Conventions Set For Apr 2 In Des Moines Coliseum
The first of six Iowa state political conventions is set for Friday April 2 at the Coliseum in Des Moines to choose 23 Republican delegates to the Philadelphia national convention June 21. Delegates total 2 307 from 21 counties. the convention could shape the delegation’s leanings with Taft Dewey Stassen supporters active behind the scenes.
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Coliseum
Des Moines
Iowa
Robert A. Taft
Thomas EB
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Stasgen
Senato
Taft
Arthur Vandenberg
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Philadelphia
Robert D. Blue
Fort Des Moines
Indiva
Elgin forms organized Lions Club with officers elected
The Elgin Lions Club was completed on Saturday when town hall members elected officers and adopted the constitution. Henry McMillan became president, Albert Schori vice president, Dale DeSart secretary treasurer. Charter membership includes Chas Gehring and R B Kohler among others. International Lions Clubs, founded 1917, now comprise 6650 clubs with about 366000 members.
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Elgin
Lions Club
Town Hall
Henry McMillan
Albert Schori
Dale DeSart
Falk
Lion
Max Medberry
G. J. Mosby
C. J. Robinson
Chas. Gehring
R. BE. Kohler
Chas. Capper
Leo Falb
Walter Falb
Rex Mulford
Leo Schori
F. D. Welch
Roy Knight
Elmer Meyer
Ern Schori
R. F P. Strauch
C. 0. Torkelson
Paul Zurbriggen
W. AL. Biernatzki
Chicago
International Association of Lions Clubs
Atlantic
Dr Wolf advised to take further voice rest trip to Iowa City
Dr. Wolf and family traveled to Iowa City for a check up where the doctor advised six more weeks of voice rest with a return visit. On the way home the Wolf family stopped in Cedar Rapids and attended a Wayne King orchestra program.
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H. H. Wolf
Iowa City
Wolf
Cedar Rapids
Wayne King
New Books Added to Elgin Public Library
New adult fiction titles include Came a Cavalier The Great Tide The Bishops Mantle Raintree County Yankee Storekeeper and The Doctors Name was Mary The Tamarack Tree Four Fares to Juneau plus Misty of Chincoteague and others Juvenile picks Misty of Chincoteague Mary Ann’s First Picture Men and Volts at War and The Story of General Electric in World War II Nonfiction includes A Generation of Industrial Peace presented by Standard Oil Company New Jersey and other titles listed by donors General Electric Co and Standard Oil Co provide the volumes
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Francis Parkinson Keyes
Kabylon Hall
Agnes Turnbull
Juneau
Marie Small
Howard Breslin
Raintree County
Ross Lockridge, Jr
Yankee
John Gould
Mary
Kathleen Harris
Misty of
Chincoteague
Margurite Henry
Mary Ann
Winifred Bramhall
John Miller
General Electric
General Electric Co
Stuart Chase
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Thompsons Return From Winter Vacation
Thore Thompsons of Wadena, long an Echo caller, returned home Monday after four months in Phoenix Arizona. He and Mrs. Thompson left Thursday, seeking a milder winter climate deemed better than Florida or California. The Thompsons traveled with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Olson of West Union who were wintering there, to Seattle Washington for a month.
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Thore Thompson
Wadena
Mrs. Thompson
Phoenix
Ariz
Thompson Beeves
Florida
California
Bailey
Iowa
Thompsons
Melvin Olson
West Union
Seattle
Wash
Fayette County Farmers' Soil Conservation Outlay 1947
J D Hitch, chair of Fayette county AAA, reports total soil conservation work by farmers in 1947 at 192,685.48 dollars. Funds breakdown includes lime, phosphate, green manure, and other practices. Farmers earn 117,300 dollars in federal AAA allowance while county total cost runs about 385,371 dollars with farmers paying 268,071 dollars.
