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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1937
Page
1
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From February 21 Echo files a long snapshot of area life. Mrs. Roberts visits Ochwein relatives while Grant Graver interviews Elgin Farmers Dairy Co directors. Hay destined for Chicago markets, and Nellie Lehman returns home due to a mother’s illness. New home births, dinners, and five hundred games mark social life. Local moves include Baldwin family relocating to a farm near town, Knudtson selling east farm and planning a sale, and Ida Schori’s Chicago trip for vacation. Several residents suffer flu, while tobacco processing machines are planned for the Iowa State Reformatory.
A reader from New Martinsville West Virginia writes about surviving the Ohio River flood of January 1937. The letter recalls rising waters reaching the first floor, moving furniture upstairs, scarce fuel and gas, damaged streets, and community reactions including a Red Cross benefit dance.
The Allison Tribune recounts a dog story from No. 10 John Belt where a German police dog greets mail carrier Howard Wehrhan daily. When Wehrhan was off, substitute Francis Allan tried to trick the dog with a different car, but the dog remained loyal, recognizing the carrier and meeting the mail at the curb. The dog even jumped onto the running board when Allan drove away, proving the canine won’t be fooled by a car switch.
Mrs Clifford Stirk bookkeeper for A W Hausladen broke her right arm after slipping on an icy walk in front of the Ray Lohr home last Thursday. She returned to work soon after and now uses a sling. Her mother Mrs Margaret Mealey of Fairbank is staying to assist at home until recovery.
The column notes that government expenditures per employed worker rose from $8.00 in 1915 to $26.83 in 1936, a 200 percent increase. It also tells of Jerome Ashbacher, a French Creek township farmer, finding a calf born without a tail in his barn.
The board of directors at Silver Springs Creamery Ossian elected Cornell Riveland as indsingér, succeeding H. P. Nicholson who had held the post for many years.
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