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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1953
Page
1
Fragment mentions second class mail and a date of September 1 1391, indicating an old postal notice. Details are sparse but imply a registration or classification action tied to mail service records.
Subscription rates and advertising charges are listed, including per line and minimum charges for Want Ads. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam cards are priced at 1.00 each, with limits. Obituary poetry and resolutions may incur standard advertising rates.
A jumble of social notes and weather remarks from Rich’s column. Various snippets reference bachelors and widows, selective lists, and flirtatious humor, interwoven with a hot humid stretch of California weather and stray radio commentary about double plays and talkative partners. The text preserves informal voice and personal anecdotes rather than a single event.
A fragmented piece surveys idle chatter and local jargon with remarks from Mr Eskimo about a sick friend and a fishing expert noting gendered bass behavior. The patchwork uses edgy lines on manners, opportunity, and streetwise wit, presenting a foggy snapshot of a neighborhood column.
About eighty five people were employed at the Elgin Canning Factory on Tuesday. They have packed three carloads of beans and a small lot of spinach. After the corn is out of the way they will can carrots. Harvesting is nearly complete and farmers report good small grain prospects. John Grimm reports W S A 1 of lows City began radio broadcasts last Saturday with intervals planned two to three times weekly. Mrs George Christen is parent of an eight pound boy born Sunday July 29.
Advert encourages homeowners to apply 1 percent lindane in oil to screens and spray garbage cans to deter flies and four spotted fungus beetles. Emphasizes removing attractants such as chicken runs rabbit hutches gardens and fruit trees and cleaning animal shelters. Recommends checking stored corn for heating crusting or molding and using want ads regularly.
The Elgin Lutheran church plans to form a Young People's Luther League with an organizational meeting on August 17 at 7 30 p m in the parsonage. A constitution committee and a nominating committee were elected to prepare the program and officer slate. The Luther League aims to a fourfold program of devotion education service and recreation for youth and is part of a broader church youth movement with about 2 500 local leagues and 80 000 members in the United States Canada and mission fields.
Lane Ash leaves Sunday for the Air Force from Decorah and heads to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. A B Donald B Sutter is listed with Lackland Air Force Base address. Pvt Donald Wullner from Cedar Rapids has left for Camp Kilmer New Jersey after a seven day furlough with Prov Co 2733 Det 171277 ASA.
Hil and Elmer Hunsberger traveled to Rochester Minnesota on Tuesday to bring back their daughter Edna Hunsberger who had been in the city for six weeks. Edna is now improving steadily at home. Mary F Brackin also returned from West Union hospital to recover from an appendectomy performed July 27 and is steadily improving toward normal health.
Nine year old Henry Behrens from near Victory died last week after the tractor he was driving veered into a ditch and pitched him between a rear wheel and the embankment.
Elgin residents welcomed visiting family and friends over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Desmond and O Re ne from Wilton visited Mr. and Mrs. H D Yack. Mr and Mrs Milo Olson with Greg and Karen dined with Mr and Mrs Marion Olson at Monona. Floyd Thompson and Larry from Wadena joined Mr and Mrs Thore Thompson for Sunday dinner and supper.
A long list of guests and friendly gatherings details multiple households visiting family and friends in West Union Oelwein Postville and surrounding towns. Notable names include Mrs Alice Winkler Mr and Mrs Leo Schori jr and family Mr and Mrs Emil Schultz and others with supper dinners and weekend visits across Cedar Rapids Hawkeye and Poughkeepsie. A note on crop rotation mentions meadow in rotation reducing corn root rot and rootworms.
Mr and Mrs Fred Frieden and staree nons Jasper Mo were weekend guests at the Elmer j Frieden home They also called on relatives and friends around Elgin Wirs Selma Greenley entertained friends and relatives last Wednesday evening celebrating the 81st birthday of Frank Green jley Guests were Harold Weibel Davenport Mrs Bess Greenley and Linda Oehwein Mr and Mrs JL D Hitch West Union Mr and Mrs Gottlieb Pulfer and Mrs Fanny Frieden and Ida The evening was spent visiting and lunch was served
Mrs Doyle Bennett spent Monday with Mrs Reuben Schupbach. Mrs Mayme Boyle of West Union was a weekend guest at the George Boyle home. Mrs Minnie Neumann Strawberry Point and Mr and Mrs Carl Neumann with children Lamont hosted Sunday dinner for John Luchsinger and Jacob Hoover families, including Lester Luchsinger Linda Rita Richard Neumann and Pete M Luchsinger.
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