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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
1
R. P. Strauch is recorded as entered in the Elgin Fayette County Iowa post office as second class mail matter, confirming classification for mailing and address handling under postal rules.
Rich's column mounts a sentimental ode to small town life and includes quips from Clermont about gowns at a banquet and a WWI veteran wedding tale. It also features Edgar Guest verse, a Lost Friend vignette, and satirical lines on auto maps for nudist camps and today’s courting manners, reflecting 1940 small-town life.
A string of humorous items, editorials, and local notices from the Sumner Gazette includes quips on honesty in business, social missteps, and jokes about grammar. It mentions residents of Sumner and nearby towns, engagements, weddings, and civic happenings such as church ceremonies, commencements, and street projects, with names like Becker, Muehlenthaler, Freiburghaus, and DeSart.
Friday evening Elgin High School closed the year with exercises in the opera house. The class of 1910 included Miss Flossie Capper Miss Ruth Nicklaus Harold Stoehr Elmer M Hoag Clare Cunn ingham Alfred Cook and Robert Earle. The alumni meeting was Saturday night June 11 with a beautified venue and Carpenter's harp orchestra for music.
Public health nurse Miss M Cruft leads a Fayette County tuberculosis survey to uncover unknown cases. The effort builds on last year's work, targets intimate contacts of TB cases, and offers examinations through family physicians. The Fayette County Medical Society and Christmas Seal Committee cooperate with the State Health Department and Iowa Tuberculosis Association in this program.
Transfers filed from W J Rogers abstract office list Fred Gernand to Elizabeth Kohler WD 1 Ls 5 and 6 Block 4 North Side Add Wadena Elgin State Bank to Edith Bauman WD 1 L 12 Block 5 Elgin Howard Mason Adm to Lillian Lockard Adm D 125 Ls 180 and 181 Harriman s Add to Wadena Citizens State Bank Elgin to Max Thoma Trustee WD 1 NW NW and W 7 8 SW NW 27 94 7
Mrs. Sheldon Boyle has been ill this week and bedridden. Ella Warton returned home Monday from Cornell College Mt Vernon where she fulfilled school duties. She will spend the summer with her parents Rev J C Warton and Mrs Warton.
Mrs H W Kruse and sons Robert and Jon from Park Ridge Illinois and Nora Olson of Detroit joined C J Olson and family in Park Ridge for a visit. Louise Marie Baumgartner traveled to Cedar Rapids by bus and then underwent her second eye operation. Her parents followed to Cedar Rapids, driving in after. Wadena residents Cile Dyke Harold Morris Clarence Drager and families Leo Herriman and daughter joined Mr and Mrs Keith Monnahan plus Isaac Monnahan and Keith Maynard, Mrs Walter Pritchard and children, and Herbert Miller and family at the Sam Boleyn home to help celebrate Boleyns 79th birthday last Thursday.
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