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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1933
Page
7
The article details trilobite fossils in Mr. Becker’s collection including species such as Tsotelus Towensis and Nileus Vigilans. It describes body parts cephalon thorax and pygidium, collection locales near Clermont Rocky Dell and Cavanaugh’s land, and notes on specimen completeness and preservation.
The Kiwanis club proposes a ticket system for transients in McGregor. Transients must work for meals, receiving tickets from local officials. Businesses may honor tickets if desired, but those without cards should refuse aid. The plan seeks cooperation to reduce street solicitation while aiding the truly unemployed.
Neighbors celebrated Mrs Adolph Frederick's birthday with visits and a five hundred game on Wednesday July 19. Refreshments were shared in the afternoon from baskets brought by the ladies. attendees included Mrs Emil Larson Evelyn Nordhus Mrs Shaffer Mrs Henry Follett and many others plus Elizabeth and Shirley.
Farmers Savings Bank of Clermont held a meeting at Johnson's hall and voted overwhelmingly to accept a State Banking Plan for reorganization. The plan calls for a 60 percent stock assessment to supplement the trust fund, with 240 of 850 shares represented. By Tuesday 800 shares had already paid or arranged to pay assessments, aiming to resume normal banking by August 1. Local mentions include visits, funerals, picnics, and community notices.
Big lineup at Clermont features three bands plus vocal numbers readings and a 200 member chorus of 20 vocal girls with no admission charge for the whale family.
Highland and West Churches report English and Norwegian services. Y P S program planned with Herman Rolls home. Oberservations include Elgie Burt visits, Cedar Rapids and Oelwein visits, barber shop move, local residents' social events, porch building, growing St Theresa Study Club membership, ice cream social July 30, and community gatherings with guests from Clermont and McGregor.
The notice lists a Sunday evening program at the Herman Rolfs home on July 30 featuring musical selections choir readings a vocal solo and more including a monologue and saxophone solo followed by a play Mary Jane and the Census Man and an instrumental quartet. The community is invited to bring a pie for the church ice cream social. Local residents are mentioned: John Larson Mrs Lillian Larrabee Lucille and Helen Gross E H Dibble family Mrs E L Crowe and children Wayne Olson Be and Mrs L R Jones at McGregor and interest in Mr Becker collections with sons Bernard Hanson and Harold Vinton starting their own collections and receiving help from Mr Becker.
An Iowa Gazette piece quotes the Century of Progress celebration and condemns Capone and white collar crime. It notes local social mentions, funeral updates, and community notices from Sabula plus various residents’ activities and minor injuries, with hospital and church items.
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