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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
4
Names of Rock Rapids visitors, Elgin residents and Clermont guests appear with neighbors hosting meals, church events, and Sunday visits. Attendees include Medberry, Reichert, McMillan, Frieden, Turnbull, and many others while weekend travel to Oolweth, Brainard, Cheery Valley, and West Union is noted along with a teachers meeting and a Palestine views lecture at Marion church.
Social notes list residents visiting relatives and hosting company across Ossian St Olaf Monona Postville West Union and nearby areas. Mentions outings including Julius Johnson substituting on a cream route and C. J. Anderson returning from Canton South Dakota.
Frances S. Harris describes how uniforms spread across society during business hours in Buenos Aires. From bankers to postmen, clerks to peddlers, even guides and poets emulate formal attire, with many vendors flaunting caps and garb while hustling on Florida avenue and city entrances.
A dense social column notes Mr. and Mrs. Mays visiting Elgin Saturday, Mervin Brown family out Sunday, Miss Mattie Brause sewing at Arthur Patterson's, and a large George Stansberry farm sale crowd Monday. Several visits to George Stansberry, George Hoyle, Sidney Patterson, Louisa Burk, and George Tripp homes occur with multiple local families in attendance. Rev Song preached at the West Union Baptist church, and various Craft, Tripp, and Fay ette residents are listed among Sunday guests and weekend visits.
The piece explains sea ice is initially salty while saltiness decreases through winter. By April May ice remains too salty for cooking. June July rains and melting snow form non salty rivulets and lakes on the ice, whose freeze yield pure water for drinking and cooking.
Mrs Fred Schitipp is on the sick list. Dell Witsoe and family were guests Sunday at L Chuston home. Many attended the Stantonbury gate near Bratnur Monday. Lydia Dennler, Louise Dennler and Bertha Floser visited relatives near Elinder over Sunday. Clemence Meyer from near West Union spent the weekend with his grandfather Thomas Hanson. Mr and Mrs Wm Larson called Monday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Jake Denble. Mrs Henry Robinson came from Postville Wednesday to visit her mother Mrs Emma Reinhart. Mrs Splealaky of Murrill Vietnam enjoyed a visit here last week with daughter Mrs George Teuchtenmacher. Gray Reed family near Las Talia and families of Jake Christ ten Ben Hofer Adolph Hannon were guests at Mrs L Christen Sunday. Eten Hanson and Mrs J W Miler of Clermont visited Decorah Saturday to Sunday with daughter Miss Lillian Milter.
The amphioxus fishery near Amoy supplies a rare delicacy treasured by Chinese diners. A narrow coast strip supports about 1000 small boats with two men each, dredging during ebb tide from August to April. Average catch per boat is 13 pounds daily, totaling six to seven million amphioxus daily, valued as a prized dainty.
Earl Russell recalls Marseilles conditions in 1887 with vivid reminiscences about street dangers near the harbor. He quotes a French engineer adviser who urges walking in the street center and, if confronted, to shoot a would be aggressor, a drastic method endorsed with brutal flair.
Cresco with a population of 3206 boasts five miles of paved streets and eight miles of graveled roads. Reports note geese migrating south in large V formations, with eyewitnesses counting up to fifty geese leading flocks. Weather watchers predict colder weather ahead.
A historical note discusses Sarah Bernhardt's allure for artists, citing Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the Memorials. His letter mentions Bernhardt's Cleopatra and a jokey line on eight girdles, a necklace, and a garter as part of costume ideas, with playful exaggeration about jewelry.
The extract surveys poultry's late addition to diets, citing J G Wells and a note on the Old Testament’s lack of explicit mention of hens. It traces fowl origins to jungle birds in India and Burma, mentions early domestication in Burton, and notes poultry spread to China and Greece via Persia before New Testament references to a cock crowing at Peter's denial.
The article discusses breathing exercises for adenoids and mentions Frank Lundin the New London, Henry county star who won the national pitching horseshoes title. It covers an exhibition in Kellerton with Frank Lundin and Frank Jackson, a shoe store display in St Joe, and notes on upcoming world championship games in Cleveland. It also cites farm barn fire losses totaling 1,363,704 dollars over four years ending 1922 and calls for prevention through proper rodding and air flow per the Weather Bureau.
A sheriff sale advertises the foreclosure of the East half of Lot 20 in Block 5 Original Town of Elgin Fayette County Iowa. The sale is to be held November 14 1923 at 2 06 PM in front of the West Union Court House door by C C Wright Sheriff with J W Winston Deputy. A second item notes a 14 year old New Hampton parish schoolboy suffered broken ribs and collarbone in a football game with minor additional injuries.
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