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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1930
Page
8
Get your adding machine rolls and other office supplies at the Echo Office. We handle only beat quality and at cheaper prices than you pay out of town office supply houses. Wanted A chance to show you that any reasonable want can be satisfied if the dee of a Wanted in the If in doubt try it and see
Classified notices advertise low weekly rates, sale items, farms, livestock, eggs, hatchery birds, business opportunities, and services. Notable entries include two Belle City incubators for sale, specific cattle and breeding stock, rawleigh sales pitch, Everbearing Mastodon strawberry plants, and a four room rental in Elkader. Also found are found notices, school books for sale, and printing supplies.
Unclear ad copy promotes a $5 dual subscription to the Elgin Echo and the Telegraph-Herald, saving $1.00. Mentions Elgin Echo vacation for U S A students from March 21 to April 1. Notes Fayette visits by Geraldine Brainard Madge Benton and Anns Rennison to Mrs Celia Renniron home.
The text covers farming and kitchen tips including grouping early maturing crops in truck gardens and replanting after harvest, single use cloths for milk strains, meringue oven temperature effects, cheese factory counts in 1924, washing machine care, wild greens, clothing fastenings for children, oyster shipping, cleaning upholstered furniture, pork dish flavor pairings, watercress spreads, corned meat brine, mud stain removal, and protecting wells from contamination with proper drainage and containment.
Wadena News reports a flurry of social and family updates from El Dorado Arlington Hawkeye and Volga City. Residents attend card parties visits illness and hospital care. Several families move homes purchase property and welcome a new baby Harry Duane at Waterloo.
Mrs. J. B. Miller has returned from Excelsior Springs Missouri two weeks ago and is greatly improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Berg visited Lansing Sunday to view the new bridge progress and report little to see at present. A later inspection will occur when more work has progressed.
The Walthers family Mr and Mrs Will Walthers and son Leo of Elkader visited Elgin relatives last Sunday. An ad notes a heat resistance breaker strip in G and J Tires extending life and Gamble stores offering 82x6.00 tires for 13.95 with Tube Free, in Oc lw ei n Indiana.
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