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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1960
Page
4
For rent five room apartment available February first contact Clermont Iowa area. Call 28 for details. Short notice listing shows Avon area and price indicated as 18 cents.
Editorial urges universal seat belt use in cars citing CBS Reports on the 1960 Labor Day highway slaughter with over 10 000 injured and 431 killed in cars lacking belts. Advocates factory installation in new cars, urging readers to write manufacturers while noting safety benefits and endorsements from police, physicians, and safety officials.
For sale alfalfa in barn 25c a bale second crop 40c a bale. Baled straw. Live white ducks. For rent seven room modern home on Cook Street with new two car garage. Contact W. F. Mittelstadt West Union. Also sale of boy's shoe skates size 8 14 and girls white figure skates size 6 or 6 14. Ph.digi 1a
Thank you to the business and professional men of Elgin for enabling our $20 prize win from Saturday’s drawing. The Charles Becker family. Thank you to the Elgin Fire Dept for their prompt response Thursday night when our chimney caught fire. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis QO Butikofer and family.
Notice by the Fayette County District Court appoints Elsie Trade Executrix of Elmer J. Trude’s estate. Creditors must file claims with authentication for allowance. debtors to pay debts to the executrix. Joseph B. Steele is the attorney for the estate, Postville, Iowa, dated December 9, 1960.
Winners at drawing in Elgin last Saturday included Joe Baker John O Ander son Eloise Lantz Mrs Libbie Larson and William Yearous. Cash winners were Charles Becker Mrs Cornelia Burrow and Henry Anderson. Numbers drawn were 614 1479 1000 970 583 1096 751 236 1522 1212 637 1620 1497 30 247 1521.
The Turkey River Flying Club Inc based at Clermont Airport recently purchased a Piper Tri Pacer four place plane for member use. The club, which also owns an Aeronca Chief and a Cessna 20, has about 14 members.
Elgin local news notes that stores will close on Wednesday evenings during January February and March 18. Mrs Walter Kohls left Thursday for Waterloo to celebrate Christmas in Sheldon Kohls home. She returned with Mary Jo and Carol for a week long visit. Christmas dinner guests at Louis Becker home included Bod Mrs Joe Kjosa and family Mr and Mrs Charles Becker and family the Sheridan Downey family and Sharon Schultz of Postville. A pre Christmas party at Louis Becker home on Dec 22 included Kenneth Mark and Kendall Alan Seabrook Jill and Timothy Harvey Meyer Wanda and Chas Becker and family.
The column lists Christmas dinners and parties hosted by residents of Elkader Postville Hawkeye and nearby areas. Guests include the Reierson, Reierson, and Hellum families, plus the Lantz, Loftsgard, Brainard, and Tnafelet clans. Church pastor J G.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Klingman Jr hosted Christmas dinner at the Merle Klingman home in Elgin. Mrs. Carroll Klingman visited with Henrietta Kleppe and Arlene Carter, and Mrs. T. Loftsgard hosted a Christmas dinner. Other guests included Mr. and Mrs. Mer Kenneth and family members noted in the Elgin social page.
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