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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1935
Page
5
Iowa State News and Views reflects on shifting public sentiment toward gambling laws, horse racing, lotteries, and pool selling, noting lax enforcement despite prohibitions. It also highlights historic Iowa figures and Kishkekosh County’s origins, and ends with news that Hugo Otopolik may train Czechoslovakia athletes for Berlin Games.
Six men arrived at Earl Kiple’s st hin farm with teams and cultivators and cultivated 30 acres of corn in a single day. The group included Fred Burton Otto Krueger Tofield Heck Will Krueger A B Jacobs Guy Probert and Mattie Zurbriggen who acted as chef for the day and earned praise for their help.
B J Baumgartner secretary of the Independent School District of Elgin releases the annual receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30 1935 and the school board issues its budget estimate and hearing date. The Echo notes ten year trends including bond costs and operating expenses with commentary on efficiency and teacher retention. Residents urged to study the report as the only legal accounting required currently.
Laura Miller Fayette will lead her best pupils in a Thursday night exhibition at the opera house after the band concert. The program includes tap ballet and kick dancing with Miss Miller featured. The group has wowed Wadena and Hawkeye crowds and will perform with the Little German Band at the park concert. admission to the exhibition is planned for next week.
Elgin merchants present a free to the public dog and pony circus on Monday evening July 15. Trained ponies and dogs perform athletic stunts and high diving for about an hour, drawing families from all ages, with stores kept open that night for visitors.
Fayette County 4 H C T A reports June results for a dairy herd. Average fat 30.9 lbs and milk 814 lbs per cow. Six cows were dry out of 306 cows on teat. Top cows include H N Turner’s Dot 69.4 fat and 1416 milk. R F Learn’s Marie 63.6 fat and 1272 milk. Eleven herds over 80 lbs fat, with primary producers C H Schrader & Sons and R F Learn among notable groups. Jersey and Guernsey entries noted with varying fat and milk yields.
Clermont earned a 5 to 4 victory over Elgin in a close game. The report lists dairy and dairy-breed results for Oamundson Finch Guerngeys and other Holstein and Jersey animals with fat and milk yields, followed by a schedule noting next Sunday matches: Lament at Elgin, Clermont at Wadena, Fayette at St. Lucas, Waucoma at Volga City.
Eva Lois Waters formerly of Elgin died Monday and funeral set at her Cedar Falls home today. Frances Skarshaug married C R Stone of Collins in a candle light service at St Pauls Methodist church with delphiniums and gladiolas in peach and blue. The couple will reside in Collins after a luncheon for forty four guests.
Emmet L. Morris, longtime Marquette superintendent, will head the Melrose Park schools in the Maywood Melrose Park Broadview district. He finishes his advanced degree at the State University of Iowa and starts Sept 1. Chas Kniel of West Union visited on business. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Keiser dined with Mrs. Emma Reusser.
Hargrave Construction Company of Cedar Rapids holds the contract to resurface primary 172 between here and Clermont. Oil equipment and crews arrived days ago with completion expected by the end of next week. The road will receive two more heavy oil coats similar to tarvia, topped with pea gravel to resemble asphalt. State engineer Mr. Fassbinder returns as inspector this year.
A July 1 report notes the House seizes on the Utilities Holding Company bill with a heated debate over the death sentence in the Senate bill. It contrasts Senate dissolution plans with House investigations, cites speeches by Hicher Huddleston and Wadsworth, and mentions lobbying accusations and voter letters amid the historic hearings.
An upstate New York congressman received 551 telegrams demanding a vote against the death sentence and said he would vote for it. The piece ponders whether a lawmaker should follow constituents or his own studied judgment. It notes hollyhocks blooming around the capitol and mentions the capitol’s cost and military appropriations.
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