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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1946
Page
1
An Elgin Echo item notes a Friday evening event at a city venue where a forester and Mrs Tilte Frey attended. The text mentions a first batch and a number of chicks already, with a focus on local happenings and minor details from the day.
Echo files from February 24, 1931 recount a masquerade benefit by the American Legion with a packed spectators gallery. prizes awarded to Florence Kohler Grace Bowes Charles Gruver and A P Lehman. Harold Conner contracts chicken pox while recovering from mumps, Elmer and Levi Frieden plan visits to Fairfax and West Bend, Edna Weibel reports Ernestine Schori plans a California to home trip, Charles Capper and John Yen- continue the note.
Everett G Scott Au announces he will be a candidate for Fayette County attorney on the Republican ticket. A Fayette County native and former Rock Rapids practitioner, he served in the armed forces last fall and was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1940. He and his wife reside at 116 Adams St West Union.
Edgar Derkee Kimball born January 31 1883 on the Syria homestead died February 2 1946 at his Elgin area home aged sixty three years twenty days He was the youngest of thirteen children survived by widow Esther Halverson a sister Mrs Anna Gibson a brother Charles Kimball and a niece Georgana Probert Also several nieces and nephews The funeral was held February 24 at East Clermont Lutheran Church Elgin with Rev A O Nesset.
Incomplete text lists names and events including floral tributes and pallbearers for Esther Kizebach. Mentions last year’s crop ranking and 1943 Ohio seed yields with figures for ryegrass and red clover, noting bee pollination. Ends with name Mike Us.
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