18 Oct 1928
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1928
Page
1
A combined school program and basket social will be held at the Illyria church Friday evening October 26 starting promptly at 8 16. Participants are Highland No 3 and Illyria No 1 districts. Ladies are asked to bring untrimmed baskets and a stick of candy. Leone Kerr and Dorothy Herman, teachers.
A local newspaper line notes publication cadence and filing details stating it is published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch and entered at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Safe Hawn slowly recovers at Alden Gel home. Crandalls, Moore families visit. trucks tipped near bridge with minor damage. Missionary Society plans bazaar on election day. Various locals travel to Oelwein and Maynard for business and help. Sargeant house occupancy shifts for winter. Travel and illness touch multiple families in the area.
A speaker warned against a presidential candidate opposed to liquor laws and favoring Sunday sales and saloon near schools. A reception for Rev. E J Sheldon and his family was hosted by the local Methodist Ladies Auxiliary. The event featured a program of readings, music, and a luncheon, drawing about 100 attendees.
Businessmen in a small town should view advertising as an investment not a donation to printers. The piece notes value depends on content placed in space and cites examples from Sam Lehman, Dan Sutter, and local mash products. It mentions a regional fire outfit buy by Keystone farm owners and praises improved highways enabling such investments.
County Sheriff Robertson hunts a string of burglaries across West Union Clermont Hawkeye and nearby towns. A related Milwaukee trip tied to suspects with alibis, while unions plan a Dixie Democrat Hoover rally at the courthouse assembly room. Dr Baylor warned southern Democrats oppose immigration and Prohibition changes and argued Smith would weaken immigration law.
Twenty head from Carmichael and Burkhart Hawkeye were killed or crippled when a herd strayed through an open gate at Hudson Town and was struck by a Great Western flyer in fog about 4 am last Saturday. The cattle were part of a shipment of 86 to Hudson. the freight crew left one carload in the yards with an open gate. The railroad settled with Hawkeye, issuing 1912.35 dollars to cover damages.
Guttenberg to Garnaville will see regraveling of U.S. Highway 66 with gravel dug from a local pit. A construction crew arrived early in the week, with mules and road implements, under contract awarded to Mr. Weaver of Town Falls.
Laying hens should receive green feeds in winter as part of their ration. Include ground al folie in the laying mash along with germinated foods. Add limited quantities of cabbage. Mangels and carrots may be used with good results.
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