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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
4
The notice outlines advertising rates at one cent per word with a 25 word minimum and additional weekly handling charges. It requires payment by telephone or other means before the ad runs and warns that accepted ads may incur extra costs if not prepaid.
Typing paper 500 shoots B-2 21 for 84 cents. Pads ten cents at the Echo office. Lost tarpaulin truck cover between Elgin and Brackin farm. Return to owner Fayette, Coa Paem, or Weilel Mil. Cu. For sale Holstein bulls with papers. Construction paper ten cents per bundle at Echo office. Old newspapers big bundle for sale at Echo offices. Auto insurance type offered by Employers' Mutual Casualty Co. Agent Straueti, Elgin.
The column lists visits and gatherings around Elgin including Chas Carstens of Cedar Rapids visiting with friends, Carl Brockhausen and W. Fr. Miller in Lansing, Anna Fal and Mrs. Mary Keiser at Ed Boyle’s, Mae Stuffenhagen helping in Dr. Crider’s home, and many other arrivals and dinners with families in West Union Ossian Mason City and Chicago.
In a rural event at the Hoosier state county fairground purebred Holsteins are examined by judges including AL Rudin of Summond and Mes Huan for breeding prospects amid a bustling turnout and county fair atmosphere.
A compact recipe for trumb macaroons uses six ingredients: bread crumbs, chopped nuts, sugar, salt, eggs, and vanilla extract. Mix with whisked eggs, drop by teap spoons on a greased sheet, bake at 350 degrees for 13 minutes until lightly browned. Yield about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.
Agricultural columns warn that feeding moldy flax is risky and pastures containing clover and grasses should be rested before Sept. 19 to protect stands. Seeds like black mustard and Canada thistle may persist 26 to 50 years. Reports favor selling fruit at harvest rather than storage and predict favorable fall prices. Iowa State College hosts a large farm festival Sept 6–7 highlighting livestock, musicians, and folk arts while seed testing expands with higher fees.
A concerned mother investigates why 7 year old Denny L. is falling behind in school. A conference with Miss Rilling reveals reading difficulties. Denny now wears glasses and shows improved grades and attitude after eye care and proper precautions.
Practical advice on cleaning a coffee pot with soda solution and using knives for bread and cake. It covers soaking linen, handling brown sugar lumps, refreshing stale bread, and avoiding cream of tartar crystals in grape jelly by letting juice stand or mixing with other juices.
In a peculiar incident in Kroxville, Nisson, Lewis, and Jesse Clark were attempting to save a capital when a strange Corte water in a small stream dragged them into a large enclosure. They were injured after being thrown against a barbed wire fence on the far side.
Mrs Mary Ogle and Mrs Chas Wilson of Washington DC visited Mrs N M Fritz last week. Mrs Jack Martin and her children from Alpha called in Elgin and saw Mrs Frane DeSart. Mrs Martin is daughter of the late John Waterworth, a former Elgin resident. Everett Wiethorn and children left for Waverly after visiting his mother Mrs Anna Schupbach. Students entering State University of Iowa next fall include Robert Kohler Robert Wenger and Betty Elkema. Ernest Bruellman and Anna Keller of West Bend and Reuben Metzger were guests in the Schupbach home. A social gathering followed with Fleet Frieden Joe Frieden and Phyllis Frieden returning from a two week trip to Ponca City Oklahoma and the Ozarks.
Frank Eyraud, once of Ocevedan, proves hunting prowess by a 140-pound deer taken near Lebec California this season. The Taylor county fair board seeks 1 to 5 bushels of corn from residents to ease losses, while rain boosts hopes for a corn crop. readers urged to phone news to 20 early.
Near Chattanooga Tennessee Cal Milliken delivers a message to a courier on a motorcycle during maneuvers of the reorganized 6th Cavalry of the U S Army. The unit blends mechanized and motorized horse troops with couriers for radioless communications. An automatic rifle is noted on the motorcycle border. The Draft Bill passage signals such scenes becoming common.
The report notes damage to an apartment house in Berlin caused by Royal Air Force planes as reprisal for Nazi raids on London. In its second year, World War II presents a stark struggle between Democracy and Dictatorship with war in the air intensifying daily and uncertainty about the outcome if it lasts into winter.
A collage of scattered lines about grain storage rates a patient doctor and a grasshopper a telephone crew and a paint advertisement with promotional phrases and dialogue fragments across various topics
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