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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1929
Page
6
Local notes cover social visits and family news as Elgin residents attend dinners and weekend gatherings. Community events include a baseball benefit on May 9, a dance for charity, boxing crowds from nearby Oelwein, and road conditions affecting travel between Elgin and Clermont.
The 10 o'clock worship hour and 11 o'clock church school are announced. The Ladies Sunday School class will meet with Mrs Ida Patterson Friday afternoon. District Men’s Council meeting at Fayette next Tuesday May. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society meets Friday May 10 at Mrs Ida Patterson’s home. A thank offering will be taken at this meeting. J S Snyder pastor.
The Sunday schedule lists German service and communion at 10 a.m., Sunday school at 11, church dinner at 12:15, junior meeting at 12:45, committee at 1, and English service at 2. May 8 at 2 p.m. the Ladies A id Society meets with Mrs Otto Kruger. May 2 prayer meeting at 8 p.m. and choir at 9 p.m. A note of mourning for Mrs Hofer follows, signed by Pastor Ph Lauer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley of Liberty Tennessee, president of the Indiana W. C. T. U., said the next major campaign of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will target the tobacco and cigarette evil after helping to secure national prohibition.
The Bible class of the M E Sunday school will meet with Mrs. Ida Patterson tomorrow Friday. The program includes Devotional led by Mrs. Klingman Roll Call History books of the Bible Education in the Near East Mrs Patterson First Children by Mrs. Gage Minutes of the meetings and business and Collectors. Ella Finke of Volga City visited Elgin Monday to see former neighbors.
The bulletin covers chick brood sizes by season, soy bean as a durable pasture crop, egg sizing and packaging guidance, salt and feed practices for dairy cows, and disease prevention for cattle including infectious abortion. It also discusses seed potato planting, seed piece sizes, and pasture management for horses, including grain adjustments and feeding timing.
The Bureau of Biological Survey reports the poisonous secretion of a South American frog has practical uses. It colors feathers on the Amazon parrot yellow by rubbing the frog’s back on growing feathers. The same secretion fuels arrow poison among Colombian Indians, yielding enough poison for about 60 arrows to hunt monkeys.
Farmers south of Elgin on the Elgin Wadena road lament the poor service as stretches from Wadena to Rothlisberger corner and to Kohler Bros farm are dragged. The section toward Wadena remains passable while the opposite end is a constant gamble for motorists. Glen Schori of Chicago, on business in Cincinnati last week. Augusta Rose Pfister of Clermont visits grandmother Mrs Rosa Pfister. Echo Office promotes adding machines and office supplies at low prices.
Oscar Torkelgen of near Farmersburg visited with relatives on Tuesday. Mrs. John Etter shows improvement after rheumatism. John Junior Falb of U. S. helped at the Falb garage in Elgin. Critics warn against boycotting local industries by buying elsewhere. Mrs. J. D. Shaffer’s son was delayed by mud between here and Prairie du Chien. County agent Cave from Huron was in Wisconsin buying dairy calves. Funeral attendees for Mrs. Hofer included relatives from Vernon Center, Rodman, West Bend, Arpin, Fayette, and West Union. Edna Hanson helped Della Chapman. new baby girl born April 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butikofer. Harold Kiple returned to Janesville after a week here. Theodora Olson remains ill with typhoid-like symptoms. Herbert Miller family moving to Arthur Redwinkle’s house after two months with the Boleyns. Elgin firemen held their regular meeting with little news. James Powers of Independence visited his family and spoke of his new job. Mrs. Emmer Patterson of West Union visited Clermont then returned to the home of N. M. Fritz, seeing former neighbors.
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