Elgin Iowa Council Passes Ordinance No 171
The Elgin Iowa town council met in special session on June 16 1937 with Mayor H F Becker and councilmen Muehlethaler Yenney Sohori Torkelson and Falk. Ordinance No 171 was read and passed on first reading after suspending the rules. Mayor declared it duly passed and adopted, then adjourned.
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Elgin
Iowa
H. F. Becker
Muehlethaler
Yenney
Sohori
Torkelson
Falk
C. J. Harrington
Ordinance Establishes Pleasant Street Sidewalk Grade
An ordinance of Elgin Iowa sets the grade for a sidewalk on the south side of Pleasant Street from Clermont to Mill. It details elevations, stake positions, and the unbroken fall of the grade from Fremont to Mill Street, dated June 14 1987 and adopted June 16 1937.
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Pleasant Street
Clermont
Mill Street
Elgin
Iowa
Pleasant, Street
N. W
Lot 14
Block 5
J. J. Snyder
Pleasant’ Street
Clermont Street
Center Street
Clermont and
Fremont Street
Pleasant St
Henry Topp
Cook - Falk Alley
R. Bird - Houg
Torkelson Alley
Jacobs - Torkelson Alley
Fremont
Mill Streets
Fremount
H. F. Becker
C. J. Harrington
August Benson Obituary From Highland Township Farm Founder
August Benson a long time Highland township resident and Deacon of Highland Lutheran church died suddenly Tuesday evening June 15 at age eighty one years nine months and ten days. Born in Goteborg Sweden on August 5 1855 he was the last surviving of twelve in his family. He immigrated in 1876 lived in Fredonia New York for eight years then moved to Clayton County Iowa in 1884 where he bought and developed a prized farm. He married Sarah Elizabeth Jakobi on November 20 1884. she died June five years ago leaving five children. One child Mrs Hilma Erickson already preceded him.
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August Benson
Highland Township
Clayton County
Mr. Benson
Highland Lutheran Church
Goteberg
Sweden
Fredonia
New York
Iowa
Sarah Elizabeth Jakobi
Hilma Erickson
Ill and visiting: Elgin locals and relatives gather
Elgin residents report illnesses including Mrs. Clarence Boleyn with scarlet fever and several mumps cases among Betty Schori Lauretta Gilson Barbara Crider and Bertha Casper. Relatives from Cedar Falls Madison S D La Crosse and Clermont visit for family events and funeral attendances.
Echo Office Typewriter Pads At Bargain Price
A town paper note lists small items and social updates from Elkader Elgin Waterloo Strawberry Point Marion Wells Faribault and Cedar Rapids. The column records visits reunions and family gatherings plus general remarks on local gardeners and a surge in strikes nationwide totaling 2323 in seven months.
Mill Owners Mutual Insurance Proposal Promotes Coverage Scope
Current Dividend Rate is 25 percent. The Mill Owners Mutual writes Fire Windstorm Explosion Riot Civil Commotion Business Interruption and other allied lines of insurance on desirable losses of dwelling mercantile manufacturing and public property. Well qualified agents in 42 states and Canada.
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Mutual
States
Canada
Wompi Cavern Opens as New Scenic Attraction
Five hundred visitors attended the Sunday opening of Wompi Cavern on Otto Mielke farm between Mc Gregor and Monona. The cavern drops 225 feet below with electric lighting and stalactites clustered along the ceiling. Gerald Mielke, Leo Mielke, and Paul Jones developed the site, naming it Wompi from the Winnebago Indian word meaning something dark and deep.
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Wompi
Otto Mielke
McGregor
Monona
Gerald
Leo Mielke
Paul Jones
Insect Poison From Roots Cube Definition
Insect Poison From Roots Cube is a plant whose roots yield a high percentage of a poison used in the manufacture of insecticides. Chas Busse, 60, of Rowley, was killed Sunday when he slipped and fell 100 feet at Pike's Peak at McGregor. Town spent a million dollars on its primary roads during May. Most of it went for construction and about one fifth for maintenance, Martin Nelson and H. E. Lands gard of Clermont, drove through here Monday noon on their way to the 4th district Legion convention at Elkader. They said they expected a number of others from their town to attend the evening session. The United Conference of Mayors frowns upon local communities paying 40 per cent of WPA project costs, liable to do so. They want Uncle Sam to pay the bill. Apparently they never heard of Theodora Roosevelt who said: "I'll pick a man up, but I'll be damned if I'll carry him." Nolan Bros of Minneapolis are scheduled to start work on highway 13 on July 1. They will surface this highway with stabilized base from the paving junction south of Waukon to the Yellow River bridge north of Marquette. The job is expected to last 100 days and 76 men will be employed.
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Uncle Sam
Theodora Roosevelt
Nolan Bros
Minneapolis
Minn
Waukon
Yellow River
Marquette
Explaining Newspapers Through A Childs Essay
A young girl describes newspapers as sheets of paper with reading material. She jokes about editors, noting that the editor is the distant concept tied to biblical figures and floods. She quips editors belong to churches, grow whiskers, or do not attend school, and suggests editors lack a formal schooling.
First portrayal of the wild turkey by Titian R. Peale
The wild turkey was first depicted by Titian R. Peale, youngest son of a colonial painter, in Bona parte's American Ornithology in 1825. Audubon’s Birds of America lacks any plates of the bird.
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Titian R. Peale
Bonaparte
Audubon
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