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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
2
The Elgin Echo serves Elgin and northeastern Iowa publishing weekly editions. Advertisements cost five cents per line per insertion and display ads run consecutively until ordered stopped. Subscriptions are 81.50 yearly, six months in advance, with monthly billing and printing services offered.
A busy social week features a large Saturday night dance at the Elgin opera house with Carpenter's orchestra and praise for the supper by Hotel Dewey. Local society includes Mrs. James Carmichael listed as ill and Misses Besse Bowen Ina Kohler traveling to Cedar Rapids for business, plus reports of visits, political ads, and community events across towns.
Robert, Fred, Misses Carrie and Bertha Weymiller and Miss Nellie Bowman were an auto party from New Albia visiting Elmer Bailey Saturday. Paul Dean, visiting N. A. Lewis and family at Elkton South Dakota, returned Tuesday and says the Lewis family is prospering with good regional crops.
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