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Fayette County
J. D. Hitch
AAA
Iowa January traffic crash report shows declines in accidents and deaths
State Department of Public Safety releases January figures detailing Iowa traffic crashes. Total property damage 1,894,952 with 3,639 accidents and 8,995 involved drivers. There were 24 deaths and 665 injuries statewide, with District No. 10 reporting 1 death and 94,538 in property damage across 251 accidents involving 626 drivers. Dubuque County led district damage at 24,770. County figures list Allamakee 31 accidents 71 drivers 12,905 damage. Buchanan 19 Ab 3,590. Clayton 27 83 3,740. Delaware 20 41 11,048. Dubuque 100 265 24,770. Fayette 27 72 19,325. Winneshiek 27 69 18,260.
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Iowa
State Department of Public Safety
Kermith Rhoades
The
Highway Patrol
Dubuque County
Acci. Driv.-Own. Dam
Allamakee
Buchanan
Clayton
Delaware
Dubuque
Fayette
Winneshiek
Embargo On Five Highways Over Four-Ton Loads
A highway patrol report states five highways are embargoed to any vehicle and loads over four tons. The routes are No. 150 between Calmar and West Union, No. 51 between Postville and Waukan, No. 13 between Waukan and Marquette, No. 3 between Edgewood and Colesburg, and No. 172 between Clermont and Elgin.
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Highway Patrol Office
Calmar
West Union
Postville
Waukan
Marquette
Edgewood
Colesburg
Clermont
Elgin
Notice to Dog Owners Confine dogs to aid stray capture
A town asks all dog owners to confine pets for several days so stray dogs can be collected. Ale G H Faith serves as mayor. Dr D E Tinker attended a Northeastern Iowa Dental Association meeting in Decorah Thursday evening. Several local families hosted guests at a Wednesday party and Sunday dinners across Elkader Oelwein Decorah area.
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Ale
G. H. Faith
D. E. Tinker
Northeastern Iowa Dental Association
Decorah
John Metzger
Roger Reeder
Dianne
Gerald Olson
Hiram Olson
Linda
Milo Olson
Myron Hoag and Son
Lyle Olson
Dennis
Doyle Baker
Ronnie
George Thomas Howard
Roy French
Elkader
Gerald Heck
Albert Baldwin
Lois
Nancy
Oelwein
Florence Baldwin
Clarence Hoag
Ralph and
Paul
Blanche
Hendren
Donna
Ed Klingman
Elgin Legion to Host Monday Party and Dinner
The Elgin Legion invites members and social members plus the Auxiliary to a free get-together Monday evening April 5 in the hall above the locker. Free lunch will be served. Creighton Conner of Prairie and Chien Wis. spent Saturday with Elgin friends and relatives. Dr. and Mrs. D E Tinker and family visited Sunday at the J W Tinker home in Strawberry Point. Mrs Bertha Fusbie was a guest of Mrs Emma Gunderson for dinner and supper Sunday at Clermont.
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The
Elgin Legion
Creighton Conner
Prairie and Chien
Wis
Elgin
D. E Tinker
J. W. Tinker
Strawberry Point
Bertha Fusbie
Emma Gunderson
Clermont
Adeline Friederich
Sam Lehman
Oscar Frieden
Ed Metzger
Friederich
Harold Meisner
Meisner
P J. Anderson
Mae
Geo. H. Anderson
West Union
St. Olaf Lutheran Church
Albert Halverson
DeVere Halverson
Larry
Harold Halverson
Albert Schupbach
Lena Schupbach
Bertha Hediger
New York
Miss Hediger
Bertha Pulfer
Fanny Frieden
Ide
Alice
Paw
Anna Butikofer
Louis Lehman
Gamble Named Extension Director for Clayton Co
Adrian Gamble a vocational agriculture instructor at New Hampton was chosen by the Clayton county Farm Bureau board to succeed Grover Hahn as extension director. Hahn moves to Polk county April 1. Gamble starts June 1 with Alan Bentley acting interim. Gamble previously taught at Postville and is married with two children.
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Adrian Gamble
New Hampton
Clayton County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Grover Hahn
Clayton County
Hahn
Polk County
Gamble
Alan Bentley
Postville
Elgin Elects Falk Mayor as 266 Ballots Cast in City Vote
266 ballots were cast in Elgin's municipal election on Monday. Geo. H. Falk was re elected mayor with 135 votes amid a mostly routine tally. councilmen Sheldon Boyle D O Dean L Muehlerthaler Chas O Neill Lea Schori received 216 to 223 votes. Max Thoma won treasurer with 222. A P Lehman became park commissioner with 220. Balloting faced a small issue as voters used stickers on blank ballots, producing five spoiled ballots.
