Homecoming Flashes Invite Town to Parade and Festivities
Rich announces eighth homecoming with a parade Saturday at 2:30, regional clubs and stores urging preparations. Firemen sponsor the Friday dance with Ray Alto’s band. crowds advised to arrive early and avoid crowding. floats to park near the canning factory yards before parading through West Elgin routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Babe
Mary
Alto
Ray Alto
Canning Factory
West Elgin
Main ‘Street
Methodist Church
Center Street
Don
Len West
Community Guests and Family Visits Across Wis and IA
The Wadena News notes Chester Seidel family visiting Eastman and Arlington hosts, Kloppenburg family from Rock Island staying with Annie Aylsworth, Crandall and Puffett family gatherings, and extended visits by Curran sisters in Spokane. Also reported are Leonhart family trips to Des Moines, Ensign Loren Everett’s 15 day leave from Corpus Christi, visits by Virginia and Jennifer Marble, and Corkery-Wheeler wedding guests from multiple states including North Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Seidel
Eastman
Wis
Walter Cook
Harry Davis
Arlington
Charles Kloppenburg
Rock Island
Clem Curran
Spokane
Wash
Donald Leonhart
Des Moines
Pfc
George Leonhart
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Arjetta Hicks
Fort Ord
Hicks
Childs Hicks
Loren Everett
Corpus Christi
Texas
Cecil Everett
San Diego
Ensign Everett
Virginia
Jennifer Marble
Manchester
Flossie Voghell
Ellis Corkery
Chicago
Butch
David Fuller
Corkery-Wheeler
Wm. Mahlmann
Manning
Dak
Alard Norby
Independence
Alvin Krogh
Fairfield
Marine Jerry Casey
Camp Lejune
N. C
Alvin
Wheeler
Donald Ensley
Bane Harris
Sioux City
Herbert Fay
Waterloo
Lavern Mohlis
Cresco
Waxing chair legs for easier moving
A tip advises waxing the bottoms of chair legs and table legs to reduce floor marking and ease furniture movement.
Kindergarten Enrollment for Elgin Children This Week
Parents enrolling children in Elgin kindergarten are asked to bring them to the kindergarten room on Wednesday August 24. Mrs Kiple will be there from 1 30 until 4 00 to enroll them for the present year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Watch Labor's Role in Next Year's Election
Town Press Association reports on Iowa politics in a 1930s style weekly release. AFL CIO leaders clash with GOP labor factions as Ray Mills shifts party allegiance and several candidates emerge for lieutenant governor. Highway contracts near 30 million dollars and refugee resettlement are also noted amid broad political discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor
Ray Mills
Des Moines
Iowa
AFL
Mills
GOP
Don Pierson
Pierson
Republican Labor League of Iowa
Central Committee
Norman Miller
CIO
Labor Committee
H O Probert Hurt In Volga Accident
H O Probert, 74, a retired farmer from Volga, suffered shock a fractured right hip and cuts when his auto truck collided with a gravel truck driven by Wayne Alderson 24 of Strawberry Point on a gravel road about 2 12 miles north of Volga on Thursday Aug 11 He was taken to a Manchester hospital Alderson was uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.O. Probert
Volga
Manchester
Wayne Alderson
Strawberry Point
Alderson
Christen Family Third Reunion Highlights Sprawling Guest List
The Christen family held its third annual reunion at West Union fairgrounds on Sunday. Attendees included the Franck family from Battle Creek and Evansville, Zauggs, Bannart, Mogler, Nydegger, Olson, Heins, Hanson, Elvers, Nydegger, Christen, and Muehlenthaler clans from multiple towns. The eldest guest was 91 and the youngest 9 months. 12 births and one death marked the interval since the last gathering. Ruby Zaugg gave the welcome, with poems, songs, and various musical numbers performed. next year the reunion moves to Clear Lake on the third Sunday in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christen
West Union Fairgrounds
Kenneth Franck
Battle Creek
Mich
George Patton
Janet
Bruce
Evansville
Ind
Zaugg
Louise
Ruby
Walter Zaugg
Bill Zaugg
Albert Bannart
Harry Franck
Bud Thoman
West Bend
Ervin Mogler
Ottosen
Walter Nydegger
Manly
Marion Christen
Beverly Mogler
Donna Meinhard
Harry Johnson
C. B. Schori
G. J. Mosby
Eunice
Uriel
Jacob
Lawrence Gehring
Clear Lake
Attendance at Elmer Olson funeral draws distant relatives
Relatives traveled from Cedar Rapids Ames Ottumwa Dallas Fountain Minn Waureka Wis Lake Mills and beyond to attend the funeral for Elmer Olson held last week. Names listed include Harlan Henkes Harold Skarshaug Lizzie Skarshaug Keson Nos ek Joseph Knowles Conrad Reinhart Loren Henry Christensen Henry Halverson Nels Nelson Ruth Doutelle and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer ‘Olson
