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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1934
Page
3
The Clermont Enterprise from Clermont Iowa announces its weekly publication by Mrs H B Greenley local editor and membership in Iowa and National Editorial Associations. The paper is entered in the Clermont Fayette County post office as second class mail matter.
Grand Meadow residents engage in visits across Clermont Independence and Postville. Community members Bert Lyng, Immanuel Larson, Arthur Olson, Olivia Olson and others host relatives and friends. School reopenings mark the week as families note patient recoveries and farm work progresses.
The 110 year old brick school in Brookline Vermont is believed to be the only round schoolhouse in the United States.
Fayette County reports new marriage licenses issued for residents of St Paul Fort Atkinson and Maynard among others. County records show a sharp rise in instruments filed in the recorder’s office with a near doubling from 1982 to 1938, while rural schools in Fayette County report improved attendance and multiple districts achieving perfect or near perfect attendance across several months.
The Manchester Press questions wage scales for county and municipal labor in wartime, arguing common labor at one hour and skilled labor at 1.25 dollars is wasteful when private firms pay half. It asks why the government cannot halve the rates to hire more workers and avoid such fiscal blunders.
W E Anderson III, postmaster at Arlington and former Fayette county supervisor, is in the University Hospital at Iowa City after a surgical operation about two weeks ago. Some reports suggest his condition remains serious while many friends send good wishes from home.
A note describes hydrogen as the lightest substance, claiming it is 144 percent lighter than air and about 11 160 times lighter than water, highlighting its extreme buoyancy.
Clermont residents note visitors and callers from Decorah Luana West Union Postville and McGregor. Reopenings and school activities mix with entertainment from Century of Progress travel talks and a Dover township program at the opera house.
In a narrative set on the Green Meadows and Farmer Brown’s cornfield, Jerry Muskrat considers stealing carrots with Reddy Fox. He contemplates the risk of daylight, creeps along drying ditches, and plans a bold climb toward the carrots, weighing whether Fox’s motives are for him or himself, before making a move.
For Clermont advertisers payments for advertising are now receipted at the Farmers' Savings Bank. Take your invoice to the bank when paying and it will be receipted. Adv. 52A tip.
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