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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
4
Public notice of want ad rates and payment terms, plus several small sale and request items. Items include Marlow milkers, Wilson rockers, milking equipment, hog houses and feeders, free movie tickets for Otto Blockhus, and practical tips on hog wallows, worm treatment, roofing care, and grasshopper control.
Expendable Balance in State Treasury Increased appears alongside statistics showing most Iowa divorces last year went to childless couples or those with one child. The report notes rising teen driver fatalities and a state drive using one minute movies in 250 theaters to curb deaths. Governors residence remodeling proceeds, and Melvin D. Synhorst, WWII veteran, is chosen Republican candidate for secretary of state from northwest Iowa on the second ballot amidst statewide political maneuvering.
Harold Albrecht and Joanne Mosby from Dubuque spent the weekend at the G. J. Mosby home. Albrecht has a promotion and will be located in Dubuque. his family remains in Waconia Minnesota and hopes to move in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson plus Marjorie hosted Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Krueger of Concord California on a sight seeing trip to McGregor and Prairie du Chien Wisconsin Sunday.
Provide shade in hog pasture and water lawns with a prolonged soak of 2 to 3 hours in one spot using a lawn sprinkler, preferably in the evening to reduce evaporation. For cattle flies use DDT spray prepared as 1 pound of 50 percent wettable DDT in 121 2 gallons of water, applied at 1 to 2 quarts per animal every 14 to 21 days.
Sterling Iowa residents and guests are listed visiting homes around LeRoy Steele Nels Olson and related families. Names include Gordon and Mrs Johnson, Phil Moser in Dubuque, Jim Taylor Sylvan Bonnie Delaney Decorah and Sharon, Schupbachs Lena, Matt Weiland from Bay City, Olson and Rasmussen families, Chicago visitors Ed Joseph Gail Lezlee, Wm Haas from Chicago, Bertha Mealey Red Oak, A M Weibel Greenley, Tillie Frey Guttenberg, Luchsinger Clermont Monona, Zurbriggen Sumner, Knight Roy, Muehlethaler Zugbrig Bobby, Jeschke stork shower, and Tate Tate La Junta Colo.
Large stock of clean used cars in Northeast Iowa with a new week’s arrivals. Models include 1947 Chevrolets and Fords with radios heaters and near new motors. Many low mileage posts from 1936 to 1947 with strong emphasis on “buy sell trade.”
Mn and Mrs John Hellum visit Kenneth Helium home near Osgian for dinner Sunday. Mrs Earl Kiple travels to Des Moines Monday as a delegate to the American Legion Auxiliary State Convention and will stay with sister Rose Reuéser. Harold Beardof of Elkader spends Sunday with the Walter Medberrys. Family visits at W P Kohils and others in the Shester area.
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