Harlan Henkes
Cedar Rapids
Harold Skarshaug
Lizzie Skarshaug
Elizabeth
Ames
Keson Nosek
Terry
Gary
Ottumwa
Joseph Knowles
Jackie
Michael
Scott
Dallas
Texas
Conrad Reinhart
Loren
Fountain
Minn
Henry Christensen
Waureka
Wis
Henry Halvers
Football Participation Meeting for Boys at Elgin School
All boys interested in football should meet at the Elgin school on Tuesday evening August 29 at 7 30. Physical examination blanks must be filled before the meeting. Blanks available from Supt Moore’s Clermont office or from Paul Zurbriggen Elgin Slipe.
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Lgin School
Supt. Moore
Clermont
Paul Zurbriggen
Elgin
Visit to Rochester for checkups and surgery
Mr and Mrs G J Mosby and Carol traveled to Rochester Minnesota last Tuesday for Carol's clinic check up. In hospital Mrs Clarence H Olson Postville Mrs Quinton Olson and Mr and Mrs J P Medberry went Sunday to see Clarence H Olson a patient at St Marys hospital He had major surgery this Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
G. J. Mosby
Carol
Minn
Clarence H. Olson
Postville
Quinton Olson
J. P. Medberry
St. Mary’s Hospital
New Addresses Listed for Mrs Curry and Mrs Olesen
Two residents, Mrs W J Curry and Mrs Leo Olesen, have new addresses listed. Curry moves to 5431 Scriven er Street, Long Beach, California. Olesen relocates to Sandpiper Court, Mexico Beach, Port St. Joe, Florida.
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W. J. Curry
Scrivener St
Long Besth 8
Calif. St
Leo Olesen
Sand- Piper
Apt
Mexico Beach
Part
St. Joe, Fla
Four spotted fungus beetles as disease carriers urge control
Four spotted fungus beetles are as bad carriers of disease as flies and should be controlled the same way as flies.
Pleasant Point Study Club Meets for Cake Frosting Demo
The Pleasant Point Study Club met at Mrs. Burton White's home on Tuesday afternoon Aug 8. Members exchanged cookie recipes and heard a frosting cake demonstration by Mrs. Orran Bane. The group planned a birthday party and to donate jam to the Good Samaritan Home at West Union. Guests included Mrs. Franklin Oelberg Mrs. Otto Popenhagen Mrs. R C Bennington Mrs. Leonard Anfinson Mrs. Evan Burke and Mrs. Ervin Stahr.
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Pleasant Point
Burton White
Orran ‘Bane
Iva Feller
Harold Strong
Chm
Emmet Light
Gerald Shaffer
Osrol
Ely
Mabel King
West Union
Franklin Oelberg
Otto Popenhagen
Wadena
R. C Bennington
Leonard Anfinson
Fayette
Evan Burke
Sumner
Ervin Stahr
Elgin
Des Moines Farm Gadget Contest At State Fair
Edward F Krueger of Elgin enters the farm gadget show part of the Town State Fair in Des Moines with two items the Forage Unloader and a tractor attached wire roller. Prizes total 500 dollars for Iowa amateur farmer inventors. Rules require gadgets to improve safety ease or convenience on farm work. Sponsored by the state fair and station WMT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Krueger
Elgin
Des Moines
Mr. Krueger
Iowa
WMT
Shorthorns Entered in Million Dollar Iowa State Fair
Otis Hothlisberger orgin enters 10 Shorthorns in the Iowa State Fair livestock show at Des Moines from Aug 27 to Sept 5. The 1g year event is set to be the largest in state history with about 8,000 head entered across cattle swine sheep and horses. Judging rings will be open daily for public viewing and more than $100,000 in cash prizes awaits winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Hothlisberger Orgin
Des Moines
Bachman Pfister Wedding At East Clermont Church
Miss Shirley Mae Bachman daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo C Bachman west of Clermont married Harold Lloyd Pfister elder son of G Pfister on Sunday afternoon August 14 at East Clermont Lutheran Church conducted by Rev B Knudsen A reception followed. The couple will reside on the second floor at Wm Kohls and the bride has lived on the farm with her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Mae Bachman
Leo C. Bachman
West of Clermont
Harold Lloyd Pfister
G. Pfister
East Clermont Lutheran Church
8. B. Knudsen
Schori & Kuster Lum
Town Jaw mandates feeding farmers scraps to swine
Town Jaw authorities order farmers to cook food scraps and waste before feeding them to pigs to reduce health risks and odor. The measure targets on farm waste management and swine feeding practices to protect public health.
