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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is issued every Thursday by R P Strauch and filed in the Elgin post office as second class mail matter, Fayette County Iowa.
Circulation 1450 sale offers memorial cards at 1.00 each for In Memoriam and Resolutions of Respect issued by church society and school groups. Obituary poetry also available at regular advertising rates.
Harlan Miller of Rich's column praises Iowa editors for using a traveling Iowan who cashed a BR check with a subscription receipt. He recalls a Grand Lodge trip to Council Bluffs with four fellow Masons, notes Omaha as Nebraska's metropolis, and visits Boys Town near Omaha founded by Father Flanagan for homeless boys. The piece highlights Boys Town’s size, finances, and international renown generated by a film.
A columnist recalls the opportunity learning trades offers youth and praises Boys Town for equal opportunity and practical training. The Grand Lodge session is described as fraternal and insider oriented, with attendance required and seven hours daily. Familiar faces include Grand Sec Hunt and Grand Tyler Grayson as routines persist year after year. The writer favors home regions and notes a tonic effect from a few days away before returning home late Thursday.
Dr E J Gable wife and daughter of New Albin visited the S J Worley home last week before heading to Akron Ohio by auto. Local fishing notes claim T Rubyer and Chas Holzer posted strong catches, while Frane DeSart looms as a potential rival before season ends. Continued local arrivals and departures, store improvements, and railroad depot work frame a bustling week in the community. The Elgin High Alumni elected officers for the coming year chaired by Mrs Ed Hanson with Earl Greenley as vice president.
Serene Yack and Thos Desmond were married Sunday afternoon at four o'clock in a single ring ceremony performed by Rev. P F Zoschke at the bride’s home. Backgrounds of ferns and pink flowers, peonies and delphinium decorated. Attendants Mrs. Lantz and Leo Walthers. Mrs. Zoschke played piano and song "O Promise Me." The couple will reside in Oklahoma.
A transient identified as Burt Murray of St Paul was found dead on the Great Western tracks in Oelwein Saturday morning about four. He appeared to have been struck by a train with a crushed head. Sheriff Kutschat and Coroner Wood were summoned but no inquest was needed. Identification came from a social security card and belongings on the body. Want ads are used worldwide for the same reason they get results.
Senate File 333 changes the exemption filing deadline to July 3, 1941, for the 1941 tax payable in 1942. If already filed with the assessor no action needed. if not, file with the County Auditor by July 3. Application after that date not accepted. Also notes retirements and a rural mail carrier incident in Grinnell and Davis County.
Weekly report from W J Rogers abstract office lists transfers in Clermont and Wadena including Mabel C Knudson to Margaret Schinz for $1 with several lots in Thompson's and Add. Esther Raftis to Emma Elsheimer for $1. Martha Paulson to Joseph Brorby for $1. Perry Paulson and wife to Geo Paulson for $1. W M Knox to Jesse ox for $18.75. Marriage licenses issued for Ernest Baumgartner and Evelyn Bruil. Thomas Desmond and Serene Yack.
Last week three girls Viola Olrogge Marlys Loomis of Waverly and Phyllis Ducker of Bremer narrowly escaped injury when a two foot block of cement fell from a building in Waverly seconds after they walked beneath It appeared wind and rain loosened a marble railing above the sidewalk.
The rural upgrade continues as old wall telephones in farm homes around Parkersburg give way to dial operated phones signaling a march of rural progress and improved communication.
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