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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1937
Page
8
Cheery Valley residents host and visit across Elgin West Union and West Bend with numerous guests from Chicago Oakville Wadena La Grange Mor ton and Elgin. The long list includes outings suppers dinners picnics and a park gathering while Rosa Schlupp's illness is noted and homecomings occur.
Hlyria items note Guy Ernst traveled to Rock Rapids to visit relatives. LaVerne Schneider of Carnation Washington visits his parents and family with the Rollang and Schneider households in Garrison North Dakota. Fred Rothenbuehler from Valley Springs South Dakota joins Jerome Yearous and Martha Chapman households for a weekend. Leslie Frieden Sam Frieden and Robert Peek travel from La Grange Missouri to the Gottfried Frieden family for a brief stay. Walter Medberry and children visit with her parents.
Mrs S Sonstegard Curtis Olson and families welcomed guests at the T T Loftagard home. Delegates Hilder Opsand and Eileen Mark chosen for Larther League convention at Waterloo Ridge. Harold Opsand family picnicked with Chicago relatives in Freeport. Ames visitors Mr and Mrs Harold Skarshaug stay with relatives. Elmer Olson improving after illness. T L Loftsgard family toured Delwein. L P Larson family dined with John Hellum. E J Halverson of Chisago City visiting Gander area. Mrs B Nelson and daughter Tina visited A Thorson near Clermont. Dorcas Society picnic planned at parsonage August 27. Monona construction firm begins Elgin Gander road rock crushing. John Hellum family business trip to Delwein. Capt Bran lecture and pictures at Marion church well attended. G Kurth family visited Mrs B Nelvor on Tuesday afternoon.
Brainard area residents hosted and visited across several homes including Mr. and Mrs. Craft Mrs. Bartlett and Mrs. Reuben Miller moving to Elgin last week. Wm Nutting and son Jimmie joined Raymond Mays family for a Sunday visit while Sheldon Moats visited Geo Moats at Monticello. Geo Howard sustained a shoulder injury from wood hauling with a fractured small bone. Additional visits linked Mrs Nutting Vern Gladys and Mrs Barnhouse with children in Oelwerth.
Weekend guests included Mrs. Sidney Patterson and Wilson and Marian, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyon, with visits to Chicago and Paul Patterson in the Peterson, Peters, Moats, and Lyon households. Brainard church notes show Sunday school at 10 am with no evening services.
Ben Glesne, 48, a well known farmer eight miles north of Elkader, died last Tuesday by hanging in a granary on the Herbranson farm. A note read Goodbye Inga, his wife’s name. illness was blamed. Coroner Leslie Ogike said death by own action with no inquest. Survived by widow and parents Mr. and Mrs Even Glesne of Elkader.
The piece notes a ten percent federal tax on sports gear bought for vacations, citing 1935 figures of $34,863,730 in sporting goods with $8,486,378 tax collected. It also forecasts slaughter supplies of sheep and lambs remaining larger than a year earlier through at least September.
Lillie Mattoon transfers to Town of Elgin QCD for $1 86 ft of Pleasant street N of L's 3 to 8 B 6 Elgin. Eugene G Stoehr et al transfer to Town of Elgin QCD for $1 S 6 ft of Pleasant street N of L's 3 to 8 B 5 Elgin. Mamie E Shepherd Heiden et al transfer to Fremont H Clark QCD for $1 L's 10 11 12 13 14 Herriman's Add to Wadena. The Ladies Cemetery Also of Elgin transfers to Rose McMillan WD for $20 L 14 3rd Add to Elgin Cemetery. J A Erickson and wife transfer to Farmers' Savings Bank Clermont WD for $81 L's 7 and 8 60 Clermont.
The Fayette Tama county girls group earned top honors at the identification contest held across 17 4-H boys camps and 9 girls camps. Camped on Morris Island in the Cedar River, the team posted an average score of 85 percent with six of forty eight girls scoring 100. Echo Want Ad.
Elmert Lindely alias Clarence Anderson confessed to beating and robbing his brother at a home seven and a half miles southwest of Northwood Iowa on July 21. The fight toppled a lamp, starting a fire that burned the house and left Ellert Lindely dead in the mine. Lindely, who has lived in Austin Minnesota as Clarence Anderson, was brought back from Yellowstone National Park after park rangers captured him. News Photo Service Exclusive to the Echo in Fayette County.
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