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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1962
Page
3
A busy roster of local residents gathered for picnics dinners and visits. Families including Nelson Swensons Olsons Shiptons Shiptons and Welners traveled between Clermont Decorah and surrounding towns for July events and birthday meals. Community members extended thanks for winnings and shared travel notes from Ardmore Hot Springs and Norway trips.
Mrs. M. H. Moore entertained at a 6:30 dinner at Bettys Cafe Monday evening with guest Mrs. Kate Hitch. After dinner the group moved to the M. H. Moore home for the bridge meeting. Mrs. Franz Appelman won high score and Mrs. M. H. Moore was second.
Volga firemen responded Wednesday afternoon to a fire in a hayfield at the Melvin Gregerson farm. Several acres burned but no serious damage reported. Volga Cooperative Creamery adds 37 by 50 foot cement block addition for trucks bulk milk tanks and equipment storage.
Ray Zwanziger suffered a leg injury Friday while baling hay on his farm being crushed between a load of hay and the baler. Dennis Kraus of Cedar Rapids, visiting relatives, is recovering from a prior motorcycle accident. Local residents attended church events and visited family members across the area, including Dale Crandall from Haywood, Calif., visiting Estella Puffett and Bill Crandall, and Betty Moore of Missouri.
Residents and visitors are listed with dinner and social calls across Cedar Falls Oelwein and surrounding towns. Names include Helen Phillips Ethel Probert Mildred Shambaugh Ruth Roys Cindy Kattmeyer Lela Maser Frank Oldfather Kuht Jr Micky Powell Tripp Chase Edere Oldfather Baker Roeder Jellings Tenney Follon Hall Farm Adams Moats Jennings Oldfather Hummel Bushkofsky Beck Polkow and others. A June wind storm caused property damage and local painting and moving activities are noted.
At the merchants cash drawing on June 27, listed winners include Tressa Robinson $10.00 Kenney Weber $10.00 Connie Heidermand $5.00 Richard Hein $1.00 Ricky Klingman $1.00 Paul Boenish $1.00 Cheryl Gamm $1.00 Lloyd Chappel $1.00. Absentees Tressa Robinson and Lloyd Chappell had the withheld amount added to the Tuesday drawing on July 3. Mr and Mrs Frank Oldfather visited Geo Oldfather Sunday. Mrs Richard Wheeler assisted in Arlington variety store Saturday. Selmer Olson family moved back to town from Reid Dillon farm. Fred Gernand and Clyde Wenger families summering in Fairbanks Alaska report 70 to 75 degrees and 22 hours daylight daily.
Raymond Kuehl of the Strawberry Point School District was named superintendent of the newly formed Starmont district for the 1982-83 year. He has served as Strawberry Point superintendent for seven years. Donald Hoth, current Lamont superintendent, was named business manager and will teach German and oversee the Lamont attendance center. Orville Oldfather becomes assistant superintendent overseeing the Arlington attendance center and teaching two French classes. Lee Roy Scheffler will be board secretary. The Starmont board meets July 9 for the annual meeting and July 12 for a follow up session.
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A preliminary meeting date of July 16 has been set to discuss the settlement of assets and liabilities for the Stor mont school district across 22 districts, focusing on the 1962 43 budget.
Two Guernsey cows owned by a McGregor farmer were killed during a storm when lightning struck a tree they stood beneath. The bolt ripped a bark strip from the tree. Nearby, Waverly resident Lester Drestler showed giant garden berries, including a six inch circumference strawberry.
Eye injury to eleven year old Craig Lim ing of Janesville led to three eye operations in four days. A colt weighing about twenty pounds at birth was born near Emmetsburg at Fred A. Brown’s farm, one of fifty three ponies raised as a hobby on the property.
For the second year in a row, Jefferson gardener Mrs Gilbert Flonman reports early summer harvests producing new potatoes. Several spuds split open revealing bright red inner potatoes, with last year’s harvest noted for containing seven new potatoes inside a single tuber.
After June 21 growers should ensure their ayers receive at least 15 to 14 hours of light daily using artificial lights. Time clocks control the lighting to maintain extended photoperiods for crop growth.
The County Conference Board of Fayette County Iowa will meet July 24 1962 at 10 00 A M at Supervisors office Court House Taxpayers will be heard for or against the following analysis of expenditures for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1962 Assessment expense 17364 28851 28130 35834 3275 400 32169 Taxable valuation subject to county city assessor levy for year 196% 55 654 000
The Town Council of Clermont in Fayette County Iowa will meet on Monday July 23 1982 at 8 00 p m at Town Hall. Taxpayers may be heard for or against the estimate of expenditures for the year beginning January 1 1963 A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements past and anticipated will be available at the hearing.
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