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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1930
Page
2
Tuberculosis is unlikely to spread to a healthy herd if precautions are followed. Buy only from disease free or supervised herds. Do not allow cattle to graze in shared pastures. Tuberculosis can spread at fairs or via shipments in undisinfected cars after transporting infected cattle.
Hilda Miller from Rock Valley and a Cedar Falls college student spent the weekend at the Rudy Yunker home, joining local residents for a quiet visit and social time.
The text discusses nerve impulses traveling at 404 feet per second and calculating brain-to-brain messages in under a tenth of a second. It envisions a radio with an illuminated panel showing the performer and notes community effort invites criticism, comparing a town booster to a town to afer.
The GRC girls of the Presbyterian Sunday School hosted a mother’s afternoon in church parlors. The program aired from the church broadcast station with Rev. Rundell as announcer. Guests were pleased with the reports as funds were raised to support next year’s Bible School.
Local residents posted visits and travels across Iowa. Jly and Mrs J S Moore visited Myron Moore near Fayette. Dell Kuhens and Paul Kuhens families visited Cedar Rapids. Walter Molumby and family joined Joe Molumby in West Union. Rev Wardell from Spencer stayed with their daughter. others hosted guests in Oelwein, Waterloo, and Dubuque. A fall festival was planned by Presbyterian church on October 11.
The brief column lists several Sunday dinners and gatherings at homes around Clermont Ardes Le Roy and nearby towns. Families such as Burgas Olson Lien Lydon and Halversons visit, entertain, or relocate. Residents attended the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, with many neighbors exchanging calls and hosting guests.
J J Earle of Fayette donated to the Fayette County Historical Society the first cannon ball fired at an Iowa regiment. The ball, weighin g six pounds, came from Monros Mo July 12 1861, used by Third Iowa Infantry Company F. Earle mounted it on a wooden pedestal with a brass plate. The ball’s odd shape caused it to hop as it traveled. The artifact was once with the town history society and is now with the local collection. The Herbert Miller family moved from West Elgin to the Olson house on Main Street this week.
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