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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
4
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Notice states Edward Klingman will assist on Saturdays and special days with no waiting at Barker Shop in Elgin. Also includes a for sale notice for good straw via Mabel Holzer and a building/repair contact for M V Kiple in Elgin Iowa with telephone 65W.
The House considers a farm to market road measure replacing a vetoed bill with companion truck tax options, plus registration fee changes. A teachers annuity bill fails 54 to 53, with a possible reconsideration. A local budget control act aims to curb spending, while appropriation bills face a rough path amid fiscal debates and procedural detail on how laws are enacted.
Through April, only ninety acts have cleared both houses in 89 days while the General Assembly works through numerous smaller measures between major bills. At a cost of 222,500 dollars, 89 laws total roughly 2,472.22 dollars per enacted statute as 536 bills were introduced in the House by the 6th.
Economists foresee higher prices this summer and farmers urged to protect nursery stock. USDA researchers monitor a sweet clover, while Iowa 4-H offers trips and tools for top garden club projects. Projections show 6.3 million acres of soybeans to be planted, and chinch bug damage may ease from 1934 levels. Pasture leaders warn against early grazing and advise delaying turnout until mid May to protect forage growth.
The beret, a popular and convenient headgear in the Pyrenees, gains cultural weight as Basques hold festivals honoring it and never remove the beret when saluting friends, underscoring its social significance.
Weather hampers practice as Bauman steadies a large delegation to pitch. Opening game at Schori Field on Friday April 16 at 3 o clock. Spring schedule lists Ossian, Alpha, Clermont, Wadena and other towns with dates through May 21. Senior class prepares Commencement with three act mystery comedy on May 7 featuring Edith Whitman Jane Fahey Evelyn Whitman Louise Baumgartner Arthur Whitman Leon Jacobs and others.
The Itown school notes show students advancing to first grade Dora Lee Medberry and absences due to mumps for several students. Reports cover classroom duties, committee roles, new reward charts, bird study, upcoming hikes, recess games, dental cards, geography lessons from New York to San Francisco, and the final six weeks of the school year with upcoming events.
Small classified items and large bargains mingle in a bustling page. Readers advertise vehicles, furniture, services, and jobs, while buyers scout for deals. The compact ads show local supply and demand shaping everyday commerce.
Mr and Mrs Reuben Hackman welcome a son born Tuesday morning April 12 at the Postville hospital. Mr and Mrs Clarence Boleyn and children and Mrs Eliza Habeger hosted dinner Sunday in the Abe Habeger home. Mrs Mary Haas returned to Clermont after living in Waterloo with granddaughter Lor aine Haas who finished at Pitze s beauty school. Carl Borchardt and Mrs LeRoy Thomas with Wilbert drove from Muscatine to bring Mrs Edward Krueger home after a week there. they left Sunday for home. Tee Tomkins 46 of Volga City died last week. funeral Sunday with Rev E J Starr officiating. He leaves widow, an adopted son, three sisters and four brothers. Carl Borchardt, Mrs LeRoy Thomas and Wilbert, Esther Krueger, Mr and Mrs Edwin Krueger and Lyle and Kenton, and Abe Habeger were dinner guests at Edward Krueger home Sunday. Burgess Dugstad lumber yard crowd spurs fears of a robbery when an auto ran off paving and hit the building. no serious injuries. Gov Landon chose a Kansas farm over Maine and Vermont for a political planting, a western estate described by Primghar Bell. Trygve Husberg and son Clifton of Eau Claire Wis visited here Saturday night into Monday with F R Berg. Mrs B Lee of Colfax Wis accompanied them as far as West Union. We tune in on the radio along the dial and hear a lottery pitch, says the Emmetsburg .
The item notes national magazines feature prize contests while small weeklies face legal action for using words prize or lottery. It mentions Rev. and Mia J. Snyder visiting Waterloo with Ella Leman last Wednesday afternoon, and C. J. Olson falling seriously ill that night under a doctor and nurse care.
Resting posts for spirits of Timbuctu natives are placed on minarets as roosting sites for returning souls of deceased relatives and friends.
A reflective line honoring close bonds and the value of familiar faces and hands. The passage emphasizes how friendship and personal connection give meaning to life through shared expressions and touch.
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