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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
8
Letters express concern over proposed 1929 Iowa automobile number changes. Citizens criticize readability and driver impact, noting registries may be hard to read and give an advantage to certain drivers. Calls for public input and news items to clarify the issue.
Mrs John Miller passed away at her Rock Valley home on Saturday January 12 after a long illness. She was married to John Miller in Kiokedel Iowa and moved with family to Sionk county then Rock Valley in June 1926. She leaves husband seven children and three grandchildren along with four brothers and many friends. Interment was January 15 at Amy Richarda West Union.
Estella Ely Diamond Bowen, born October 11, 1869 in Wadena Iowa, married M T Diamond in 1889 and moved to Kansas, mother of three, widowed by 1909, remarried to J H Bowen in 1917. Bowen family suffered illness and death, including J H Bowen in 1928 and Estella in Kensington on January 4, funeral at M K church.
Fragments from Elgin items show talk of promotions and ladder steps, a reform debate over a calendar 18 months versus 12 monthly bills, and Mrs Rudy Yonker’s return from Rock Valley after a funeral. The Elgin Ladies Study Club met with California topic notes but ran late, omitting several papers. Footprints of great men lead to month end debt, urging payment of bills.
A letter from Santa Maria California dated January 20 1929 from A Howard to R P Strauch Elgin Iowa confirms a $2 annual subscription to the Elgin Echo its thirty sixth year of subscription noting prior name changes and recounting local prosperity dry farming and a new airport Capt Hancock finances a 160 acre ranch and seven planes with best wishes to friends and readers.
Paul Sauerbry of Jefferson Township Oelwein receives the honorary title of lieutenant colonel on Gov John Hammills staff at the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting. He is praised as the states most honored club boy after five years of 4H work including outstanding dairy calf club, grain judging, and dairy judging accolades.
A lengthy dispute between John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Col Stewart over the Standard Oil Board chair continues with daily papers predicting weeks more of fighting and no immediate resolution.
Bess Stoehr returns from Cedar Rapids after visiting friend Georgia Elkema. Mr and Mrs Walter Miller and family of Buffalo Center drive here to visit Elgin and Clermont relatives through the week.
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