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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
1
Local businessmen from three counties formed an organization in Sioux City to seek legislation to neutralize truck competition. Bakers dry cleaners and ice cream manufacturers argue larger city plants enjoy unfair advantages causing many small shops to struggle and rely on relief. The group aims to require truck operations to share taxes and license costs to level the field and protect local enterprises.
A Sabula Gazette excerpt urges choosing friendliness over reaction when dealing with difficult people. It counsels calm, steady good nature to create a pleasant work environment, noting many critics fade when faced with sunshine and kindness. The piece ends with a playful aside about pink grasshoppers and local slang.
The German Baptist church plans a Mission feast on the second Sunday in August, the 11th, with Rev. A. L. Tilgner of Muscatine preaching morning and afternoon, and Rev. Frank Day of West Union delivering an English sermon in the evening. Nearby events note a Tuesday storm causing lightning and heavy rain, a Clermont schoolhouse roof hole, a large Japanese entertainment at the opera house raising about $20, and local incidents including cattle losses from lightning, a unique rattlesnake belt worn by Mrs. Francis Gage, a poultry theft inquiry in Cresco, a theft-related hold up of Chris Lehman, an unusual potato crop at Hopkinton, and local paintings and district agent changes.
The new motor vehicle law requires dimming headlights when meeting oncoming cars effective July 4th. A Fayette Leader writer notes few drivers comply and recalls driving about 85 miles after dark with heavy traffic. Only about one in ten cars dimmed their lights, worst offenders being newer cars with glare. A couple of patrolmen could easily enforce this to improve night safety.
Five Bowman brothers reunite at their birthplace for a family gathering after decades apart. Four of the Bowman quartette sang familiar boyhood hymns at a church homecoming, with Charles Bowman Hagerstown Indiana and William Bowman Redondo Beach California among those pictured. News Pictures exclusive to the Echo in Fayette county.
Hazel Howard visits Frances Griesinger at the Ole Benson home as grasshoppers devastate crops in Iowa and Kansas. A Stanton Nebraska farmer found a dollar bill chewed by grasshoppers. turkeys shot near Donnan. West Union hosts new highway patrolmen. oats yields set records at Henderson Prairie. 4-H girl Bernice Stelzmiller earns national camp award at Cedar Falls.
A last minute drive to require loans on orn oats and other commodities this fall was started Saturday in Washington by Senator Gillette. A Kansas mother visiting in Grees wrote home saying she stood on the historic rock and wished her son were there with her.
The fort at Platteville Colorado one mile south of town was rebuilt by WPA workers marking an anniversary of the fur trading post established in 1837 by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette. The site sits in Echo in Fayette county and was rebuilt for the 100th post with plans announced Monday August 2.
A Chicago Daily News definition compares Communism Socialism and Fascism with cows and milk to illustrate control. It urges defending the presidency and Congress while upholding the Supreme Court as a pillar of American government. The note mentions office reports for Social Security and a light workload, followed by a jab about magic slates at the Echo office.
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