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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1930
Page
8
A long column of classified notices shows rates per word or line, sale items including tractors, sows with litters, a Crosley radio, and farm work offers. Local shops advertise hardware, fencing, stoves, and magazines while a frost damages oats and gardens near Elgin in mid May.
A local eight-team baseball league united towns Elgin Hawkeye Clermont Elkader Fort Atkinson St Lucas and Waucoma under the Little Hight League. Teams post 25 dollars with president, home teams pay visiting teams 25 per game, schedule issues and rain payments defined, and eligibility and umpire rules, ball size, protests cash deposits, and admission limits. Additional notes promote hats and theatre changes by W F Miller with two weekly movie showings split across weekends.
Mrs. Carrie Whitney and Mary Carpenter of Fayette spent the weekend in the C. B. Schori home.
The W. F. M. S. met at Mrs. Ed Klingman's home Friday afternoon. The next gathering will be at Mrs. Max Thoma's residence. A one dollar proie sale at Elgin Millinery Store starts Friday May 23 offering a new hat. Promised southern trip report by Hattie McKellar was delayed for publication and will appear in the next issue.
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