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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1964
Page
1
The Elgin Echo from Elgin Iowa lists publication as a weekly Thursday issue. It notes Hernen and Bartuner as publishers and records second class mail status with entry date September 1 1891 at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa under the March 3 act.
Want Ad rates are 10 cents per line with a line minimum of 30 cents per week if cash accompanies the order otherwise the minimum is 50 cents. Blind ads or inquiries are 50 cents per week. Card of Thanks or In Memoriam Cards cost 1.00, limited to 10 lines with 5 cents for each additional line. Resolutions of respect church society and school notices with admission charged and obituary poetry follow regular advertising rates.
Elgin residents gather for visits with Orella Lar son and Larson families across Elkader and Ossian. Housewarming at Earl West's El kader home with Millard Olson Mervin Larson and Harold Meisner families. Esther Moore visits Fairfax Minnesota with Wm Moore. Gordon Pollock and Anne Dennier celebrate Gordon birthday. Various callers and dinners noted with Medberry Mueller Meisner Anderson families in shared communities.
The American Legion Auxiliary held a regular meeting on Tuesday July 21 at 2 PM in the auxiliary rooms with 18 members present. Officers reports were read and approved and bills passed. The Sunshine Committee reported sending cards to Louis Reterson and P K Peterson for their 60th wedding anniversary.
Iowa hunters may apply for 1964 gun permits beginning August 28 at 8:00 a.m. CDT. The Conservation Commission will accept applications through September 11 at 4:30 p.m. CDT. Entries received before or after the window will be returned. Application forms are available.
The sixteens thousand permit holders may apply by machine coded system not first come first served. Applicants may apply separately or in groups of up to five individuals. Group applications must include one check covering the ten dollar license fee per person. An individual may not submit more than one application. Residents of Iowa may apply.
A local event is scheduled with a race or activity at 7 30 p m. Details are limited in the fragment but indicate an evening session and a basin or bet context. No further participants or locations are readable.
Nomination papers may be filed from August 15 until noon September 4, 1964. Election day is Monday September 14. Voters in Director District 5 elect two members to the Communit School District Board of Education. Five-tenths of a dollar fee required.
Names listed include Randy Clermont Amanda Brockhus and Mrs Millard Gisle son with Mr and Mrs Laurence. The next reunion is scheduled for the first Sunday of August 1045.
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