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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1931
Page
8
Alden Pinney and his wife returned from a 600 mile trip to Elgin Iowa. They compared towns they visited and proclaimed Benton a real town with real people. They emphasized their own town Benton provides livelihoods and should come first.
Mrs Nella Capper of Elgin and Mrs Charles Greenley of Decorah traveled to Cheater on Saturday due to their father John Pfeifer’s illness. He died Sunday and they stayed for the funeral afterward.
Anna Frieden born 1869 in Clayton county Iowa died August 20 1981 at her West Bend home age 61 years 9 months 6 days. She married Joseph Schneider January 29 1887 and had twelve children eight surviving with husband and eight children named. Funeral was held Sunday with many out of town attendees.
Oak Grove community happenings recount social visits among families including the Brabham, Howard, Kohls, Wilson, Nydegger, and Boyle households. School resumes August 31 with Archie Howard as teacher. Notable events include a birthday gathering, births, and a death of Theodore L. Torkelson. Ossian Bee reports a farmer Elmer Vick hanged himself amid financial strain.
Alden Pinney commends the Elgin homecoming as a grand success with 500 former residents attending. He praises the photo gallery, cleanliness, and parade, offers ideas for labeled pictures and church lunches, and lauds the hospitality and committee effort. He suggests sleeping places for visitors and supports another homecoming. Pinney notes the Methodist service and cemetery upkeep and calls Pinney the event’s driving force.
Salinas California August 14 telegram from Juanita Dietrich recalls Elgin reunion wishes. Norman Lewis Centerville lists greetings to classmates and memories of Elgin with the class motto We have sailed where shall we anchor. Juanita Dietrich expresses desire to hear about others voyages and sends warm memories.
William Lyon Phelps writes in American Magazine that Shakespeare observed men women and children and wrote down what he learned. Ben Jonson and Browning praised him noting his ability to chronicle life across classes and reveal human nature in every play.
A polar bear confrontation is recalled by an explorer who, with no ammunition, remembered tears from home. He says he rammed frozen tears into his gun, the tears melted to water, froze into an icy dagger that struck the bear and killed it with water on the brain.
The piece explains that Congress must pass a new reapportionment law before March 4 to alter House membership based on the 1980 census. If no law is enacted, the Bureau of the Census report method will apply to the Seventy third Congress elected in 1932, shifting seats among states and possibly creating a fight to raise total House membership to prevent any state losing members.
The article explains gathering ripe bayberries, boiling them to release wax, skimming and re dipping. Wicks are prepared on rods and repeatedly dipped in warm wax, with cooling intervals. Wax must stay just warm enough to remain a liquid.
The song Caught On by Sinsury sold 1,990 copies in its first year 1898 and rapidly climbed to a yearly peak of 287,207 in 1913 and 228,324 in 1914. By 1928 it had sold 48,736 that year, totaling 2,670,750 copies.
A Chicago Daily News item reports a wry scene where a mother orders her son Bobby to stop whatever he is doing after strange noises emanate from his room. The brief caption captures domestic humor and everyday tension.
A timid citizen tells his lawyer he fears for his life as he cites threats from a woman. The joke pivots on his odd comparison to someone who might chop wood, reflecting a playful, dated humor style from the Philadelphia Star and Buen Humor in Madrid.
Johnson worries over his son who smokes excessively and stays out all night while William dismisses him as a sissy.
A fragment from a column contrasts desire for a man who loves with all his heart against the practical worry that he may be debt bound by his pocketbook. The brief exchange hints at tensions between romance and financial responsibility.
Two Steuben men in Prairie du Chien trap rattlesnakes for hides and bounties. The season runs August 1 to September 10 with past totals over 1600 snakes and more than $700 in bounties. The men tan skins into belts and neckwear. notable catches include 127 snakes on Aug 12 and a 23-rattle male. Ern Harmon left for New Martinsville, West Virginia, after two weeks with relatives in Elgin.
Last week a so called advertising scheme circulated among Decorah business men to fund book covers for county schoolchildren. About $100 was spent and the solicitor earned roughly $60 in three days. Several firms involved may not benefit from newspaper advertising, and locals question why funds were given to strangers instead of the needy in town.
The Little 8 All Stars were defeated 6 to 2 by the Boosters at the Fayette county fair last Friday. Kiple of Elgin pitched for the Little 8 while Rathburn threw for the Boosters. The Boosters had better support. both teams recorded two earned runs. Karl Buck of the Boosters hit .800, going 6 times with three doubles and a single.
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