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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1938
Page
1
Circulation cards of thanks and in memoriam notices offered at regular advertising rates. Obituary poetry and resolutions of respect for church society and school notices are included with admission charged.
The Altavistan notes a local merchant who copies advertised specials from competitors after seeing them in papers. It calls such actions pigmy, an admission of inferiority, and a weak form of chasing leaders rather than showing initiative.
Safety advocates argue that car improvements outpace driver judgment. State highway groups push for safer roads while motorists still ignore pedestrian rights and pass on hills, curves, and crossings. The message: horsepower grows but horse sense must rise with it.
Do be sure your match is out break it in two before you throw away. Do be sure your campfire is out before you break camp. Do be certain your swimming is not done for about two hours after you eat. Do remember boats and canoes are dangerous not playthings. Do your wading up river against the current if you must wade. Do keep camp sanitary by burying garbage. Do air out blankets each day. Camp night air is attracted to wood. Do obtain permission to camp anywhere be it park privately owned land or camp site. Do find high ground to pitch your tent on and if on a slope dig a trench around the tent on the up side.
A concise reflection noting that experience remains after all else fades, preserving lessons, resilience, and practical wisdom gained through enduring challenges. It emphasizes the value of lived learning and steady judgment earned over years.
Monday morning Fred Miller caused a brief stir on Center street when his runaway horse team lifted him atop milk cans. Elgin Canning Co. workers paint the large warehouse. A Sunday Methodist service drew about three hundred along Elgin’s main street. Local corn fields look promising with tassels forming, notably across from the cemetery owned by Ben Schori & Sons. Young Frank Howard broke an arm while riding a pony after cattle. Ida and Hulda Schori visited from New Martinsville with cousin Anna Harmon. August Holzer departs for Austin Minn to begin a fireman run, weighing about 240 pounds. Mrs S W Rubger hosted the Auld Lang Syne Circle. A new daughter arrives to Mr and Mrs Palmer Bartholomew on the 19th. Dr H S Hadsel returned from New England trip, noting Cedar Rapids grain shipments. School addition work advances. excavation done and walls laid as carpenters and bricklayers prepare.
The First Baptist church ordered an Orgatron electronic organ from the Everett Piano Company of South Haven Michigan. The purchase was arranged by C M Belknap of the Davidson Co, with delivery planned for Wednesday the week of the signing. Dedication plans will be announced later.
Audubon Sorem Peterson reports his boys plowed corn beside the Nishnabotna River overflow and found five bullheads living in a puddle. They brought home a dinner of fat bullheads, the quarters growing cramped as they collected the fish.
Parker Orvis, 19, of Oelwein committed death by his own action Friday at his parents home. He was found hanging by a necktie in a bedroom by his wife. Despondency over unemployment believed to be a factor. Former CCC camp employee. Coroner R. Wood of Wadena said no inquest would be held.
A Collier’s Weekly note states snoring affects at least 15 million Americans as a chronic condition. It cites disruptions in the breathing apparatus and highlights foods that alter nasal membranes as an unusual direct cause.
Art Baltz of Postville builds a milking machine from a Ford V-8 part, a washing machine, hay carrier track, and wife’s fixtures. The device, powered by an electric motor, moves along a barn aisle, costing about 32 dollars and 18 cents and about forty rainy-day hours. Baltz plans improvements and potentially a patent after experiments.
Fayette county association of Legion Posts holds its regular July meeting at the Legion Home in Oelwein on Tuesday evening July 25. Ross Reid Post plans entertainment with dances vocal and instrumental selections. Dist Commander Harold Gaunitz of Lansing will attend and announce details of the state convention in Davenport August 8 9 and 10.
Cyril Murphy of Lansing, a garage owner, misplaced a $20 bill in a hayfield a year ago. James Ronan found the wallet while raking hay. mice had nibbled the edges but the bills remained intact. Murphy credits Ronan's honesty for the return of his money.
The Town State Safety Council warns harvest time brings new hazards on highways. Motorists should use added caution as horse drawn and tractor drawn farm implements appear in large numbers. Watch for bundle haulers during threshing and tall corn at corners and intersections. motorist vigilance is urged for the season.
The dangerous Ruck dashel corner at Postville on Highway 52 will be repaired by the town. A four foot section will be added and the highway widened ten feet at its widest point. Paving slope will switch from inside to outside to reduce accidents. The curve has caused numerous crashes in the past.
Paris France, one of the most recent pictures to have been made of Samuel Insull sr. the 79-year-old fallen utilities magnate. He died at the Paul Marmaton hospital in Paris after he collapsed on the street July 16. A heart attack ended Mr. Insull's career in which he made and lost countless millions. He came to Paris a few weeks ago on one of his frequent journeys abroad.
A collage of brief items includes heat danger advice after a man dies of heat prostration in McGregor, Morgenthau’s hint at higher income taxes, a Fort Des Moines shoe fitting trick with sand bags, New Canton bans shorts and halters, and a seven year veteran hobo's changing demeanor toward work for handouts.
Robert Boese of Postville was sentenced to three months in the county jail after pleading guilty to a charge of legal possession of intoxicating liquor in district court at Waukon before Judge T. H. Goheen. He was arrested by Marshall Elmer Lennon of Postville after being found with a gallon tin of alcohol.
The Czarevitch Alexis inherited a hemophilic tendency from his mother's family. The disease causes excessive bleeding from even minor wounds.
The annual Mork reunion took place Sunday July 10 at Wildwood park Charles City with a large crowd enjoying a picnic dinner. Attendees included numerous Mork families from Postville Elgin West Union Decorah Ostrander Clermont LeRoy Spring Valley Eagle Grove and other nearby towns. next year the reunion will be held on the same date with the location to be announced.
A Scriblets quip warns that a new craze called galloping teas could see a carload of guests dropping in on hostesses at any time. The rule requires serving whatever is on hand, with funds going to a designated church or group, and no shopping trips permitted.
Chicago physicians announced Saturday night that x ray treatments of Baby Helaine Colan who had her left eye removed to halt a usually fatal brain tumor had been discontinued. The baby had responded so well the treatments were stopped.
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