Local Echo notices and community news highlights
Classifieds offer 10 cent per line Want Ad rates with a quarterly minimum. Summer courses in Linotype at Newspaper Production Lab in Iowa City. Free theater tickets offered to John Helium for a show at Avalon on June 28. Multiple short notes recap Elgin area social visits, trips, and family events with numerous names and towns including Elkader Estherville Postville West Union Manchester Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Ames.
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Iowa City
John Helium
Echo
Avalon Theater
Bootlegging Fireworks Shown Up By Child Letter
A Iowa legislator debates legalizing pistol cap sales and a boy’s letter highlights bootlegging underage youths. The piece argues actions speak louder than words and warns that parental evasions of law undermine respect for legality, even as families celebrate Independence Day with fireworks.
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Canada
Iowa
Brainard News Social Visits and church program
Mr and Mrs Herman Boyer and Stanley and Willis Lyon planned Friday visit to relatives in Wisconsin and Lan sing. Fred Barker of East Dubuque stayed overnight at the Dan Craft home. Mr and Mrs Keith Monnohan and family of Waterloo dined with the Walter Pritchard family. The Wm Nutting family of West Union visited Mrs Chloa Lyon and she returned home with them for several days. Mrs Glen Holmes of Donnan hosted Brainard Ladies Aid at her home. Bible School closed Friday evening with a church program. Mrs Louie Heins and her son of Postville visited Roger Reeder Sunday afternoon.
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Allen Habeger
B. Schori
John Falk
Elkader
Selma Schneider
Gerald Schneider
Postville
Louis Obye
Estherville
Lorence Muehlethaler
Barbara Muehlethaler
Obye
Edna Nelson
Nancy
Kenneth Evans
Clinton
Gus Krueger
Grace Evans
Janette
Jeanette Krueger
Evans
L. D. Hitch
West Union
Frank Greenley
Robert Kohler
David
de Vere Halverson
J. l. Anderson
John Tillotson
Ruth
Harry Johnson
Hampton
Erma Smith
Clarence Jacobson
Galt
G. J. Mosby
Carol
Paul Watters
Harold
Emil Moore
Leonard Moore
Robert Moore
Willy Koden
Werner Moore
Herman Boyer
Stanley
Willis Lyon
Wisconsin
Lansing
Til
Fred Barker
East Dubuque
Dan Craft
Mra
Keith Monnohan
Waterloo
Walter Pritchard
Wm. Nutting
Chloa Lyon
New Cars Registered for Emery and Mildred Dummer
Emery and Mildred Dummer of Elgin register a Chevrolet four door sedan.
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Emery and
Mildred Dummermuth
Elgin
Chevrolet
Corn yields may drop if not planted within window
Iowa State College tests over five years show corn yields could fall by as much as 10 bushels per acre if planting does not occur within a month after the regular dates. The study highlights the importance of timely planting for maximizing yield potential.
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Iowa State College
Sailor Age Limit Question Prompted by Husband Suit
The Broadcaster notes Suzzie asks about sailor age limits while Lizzie quips that any age is the limit. The dialogue continues with a feisty comparison to a husband kept in hot water until hard-boiled as a courtroom-like scene unfolds with a wife presented as evidence on grounds of poor eyesight.
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Suzzie
Lizzie
Tion
Britt Flyers Attend Three Flying Breakfasts in Iowa
Three Britt residents took part in a local event called flying breakfasts this past Sunday visiting Boone Clarion and Spencer. They started at Boone at 6 30 a m then ate in Clarion at 8 00 and finished in Spencer at 9 16.
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Boone
Clarion
Spencer
Ring Lost Then Recovered From Load of Corn
H A Anderson of Hawarden stood by as shelled corn was loaded and later unloaded. A diamond ring slipped from his finger during loading and was found in the corn after about half had been unloaded, when the truck contents passed through a wire screen.
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H. A. Anderson
Hawarden
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Franz Appelman
Mary Skarshaug
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Farley
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Sunset Bay Resort
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Arthur Lantz
Emil Frieden
Melvin Clark
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Jack Gehring
Alice Dahl
Lawrence Anderson
Lester Martin
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Mike Adrian
Mrs. Adrian
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Martin Wenger
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Albert Schupbach
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Robert Seileman and Son
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Kenneth Baldwin
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