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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1918
Page
2
The Hugin issued every Thursday by PW Hughes. It is registered at the Diginsan post office as second class mail matter. Ads in local columns cost per insertion and run until canceled. Subscription is $1.50 yearly or 75 cents for six months.
A 1918 Elgin news item notes a new book of Christmas greeting cards and urges paying outstanding echo office subscriptions. It then lists local residents returning from Fayette Sunday and others marching toward military service, with a family burn accident and a child’s recovery from a burn after boiling water spilled from a kettle.
The Elgin area reports five influenza cases this week with several more in the country. George Vaughn shows steady improvement after illness, Fr. Phillips visits from Akeley, Minnesota, and J. Etter’s two influenza cases are noted. Marshal DeSart aids a Clayton County inquiry. Miss Helen Craft, West Union alumna and former teacher, dies in Stanley, North Carolina from influenza related pneumonia. Argo Gazette.
A public sale announced by T. J. Capper lists a bay mare aged 12, two bay geldings aged 2 and 1, all fine and sound, with a call for bidders. The note mentions Stoehr & Co closing during the war and Otto joining the U S service, praising Stoehr as a losing but patriotic figure. It also reports George N. Schori and Henry Martin fixing a depot crossing, the railroad lacking workers, and locals hired to complete the job to remove a mud hole. The piece closes with reflections on war, duties, subscription pleas, and a question about the election.
Regular session opens with roll call by Mayor. Minutes from last meetings approved. Bills listed include street labor 31.60, labor 40.00, road work 1.26, hauling 1.00, cement 84.66, power 64.25, printing 22.05. Adjournment ordered by motion.
A conference of the live stock subcommittee of the Agricultural Advisory Board and Food Administration negotiates November minimums for hog prices in Chicago. Packers agree to not buy hogs below 16.56 per hundred pounds except throwouts. producers urged to avoid flooding markets and market hogs normally to aid price stabilization.
Saturday a wedding party traveled to West Union and then to the Lutheran parsonage in Clermont for the union of Perle Ethel Kimball and Gerhard S. Halverson. The ceremony united the couple as relatives rejoiced at the Kimball home afterward. Perle Kimball, educated at Upper Iowa University, planned to teach in the area. Halverson, a farmworker living east of town, begins married life on the family farm with his mother.
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