Rae-Beck’s food specials and local ads page tease
Rae-Beck advertises food specials on page 8 with savings. For sale Bolen’s garden tractors and M- rotary tillers at Nelson’s Shop Clermont phone 1337. Home for sale two story eight room house large garage about 1 12 lots in Wadena inquire at Echo office Elgin.
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Rae-Beck
Conner Dummermuth
Elgin
General Electric
Echo Office
Strauch
Dia
Bolen
Nelson
Clermont
Wadena
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Report Filed on Iowa Toll Road Continuation News
The article outlines political campaigning timing after Labor Day, a Guard retirement at Camp Ripley with Maj. Gen. Fountain stepping down and Brig. Gen. Warren Wood taking command, plus a Cedar Rapids colonel promotion. It notes tax credit proration due to insufficient funds, and how unmarked patrol cars affect highway enforcement, with an upcoming flood control plan public meeting and a proposed Taylorville dam cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fountain
Iowa
National Guard
Camp Ripley
Minn
Ray C. ‘Fountain
Des Moines
Warren €. Wood
Gering
Neb
Carlton Smith
Cedar Rapids
State House
Taylorville
Rock Island
Local families take summer trips and host visits
Elgin residents Mr and Mrs Harold Halverson and Steven vacationed in the Ozarks and returned Monday. Norris Capper and sons Lloyd and Stanley left for Wisconsin to fish. Leland Capper will visit until Aug 28 before resuming school in Jessup Maryland. Sheila and Sandra Martin of Crystal Lake visited the Adrians. Various other local families hosted guests and enjoyed picnics and visits across Illinois Minnesota and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Halverson
Steven
Ozarks
Norris Capper and Sons
Lloyd
Stanley
Ioodeat Wis
Leland Capper
Jessup
Maryland
Sheila
Sandra Martin
Crystal Lake
Jack Adrian
Lester Martin
Adrian
Dale DeSart
Linda
Ray DeSart
Guttenberg
Earl White
la Grange
Ill
Louis ‘Dennifer
Lester Gehring
Bobby
Grant Schultz
Postville
Robert D. Wilson
Dean DeSart
Clermont
Mark DeSart
Otto Krueger
Harry Johnson
Kruegers
Emery
So. Dak
Willis Petratz
Robert Dunham
Oskaloosa
James Olson
Gerhard Halverson
Howard
Nevis
Minn
Minnesota
Thos
LeRoy
Mes
Halverson
Wesley Miller
Pasadena
Calif
A. B. Jacob
David Donaldson
Pittsburg
Clair Miller
Detroit
Mich
Judy Moore
Rex Mutford
Ole Olson
Public hearing set for lease plan before engineers board
Division engineer at St. Louis schedules public hearings at 1 30 p m and 6 00 p m to hear both sides before the board of engineers with Maj Gen B L Robinson as chairman. GOP Speakers Bureau headed by W S Rupe Ames publisher and former Iowa state board of education member will lead the campaign again this summer and fall announced by State Chairman Don Pierson. Rupe previously led this division in past campaigns and is a veteran of the Chautauqua circuit years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Board of Engineers
B.L. Robin
GOP
W.S. Rupe
Ames
Iowa State Board of Education
Don Pierson
Rupe
Fayette County Budget Hearing Set for August 31 1954
The County Conference Board of Fayette County Iowa will meet on Tuesday August 31 1954 at 1 30 p m at Court House West Union Iowa Taxpayers may be heard for or against the fiscal year 1955 expenditure estimates James Edwards Clerk County
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Conference Board
Fayette County
Iowa
Court House
West Union
Families Take Trips and Home Improvements Near Center
