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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1929
Page
8
Livestock and real estate sale notices invite buyers to plan ahead with dates and terms. WORENCE BIGLER of Postville Indiana promotes the forthcoming auction, emphasizing reasonable terms and early registration for property and farm assets.
The Echo shop offers construction paper for schools with full supplies. Packages contain 60 sheets and cost 25 cents. Readers are encouraged to place want ads for quick results.
A long list of want ads and notices from Elgin Iowa and nearby areas. Items include for sale livestock and household goods like Guernsey cow with calf, pure bred ram, Monarch range, and shelling peppers. Also rental offerings on farms, secondhand stoves, and repair services. Found items include a pocketbook and a stray hound. Local agents Hjerleid Ode promote sale of ads.
An Echo ad notes a correction about last week’s paper and a mistaken item in the mail. A subscriber flagged errors, including a 10 cent grocery bill overcharge, a missing train, and confusion over numbers No 60. The piece ends noting a health comment about sweets.
Information from the U S Department of Agriculture notes vitamin A in cod liver oil fades with light exposure, advising stability guarantees or mixing at feeding time. It covers cow condition at calving, dry period minerals, calcium sources, protein and phosphorus feeds, celery storage, butter making, churn issues, and remedies for hard fat from certain feeds.
Twenty eight farmers wives from La Salle county NL enjoyed a two week motor tour without husbands or children calling it an Adamless Eden The ride offered freedom from chores and the company planned to return to the old grind The piece notes husbands were glad to have them back Also mentions Geo L Miller A B Lord of Maiden Rock Wis visiting and Bess Stoehr returning from Mason City to Cresco to demonstrate Krank products including facial massages and product demos
Henry Levine Craft born February 12 1845 in Greenbrier County Virginia died September 1 1929 at eighty four years six months twenty days after living in Fayette County Iowa and Marshfield Wisconsin He married Margaret Hitch October 30 1867 at West Union Iowa ten children were born five survive John Dan George Perry Arthur thirteen grandchildren two great grandchildren and two brothers survive He joined the Baptist Church at West Union in 1898 Funeral services were held at the Brainard Baptist Church conducted by Rev J J Snyder with interment in Brainard Cemetery Card of Thanks from the family
Co Engineer A. D. Finch and Supervisors W. E. Anderson G. P. Leverton and W. K. Humphry lead a condition survey of Fayette County 1050 miles of township roads ahead of the new secondary road law. Six townships Oran Jefferson Scott Harlan Union Auburn have been checked by Saturday evening with the tour expanding to about 2000 miles. Level township work requires about a day while hilly townships need two to three days per area. The survey maps culvert locations needs for new culverts gravel quantities and current road condition. The results will aid the board of approval meeting next February to plan systematic county and township road improvements.
Frank Kiple Reuben Lehman and Ruby Robbins are Elgin students at Upper Iowa this year. They left for Fayette Monday to begin school work. Mrs Theo of Forest Park NL arrived Sunday and will spend about two weeks visiting her mother Mia. Rosa Muehlethaler and her brother F C Muehlethaler are mentioned. Rev Dons may visit later to accompany her home.
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