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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1952
Page
1
Subscription rates listed: 2.00 per year for four northeast Iowa counties and 2.50 per year for outside territory, payable in advance. Advertising rates: readers 1c per line, classified 2c per word, want ads 10c per line with 30c weekly minimum. blind ads 0c weekly minimum. Cards of thanks 1.00, memorial cards 1.00, notices with admission charged and obituary poetry at regular advertising rates.
A list of Fayette county officials and candidates announces entry for the Republican primary on June 2, 1952. Included are County Auditor Hazel Gehring County Treasurer W. M. Knox County Clerk Herbert Krammer State Representative Fant Lauer County Recorder Odney Oelberg County Sheriff Fred Howe Supervisor Fred W. Gremmels and Robert Wilson Norman McCauley seek offices with confirmation by Republican voters. Also notes don’t junk spring cleaning items. sell via Echo Want Ads.
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Harold Halverson born April 7 at Postville hospital died April 8 baptized Lutheran. Survived by parents one brother Steven and maternal and paternal grandparents. Funeral April 10 at Muehlethaler funeral home with Rev A O Nesset officiating. Interment Clermont cemetery. Poems and thanks follow. Shown death notice and anniversary, deer accident in Iowa.
Wetherbee LeFonda Wetherbee youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Hermen Elgin and Oliver Heins son of Mrs Rudolph Heins Postville wed at the Little Brown Church Nashus on Easter Sunday April 13 at 2 00 pm The Rev Hanscom performed the single ring ceremony The couple will live in Elkader Owed by Cos tigan Construction Co Elkader and Mrs Heins works at Whitley s Cafe Elkader
One of the towns largest musician groups will assemble next Tuesday night at Elgin High School auditorium at 8 1 o'clock in the personnel of the organized bands of Fayette county under Prof Galen C Merick. Two Elgin auto mechanics John Sutter and Melvin Nyborg survived carbon monoxide poisoning last week after dangerous exposure.
Residents awoke to a heavy wind and light rain that lasted over an hour, part of a larger central Triadis storm. Walter Falb and three men attempted to move four new cars from Dubuque, but deep mud halted progress, leaving the vehicles there. A Washta man faced a $100 fine or 30 days in jail for yodeling in the street. Five Elgin teachers signed to teach again next year: Crowe Van Horn Clemens Fried en Whitney. A two story brick building at Center street was moved 20 feet north to a new location last week.
Mr and Mrs Robert Grover of Waterloo spent the weekend in the Lew Grover home. Mrs Anna Gott was a dinner guest there Sunday. The Ames Olson family were dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Oliver Larson.
Howard Crane of Denison was injured in a freak accident when Melvin Schnoor drove a tractor and snowplow into a county highway department shed. Crane suffered a broken collar bone. Dairymen are advised to adjust feeding methods to prevent milk from developing off flavors.
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