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Town Jaw
Clermont Creameries Begins Whole Milk Intake
Elgin Clermont Creameries started taking in whole milk marking a new era for the plant. Equipment installation finished Monday and tested for Tuesday’s run. Skim milk will be transported to the Strawberry Point plant for drying until Clermont’s plant drying facility is completed. A new boiler is expected soon.
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Elgin Clermont Creameries
Strawberry Point
Clermont
Lehman Family Reunion Held Sunday in Elgin Park
Eighty-one Lehman relatives gathered at Elgin city park on Sunday August 14 for the 30th Lehman family reunion. A picnic dinner preceded a short program and a business meeting. Officers elected included B L Caudill president Rex Medberry vice president Clara Baumgartner secretary treasurer and Edna Hunsberger historian. The oldest member present was L L Reinhart 93 of Fayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin City Park
Lehman
B. L. Caudill
Rex Medberry
Clara Baumgartner
Sec.treas
Edna Hunsberger
L. L. Reinhart
Fayette
F. E. Lehman
Ida Lehman
la Porte City
Ed Anderson
Waterloo
Lloyd Hochspeier
Doc
Ethyl Candill
Alta Vista
Russell Erion
Harold Puffett
Strawberry Point
Oscar Lehman
Dundee
George Smith
Postville
John van Dyke
Cedar Falls
Arthur
Albert Lehman
Hudson
S. D
Lydia Hochspeier
Cresco
John ‘Lyford
Mt. Vernon
John Kirkpatrick
Traer
Lyle Leath
York
Wayne Seidler
Chicago
Nancy Senkler
St. Pau
Minn
Reuben Lehman
Mission
Kans
Frank ‘Loving
Bettendorf
Lulu Schmid
Edith Berg
Ed Lehman
Bertha Lehman
Fred Burrow
Max Lehman
Tofield
Adeline
Danny Lehman
Jacob Lehman
Walter
Louis
Leo Lehman
Elgin
Son Born to Lt and Mrs Smith in Lawton Oklahoma
8 lb 8 oz son Linn Daniel born August 11 to Second Lieutenant Paul D. Smith and wife of Lawton Oklahoma This is the Guernsey Smiths first grandchild Paul Smith stationed at Fort Sill will relocate near Washington D C after September 1 Mrs Guernsey Smith joined the mother and baby in Oklahoma to stay until they depart for Washington
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Paul D. Smith
Lawton
Okla
Linn Daniel
Guernsey Smiths
Paul
Fort Sill
Washington, D. C
Guernsey Smith
Oklahoma
Washington
Tests on soil samples sent to Iowa State College Lab
Soil samples were forwarded to the Soil Testing Laboratory at Iowa State College for analysis. Results are expected back to the sender in four to six weeks.
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Iowa State College
Clermont Elgin Consolidated Schools Set August 29 Opening
Clermont Elgin district schools begin Monday August 29 with 9:00 to noon classes on opening day. Seven new teachers join, including Charles Selby B D Pannhuk Sharif Ramsey Theodore Kiser George Whitworth and Gerhard Petratz. Bus routes continue as before and lunches start September 6 with new arithmetic texts for grades 3 through 8. First teachers meeting scheduled August 27 at Clermont High School gym.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont- Elgin Consolidated
M. H.moore
Clermont
Charles Selby
B. D. Pannhuk
Sharif Ramsey
Elgin
Theodore Kiser
George Whitworth
Gerhard Petratz
Clermont High School
Bymn
Fayette County Fair Next Week at West Union
The 102nd Fayette County Fair runs next week in West Union with a record entries forecast across livestock divisions including 125 baby beeves in the Junior Livestock Show. New Junior Feeder Project, Iris 4-H cooking demonstrations, needlework, baking, and canning exhibits join racing ostriches, camels, auto and stock car races, a grandstand show with seven changes, dancing, TV and radio stars, and the Curtis Candy Co. and Pony Hitch acts. Opening parade Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. leads to Friday night stage finale. a detailed program appears elsewhere.
