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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1956
Page
2
Iowa State College researchers note many households still lack enough meat for top health, despite beef abundance and lower prices. Summer tips promote economical outdoor meals using beef, including beef and macaroni salad, inventive hamburger toppings, and beef kabobs for porch or picnic dining.
Elgin Iowa May 7 1956 council session at Town Hall with mayor and all councilmen present. Minutes approved. Bills audited and allowed in general fund waterworks fund utilities fund and public safety fund. Pay raise approved for incidental town labor to 15 per hour. Adjourned. VALEDICTORIANS note and a line on phenothiazine for roundworms.
Mrs. Clarence Amundson welcomes a daughter weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces born Friday June 1 at Postville Hospital. Russell Miller of Park Ridge Alabama is the father of Wendy Lynn born May 14. Mrs. Miller is Lorraine Westpfahl of Clermont.
Karen Schroeder underwent an appendectomy at Decorah hospital Wednesday morning. Alvin Amundson and wife visited his mother Ela Amundson, hospitalized in Decorah after a stroke. Lena Peters returned home from Postville hospital after five and a half weeks, much improved. Geo Frieden received emergency surgery at Decorah hospital Friday night and is progressing well. Mrs Cyril Zweibohmer seeks treatments at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City.
Local residents hosted guests from Oakdale Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Des Moines over Memorial Day weekend and a wedding in Oelwein. 4-H club members attended Fayette rally with full attendance and uniform. Obituary noted Louis Cline with funeral services held at the Presbyterian church.
Obituaries for Louis Lorenzo Cline and William Arthur Fox appear with burial in the Wadena cemetery. Cline born near Wadena in 1902, worked in Colorado Springs and Oregon, died May 19 in Long Creek, Oregon. Fox born 1884 near Wadena, died May 22 at 71, survived by three children and siblings. Other notices list Everett McTaggart, Harold Kinkade, and Ronald Livingston visiting. Leigh Erickson to attend Boys State at Camp Dodge. Clarence Dreger family visiting Waterloo relatives.
First Baptist Church schedules Vacation Bible School Monday to Friday at 9:00 a.m. A WM A gathering is Thursday 2:00 p.m. at Mrs. Clara Krueger's Clermont home with a 7:45 p.m. program and 9:00 p.m. choir practice. Sunday June 10 features Morning Worship at 10:00 a.m. Founder's Sunday service at 11:00 a.m. and Gospel Hour at 8:00 p.m. Monday June 11 ends with a box social at 8:00 p.m. hosted by C. B. Y.
W. M. Knox Fayette County Treasurer's Semi annual financial report details cash assets, deposits, capital accounts, and liabilities, plus tax and license receipts and disbursements for the period ending May 31, 1956, with sworn certification and notary seal. The document lists bank statements, asset values, and total accounted funds, noting sources such as taxes, licenses, and state transfers.
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