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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
3
Marjorie Scheel serves as local editor and is noted as a member of the Iowa Press Association and the National Editorial Association.
The 1937 legislature created a uniform narcotic act and charged the state pharmacy board with enforcement but failed to fund it. Interim and 1939 sessions provided appropriations totaling 9,350 to support enforcement until 1939 and beyond, plus salaries for board members as narcotic agents and examiners at reduced daily rates. The plan splits funds between narcotics work and pharmacy examinations, with caps on expenses and a rule against simultaneous narcotic and examination duties. Federal liquor stamps valued at 25 will trigger publication of purchaser names and renewed questions about future raids by state officers.
A published list of federal liquor stamp purchasers in Iowa has critics arguing it aids evasion of state liquor-by-the-drink laws. Officials fear federal lists aid raiding, while some use the data as city guides. Ahead lie a busy political week as campaigns gear up for the June primary and party leadership shifts.
Around Towa Beauty Treatment in Iowa, Van Buren county renovates its 1842 built courthouse by WPA crews. A nearly new rope broke during scaffold hoisting, startling painters Albert Sime and Leland Baldwin just before danger. Emmet Polderpoar reports a beaver at Backbone State Park building a dam as a spouseless old beaver seeks a new home Upstream. Grinnell’s popcorn rush as W G Deeds reports stalks past their foot mark. Montezuma townsfolk unite to clear debris from a church fire. After 84 years, a woman travels by oxcarts and other transport in the story’s end.
Adair County Free Press argues that men who invest time and energy in developing their towns gain greater material wealth. Those who serve on committees and promote local progress become richer, happier, and more valuable to their families and communities.
In the Chicago Tribune a note on harmony at home suggests many husbands can create real harmony by playing second fiddle. The column also promotes Echo advertisers as a money saver.
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