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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1935
Page
4
Classified items include ad rates up to 25 words at 26 cents per insertion and 1 cent per word beyond. Notices list sheep clipping work at 15 cents per ewe and farm real estate for rent or sale. Elgin area names and addresses appear throughout the short classifieds.
Classified land sale items describe George Metzger 109 acre farm near Elgin with 75 cultivated acres, timber and pasture, water, and proximity to canning factory. another 475 acre stock and crop farm near Volga five miles from WaBena, both with price on application. Also agricultural notice urges dipping to control sheep ticks with Creoline nicotine or lime sulfur, recommending fresh yards and careful restocking to avoid reinfestation.
An Iowa editor explains that half the debate time on a bill is allotted to the Democratic congressman in charge and half to the ranking Republican. With 326 Democrats and 102 Republicans, Republicans typically get more speaking opportunities. Wisconsin Progressives and Minnesota Farm Laborites usually receive time from the Republican side. three seats are vacant.
In Washington there are over 130,000 Black residents with many in civil service, hospitality, and professional roles. The city’s expensive rents and hotel prices draw criticism as receiverships and overcapitalization plague key properties, while visitors flood the capital for jobs, protests, cherry blossoms, and sightseeing.
The weather lately has been delight ful with delicious air. Soon we shall be overwhelmed by the coming summer heat as Congress remains in session in our capitol city.
Motorists using old 1934 license plates face arrest and fines as the state enforces the May first compliance deadline. The department orders immediate switchovers and warns of penalties for noncompliance.
If you have something to sell and are in a big hurry to sell it, let the Want Ad department of the Echo prove its ability as a speedy and efficient sales medium. Sifp! What if the critic couldn't do as well himself? You can be a good judge of mules without being a mule.
The commission, led by the attorney general, notes Gov Herring and Mrs Herring have no interest in the Des Moines liquor store building. It urges buying liquor directly from distilleries, repeating the mandatory license section, and cites 21 cents of each dollar as state profit. The beer bill defines beer, extends taxation to near beer, and allows beer parlors in small towns. Bernard E Manley is confirmed to continue on the state liquor commission.
Elgin residents hosted guests from Waterloo Oelwein and Chicago during the week. Several local families hosted visiting relatives while C B Schori recovered from an accident with stitches. Alden Pinneys attend National Editorial Association in New Orleans. Benton Missouri. Grasshopper control effort includes 600 tons of poison bait stored in state.
The week end thaw brings a surge in gardening with many rushing to finish late plantings. Farmers are absent from town as field work takes priority while seeding had largely finished before the snow last Thursday night.
Iowa state senators previously paid 10.00 to take senate chairs home but the assistant attorney general ruled they must pay 40.90 to purchase them. The note adds speculation that fewer chairs will be taken as souvenirs during their Des Moines tenure. It humorously cites Wisconsin U faculty and the saying about work and play as it closes with a singalong notion.
Echo subscribers are urged to promptly notify the subscription department of address changes. Under new postal laws newspapers must pay postage due for notices of address changes furnished by the post office. Delays and delivery failures remain a concern. send changes in advance.
Samuel Mosby and B J Baumgartner attended a bankers' group meeting in Charles City on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Max Hunsberger and daughter Edna, and Ruth Mosby visited Cedar Rapids for the day. Lois Lehman from Farmersburg returned Friday night to spend the weekend with her parents, L G Lehman. Seven Kathleen Steele friends held a birthday party at her home Monday evening with Ellen Stillman Crystal Wenger Maxine Hunsberger Betty Elkema Elaine Zurbriggen Vergil Cook and Georgia Lou Grimes. In Iowa last year about 3900 farm foreclosures erased nearly fifty million dollars in debt. Currently bonding, insurance firms and corporations own roughly one tenth of Iowa land.
Federal and county officers swooped on Ossian Tuesday night raiding Hiller’s Cafe Artz Tavern and the Witt Produce Company. Six federal agents were joined by Sheriff Mike Graf and Deputy Fred O’Boy to assist in the operations.
A quirky collection of brief exchanges and humorous snippets. A country pig tale, a washroom confession, a boy's barnyard description, a paint brush as a tool of progress, and a stage manager quip about voice usage in a fire emergency.
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