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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1932
Page
2
Wadena social notices recount visits from Conception Missouri and Fayette Iowa, trips to Des Moines, Algona, Chicago and Waterloo, plus family gatherings, club meetings, church events, and community milestones across several households. The piece lists countless neighbors and relatives, with mentions of anniversaries, birthdays, and local outings.
The first and second grades posted perfect attendance for two weeks. The primary room displays many flowers and colored leaves. Bernadine Raftis Ona Hinkle and Evelyn Roberta were partly absent due to sickness. The third and fourth grades took a Friday hike and learned common trees near the school. They studied pets for language as well. Senior class officers are listed.
Postville beat Elkeder 5 to 8 at Spahr's park Elgin and returned home with about 600 dollars from Elkeder money and gate receipts. The Elgin school enrollment totals 181 with four teachers. Local notes mention factory, railroad work, and community updates.
A light verse on rural life mocks the farmer’s luck and the rising prices for butter veal pork beef corn and eggs. It contrasts a youth’s smoking with a farmer’s thriving year and hints at social shifts in prices and status.
An elderly man who saved $40,000 in a tobacco pouch hid it around his shack and shunned life and neighbors. His house burned, destroying the hoard and leaving him to reflect that money is worthless unless used. The piece urges banking and prudent investment. Mrs. Carl Torkelson recovers after stomach ulcers surgery in Rochester.
Dover Milla residents report visits across Dubuque Ossian Clermont and Oelwein. Mrs. Ole Kerkestue and Glen joined Clem O Haran family in Dubuque. Learn, Archer and Foster hosted in West Union. Obituaries, weddings, and farm bureau meeting noted.
Friday night September 23 residents invited to attend a program starting at 8 o clock with pupils performing and John Wold and his musicians providing entertainment. Hazel Mark, teacher, directs the short program. A band of liquor runners were jailed in Allamakee county after a disturbance. A negress and two peers attempted a robbery in New Albia, were chased to Dubuque and returned. The negress is held as a witness amid vagrancy charges. Max Thoma conducted grand jury work at the county seat all week. The grand jury last week inspected the county farm and jail and filed a report. Advertising urges readers to buy local and trade at home.
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