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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1948
Page
1
The soybean crop shows resilience across hot, wet, or dry weather conditions. Farmers monitor moisture and temperature to protect yields as conditions vary. Strong plants adapt to stress with careful irrigation and field management.
A Des Moines nightclub once run by Babe is now used as a club room by Alcoholics Anonymous. The section includes a mix of humorous vignettes, anecdotes, and brief notices about local life, with references to Leap Year chatter, gossip, and colorful local characters. The piece blends advertising fare with light social commentary and stray jokes.
Obituaries and social notes include the death of Fred Krueger at Postville Hospital on February 24 1948 age 61 with service at the Baptist church in Aplington burial in Elgin cemetery. Also notes on Margie Dennler university student taking a position in the admission office and birth of a son to Dr and Mrs Kenneth Heck of Cedar Rapids. Further social visits and dinners among Elgin Postville Clermont Elkader and surrounding families.
The Krieger and Steffens families express sincere thanks to relatives friends and neighbors for sympathy shown after a bereavement. They note flowers and many acts of kindness will be remembered. Amanda Anna and DeFrances Krieger Donald Steffens.
Elgin residents hosted and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Clarence and Beverly Muehl thaler joined Harry Johnson and Margie for a pot luck. Tillotsons visited in the Johnson home. DeSart and Wilson families shared meals at several homes. Other gatherings included Emma Olson visiting Farley, weekend travel to Waterville, and guests at Decorah and Freeport homes.
Mr and Mrs Ray Reierson of Clermont spent Sunday afternoon with Carl Torkelson. John Anderson hosted dinner for Lawrence Brayse and Kenneth Jensen near West Union. Caroline Bauman of Grand Junction Colorado writes of loving home news. Reiersons and Fascher guests visited G Pfister. Dale Jensen and Frank Greenley attended a Standard Oil meeting in Deliawen Coliseum. Beloit trip for Adolph Benson funeral drew several Clermont West Union and Independence residents.
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