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Elgin
Geo. H. Falk
Boyle
Dean
Mueh- Schhaler
O'Neill
Schori
Max Thoma
A. P Lehman
G. H. Falk
B. H. Brackin
Sheldon Boyle
D. O. Dean
L. Muehlerthaler
Chas. O’neill
Lea Schori
A P. Lehman
Real Estate Transfers Across Several Listings in Oelwein
A string of property transfers and marriage licenses are listed. Markiey T C and wife transfer to Ulmer Clark, Natl Life Ins Co sells to Donald R Cummings, Cummings and wife transfer to Alfred H Becker, B J Baumgartner ref to R A Clothier, Clothier to Chas O Neill, Rose McMillan to Henry and John McMillan, Mec Millan to Henry and John McMillan. Marriage licenses include Kenneth Fowers and J Shirley Swarts, John L Hofer and Dora Mae Hofer, and Francis Quinn and Evelyn Arp.
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Markiey
Ulmer, Clark
Wadena
Nat'l Life Ins Co
Donald R
Cummings & Wf
Donald R Cummings
Henry
John McMillan
Kenneth Fowers
Oelwein
J. Shirley Swarts
John L. Hofer
Hazelton
Dora Mae Hofer
Francis Quinn
Evelyn Arp
Anamakee County Spelling Champion Nancy Kneeland
Nancy Kneeland, 13, eighth grade pupil of Postville public schools, won the Allamakee County spelling contest held in Waukon. She took both written and oral rounds, earning a trip to the state contest in Des Moines on April 9 and 10 with the national contest in Washington D C. to follow.
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Nancy Kneeland
Postville
Allamakee
Waukon
Nancy
William A. Kneeland
Des Moines
Washington D. C
Witty Tax Tales And Dry Town Woes In Marcus
A town humor column recalls a girl answering married on an income tax form with No, darn it and a student noting springtime funds as a plea for faster refunds. Marcus residents faced a week without water as a 340 foot underground motor failed, prompting use of lava or shallow wells and a rush on buckets and milk cans at hardware stores.
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Tam
Walter
Marcus
Laval
Mollie Schneider and Dar lene Visit at Pfister Home
Mrs Mollie Schneider and Dar lene visited in the G Pfister home Sunday.
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Mollie Schneider
Darlene
G. Pfister
New Fishing Laws Open Season Dates and Bag Limits
The State Conservation Commission issues administrative changes to fishing regulations for the upcoming year. Length limits are removed on many popular species, with bullheads and catfish bag limits adjusted. Trout limits remain, crappie season shifts to May 4, and bass seasons move to June 1 to June 7 with various start dates for other species.
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State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Bass Tribe
Attend County Council Meeting
Supt. C. J. Robinson Ww. W. Luce Paul Zurbriggen and teachers Signe Hanson Ardis Groth Genevieve Dunkle attended a county meeting of the teachers council in Fayette. A dinner preceded the session at the Fayette school where the meeting took place.
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C. J. Robinson
Ww. W. Luce
Paul Zurbriggen
Signe Hanson
Ardis Groth
Genevieve Dunkle
Fayette
Teachers’ Council
He's Right Adolph Menjou on Trousers and World
Adolph Menjou, the movie actor, quips to his tailor that six months to craft his trousers rivals creation time. The tailor replies by urging him to compare the world with the pants, a flippant exchange over quality and speed.
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Adolph Menjou
Menjou
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Selma Schneider
Gerald
Leonard Roberts
Florence Johnson
Waterloo
Alfred Ruckdasher
Chas, Gehring
Postville Hospital
Ida Grether
Gertrude Erhardt
Leo Grether
Volga
H. J. Vande Wan
Orange City
Grether
Elgin Public Library
Hot Stove League
Thore Thompsons
Lowe
Legion Party
Clayton Co
Almanac
Richmond
Pony Express
Ralfe
Pocshonias Anemario
Amy Doy
H. D. Shoafstall
Rock Island
Center Point
F. B. Dougherty
Lone Tree
Myr
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G.H. Falb
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