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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
4
It will pay you to wait and attend this sale. Sale to be held on farm 2 miles east of Elgin and 9 miles south of Postville. Write for Catalog.
State detectives swept Oelwe in Saturday afternoon capturing counterfeit 60 cent and dollar coin dies and a furnace for casting. They found gaming rooms behind the city hall and a buzzer warning system. Preliminary hearings and local officials are to decide on charges as Billy Sunday campaigns looming in Rock Island.
Iowa farmers discuss hogging down standing corn as a quicker cheaper way to harvest feed. Experiments at Ames show hogs 125 to 160 pounds can clear 40 bushels per acre in 30 to 90 days with protein supplements. Homecoming at Clermont on September 18 features a full day of events, a baseball game, free banquet, vaudeville, boxing, and a grand ball for soldiers sailors and marines.
The American Bird Banding Association with the American Museum of Natural History and the U S Department of Agriculture conducts waterfowl banding to map migratory paths. Trappers fit aluminum bands with numbers and addresses, log data, and ask gunners to report kill details to reveal movement patterns. A fire at Lubke store near Clarmont was thwarted Tuesday night with minor damage and unknown ignition cause.
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