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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
4
Rates show 26 cents for up to 26 words and 1 cent per extra word. A 10 cent weekly handling charge applies for replies sent to the office. Cash with order. telephones accepted but due before month end. 10 cent per line late billing fee applies.
A big pad of typewriter paper for a dime at the Echo Shop offers 20 cent construction paper and 10 cent stenographer spiral note books. The ad promises to source any item not in stock if you specify your needs.
Elgin pupils report Halloween crafts and poems, with Jack O Lanterns and farm life drawings. Barbara Crider is ill. James Dawson shared birthday treats. Fourth grade builds an African village, October officers set for room committee and monitors. new library books and magazines arrive. Geography units start on Africa and the middle Atlantic states. eighth grade graphs wool production. Perfect attendance honored for seven students.
Orvin Thompson announces sales on Monday October 18 and Tuesday October 19 near Elgin and McGregor with additional weekly Thursday West Union sales and a Clermont event on Saturday October 23 featuring Lloyd Anderson and Mrs. Conrad Brenner selling household goods and furniture. The Sumner Gazette notes an unusual potato with four tooth masks brought to the office by John Klein of Banks township, resembling a camel with a pack.
Clifford Blomberg and Glen Postelthwaite of Winnebago Illinois were fined ten dollars and costs each for malicious mischief after pouring powdered sugar into the gasoline of J R Hildebrandt’s car at Davis Illinois. The boys said they had taken their dates to a dance but the girls lost interest when Hildebrandt arrived. They were ordered to pay twenty eight dollars toward car repairs for sugar damage to the motor.
New York City The New York Yankees World Champions of 1936 who repeated their triumph when they met the New York Giants in the 1937 world series. Rear row lists players Selkirk Crosetti Jorgens Wicker Hoag Schrieber Heffner Saetzgaver Henrich Dickey. Front rows include Ruffing DiMaggio Hadley Andrews Makosky Murphy Rolfe and others with Tim Sullivan seated front. News Photo Service Exclusive to the Echo in Fayette County.
The two way sound system donated by Miss Mildred Willis of Orwell Indiana aided a Tabernacle member confined to bed for a long period. The device, placed near the home about a quarter mile from the church, supported Sunday school class attendance.
A humorous local note describes an automatic stoker for home heating making life easier without the LOU. A parson voice offers a morning quip about activities near a hen house, reflecting community humor in period slang.
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