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Fayette County
West Union
Fayette County Fair
Curtis Candy Co
Pony Hitch
Mayors Challenge Sheriff House Ostrich Race in Fayette County
The Fayette County Fair ostrich race returns as Sheriff Fred House, last year's winner driver, bets his leading position by offering a new hat as prize. Mayors Merle Lickiss of Arlington and Nick Croatt of St. Lucas accept the challenge. The Ostrich Driving Championship event is set for Tuesday evening, August 23 in front of the grandstand.
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Gene Holter
Fayette County
Fred House
Merle Lickiss
Arlington
Nick Croatt
St. Lucas
Fayeur County
Grandstand
Minot Pastor Named Athletic Director at Dakota Lutheran Academy
After Sept 1 Gust Gilbertson, of McGrath Minnesota, will relocate to Minot North Dakota to serve as athletic director and public relations representative at Dakota Lutheran Academy. Joanne Carol and Mark Gilbertson will spend several days with him at the Gust Gilbertson home last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Gilbertson
Joanne
Carol
Mark
McGrath, Minn
Gust Gilbertson
Dakota Lutheran Academy
Minot
No, Dak
Prayer and hymn lines for maritime safety
Clifford L. Legerton former Religious Committee Chairman of the South Carolina Jaycees Charlestown S C leads a prayer invoking Eternal Father strong to save for those in peril on the sea. The text includes lines from the hymn Travelors and a plea to hear prayers from sailors.
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Clifford L. Legerton
Chm
South Carolina
Jaycees
Charlston, S. C
Dairymen Extend Dry Period for First calves
Many dairymen find value in longer dry spells for first calf heifers. Ensure two months before freshening with ample roughage and quality grain to support growth and health.
Homecoming Greetings From Elgin Echo Letter
Libbie Nicklaus Bucher writes from Kansas City to Mr. R P Strauch of Elgin Iowa reflecting on Elgin homecoming plans. She recalls the Elgin canning factory started by her father Peter Nicklaus in 1881 and the Echo newspaper started by her late husband Edward L Bucher. She notes personal ties and wishes for a successful homecoming.
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Kansas
City
Eaton Street
R. P. Strauch
Elgin
Iowa
Strauch
Echo
Peter Nicklaus
Charles Capper
Edward L. Bucher
Oelwein
Oelwein Record
Hulda Stoehe
Libbie Nicklaus Bucher
Be, L. Bucher
Bullet embedded in door after fishing trip shock in home
Keith Kohler found a .22 long rifle bullet lodged in his kitchen door after returning from fishing. The bullet appeared to ricochet from a solid object before hitting the doorway, raising concern for any family member who might have been there. Long rifle ammunition can travel about a mile, prompting cautions on aiming.
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Keith Kohler
Elgin Library Closed Saturday for Homecoming
Library notice states Elgin will be closed Saturday due to homecoming. Harold Gunderson Iowa State College extension entomologist lists five chemicals for grasshopper control with application rates: heptachlor or aldroin 4 ounces per acre diel drin 2 ounces per acre chlordane 1 pound per acre toxaphone 1.5 pounds per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College Extension
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wadena News
Town Press Association
Leo Elthon
Fertile
Wendell Pendleton
Storm Lake
Iowa House
Stanley Hart
Keokuk
Senate
K. T. Prentis
Mt. Ayr
Legislative
Vern Lisle
Clarinda
House
W. H. Nicholas
W. H. Tate
Elthon
Leo Hoegh
Hoegh
Highway Commission
Council Bluffs
Granger
Mt. Pleasant
Sheldon
Jowans
H. O. Probert
Olson
Bachman—Pfister
Lehman Family
Clayton County
Grant Lauer
Sheriff House
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