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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
7
Community notes report a carnival party at Clermont opera house set for April 1 with promises of fun and merriment. Other items include visits, illness updates, market sale plans, and local social gatherings with Clermont residents and nearby families noted.
Dover Mills notices report Mrs Clarence Nesvick and Mrs Richard Gress visiting Mrs Wagner and the newborn Amy Jean. Trene Nelson visits. election held. illnesses among Adolph Nesvick family. Miss Rounds ill at Cliffton school. several social visits noted. Victor Guyer started work near Castalia. Earl Havenstrite missing days due to sickness.
Iowa's health commissioner notes 2,762 cancer deaths in 1928, urging early diagnosis and annual exams for 35 plus. He lists danger signs such as lumps, abnormal bleeding, nonhealing sores, and persistent indigestion with weight loss, advising medical examination rather than self diagnosis and avoiding unproven cancer “specialists.”
East Church holds Good Friday Divine services with Holy Communion at 11 am, Mission Society meets March 27 at Mrs Henry Peterson s home with Mrs Peterson Mrs Henry Amundson and Mrs Martin Amundson as hostesses. West Church Lent services Friday at 7 30 and Sunday song service at 7 30 with Passion week Holy Thursday communion at 7 30. Mission Society meets March 28 with hostesses Mrs Orm Larson Anna Larson and Inga Larson. Highland Church English service Sunday at 11 am. Invitation to all services as churches aim to serve their communities.
A March 24 Luther League service lists opening hymns and worship elements led by Rev. G. Gunston with Palm Sunday selections, Holy Thursday and Good Friday solos and choruses, an address by the pastor, and a closing collection. Singers include John Larson Magdalen Olen Madeline Brinken Alta Larson and others with choirs and male quartette.
The Hawkeye baseball team earned its third loving cup from Reach company for the 1928 Little Eight League championship. A 17 inch silver bowl arrived last week and is on display at Harth's drug store. The Hawks also won pennants in 1923 and 1924, with Clermont and Brick City clubs as notable champions in other years.
An announcement promotes subscribing at the Echo Office for the Elgin Echo and the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. Prices are $2.00 and $4.00 per year respectively, with a combined offer of $6.00 for both new subscriptions or renewals, saving $1.00 and avoiding mailing delays.
Ethel Nelson visited Clermont High School on Monday afternoon. Matt Rodenkirch of Ossian has bought the Midcontinent Oil station and will move into the home formerly occupied by Henry Hjelming in the near future.
The piece uses a talking hen as a metaphor for resilience, noting she keeps digging worms and laying eggs despite harsh conditions. It contrasts pessimism with practical effort, urging readers to read the Echo Want Ads for opportunities.
Jake Beall and his team were separated from water near Hall's horse hastile and pursued by a search that afternoon failed to locate them. Evening captors tied the horses to a post in east town. A kind woman alerted the sheriff, who stored the team in the barn for the night. The next morning Beall recovered the team, remarking it was the first time his horses were arrested by regular officials.
A barber, shaving a new customer, asks if he has shaved him before. The customer replies that he has not and explains the scars came from service in France.
A fragment from the Houston Post-Dispatch presents a humorous pretend threat about hiding coins and fearing a burglar at night. The speaker vows to keep wealth secure in a sock and taunts the intruder with a playful rhyme about the creaking stairs and late night scares.
Wiltstones in early grist mills ghrogd were made of buh stone a fort of silica very hard. They were crafted largely from stone quarried in Ulster County New York Lancaster County Pennsylvania and Montgomery County Virginia.
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