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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1947
Page
5
The speaker opposes communism and argues democracy as an affirmative alternative. He warns against hysteria and smear tactics and stresses legal safeguards against arbitrary government actions and unverified accusations. The passage emphasizes protecting individual rights and avoiding attacks based on gossip.
Iowa legislators wrestle with how to spend the budget as they near final passage of appropriation bills. Disagreement over a rainy day fund and calls to raise taxes clash with governors’ recommendations. The House approved higher sub‑division funding while the Senate lags, and salary boosts for the governor have not yet occurred.
The Elgin Community Club will hold its monthly dinner meeting at Klingman’s cafe on Monday evening April 14. Members are urged to attend as plans for upcoming events are discussed and social activities arranged.
Polly the parrot, living with the Greenley family for about 87 years, died Saturday evening. Arrived in 1902 via Max and Gus Thomas and John Blaus Co. as part of an advertising stunt, Polly was cherished by Harold Greenley and others, and she greeted him warmly before her sudden death.
The Farm Bureau board spent considerable time discussing the weed eradication program promoted by the county board of supervisors this year. They plan to cooperate with the supervisors in promoting noxious weed eradication in their townships and seek a low cost spray machine for cooperative use. E. D. James, president, named John Ingels Maynard E S Pardee Oelwein and Leroy Alcorn West Union as a committee to meet with the supervisors to further the weed program.
The American Legion Auxiliary holds its regular meeting Thursday evening April seventeenth at eight o'clock. Refreshment committee members are Mildred Milihan Louise Leuchtenmacher Ruth Kirkeberg Cornelia Holden and Laura Baumgartner. A good attendance is desired.
The Illyria Youth Fellowship will hold a food sale Saturday afternoon April 12 at 2 o clock at the Elgin city hall. Mr and Mrs W M Cooper of Oelwein visited Friday with Mr and Mrs L C Popenhagen. Mrs Cooper and Mrs Popenhagen are sisters. Jimmy Friederich son of Jake Friederich was taken to Postville hospital Sunday for an appendectomy and is reported to be recovering well. Mr and Mrs Robert Miller and children and Mr and Mrs Sheldon Boyle dined with Mrs Sue Bovais Sunday. Ruth Olson returned home last Thursday after a visit with Wm Stephenson family at Oak Park Illinois, traveling back with Mr and Mrs Frank Bauder who had been visiting relatives in Chicago.
A May wedding joined Miss Verla Larson and Orvin Olson at the East Clermont Lutheran Church. The bride wore a white suede suit with pink accessories and was given in marriage by her father. The groom, formerly of Clermont, serves in the U S Army and operates a Miller transport from Iowa City. A three course dinner followed at Klingman's cafe in Elgin for nineteen guests, with a reception in the church parlors and a varied program of music readings and solos by local performers.
Work began Monday morning on the foundation for Falb Light Implement Co.’s new business building in Elgin. The project aims to finish this summer as the third major commercial expansion in the city in three years, following Torkelson Bros. Locker Plant and Eclic’s addition. The opera house also received remodeling, boosting the district’s value.
The 4 H club held an unscheduled meeting on Tuesday evening April 1. Members introduced their projects to club agent Reuben Steffens and decided to meet every third Tuesday of each month at members homes. Paul Puider of the Aurora club demonstrated a labor saving device for treating mixing cats and gave a short talk on cats. No refreshments were served.
Silverleaf Lodge 518 A F and A M conducted a school of instruction led by District Lecturer Ray Douglas of Postville. A dinner for Douglas and lodge officers followed at Coffee Cup cafe with attendees including Leo Schori, Chas Gehring, B H Brackin, R P Strauch, Lyle Light and Robert Kohler. The session concluded with lunch after the evening work.
Four township Farm Bureau gatherings set for April with Syria township at Diyria church on Thursday and West Union host on Friday. A note says the committee moved the meeting to avoid Holy Week, delaying from an earlier date.
A special election will be held Monday April 21, 1947 at the Elgin town hall from 1 to 3 PM to decide five separate proposals authorizing the sale of five rural Pleasant Valley Township school buildings in Fayette County Iowa. Proposals specify use of sale proceeds to the General Fund and list districts 7 8 9 and 10 with voting instructions to mark Yes or No. Arthur Chapman, Secretary.
The Over All Extension Education Planning Committee met at the Farm Bureau office on Tuesday evening, April 1, to outline seven major problems. They include heart health and milk control, soil conservation and weed eradication, family relations, citizenship, livestock feeding and disease control, housing, and township meetings. Subcommittees will study each item and report back to form a county program of work for the 1948 Extension year.
Upper Iowa University invites members of the Northeast Iowa Press Association and other eastern Iowa publishers to Fayette for an afternoon and dinner meeting on Friday April 18. The program at 2:00 features Prof. Carroll Coleman from S A 1 and Prof. Hubert Coften from USTA. Various local residents attended social events and Easter visits were noted around Fayette as families gathered for celebrations.
Real estate transfers list J A Boleyn estate to Alfred and Jennie Boleyn and Habeger to D E Tinker with specified parcels. Civil and criminal actions include OMVI cases against Orville Hendren, Wm Gay, Mervyn Cousins, arson by Herbert Shannon, and divorce and injunction actions among Jespersen, Maynard, Lippert, and others. Marriage licenses include multiple couples from Hazelton, Oelwein, Jesup, and Ackley with various partners.
A surprise shower was held Saturday afternoon March 2 at Clarence Olson home for Opal Larson. Hostesses were Mrs. Clarence Olson Mrs. Ole Brockhus and Mrs. Almer Amundson. Games and a play provided entertainment. A small bride and groom gift was given. Lunch was served to about thirty relatives.
The Progress Club met at Mae Andersen home Monday April 7 with Lois Tinker and Helen Zurbrigben presenting Chautauqua reports. Ethel Mae Thoman Janet Rediel and Gladys Malversin were named for the pig sway committee for the coming year.
The Elgin American Red Cross branch including Pleasant Valley township raised 250 dollars in the 1947 membership drive, surpassing the 218 dollar district quota. Guests visiting H. W. Helms home included Carl Reeder of Waukegan and family, with local entertainments featuring the Feller and Muncie households and Eva Boyer from Bethel College visiting Vern Boyer’s family.
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