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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
1
Notices listing obituary related items include Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam cards priced at $1.00 each. Resolutions of Respect for church, society and school notices with admission charged also appear at regular advertising rates.
Rich reflects on August celebrations across towns, noting financial strain from frequent rains. He recalls county fairs and the state fair with muddy grounds and cancelled track shows, admires conservation exhibits, and muses on school opening, student questions, and advice to athletes. Also mentions local obituaries, homecomings, plumbing work, illness, and mail clerks in a mosaic of community life.
Federal registration and fingerprinting rules require all aliens in the United States to register and be fingerprinted by December 26. The rule applies to those over 14, with penalties including possible deportation for noncompliance. registration questions will be kept secret. Local offices like the Elgin post office handle the process for residents without final naturalization papers.
Elgin hosts a sequence of social visits with Mr. and Mrs. Will Lehman and Albert of Rock Valley, Mrs. Ted Neumann of Dysart, Rosanna Reichlisberger of West Union, and John Rethlisberger. Guests include C. B. Schori’s, the Reicherts, and the Gehring home. Carmen Swenson of Clermont becomes parents to a girl born Sunday night. Ella Mae Johnson, returning from Cedar Falls, plans nurse training in Marshalltown. Zoanne and Barbara Yenney visit with grandparents in Elgin while parents vacation in Elkader.
Mexico City reports show Trotsky's funeral procession from the undertaker to the Modern Pantheon last week with his body in the lead car. Eulogies were delivered at ceremonies held at the Pantheon following his death on August 21 from wounds inflicted by a pick-like instrument.
Officials of the Iowa Traffic Safety Commission summarize how far a 50 mph car with perfect brakes travels to stop and whether driver reaction time affects stopping distance. The article provides a chart of feet traveled per second at various speeds, notes the state speed law requires drivers to stop within the assured rear distance, and urges drivers to study the chart to reduce accidents in the county.
The Elgin Canning Co. started machinery on Monday afternoon and operations are progressing smoothly. The incoming crop is excellent and large carloads are well filled, with expectations that output will meet or exceed estimates. Thursday near five o clock an alarm triggered a fire at Kimball's restaurant in the opera house basement due to four defective burners on the coffee urn. quick action kept damage contained and powered by prompt citizen assistance.
Thirty three slot machines were seized across ten Clayton county towns on Saturday night in what state agents called the largest raid of its kind. Seventeen punch boards were also taken as a 30‑strong raiding party led by Sheriff Carlson and County Atty Roggensack searched Marquette McGregor Guttenberg Gurnaville Elkport Littleport Garber Farmersburg Luana Strawberry Point Elkader Monona Vairo and St Olaf. Elkader Monona Vairo and St Olaf were reported clean. The raid included five state agents nine local officers six from Allamakee three from Fayette and six from Delaware.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Edward and Harold and Maynard and Oliver Zimmerman of Forestburg joined the Luch family for a week long visit and returned home.
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