The Don Fauser family left Monday to visit sister Mrs Wally Stalfus in Chariton and planned to return Wednesday. Leon Jacob family and Karen Schroeder returned Monday from Pepin Maiden Rock Wisconsin visiting the George Miller family and Mr and Mrs Bert Smith of Waterloo were supper guests at Roy Leuchtenmacher's Monday. Thore Thompson and Mr and Mrs attended in the evening. John Hellum has enclosed the canopy sides to make an all weather garage, building from Center to Pleasant streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Fauser
Wally Stalfus
Chariton
Leon Jacob
Karen Schroeder
Pepin
Maiden Rock
Wis
George Miller
Bert Smith
Waterloo
Roy Leuchtenmacher
Thore Thompson
John Hellum
Social visits spread across Oelwein and nearby towns
Judy Cheney stayed in Oelwein with Jim Murphy. Mary Lerch visited Lyle Martin home from Sunday to Tuesday. Herman Boyer and Stanley visited John Barnhouse in Clermont. Reuben Miller family called on Vern Boyer Monday evening. Lyle Martin and others spent Thursday in Archie Chine home Ossian. Jim Murphy family spent weekend with Bill Cheney home. Herman Boyer, Stanley, visited Dick Henry home Waterloo Monday. Jerry Heck and family Postville visited Don Reeder Tuesday evening. Leo Boyer Lime Springs, Ralph Knoll New Hampton, Don Reeder visited Vern Boyer Friday. Leo Boyer stayed overnight. Frank Murphy Ambrose Lansing dinner guests Saturday with Bill Cheney. Melvin Hanson dinner guests Sunday at Lyle Martin. Howard Paine Oelwein dined with Bill Cheney Sunday. J B Miller Milton Miller and Debbie Boyle spent Thursday with Vern Boyer. Archie Cline Ossian and Betty Cline Perry joined Lyle Martin for supper Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Cheney
Oelwein
Jim Murphy
Mary Lerch
Lyle Martin
Herman Boyer
John Barnhouse
Clermont
Ossian
Jim Murphys
Bill Cheney
iMr
Stanley
Dick ‘Henry
Waterloo
Jerry Heck
Postville
Don Reeder
Leo Boyer
Lime Springs
Ralph Knoll
New Hampton
Vern Boyer
Frank Murphy
Ambrose
Lansing
Bill ‘Cheney
Melvin ‘Hanson
Wwere
Howard Paine
J. B. Miller
Milton Miller
Debbie Boyle
Apperson Twins Lead Minnesota State Fair Revue Chorus
Double glamour welcomes the Apperson Twins as part of the Minnesota State Fair Revue. The pair will perform in the grandstand night show during the last nine nights of the Aug 28 to Sept 6 exposition. Dozens of dancers comedians singers and aerial artists appear on stage with majestic fireworks closing each two hour show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovely Apperson
Majestic Fireworks
Bath-House Manager Recounts Honest Bath-Tale
A tramp asks for food and the farmer's wife offers eggs if she trusts him. He retorts with offended dignity that, though poor, he was manager of a bath-house for 15 years and never took a bath, implying honesty by contrast.
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Elgin Echo
Smith-Corona
Cesspool
James ‘Hermen
Cedar Rapids Piano Co
Towa
Clermont Brick & Sand Hdw
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
Dial
J.L. Trautman
E. Howard
Sip
C. J. Mulford & Son
Elgin Produce
Walter Lehman
Rock of Ages
Roggensack Monument
Waukon
Hampshire
Kenneth Kiosa
Dial 3028
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Elgin Ech
School of Journalism
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Virgil Miles
R. P. ‘Strauch
Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Assn Tip
Glenn Sarsfield
Highway Patrol
James Edwards
Clerk County
County Ags Tv
Brainard News
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Ja Man
Martin-Sentour
Joneses
Farmer Jones
Schori
Kuster
Colonial
John Tillotson
Jgreen
Eugene L. Whitford
Animal Hospital
Monona, Iowa
Diagnostic Laboratory
Wenger Sales Commission
10WA
Harry Wenger
Clarence
Meyer
Auct
G. W. Alderson
Wadenapson, Au Mareen
Tahuu Arun
Ea Ase
Lowa
Max Medberry
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