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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1948
Page
1
A historical postal notice from Elgin Iowa indicates second class mail status and a dated act. It references Fayette County and the 1852 act governing mail classification and processing.
Advertising rates listed per inch and per line for display and local display. Classified payable in advance with a 25 cent minimum per insertion. No agency commission. Cards of Thanks and Memorial Cards priced at 1.00 above ten lines. Resolutions of Respect and obituary poetry follow regular advertising rates.
Elgin community notes report a banquet at the Baptist church next Monday evening with the Ladies Aid serving meals. Members may bring a guest. all is prepared for a large gathering. Local births, visits, and health notes are also listed among routine community items.
A few days with his son Otis at Ameés includes Geo. Neuenschwander traveling from Castalia on Tuesday to visit his sisters Mia, while Albert Schori and Mrs. George Lehman are noted residents sharing in local social ties.
Notice to Elgin qualified electors of the Town Hall election on Monday March 28 1946 polls 8am to 8pm officers to be elected mayor five councilmen one treasurer six year park commissioner two year terms complete ticket filed candidates G H Falk mayor Sheldon Boyle D O Dean Lawrence Muehlethaler Chas O Neill Leo Schori councilmen Max Thoma treasurer A F Lehman park commissioner nomination papers available from town clerk R E Kohler
Real estate transfers include Covaf House contracts with Schari Albert and spouses to Louis Sutter and spouse for 1400 covering lots in Elgin and other parcels in 1494-7 due 1958. Millard C. Larson and Joseph L. to Lyle Mabb for Lot 156 and more. Mabel A Dill to P J Anderson and wife for 2000 includes multiple lots in Conner's Add Lutra now part of Elgin. Marriage licenses show James E Thomas and Beverly Stone of Oelwein and Hillman Chapman with Virginia Lockard of Wadena. Rolls notes Katie R to Raymond Steffans for 1 and E1-2 SE and BE 1-4 SW SE 32-95-7 and E1-2 NE 5-94-7.
A large semi trailer carrying 14 horses veered into a ditch east of Grinnell after colliding with a panel truck. Five horses were killed or injured to the point of destruction, prompting emergency response and investigation.
Funeral services for Fred G. Gehring were held at Muehie thaler funeral home and St. Paul’s Methodist church on Tuesday afternoon with burial in Elgin cemetery. Rev. Bruce D. Jones presided. nephews Richard, Carl, Lester, Will Gehring, and Leon and Clifton Holzer served as casket bearers. Gehring died Saturday at Postville hospital after two weeks’ illness, long hip injury from a February 1947 fall. He was born March 25, 1867, in Illyria township, Fayette County, Iowa, and lived in Elgin since 1898, marrying Alta Webb in 1901. they had daughter Hazel and son Charlie. He leaves Alta Gehring, Hazel, Charlie, grandson Jack Gehring, granddaughter Janice Arveson, brother E. E. Gehring, Wade na, and many nieces and friends.
Acknowledging kindness shown to the family during the extended illness death and burial of our husband and father. Gratitude for sympathy flowers and other acts over the past year from Mrs Alta Gehring Hazel and Charlies.
A regular Marion Busy Bees 4-H meeting was held at Clarine Olson's home on Wednesday March 10. Eight members, two visitors and one leader attended as officers were installed by Selina Olson. Demonstrations covered a takeable cereal, baking powder biscuits, and ice cream sundaes. County Youth Assistant Al Bentley spoke on the year’s program and supervised recreation. The group recited the 4-H pledge and pledged allegiance before lunch. The April meeting will be at Dona Gilbertson’s home.
Ten year old Bernard Robinson of Storm Lake sank in thawing mud while delivering papers in an open field. He cried out. neighbor Ole Oleson heard and found him up to his knees in the bog after about an hour. Local call for help noted in want ads.
In March 1948 the Red Cross appeals nationwide to support its flood, fire, and disaster relief efforts. Local drives are under way with G. H. Falk leading Elgin, and Mrs. Everett Crowe directing Clermont, urging residents to return membership contributions promptly. The message emphasizes a five to ten fold return in human welfare per dollar and cites President Truman’s praise of Red Cross service.
Iowa veterans show rapid move into steady work with only about one in fifty unemployed and drawing readjustment allowances. In early March 1948 five thousand nine hundred forty unemployed Iowa veterans received weekly twenty dollar readjustment payments totaling one hundred thirty seven thousand eight hundred ninety dollars.
Farmers in a 75000 acre Maquoketa river watershed spanning Delaware Clayton Fayette and Buchanan counties will join an intensified soil conservation program. County Farm Bureaus Extension Service Soil Conservation Service and district commissioners collaborate with W K Webster to provide planning field work and demonstrations on crop rotations liming fertilizers pasture and erosion control.
In 1928 Bishop Thomas Megan left Eldora Iowa for service overseas in the China mission field. His visit to his mother Mrs Anna Megan of Eldora was his first return home in 22 years.
Town records show 1847 fire losses at 8.297 million dollars, the highest since 1931 when the Spencer fire caused 1.2 million in damage. The 1931 total reached 8.585 million. Fighting Fox. George Grunhova of near Scarville freed a stuck mule from mud, then fought a fox after it appeared, finally knocking it out with a blow to the head.
Arlo Mork, 24, was hospitalized Sunday with facial and hand burns from a Saturday fire at his father Ahet Mork’s farm north of West Union. The blaze started in a hog house and spread to a corn crib where his car was kept. Two Poland China hogs, general pigs, and a quantity of corn were lost.
A compact reflection on debt as an easy entry to trouble and the difficulty of exit, paired with a harsh view of traditional child welfare work once conducted in the woodshed.
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