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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
5
The document lists first frosts and killing frosts in Iowa from 1879 onward, with dates such as 1909 September 23 and October 12, and notes that August appears only once in 1906 due to crop damage. It highlights the late core damage that year and explains October brought the real killing frost.
Notice forbids hunting on Brower farm and bans all trespass with any dog or gun under law. A separate remark notes broom yield scarcity may raise broom prices, which have doubled over the past two years and are expected to continue rising.
The 81st annual North Western Conference of German Baptists will meet at the Baptist church in Elgin from September 27 to October 2 with sessions and devotions, papers on Evolution and Theology and Christianity and Religious Knowledge, and sermons by Rev. C F Stoeckmann and others. The program includes devotions, officer elections, missionary reports, lectures, and a village postmaster play at the opera house. Public notices urge neat town prep for visitors and report local events including a Worth county indictment and a transfer of medical education class A status for Iowa.
170 acre farm southwest of Elgin Iowa with stall house barn 40 by 60 and 100 ton silo plus outbuildings. Could split into two small farms. seller may sell part. Contact Barn Hoizar RR No 1 Elgin Iowa or write at once. Des Moines cited as Iowa divorce center as district court reports 483 divorces in equity division. county officials note rising divorce business.
The Elgin Commercial Club forms a committee to map an auto trip from Elgin at 7:00 AM visiting Clermont Postville Luana Manoa Farmersburg St Olaf Elkader Wadena with up to twenty cars carrying ads. Other towns Arlington Fayette West Union may join. The date is Tuesday October 3 and owners or boosters are invited to participate by contacting Gus Steahr at the drug store.
Anna Reinhardt assisted Mrs Sat Hofer Tuesday. Mrs Sam Lehman visited at the Fred Fredrick home Sunday. Ben Schneider and family spent Sunday at the Fred Schup bach home. Mrs Sam Lehman visited Oscar Frieden home near Elkader. Ida and Esther Freiden visited John Butikofer Jr. Will Chase and family visited John Butikofer Jr. Mrs Gottfried Frieden and Mrs Sam Bracker visited Gottleib Pulfer home. Mrs Will Lehman and two children and Mrs Ales Schlupp visited from Rock Valley. Lydia Hofer and Charlie Rodegard married in Bikader Saturday with Anna Hofer and Oscar Baumgartner as bridal party. Congratulations to the Rodegards. Elgin schools open with J H Williams principal and staff listed. Attendance urged for smooth start and strong year.
Handfuls of money are the possessions of savers only. The careless seldom have them. By banking your savings you rapidly increase the pile until you become wealthy. Our system of banking will commend itself to you. We are liberal in our methods up to the limit of consistency. We shall be glad to welcome your account and assure you beforehand of excellent treatment. We pay 4 percent on title deposits.
The plant will halt operations Saturday marking the end of a five week run during which workers produced over one and a half million cans. Corn deliveries have slowed allowing one side to handle the load. With corn at seven dollars per ton and yields rising from three to five tons per acre, the field shows a strong year. Management treated staff to chocolates for the girls cigars for the smok ers and gum for the children as a token of thanks.
The Iowa Board of Control awarded the year's sugar supply to an Iowa firm for 190,000 pounds at six dollars per hundred pounds. The sugar is Iowa ground, produced from beets grown near Waverly, marking the first Iowa firm and first Iowa grown sugar contract. The Cedar Rapids Republican commends the move as a good example for the state, noting labor and farming efforts involved. The Commercial Club plans a motor outing for visiting German Baptist ministers, requesting autos for a pleasure ride next Saturday starting about four o'clock.
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