir in juice, bake in leaf pan at 380 degrees F for 45 to 60 minutes.
A statement notes artificial light carries more red orange and yellow rays than natural sunlight. It highlights color bias in indoors lighting and implications for perception and mood. The claim contrasts artificial spectra with sunlight and suggests practical effects on visibility and comfort.
Felt hats can last a second season with proper care. Brush with a hair brush following the nap from left to right. Use a dry rubber sponge for spots. If soaked by rain, push out creases and dry on a table away from heat.
W J Rogers abstract office lists transfers including H H Gilbertson to Hilder Gilbertson for 1 dollar with various lots in Turkey River area Elgin shifts Tille Hanson to Eva Kohls for 500 dollars in Elgin second addition lots. Light to Hanson et al QCD 1 dollar Elgin. Donna Clothier to S E Campbell 400 dollars Elgin property east of J E Roberts second add. W Lloyd Miller to Howard Boyle 1500 dollars Fayette tracts including 712 SE and land parcel near 1 road. Julia Jahren to Wm Nelson and Alma Nelson 1 dollar property in 36 95 7 with multiple described parcels in Fayette and Elgin districts.
A farewell party honored Mr. and Mrs. Joe Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phister as they relocate from the neighborhood. Relatives and neighbors hosted gifts and a picnic supper, with many households listed as attendees across the community.
Cheery Valley folks report Sunday dinners with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Mark and family in the Martin Wenger home. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Joan Dennler and Fred Hanson in the Rob Lehman home last Tuesday evening. Mrs Martin Minihan and Dorothy attended a funeral at Guttenberg Monday. The Butikofer family visited Fred Butikofer Saturday evening. Francis Schneider left for West Bend Wednesday. Mrs Orlin Mason and Gladys Hanson visited Ida Mattocks at West Union Thursday. Jake Lehman Lavern and Ida Christen with son George visited the Jake Dennler home Sunday. John and Walter Christen dined with Henry Palmer near Guttenberg Friday and helped move to Fred Rothlisberger residence.
Community guests in several homes include Torkelson Grover Mason Dennler and Meisner families. A Utah Easter pageant in Zion National Park draws thousands with 80 piece symphony and 300 voice chorus. Marek Weber debuts a breath test device at a Chicago dental convention.
A lighthearted collection of jokes and quips about business stereotypes a lumberyard selling paint and building supplies. Banter includes marriage chatter, a Scot seeking masons, a sign about smoking in a restaurant, and playful lines about aging and honesty.
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