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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
4
The community mourns Lester Hope while numerous relatives and neighbors visit, host, and share news across Elgin nearby towns. Residents report weddings, illnesses, funerals, cattle sales, and travel as locals recount gatherings and daily events amid the loss.
A weekly Oak Grove column notes a farm bureau meeting at Ed Boyle home, visits by L. W. Reed and Jim Bartlett, and a Bennett family reunion at Elgin. Dummermuth ill with flu. Eva Dummermuth helped with chores. Harold Bennet and Henry Matthys with families attend. Elmer Bennett of Bristol, Vermont, called on Ed Boyle residence. Walter Kobls hosted guests.
Gilbert Helmer on the B D Chandler farm two miles southeast of West Union loses his entire herd to the T B test. Twenty three head condemned as reactors after the third test, with four and six cattle lost on earlier tests. First four showed TB lesions in Chicago inspections. Tests occurred over winter, spring, and after calves and old cattle mingled.
Tuesday, Sept 29, Tri Star Oil Company of Calmar sold all holdings in northeast Iowa to Iowa Oil Company of Dubuque. Possession transfers Oct 1. Included bulk stations at Calmar Castalia Monona Clermont West Union Maynard Hawkeye. Tri Star had operated stations in about 20 towns since its 1921Calmar founding.
A jumble of local notices lists For Sale Barred Rock chickens in Elgin by Hilder H Bilden. It also covers social calls, visiting relatives in Elgin and nearby towns, church events, and hunting and travel plans. The page notes bazaar dates, recent travels, auto work hires, and illness updates among residents including the Kohler family.
Frankie Darro a child star performs handsprings and flips in The Rainbow Man, showing a remarkable kid role at Elgin Opera House next Sunday and Monday October 6 and 7. Eddie Dowling co stars alongside Darro in this talkie debut era drama.
The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the first month of school Clifford Gisleson Ruby Olson Amelia Wald Randolph Reierson Floyd Reierson Verna Odegard Selma Odegard. Pupils with 100 percent in spelling for the month were Marjorie Reierson Mildred Wald Josephine Bilden Ruby Olson Melvin Reierson Amelia Wald Anna Mae Kimball teacher.
Henry Clay held the speakership of the House longer than any other man though not serving six full terms. He resigned the post twice. Joseph G. Cannon and Champ Clark each served as speaker for eight years.
Miss Belva Benson was ill Tuesday and could not teach, with Mrs. Carter substituting in the primary. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Redwinkle left last Wednesday for Missouri to make their home, the former having worked at the canning factory this fall. Mrs. Bennett celebrated her eighty sixth birthday with a big family dinner, Elmer Bennett of Bristol, Vermont attending.
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