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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
1
Michigan police plan to curb crime noting a drop in organized racketeering due to publicity. A reader realization shows how newspapers expose rackets and educate the public. Deadline for registering 26 million workers for federal old age pensions extended to December 15.
Used car dealer advertises deep cuts on 1930s models and late 20th century vehicles. Listings include 1935 Chevrolet Master DeLuxe Coaches at 435 to 465 and 1931 to 1936 Chevrolets, plus 1934 Dodge, Ford, Nash, and other era cars with prices slashed to lure buyers. Trade offers mentioned for 1993 models.
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch with Kathryn J. Strauch as local editor. The paper is entered in the Higin post office in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Payment terms for various ad types listed with per inch and per word rates. Includes notes on advance payment minimums, agency commissions, and special charges for memoriam cards resolutions of respect church society and school notices with admission charged and obituary poetry. Also shows the publication date December 10 1936.
A reader rebukes Editor Rann for comments on raising girls and urges fairness. The letter suggests older women and their daughters may be influenced by late nights and tavern behavior, calling for action against perceived vice and asking the editor to address his own age group.
A public fallacy is debunked as the author argues that taxing one half of annual income above five thousand dollars would yield less than three billion dollars, representing under a quarter of total tax revenue. The note stresses distributional concerns in tax policy.
Annie Benson visits Fayette with sister Mae a U S A student. Mrs S W Kuster and daughter Kathryn visit from Remsen to see Ben and Mrs Schori. Fred Tatro and Alicin DeSart wed at bride's parents Rev Stoeckian officiating. Mrs J D Shaffer visits Weat Union to see daughter H B Gilson family. Emil Topp nose bleed treated by doctor after an hour. A M Weibel family from Hooper Neb arrived for visit with parents. Rufus Doud expected to visit too. Gus Gunderson and wife at Andrew Thorson’s. she stays with mother for winter. Rosa Muehlethaler to return home next week from Hutchinson Minn. Lou Kehler clerking at C Lehman’s Hardware. Hunt for rabbits yields twenty three. Frankie Benson Iva Jacquette visit West Union. Ina Kohler to spend week with relatives in West Union. Mrs Amy Layton of West Union visits Schori Robbins Klin gman homes. Ed Grimm John Reitz Joseph Albert Butikofer return from Chicago via Elgin Mich. Ernest Harmon has been visiting Schori home. Hugh Patterson Al Schori return from Chicago fat stock show. Mrs Myra Gray of Postville visits friends.
Three Fayette boys, Archie Wood 11, Darrell Lantz 9, and Robert Lantz 8, found a jug they thought held water in a stone quarry. They splashed acid on each other during play, leaving Archie with severe facial burns that may cost him his left eye. The item appeared in the Argo Gazette.
Fayette county board of supervisors W A Lauer Fred Gremmelz Fred Campbell County Attorney Ed Traeger and Virginia Wray director of relief met in Des Moines Saturday with the state emergency relief to present the county s estimated needs for the coming year to aid its poor agencies officials noted the session aimed to outline financial and welfare requirements for local relief programs.
November marriage licenses reached seventeen in number at the district court clerk's office, a heavy month. Ruby Boyle notes the month’s high tally, comparing it to June. Frank Taddy settled an election bet with John Pelmar in Kewaunee Wisconsin by paying in sixty pennies frozen in a lump of ice. Want ads little salesmen.
Euclid C. Marston and Amy K. Meier, lifelong Postville residents, were wed in Waterloo on Friday, November 27. The couple plans to reside in Postville, with the local Postville Herald noting their well known standing in the community.
City editor's desk notes a sharp exchange about marriage and aging. A woman contemplates romance while a man presses for certainty, using a Braille metaphor to hint at hidden truths. Local readers see social pressures and personal risk in a brief, pointed fragment.
Official notice to Cornelius Moore Estate Mary Moore Estate and unknown heirs that Lots 1 2 Block 3 Lutra Elgin Fayette County were sold for taxes 1930 34 to Fayette County then assigned to J A Boleyn Treasurer's Certificate 25404 under sections 7265 7256B1 Iowa Code 1935. Right of redemption expires ninety days after service. treasurer's deed will be issued if not redeemed. Dated Elgin Iowa November 27 1986.
The hearth money tax, or chimney tax, was first levied in 1688 in England. Each hearth in households paying church and poor rates was taxed at 2 shillings, with a repeat levy during the 1689 reign of William and Mary.
Waukon will begin work on a new 120 by 40 foot theatre seating 600, with the old theatre continuing to operate for second run shows. A wry note adds that any wife may claim success in marriage if she can move her husband’s favorite chair and persuade him it is an improvement.
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