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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
8
Get your adding machine rolla and other office supplies at the Echo Office. We offer heat quality and cheaper prices than out of town office supply houses. Wanted A chance to show you that any reasonable want can be satisfied by the use of a Wanted in the Echo. If in doubt try it and see.
A compilation of local want ads and notices listing items for sale such as eggs seeds cattle and clothing, plus job opportunities and services. Entries include Mammoth Grey Toulouse eggs, Chester White pigs, seed corn, steers, overcoats, milking machines, school books, and hatchery stock, with pricing and contact names in Elgin Iowa and surrounding areas.
The Echo Office advertises a combined offer for Elgin Echo and Dubuque Telegraph-Herald at five dollars per year, saving one dollar versus separate rates for new subscriptions and renewals. Also notes a Kentucky case where a man received life imprisonment for stealing six chickens and questions justice for larger thefts.
Residents of Cheery Valley Randalia Elgin and nearby towns hosted relatives and friends over the weekend. Many gatherings centered on family homes with numerous visits to Rothlisberger Yearous Frieden and Shaffer households. A church supper Plan announced for Saturday offers a 25 cent meal in Cheery Valley.
Alsike clover can be grown on sour land where red clover fails. Planted with timothy or grasses, it endures overflow and can grow heavily even in waterlogged soil. Mixed with red clover on uplands it secures stands where red clover won’t grow.
Dorothy Etter spent a Sunday at home from West Union where she works for Mrs Montgomery. She had been at the Montgomery residence a little over four weeks ago to work.
The notice covers home care with damp cloths on clotheslines and clean clothespins, sewing room pockets for patterns, and suggests USDA leaflet 39 Eggs at any Meal. It explains mercerization in cotton fabrics, contrasts with rayon, and urges bright outdoor colors for children for visibility and safety. It ends with a general ad line.
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