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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1937
Page
4
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Elgin traveled to Clermont Friday night for two hard fought basketball games. Clermont won the opener 19 to 18 after Elgin missed key free throws, while Clermont also won the second 21 to 14 before a capacity crowd with sportsmanlike conduct. Tuesday Elgin boys beat Calmar 22 to 20. their second team fell 20 to 14.
Orvin Thompson Auctioneer lists sale dates including Feb 1 Joe Martie estate 7 miles east of Elgin Feb 10 Elkader horse sale Feb 17 Ed Huckstad 112 miles south of Elkader Feb 18 and every Thursday West Union auction exchange Feb 22 M D Guyer 4 miles west of Elkader on Primary 54 Feb 24 Harold Meianer 2 miles south of Minihan corner on 58 Every Saturday Elkader auction exchange. A note on flax replacing part of Iowa crop acreage value and prices in 1925 1984. Read the ads in today’s. Edhd aha Mote the bargains
Taxpayers association bills seek to curb local budgets with state board appeals to save millions. Non-partisan judiciary plans and wage, regulation, and banking measures fill the Iowa legislature alongside lime for soils, telephones, boilers, and poison labeling. Homestead Exemption bill cleared for Thursday debate.
Local notes report visits from Gar naville and Cedar Rapids, funerals for Mrs Ed Fahey and Charles Bareis, and travel to Des Moines for a hardware convention. Others move homes, a London Mills party returns with Dr G L Stoehr’s body, and seed testing guidance urges farmers to test corn and oats at Ames Seed Laboratory.
The article cites David Lawrence describing the all-down strike as extortion capable of extreme lengths. It notes workers demanding pay increases during repairs or blocking property use, and stores' cash registers or keys being seized to deny access. Another observer likens it to kidnapping property for ransom.
Medical authorities urge against rubbing snow on frost bitten areas. Sudden hard snow can break skin and cause infection. instead warm gradually with gentle hands or armpits, and massage to restore circulation without causing skin damage.
Alden Pinney of Benton Missouri, a longtime booster for Elgin homecomings, suggests scheduling the event soon after graduation week. He notes the August timing before the Fayette county fair draws many former residents and urges the committee to consider the idea.
A sheriff sale is set on March 6 1937 in West Union Iowa to satisfy a January 5 1987 judgment in Fayette County Iowa in favor of Fred Reichert against Melcher Luchsinger for 194 06 principal plus 6 70 costs with 6 percent interest from 1987. The property to be sold is a Note for 1000 dollars payable to Melchor Luchsinger, offered to the highest bidder for cash at 10:00 AM at the courthouse door. Dated February 4 1937 in West Union Iowa under Sheriff HL J Nehring and Deputy Robert G Archer.
Deputy collectors from the Internal Revenue department will be at the Clayton county court house Feb. 1 and at the West Union court house Feb. 18 and 19 to assist residents in filling federal income tax blanks. Feed grain prices are expected to stay high until 1937 crop prospects influence current prices.
Fayette county crews apply four maintenance coats of crushed rock to the Elgin Wadena stretch from Elgin to the four corners. Haulers moved rock Monday into Tuesday evening covering about a half mile. The Elgin West Union county trunk and the remaining segment to Wadena are state maintained.
In Fayette County District Court a will, claimed to be Mary Lehman’s, will be admitted to probate hearing set for March 1 1987. Filed February 4 1987 in West Union Iowa by Clerk Philip K Meskel and Deputy Ruby Boyle. Nearby, Gunder Peterson feeds fifteen pheasants near his grove and house. they are markedly tamer than last year and linger for breakfast.
All tax payments and wage deductions under the Social Security Act must be sent to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Remittances should be payable to the Collector of Internal Revenue and mailed to the nearest IRS office for the employer. The Iowa Collector's office is in Des Moines. Taxes and deductions are to be returned monthly on or before the last day of the following month.
A Grand Lodge Masronic school of instruction is scheduled in Oelwen on March 9 10 and 11 with Grand Master Shrockmorton of Des Moines to attend on the third day. Separately the total cash farm income in the United States for 1986 is reported to be nearly 800 million dollars more than in 1936.
The judge presses Eramus Jackson on his claimed alibi as the Bellamy Hog Tonic sack is carried to court. The exchange suggests tension over the defendant's timeline and possible evidence.
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