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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
1
Admission to a church society event features poetry readings and a $1.00 charge. Proceeds support church activities as preparations for the evening unfold.
Iowa's accidental deaths in 1936 reached 1,877 with an average of five fatally injured daily. Home accidents totaled 802, 63 percent from falls, while conflagrations and burns caused 116 deaths. Motor vehicle fatalities included 216 from other vehicles and 169 from pedestrians, and agricultural accidents claimed 74 lives. Rail and building falls, plus drownings, also contributed to the toll.
The New Hampton Tribune urges town residents to back the local paper through advertising and patronage, stressing a healthy community depends on shared support. A cautionary note follows about a boy named Jimmy Jensen, eight, who found a dynamite cap and accidentally exploded it with a hammer, injuring his legs and arms.
The Elgin high school class, led by Harry Becker and others, graduated Friday night. An alumni reception followed Saturday at the Elgin Opera House. Upcoming trips include a B Y P A state meeting in Aplington and a Minnesota lakes trip. incidents include a broken right arm, a rattlesnake encounter, a lightning strike damage in Waterloo, and a 65 year old invalid injured in the Gruver home.
Flower care suggests plant gladiolus bulbs biweekly through late May. Use wood ashes on rose beds and around grape vines. Apply dusting for delphiniums phlox and hollyhocks every ten days. Use bord eaux sulphur or another proprietary remedy. Spray sweet peas injured by aphids with black leaf 40 or another nicotine preparation. Tobacco stems and cigar clippings are desired locally for soil mulch. Also a tragic line urges caution about Walter Falk, age four, in relation to a life-saving warning.
Sunday and properly observed the occasion by sharing ice cream with neighbors. Albert Kohler had a mishap Tuesday when his buggy wheel dropped into a cuck hole at Kern hill. He was thrown from the vehicle as the horses bolted in fright.
Attorney General ruling on the new Towa homestead tax reduction act states occupancy must be in good faith to qualify for benefits. It cites a farmer planning a shack with furniture while living elsewhere as not in good faith. The AG also assigns coroners’ jurisdiction for deaths across counties and mine accidents.
Mrs Della Palo and daughter Miss Wilson of Waterloo were weekend visitors at the John Schrug home. West Bend Journal reports Dr G J Chalice will leave June 19 for two months in England and Europe. He is a former West Union pastor and district superintendent. Edward Willenborg formerly of West Union and Helen Blake of Des Moines were married February 22, 1935 in Kansas City. They reside in Des Moines where Willenborg is a salesman. C R Carpenter of Fayette was among eighteen bankers honored at the fifty first annual bankers convention in Sioux City for fifty years in banking. J D Cooney former judge and now vice president of Wilson Company of Chicago visited West Union. he noted Mrs Cooney was on a Mediterranean cruise. Floyd Whitford son of Mr and Mrs Guy Whitford, a cadet at a military academy in Cheyenne Wyoming, is now on a hike to Chicago June 12 and will return to West Union for vacation.
The report states that consumer purchases totaled 62 billion dollars in 1936 with estimated taxes of 8.122 billion, a rate of 15.6 cents per dollar of expenditure. It notes most taxes are hidden, citing 25.8 cents of every rental dollar covering taxes.
An unidentified small green worm southeast of Fayette is damaging clover on four or five farms. The Herzman brothers report the worst damage as the worms briefly clear the ground. Samples were sent to Ames for identification.
A Penn Yan girl caught a two pound trout using her hands. A steer wandered onto a Minnesota highway near Eitzen and struck a car, killed for a broken leg. Damages were $125. A thief raided a Dubuque home, taking cash and a purse with false teeth.
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