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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
1
The Elgin Echo Dial 3711 Elgin Iowa lists its second class mail status. It notes it is entered at the Elgin Fayette County post office under federal act of 1852.
A collage of cheeky snippets and witty jabs on manners politics and gender roles. Readers joke about overseas support fashions and a Centennial whisker club as townsfolk trade quips and cartoonish lines while debating civility and public life.
Milk supplier D Welch announces closing out sale on March 11 selling his dairy herd. Misses Hawkins Mosby Frieden and others toured Waterloo to see The Perfect Fool show. Meyer sisters ill at home. Crider family moving to West Elgin. Elgin Millinery Store opening with spring hats. Keiser travels for Mounds Park hospital in St Paul after visit home. Husberg to Granite Falls to manage uncle’s clothing store.
Louis Carle Popenhagen born May 30 1886 on a Windsor township Iowa farm died March 3 1949 at age 62 years 10 months and 2 days. He married Elsie Cline Dec 25 1907 and had six children. He worked as a buttermaker Amansas reformatory guard and at various farms and hatcheries before joining churches in Wa dena and Elgin. Funeral held at Methodist church in Coggan with Rev Bruce D Jones. burial in Elgin cemetery. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed among relatives.
The family expresses sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for sympathy and help after the death of a husband father and grandfather. Gratitude extended to Rev Bruce D Jones singers pianist flowers memory wreaths and organ music at St Pauls Methodist Church. Names include Mrs L Popenhagen Mr and Mrs Arthur Groth and Victor Mr and Mrs Walter Medberry DeWayne Roma Jean Bobby and Jerry.
State of Iowa Fayette County District Court to all whom it may concern. On the 71st day of March 1949 an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of E C Lien deceased will come on for hearing before the district court for admission to probate. Dated West Union Iowa March 1949 Herbert D Klammer Clerk By Catharyne Bemiss Deputy.
Creamery butter production shows a 15 to 20 percent increase over the prior year, but remains about 5 percent below the six year average.
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