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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1926
Page
7
Mr and Mrs George Butikofer left Friday for a wedding trip visiting friends and relatives at Elgin Timok and La Grange Mo a magazine order line appears from Elgin Echo Office indicating local newspaper facility.
Local schools announce basket socials and programs across Cheery Valley Dover Cook Brorby Medberry Wag ner and Illyria townships with dates November 19 24 26 and 20. Teachers listed include Schori Freiburghaus Kimball Cook Flanagan Olson Berg and others. Socials invite ladies to bring baskets and attend, with various program start times.
The Elgin Echo issue lists Thanksgiving events at the Baptist church, a Kniel's gift display, and local visits by residents including Ted Hungerford and the Koevenigs. It covers hospital visits, theatre features at the Elgin Opera House, social gatherings, a door-to-door car repair, and notes on weather patterns and road work.
Balloon and truck tire repair offered with high pressure vulcanizing line. Auto top rebuilding and repairing. Closed cars recovered and plate glass cut and set. Radiator repairs also available. West Union Iowa.
The Elgin Echo and the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald are offered together at five dollars per year, a two-for-one clubbing proposition. Subscribers can save by joining both papers, with the Echo office handling the offer.
A collection of small classifieds and notices from Elgin Iowa and surrounding areas. Items include unsettled accounts at R P Strauch, photography by Cottage Studio, sales of Poland China boars, furnished housing for rent, sale bills for advertising, home made sorghum, for sale or rent of a good house, radiator repair services, nursing position for a girl, a bridge lamp and Davenport table for sale, and Christmas gift offerings at Kniel's. Mer vin Hunsberger Max Thoma Henry Topp Melvin Nyborg Mrs Begs Stoehr and Postville hospital are named in the notices.
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