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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1931
Page
3
Practical notes describe using celery to flavor dishes, cleaning gas stove burners by brushing dirt, and a soda boil rinse. It covers lye hominy production, buttermilk nutrition, and cautions about vitamins in reduced fat milk. Also gives scorch stain remedies using sun and hydrogen peroxide with ironing, noting color risks.
In South Chicago 11 year old Fred Zasznelo explains he has no dog license for Pal the fox terrier. Judge Lupe, moved, hands the boy eight dollars to buy a license and remarks he once had a dog like Pal when young.
A remark in the text notes the idea that costs are borne by the state and questions who exactly pays. The speaker challenges the notion that such expenses are free to the public purse. The wording reflects a skeptical view of state funding and accountability.
Three rattlesnakes were found in an old building beside Frank Peters home in Fairbank during teardown last week. Workers killed the snakes without anyone harmed. A rattler had been killed earlier that summer on the Peters porch, likely from the same family.
Northeastern Iowa towns saw musical satisfaction but money trouble as guarantors covered deficits. Waverly guarantee reached 800 dollars yet receipts were half, while Rock Rapids faced failed parking signs until bilingual addition helped. The contest war for militia costs an estimated 55 thousand dollars drawn from the state general fund for troop transport pay and rations.
A Broadcaster quips on nature’s limits while a magistrate notes sarcasm from an officer. A risqué autoist reply echoes, jokes about wives. Ads tout worker savings off-season, elephant street antics, and the value of good housing for stock and machinery. A war ends only when the country you chose is saved.
Enthusiasm marked the Izaac Walton League of Iowa annual meeting in Waverly where Harold Thomas of Des Moines was elected president. A “super chapter” for Iowa was discussed, and resolutions opposed a nine foot channel in the Mississippi while condemning sewage in streams. The issue of furs and game shipping out of Iowa was raised with federal penalties for unmarked packages or unpermitted dealers. Judge Geo W Wood of Waterloo recounted woodcock sightings near McGregor and Lynxville, noting nesting hints and urging sightings reports to the department.
Forty patrols covering three to six counties logged 1 860 arrests for violations in the year ending July 31 1908 80. Deputies averaged 46 arrests each with minors often arrested where no prosecutions followed. The lowest arrest by one man was three and the highest 148 with trouble concentrated near larger cities. Town duck season opens October 20 and runs to November 19 daily from sunrise to sunset with a 15 bird limit. Hazlett of Oelwein is seriously ill after a stroke. More than 200 000 acres of New York farm land are abandoned yearly per foresters. Benton s Neighbor Day featured rotogravure pages in the St Louis Post Dispatch in Alden Pinney s town. Advertising genius noted in the local venue.
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