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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1935

Page

3

Clermont Enterprise masthead and editor details

Clermont Enterprise is published every Thursday morning in Clermont Iowa. Elizabeth Priest is local editor and a member of the Lews Press Association and National Editorial Association. The paper is entered in the post office at Clermont Fayette County Iowa as second class yaa matter.

Elizabeth Priest Lews Press Association National Editorial Association Clermont Fayette County Iowa

Believe It or Not Cartoon Highlights Eva Jordan Record

McGregor Iowa driver Eva Jordan featured in Ripley cartoon for exceptional safety record. At 66 she began driving at 62, has used 14 cars and logged over 1,000,000 miles in 14 years with no accidents while transporting patients to University Hospital Iowa City from northeastern Iowa.

McGregor Robert Ripley Eva Jordan Eva Iowa North Iowa Times

Neighbor borrows paper prank solved by subscription

A Grundy City Register item notes a neighbor who habitually borrows the paper. A subscriber solved the dilemma by subscribing for both himself and the neighbor, granting extra reading time and keeping the paper coming.

Grundy City Register Register Register Office

Northwood Anchor Editorial on Printing News

A Northwood Anchor opinion notes that newspapers exist to print news for subscribers and that honesty relies on print quality. It argues bad news reflects the readers and society, not the paper, urging accountability for the news and its reception.

Northwood

Brainard Social News and Church Notes

Brainard residents visited and hosted over Thanksgiving and Sunday with families in West Union Elgin and nearby areas. Social calls include Nutting Peters Becker and Barnhouse households plus Ladies Aid meeting at Elgin. Brainard Church notes list Sunday school worship and evening service times.

L. D. Hitch Wil‘ima Near West Union Sidney Patterson Clarence Tripp Sidney Nutting Azalia Oran Kenneth Kijosa Nutting Joe Peters Arthur Patterson Chas Peters Louis Becker Elgin John Barnhouse and Lew Grover G. A. Thomas Ladies’ Aid Society Melvin Boyer Herman Boyer Lawrence Kerns Grace Nutting Home Robert Graver John Barnhouse Barbara Stading Dorothy Brackin Brainard Church

WPA County Projects Use 120 Men

Harold Wilkinson of Fayette county local reemployment office reports 120 men on WPA projects split as fifty on rock crushing at Elgin, fifty at Arlington, and twenty one on Oelwein city park work. About forty five to fifty relief workers remain, expected to be at work by Thanksgiving.

WPA Fayette County Harold Wilkinson National Reemployment Service Elgin Arlington Oelwein Wilkinson Arpo-Gazette

Community Notes From Grand Meadow social visits

Local residents share visits and dinners at numerous homes including Ames Olson Gilbert Buraas Bert Lyngan and Henry Veller svens. Travel plans include Kittleson Hartland and Chicago. A humorous aside comments on fashion and a playful boast about Joe Louis and red flannels reported in the Des Moines Register.

Howard Klaas De‘corah Ames Olson Carolyn Erickson Gilbert Buraas Oliver Larson Arthur Olson Clifford Osmundsen Glen Nygaard Bert Lyngans Lillian Halverson Clifford Kittleson Joseph Amundson Vinton Martin Amundson Arthur S. Olson Eaton Landsgard Oscar Lien Ruth Anderson Johnnie Helm Anton Scholen Arthur Madsen Donald Larson Hartland Minn Howard Kiuss Henry Vellersven Thelma Lyngaas Eleanor Lyngaas Henry Kittleson Austen Helgerson Will Nelson Chicago Oline Erickson Clermont Nela Lyng Joe Louis Des Moines Des Moines Register Gazette

Wake of the NRA and a Nation in Debt

A satirical Chronicle on Washington, noting the NRA’s death and activists drawing six million monthly, the Yvonne Dionne cereal incident, the Ryan Security Bank payout to depositors, and a Paris cemetery epitaph for the Everlasting Lamp inventor. It weaves distrust of government spending with social quirks and a warning about financial peril.

Washington NRA Allison Tribune Yvonne Dionne Paris Pierre Victor Fournier Rue Aux Trois

Want Ads and Lawn Mowing Etiquette in Osage

The Osage Press notes two men criticized for lawn mowing choices this summer one who mowed his own lawn and another who hired it done. Both claim they can afford either method, prompting reflection on how to keep neighbors satisfied.

Osage Press

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