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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1960
Page
4
For sale listing from Elgin Iowa describing Pauline Petratz home with living room dining room kitchen two bedrooms downstairs two upstairs bedrooms and large closet oil heat dry basement and good garage contact Mrs McNeill or Salome Miller 47c
Thank you to everyone who sent cards and gifts and for the visits while I was in Scholtz Hospital. Your thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated. Geo. Metzger.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Blockhus are parents of a son named Scott Wayne born July 4 at West Union Hospital.
Brainard notes list guests at the Marlene Wede Arden Greener wedding including Don Reeder Glenn Boyer and Lawrence Gehring with families. Various Sunday visits occur in West Union New Hampton Denver and Gilmore with local families named including Kohls Martin Dummermuth and Hansen. Edith Gehring serves a month of preceptorship with Dr Clyde Smith.
State tax drive uncovers over 106 million dollars in moneys and credits in Polk County, with 23 counties completed and remaining to 99. The tax rate is six dollars per thousand with the first five thousand exempt, and enforcement remains challenging as reports are inconsistent. Republicans hold their Des Moines convention this week as platform committee drafts planks.
The party's candidates will stand in the fall campaign amid a major issue at the convention: selecting a United States Senate candidate after no primary contender secured 35 percent of the total vote.
Elgin residents report a string of social calls and dinners. Harry Cline hosted Monday’s dinner with guests including Gerald Cline and Bobby Tow from Cedar Rapids and Martin Wenger family. Tuesday guests included Keith Ostrander and Wade and Todd of Winona Minnesota. Other calls involved DeVere Halverson, Richard Erickson of Wadena, Melvin Hanson and family, Doyle Baker hosts, and visitors from Sioux City Alpha and Dubuque with local families' social rounds continuing through the weekend.
The Schneider family reunion will be held Sunday July 31 at Clermont city park starting at 3 30 pm with an early picnic supper. If it rains the gathering moves to Elgin Legion hall.
Minneapolis visitors A J Lindberg and Walter Follett hosted guests while Arcadia resident Bob Hoke dined with Joe Wander. Harry Yauslin Wayne Durseher and Eg Lie Hitch visited Walter Martin Jr in Oelwein as Blanche Nesvik recuperates with a leg cast after a broken ankle over two months.
Court news lists transfers across Arlington pages with multiple deeds. Newton D A and wife transfer 33 and SW 85 lot to L J Newton. Myrtle and Frank Adams transfer NE one-half lot 64 to DeWayne Harris. Franis Dale Adams transfers NE one-half lot 64 to DeWayne Harris. Vance N Bates and wife transfer NE one-fourth lot 64 to DeWayne Harris. John W Finnegan and wife transfer SE one-fourth and NE one-fourth of 9957. Lyle L Olson and wife transfer Lot 17 block 121 Clermont. Marie Dorothy Stahl transfers to Mil-
Nelson and wife sell half lot 14 block 19 Clermont to Lantz and Maynard and wife. Elgin transfers to Carlton Krueger and wife lot 7 block 1. Hulberts Heating and Plumbing trade name. WED license issued to David Cousins and Wanda Lee Gage. Eugene Schori and Leleen Olson of Elgin listed. New car registrations show Barrack Arlington Chevrolet sedan and Alfred Bowers Arlington Ford coupe.
About 75 percent of electrical appliances are bought by people who did not plan to buy them at year start. Since 68 percent of American families read a newspaper daily, many purchases are sparked by newspaper ads.
Tim Berg, son of Mr and Mrs Mervin Berg of Rockwell City, was born with two teeth. Doctors say infants born with one tooth occur occasionally, but two is quite unusual.
A reflective line compares the inner voice of conscience to a portable transistor radio, implying modern distractions dilute personal moral guidance and inner monitoring.
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