Want Ad Rates and Notices in This Column
Classified column lists per word rates for notices, with minimum charges. Includes items for sale such as dry cord wood at $7 per cord, livestock, pullets, stock hogs, and books. lost items. farms for rent inquiries. job work on a farm. typewriter supplies. wind mill repairs. carrier desks. and rubber stamps. Also requests farm rental notices and farm work inquiries, all from Elgin and surrounding towns in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eclipse Wind Mill
C. J. Harrington
Elgin
Iowa
Poland
Duroc Jersey
P. W. Raftis
Wadena
Three salesman ship kinds debated in sermon text
The piece contrasts three sales approaches from aggressive pressure to patronage rewards and a third benevolent method. It reflects on community boosterism while noting an Armistice era scene of Elgin dancers returning home and a Ford car accident near Clermont cemetery with an unhurt driver seeking a ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Clermont
Agricultural tips from U S Department of Agriculture column
Information furnished to the Echo by the U S Department of Agriculture outlines a range of rural science notes. It covers pest hosts for the European corn borer, speeds of Pintail and Canvasback ducks, optimal churning temperatures, lighting for winter egg production, potato storage temperatures, long term potato storage effects, lead stock handling, and the safety and storage of processed eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Rural School Program at Kern Hill on Thanksgiving Day
The Kern Hill school hosts a Wednesday program at 2 p.m. featuring Hazel Rothlisberger and Junior Hanson in songs and dialogues such as Let Us Give Thanks, When Pa Shaved Off His Whiskers, and A Picture. Eleven pupils perform pieces including The Story of the Pilgrim and A Girl's View with teacher Helen M. Rothlisberger directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern Hill School
Hazel Rothlisberger
Junior Hanson
Erma Butikofer
Lucille Hanson
Lester Butikofer
Vernie Frieden
Mabel Morse
Weather House
Phylis Frieden
Jane
Helen Hofer
Margaret Morse
Wilma Lehman
Cure Me
Marie Butihofer
Marian
Lehman Spelling
Mildred Friederich
Margaret Friederich
Maxine Lehman
Helen M. Rothlisberger
Coon Hunters Barred From Farm Due to Damage
Anton J. Anderson warns that coon hunters and their dogs must stay off the farm to prevent damage. Violators will be prosecuted for trespass if found on the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Anton J. Anderson
Farm Trespass Ban Near Elgin Public Notice
The owner forbids any trespassing on his farm south of Elgin near the Joe Frieden property. Dogs or men are prohibited at any time and violators will be prosecuted. Signed by Wp Wm Kohls Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Frieden
Elgin
Joe Frieden
Kohls, Jr
Rural School Program in Alyria District No 2
The school program will be given in Alyria School No 2 at 1 o clock Wednesday November 2. Long presents The Pilgrims Came. Pupils perform Catching the Train to Trash Four Pupils A Sensible Boy Jerome Yearous Growlers Geraldine Yearous Bettys Blunders 2 Pupils City Girl Helen Dennier Round Row Your Boat School Thanksgiving Day Opal Denner Smart Alee 3 Pupils Monologue Freds Vialt to Town Gerald Shaffer After School Leroy Gehring A Successful Elopement 4 Pupils Song My Banjo Everyone is invited Hazel M Rothlisberger, teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alyria
Jerome Yearous
Growlers
Geraldine
Betty
Helen Dennier
Opal Denner
Alee
Fred
Gerald Shaffer
Leroy Gehring
Hazel M. Rothlisberger
Resolution on the death of Henry M. McMillan at Elgin Farmers' Dairy Company
The Elgin Farmers' Dairy Company reads and adopts a resolution mourning director Henry M. McMillan who served faithfully since the company began. The board and staff extend heartfelt sympathy to his family, request recordation, and publication in the local Elgin Bee newspaper dated November 18, 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy’ Company
Henry M. McMillan
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy Company
The
Elgin Beho
Community notes and editorials from Northwood Postville Herald
A collage of local musings, farm outlooks, moral maxims, and community notices. References include West Union residents E C Olson and family, a weekend visit by Clifford Olson to grandparents Geo N Schori, plus pheasant hunting near Congresswoman Haugen's Northwood area. Safety reminders urge fire prevention, chimney checks, and furnace care ahead of cold weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Olson
West Union
Geo. N. Schori
A Collection of Quips and Aphorisms on Life
A jumble of social maxims and pithy sayings on friendship, morality, love, business, and daily conduct. It contrasts prudence and folly, noting satire, ideas, and gender remarks while hinting at practical wisdom and cautions in human behavior.
Trout Predation Disrupted Planting By Rangers
Oscar Irwin, a park ranger, supervised releasing steelhead fry into a lake. A 14 inch German brown trout and a 16 inch specimen appeared, harassing the newly released fish. Irwin defended the fry with a shovel before removing the attackers to dry land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorel
Oscar Irwin
Irwin
New Cotton Uses Spur Aid to Southern Farmers
The search for cotton alternatives expands into doorknobs, buttons, automotive paint, combs, movie film stock, writing paper, shock absorbers, and cotton plant insulators and artificial leathers excluding roots. Revival of cotton textiles gains speed with upholsteries, auto-tire cords, and popular mechanics magazine reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics
Fragmented request shows lawyer, assets, and funeral wishes
A quoted speaker lists an array of estate matters and conveyances including wills, overdraft inheritance, car equity, bonds, equipment, state percentages, a bootlegger, a funeral arrangement, and six pallbearers, reflecting confusing, informal directives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piret National Bank
M Wite
Lenin
Billy
Bonddng
Deer intrudes Bangor professor home through rear screen door
A deer wandered into Prof. John J. Martin of Bangor Theological Seminary’s house, raiding two or three downstairs rooms including the study. A family member grabbed the animal by a leg and dragged it outside before it left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Martin
Bangor
Maine) Theological Seminary
Doctor Martin
Zebra loses stripes after rubbing tree in odd tale
A curious fragment from Die Lustige Kiste in Leipzig describes a zebra named Fe tan rubbing a rubber tree and losing his stripes, followed by quirky exchanges about speed and mail. The text blends playful questions about a dentist and speedy work with unfinished lines and odd phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeye
Leipzig
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Medberry &, Frieden
Tews
Echo Office
White _ Wyandotte cockerela
George Butikofer
Ole Benson Farm
Nydegger
Towa
Orpington
Ole F. Johnson
China
Harry R. Ie
Echo
J. F. Rosenbaum
Ossian
Olaf
Herg
Atte
C. W. Wetherbee
Lawrence Gehring
Tedty
E. C. Olson
Weskee
Keith Gray
C.C. Sander
Boise Capper
Warren Harrington
Leonart Peterson
Worth County
Congressman Haugen
Northwood
Postville Herald
Boulevard
Hugh Petterson
Eving
Fidiente
Tevth
Trousseau
Bute
Post Office
Elgin Echo
Joe
Nannie
Tos Speedy Hanks
Ibis Bis
Optometrist
W. Heiserman
West Union, Fowa
Weibel
MIL
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