Elgin Echo Dial Easter Club Notes
The Elgin Echo Dial reports a local Easter club meeting with members Mrs Earl Kiple reading Gethsemane in the Black Hills and Mrs Archie Howard sharing Easter poems. Guests included Mrs Lena Cooley Mrs Alice Winkler and Mrs Kenneth Strong. Mrs Strong joined. contests provided entertainment. May meeting set with Mrs Randelph Reierson.
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Earl Kiple
Gethsemane
Black Hills
Archie Howard
Lena Cooley
Alice Winkler
Kenneth Strong
Social Hour Club Hosts Wil-A Co-hosted Event
Mrs Clif Wilson and co host Mrs Roland Gruver entertained the Social Hour Club at the Wil A social hour event featured neighborly chatter and refreshments. A recent survey shows about 24000 acres of Iowa farm land under irrigation last year.
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Clif Wilson
Roland Gruver
Wil
Iowa
General Assembly Report from Iowa Lawmakers
Donald L. Kimball outlines House actions on unemployment compensation amount and duration, World War II bonus extension, legislative pay, and annual sessions. Notes highway speed concerns, trading stamps taxation, and School district reform. praises private visitor turnout and urges teacher visits before April 23.
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General Assembly
House Social Security Committee
House
Senate
Kimball
House Commerce and Trade Committee
Iowa
Fayette County
Smithfield 4-H
Farm Bureau
Fayette High School
Donald L
Obituary for John Truman Seago of Elgin and Arlington
John Truman Seago born April 27 1902 in Illinois died April 4 at age 54. He moved to Iowa as a boy, farmed near Arlington Volga and Elgin, married Thelma Weston June 19 1923 and had five children. Surviving are his widow Thelma and nine grandchildren, plus siblings and relatives. Interment was in Elgin cemetery with services by Rev Vanderbeck.
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John Truman Seago
Henry and
Emile Evans Seago
Illinois
Iowa
Independence
Arlington
Elgin
Volga
Thelma Weston
Thelma’ Seago
Hubert
Hula
Howard Berger
LaVerna
Buly Squires
Oelwein
Alta Cooley
Sharon
Muehlethaler
H.’ John Vanderbeck
Arthur Chapman
Floyd Odegard
Clifton Wilson
Louis Becker
Glen Little
Randolph Reierson
Stamp Collector Don Patton Showcases 1851 First Day Issue
Collector Don Patton of Hampton displays a notable stamp collection focused on first day issues. The oldest piece dates to 1851, marking the eighth stamp issued in the United States.
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Don Patton
Hampton
United States
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Elgin Echodial
Strauch & Hermen
OF Elgin
Robert Kohler
Pillsbury
Hills Bros. Coffee
OUR Family Pork & Beans
Asks Coffee
Pillsbury Angel Food MIX
Falb’s Market
Donalds L. Kimball
John Seago
Vanderbeck
H. H. Wolf
Elgin Legion and ‘Auxiliary
Valga Legion
Chef Boy Ar Dee
Hershey
Halverson’s Store
Elgin, Iowa
Paul N. Moser
Postville
THE
Elgin Echo
Elgin Firemen
Bud
Elgin Grill
Elgin Volunteer Fire Dept
Chevrolet
Chevy
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