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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1931
Page
4
Local want ads list rates per word with advance payment and 25 cent minimum. Items include a bay gelding, a black leather glove, a bicycle, rubber stamps, Perfection Stove distributorship, Capper Chix poultry, and various farm products. Also notices on rental land, a cash register for sale, stamps, dictionaries, and construction paper from Elgin Echo with prices and contact references.
Attendance neared one hundred and fifty as the Elgin school held a county declamatory contest with Alpha Clermont Vancoms and Wagin represented. Prizes went to Vincent Puz of Waucoma and Clifton Kiple of Elgin in Oratorical. Margaret Conner of Clermont and Elizabeth Foxwell of Elgin won in Dramatic and Humorous respectively. Special numbers included a cornet duet by Hilda Meyer and Lewis Thoma, plus the Elgin School Band.
Residents and relatives from West Union and nearby communities attended multiple social events this week. Guests included Ralph Shaffer Leone Kerr and family, the Rothlisberger and Gehring households, and members of the Wadena Elgin and Volga City regions. A farewell party for the Peters family and a church event marked the social calendar amid rock parties and quilting bees.
Supper guests Wednesday at the Obas Rothlisberger home celebrated his birthday. Mervin and Ellen Hunsberger attended a gathering at Roy Kimball’s east of Elgin last Sunday. Mrs Walter Rothlisberger joined a luncheon at Kathleen Henspe’s Eskader home last Saturday honoring classmates Mrs Andrew Cook Mrs Reuben Wickler Merlin Cook and Mr and Mrs Alfred Cook of Elkader were guests Wednesday at the Ohas Wenger home.
Information from the U S Department of Agriculture covers disease spread among poultry and swine sanitation, advised separation of species, summer fly control, mare work routines, and gestation nutrition. It details alfalfa meal versus hay, feeder formats, and a long mash chick diet with minerals and cod liver oil to prevent vitamin D deficiency.
The text notes the creation of three nationally designated forests in Michigan identified as Hiawatha Ottawa and Marquetta. It also reports a rise in the farm population after a decade of decline, a federal trapper at an air field killing badgers to protect landings, and mentions Reed canary grass as a promising forage. Additional lines advertise magazine subscriptions and Bergs spring suits seen in the Echo.
A. G. Thuirson of the Cedar Rapids based Collins Company says the firm will farm about 30 000 acres in Iowa in 1931, up 5000 from last year. He notes grain farmers face a dim outlook but expects profits from large acreages, power machinery, and cost reduction. The policy of removing fences and uniting land into a single tract used for grain and livestock feeding is seen as revolutionary in practice. Northwood Anchor.
A Northwood Anchor report recounts Fred Fish being sued for divorce after he tried to arrange a date with his wife by phone. He called a woman friend with whom he had been встречing. Hinwite went to the residence to confront her rival and answered during the encounter.
On the eve of execution a Scotsman Irishman and Jew face questions about a final meal. The Irishman chooses Irish stew, the Scotchman asks for whiskey, and strawberries are refused as out of season. The Jew retorts he can wait, delaying the moment.
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