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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
3
Clermont Enterprise shows weekly publication in Clermont Iowa with Elizabeth Priest as local editor and member of Iowa Press Association. It is entered as second class mail matter at the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa.
Fred Biermann notes the New Hampshire contest between Roy and Jenks ended in June 1938 with Roy sworn in and Jenks deemed never to have been a member. Jenks exits to cheers as Roy draws two years' salary. commentary on petition-driven legislation and a reference to a tax exemption bill by Congressman Harrington.
Feorrisgira praises fuel from farm products including corn potatoes and tomatoes. The piece highlights a tax exemption to promote farm fuel use and notes G Lyons of Cresco leaving Washington for home and references Kinzer and Joe T. Robinson. It mentions Sy Manuel’s death and Fred Biermann’s note on Congress and Hawkeye trailer houses amid paving delays.
An anecdote contrasts American police with Jugoslavian traffic officials who deflate a speeder's tires at the curb instead of issuing tickets. The piece cautions drivers to slow at red lights and avoid rushing through signals, praising caution and safety.
Darlene Olson, Camille Norlie, Bea McNeil, and many others visited friends and relatives around Postville Clermont and neighboring towns through Wednesday to Monday. A Golden wedding honor for Mr and Mrs Ole Thorson drew a large crowd at Eastchurch as guests shared meals and memories with local families.
The weather bureau notes record rainfall in May, over five inches, the first since 1918. Orville Paige, ill for months near West Union, attends church for the first time. Ossie Orwell, Decorah ex pitcher now with the state highway commission, remains sharp, winning four starts for Harpers Ferry with no hits or walks against Lansing. A robin family at Postville Lumber Co. earns a cigar box nest, with two fledglings born and feeding underway.
A fragment from the North wood Anchor notes a writer formerly a newspaper editor, Rowland, still shaping verse to please readers. A Memphis phone bill lists calls to Gov. White, Jackson Miss, and Gov. Browning in Nashville. Eight-year-old Earl Luten explains he simply wanted to talk to them.
Nahant Massachusetts witnessed the No 1 wedding of 1938 as Mr and Mrs John Roosevelt wed in the century old Nahant church last Saturday. The reception followed at the Nahant Club with the couple’s parents present including Mrs F Haven Clark the bride’s widowed mother and President and Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt.
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