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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1922
Page
7
Fragment from a historical column shows a Thursday publishing schedule. Ads in local column run per line per insertion with display aid. Subscription rates listed: one year in advance two dollars, six months one dollar.
Clermont visitor Fred Bigler called in at town while local shops push fall sales. Stoehr Drug Co advertises Lowe Bros stove enamel and cent-a-sale remedies. Community notes mention signs at Center street guiding travelers and a girls trip to West Union. Grimm & Schupbach hosted radio play-by-play of the Towa-Yale game, a 6-0 result, with local pride in the Big Ten champion hopes.
Sunday visits and weekend gatherings mark the community as neighbors share meals, hospitality and party events. Towns referenced include Postville Highland Clermont Monona Decorah and General City with residents Mork Loftsgard Gunderson Nelson Olson Gunderson and families featured.
The Elgin Echo weekly in Elgin Iowa publishes the required ownership and management statement per the 1912 act. Editor and managing editor is F W Hughes of Elgin Iowa. The notice appears for October 1 1922.
Public notice from Elgin Iowa listing publisher and owner F W Hughes bared as the same person. It notes sworn subscription before notary O P Stoehr on October 7 1922 with commission expiry February 23 1924. No bondholders or security holders holding 1 per cent or more are listed.
Local Elgin column records visitors from Cedar Rapids to West Union and Tama. Mentioned are the Knudtson, Stoehr, Reifitz, and Wanser households hosting relatives, plus reports of arm injury to Lois Dean near Rochester. Weather briefly notes a snow flurry and approaching winter, with roads expected to become impassable and a shift to horse-drawn travel.
Mrs Chris Dummermuth attended a prenuptial shower for Miss Ida Larson at the Larson home near Clermont on Saturday evening. Ida Larson will marry Evan Anes, a young farmer near Decorah, with a ceremony to be held at Clermont Lutheran church on Sunday. Boles Capper and wife departed for New Orleans Monday to attend the American Legion national gathering, with a possible plan to stay south all winter.
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