05 Mar 1936
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
1
Local editor Kathryn J. Strauch is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office records as second class mail matter.
Advertising rates shown for memorials and notices. Cards of Thanks and in memoriam cards priced at $1.00. Resolutions of Respect and church, society, and school notices with admission charged, and obituary poetry all at regular rates.
Bruce Catton reflects on how an Alaska hermit who left civilization in 1901 would perceive modern United States and world affairs. He notes shifts from anti trust to AAA era, rail subsidies, and imperial reticence abroad, comparing old and new political currents and leadership.
A broad critique across Europe decries fear and intelligence as delaying humanity. It argues unemployment, stagnant business, and unequal distribution hinder progress. Nations fund wars, arms, and ships while essential needs for food, shelter, and comforts remain unmet.
A quotation notes a speaker’s view that growth hinges on proper labor distribution and the right use of machinery. It stresses the need for intelligence to apply resources toward a long envisioned objective, attributed to a Graphic source in Lake Mills Iowa.
Ethel Albright studies new millinery styles in St Paul Minnesota and purchases spring stock. Casper Schneider’s remains laid to rest in Elgin cemetery. Lyon Pomona California hosts a funeral service for a German Baptist chore. A twenty fifth wedding anniversary causes a surprise at the Freiburghaus home. L C A ladies quilt project advances funds. Lena Hofer Maud Conner move millinery business from town to Calmar. Dr John McKellar visits from Chicago and may relocate west. Elsie Bruce completes Palmer Business College and Florence joins Coe College. March brings lionlike weather with snow and cold. A M Weibel family plans Hooper Nebraska move. William Brown gains possession of Hotel Dewey after papers. R F Berg buys Pinney property on Main. Roy Bakeman visits from Huron South Dakota.
A reflective piece cites Dacon saying a wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. It contrasts seizing present chances with creating future openings and suggests initiative in applying oneself leads to greater prospects.
The Lanark Illinois Gazette a Republican weekly says it will treat Republicans and Democrats alike before the April primaries. It notes a flood of campaign propaganda but will refuse free publicity and urges paid advertising for revenue. It calls for reciprocity with local churches judges and societies for job work.
State highway commission awarded two major contracts in Maretty county on No 18 crossing Milwaukee tracks two miles northwest of Hawkeye. A. H. Lowe of Cedar Rapids won grading for 0.8 mile at 13714 dollars. A Olson Construction Co. of Waterloo won building the overpass and two culverts at 16516 dollars. The projects renew hope for timely paving of the cross state highway.
West Union WPA engineer Harry Bevers visited Guttenberg Monday to move 20 workers from Millville to clear streets here. He said the transfer is temporary and allows payment for work rather than idle time.
A peculiar weekly story centers on a Chinese taxi driver who presents a customer with a cryptic monthly bill reading Ten comes Ten goss at 50 cents a went, totaling dollars, leaving readers puzzled by the odd arithmetic and wording.
Midwest One Way Streets Tyler Texas claims the widest one way thoroughfare in the state near a courthouse boundary. An exchange remarks on a dollar as the day’s work price, a drink, a tool of moral power, and a fickle possession, noting its paradox as blessing and curse.
Jeanette Lindaman joined a trip to Cedar Falls then returned to Aplington for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Jackwitz of Chicago visited her mother Mrs. Nels Helms. John F. Miller of Clermont and Rev. Paul F. Zoschke drove to Mt. Vernon to hear Toyohiko Kagawa at Cornell College. Mrs. Arthur Friederich was discharged from West Union hospital and moved to the Sam Lehman home for care.
Mr and Mrs Howard Shaffer and daughter Wanda Lou and Mr and Mrs Forest Shaffer were dinner guests Sunday at J M Shaffer home for the elder Shaffer birthday anniversary. New Gordon Hats at Bergs.
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