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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1954
Page
4
An insurance notice promotes a new polio policy covering the entire family at up to 10000 per person for 18 dollars for two years, double prior benefits and five dollars cheaper than before, with eight other diseases included. Single persons pay nine dollars. Agent R. P. Strauch urges inquiries by dialing 714 in Elgin, Iowa.
To Whom It May Concern notice is given that on the 2nd day of August 1954 an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of melvin d anderson late of Fayette County deceased will come for hearing before the district court for admission to probate dated west union iowa july 2 1954 herbert d klammer clerk
The administrator of the estate of Eliza Habeger, deceased, is appointed by Fayette County District Court. Creditors must present claims legally authenticated for allowance. debtors should pay the administrator, Abe Habeger, with attorney C. W. Antes of West Union, Iowa, by July 1954.
Des Moines area politics headline coverage notes a GOP convention planned for Friday. It also reports on William P. Housel, a Democrat appointee, and audits claiming he worked only two days a week on a $5,000 yearly salary. Democratic chair Jake More defends Housel and cites a Beardsley precedent set by Leo Hoegh. An Iowa election cost ruling prompts seeking an attorney general opinion.
The secretary of state noted about 20 candidates, mostly for state legislative posts, who have not filed primary expense reports as required. Two notices were sent advising on expenses law, with penalties up to 500 dollars fine or a year in jail if reports remain unfiled within 30 days after the primary.
Elgin locals report Sunday visits with the Willie Thorsgaard family near Volga and the Walter Andrea home near Arlington. Guests at the H. H. Wolf home for dinner included Robert Kohler and Louise Schori. Additional gatherings feature the Veasey and Delhi households and travels of the Hogan party from Park Ridge UL to Elkheart Lake Wisconsin with stops in Delwein and at the Boyle and Miller households.
Mrs Lucy Robinson and daughter of Claghorn spent Monday to Thursday visiting relatives here. Mrs Helen Phillips, Mr and Mrs Harry Middagh of Pittsburg PA, and Verner Blake were Tuesday guests in the Ray Kelly home at Strawberry Point. The Kenneth Spencer family of Cedar Falls spent the weekend with Leroy Shan. Mrs Frieda Etter and daughter of Elgin, John Etter of California, and Lawrence Etter of West Union dined with the Clark Hummel family Sunday, joined by Mr and Mrs Bill Berger and daughter. The Middaghs left for Pittsburg after vacationing with Werner Blake. Carol Reynolds April Kieholtz Nancy Moats and Helen Philips were Sunday dinner guests in the era Robinson home. Roy Candee and Verne Nus and son left Sunday for Niagara.
Don Clute Fayette County Mutual Insurance Assn notes Farm Safety Week July 25 31 is observed locally statewide and nationally. Theme Farm To Live and Live to Farm highlights 391 Iowa farm accident deaths last year and over sixty tractor deaths. Eisenhower proclaimed farming the most hazardous major industry and cited a disabling injury every 26 seconds, urging caution to cut avoidable farm deaths.
A tombstone toppled in the Lutheran cemetery at Denison pinning 72 year old Gus Arnold while he was clipping grass. He freed himself and crawled a block to his car, suffering a broken leg.
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