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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1929
Page
6
A compactElgin section highlights community happenings and everyday stories from residents. Local events, small wins, and neighborly notices showcase life in the neighborhood and connect readers to familiar names and places.
Volume of small town notes covers family visits at Volga City and Osage. Shifts in farming hires as Shaffer family plans moves to Arlington, and local business bets on Gamble Stores shell sales. Postville unveils new fire apparatus and local gatherings mark birthdays and theatre outings across Elgin Clermont and surrounding towns.
The text offers sewing tips for children’s garments suggesting pockets on bloomers when dress pockets spoil the design, and recommends adding pockets to every dress or suit. It extols leftover egg yolks for iron content and versatile kitchen uses from sauces to custards, notes sauerkraut salt levels and distribution, and suggests loaf or lunch bread variations to improve appeal, with sour milk substitutions and baking soda/powder guidance.
Information furnished to the Echo weekly by the U S Department of Agriculture covers alfalfa harvest timing for winter protection and notes progress in sheep weight from 1840 to near 8 pounds today. It discusses corn silage moisture, beef calf fattening traits, and marketability, with Torkelson Bros selling three Plymouth cars to buyers in Clermont and Strawberry Point.
The notes outline church services on Sunday September 29 with English services at 10 and 8 pm, Sunday school at 11, a 3 pm meeting at Sumner, and B P U prayer at 7 30 pm. There are Thursday October 3 prayer and 9 pm choir rehearsals, association in Muscatine October 1 3, county Sunday school convention October 4 in Elgin, sermons by Rev Ph Lauer, and evangelist Rev C H Baum visiting October 13.
Public worship at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 a m The Ladies Aid Society meets in church parlors Thursday afternoon October 3 Mrs Franc De Sart and Mrs Lana Henderson hostesses Pastor J J Snyder and canvass members express gratitude for the budget response with gratifying results
TWyris Church lists Sunday school at 10 15 a m and public worship at 11 15 a m The Epworth League meets Wednesday evening at Henry Holzers home for officer elections Pledges for next year gratefully acknowledged by the church and community members Pastor vd Snyder EM
KWLC Decorah will air Norwegian services Friday at 3 30 p m conducted by Rev T A Hoff. Sunday October 2 vesper services led by Rev Kelmer Roe. Wednesday October 2 a literary and musical program. also noting Bergs shoe department. Visitors from Postville, Mr and Mrs Fred Schultz and Mrs John Schroeder, called at John Falk home last Thursday.
Read all the ads. It pays. Berg shows brown suits. Hazel Cave leaves for Madison to enter the state university. L W MacKellar party visits Mc Gregor from Pike Peak. Klingman Kiple Falk and partners head to Chicago for sightseeing and camps. Rev J J Snyder and two girls go to Dubuque for Rev Snyder’s brother illness. he improves and plans to attend M E conference. the family will return next year. A conference appointments list appears in another column.
Mrs H Larson and son Albert of Elkader dined with the B M Benson family Sunday. Frank Greenley A M Weibel hosted Fred Muehlenthaler and son Millard and Mrs T F Mitchell of St Paul at a six o clock dinner Saturday. Girl Scouts held annual initiation at the school Friday naming Marie Schupbach Pearl Grimm Zella Boyle and Winifred McMillan. Elmer Bennett of Bristol Vermont arrived to visit his mother Mrs Mary Bennett as she marks her eighty six birthday today. Bennett traveled from Vermont in under four days. County supervisors visited Saturday to review creamery hill work and discuss right of way with the board seeking a good driveway. no damages were requested. Work to start this week.
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