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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1924
Page
4
IlLyrlia community members are listed as ill or visiting relatives, with numerous social calls in Cheery Valley West Union and Elgin. The Illyria church notes report Sunday school and church services, guests, entertainments, and local visits, including funerals and school absences due to colds.
Odd local notices list names of residents visiting and calling at various homes around the area. Several individuals are mentioned by first and last names, with rooms and days referenced, including Mrs A Rurodan Mrs Jake Detinlir and Mrs Ben Dender. The report notes illness among Gladys Habstin and mentions family visits and social calls during the week.
Oscar Nyborg and Emock Mork visited in Elgin and at parental homes on Sunday. Dozens of residents including Mrs. Harohkt Opsand Mrs. Eéwin Olson and families hosted and visited through the week. A Marion church service is set for Sunday at 2:30 PM.
Catheribea Bishop and others visited Elgin and Sumner places this weekend. Marion Tripp Cedar Rapids Winslow George Tripp family hosts. Mr and Mrs Jim Bartlett with Roland Bartlett visited Pete Miller. Mrs Ed Boyle visited daughter near Sumner. Harry Burnside of Priest River Oregon dies. funeral details and housing burned for Mervin Brown family.
Dog license tags must be obtained promptly to avoid delinquency penalties. Fees are 1.00 for male or spayed dogs and 2.00 for females. County Auditor J. H. Cline issues the notice. Lehman's Hardware and Successful broxler stoves are listed in the notice.
Residents of Clermont report a loud blast Saturday evening near the Osage area. Some say it was a meteor, others a dynamite charge. Local writers suspect a search will locate the explosion site, with many claiming the boiler plant at the power station failed.
The board opened bids for steel and culvert contracts for the Clinton Bridge works and the Klotscher Manufact uring Co. culvert project. All bids were rejected as under the engineer's estimates, with construction to proceed by day labor under County Engineer Finch. The county notes substantial savings over past permanent projects and signals ongoing cost cutting.
A fragmentary poem riffs on tongue twisters and mispronounced words. It muses on how spoken language and spelling collide, with playful lines about swimming, milk, nails, and forgotten items. The piece toys with sound changes and lively mispronunciations.
Notice to qualified electors of Elwin Iowa that a town election will be held Monday March 31. Polls open 3 a m to 7 p m at Town Hall. Offices to be elected include Mayor, five Councilmen, Assessor and Treasurer. F W Hughes listed as Mayor.
For sale several thousand feet of good native lumber at Bargain prices. This will be a straight sale, no haggling. S. A. Smith reports the items available. Clermont Legion members held a business meeting with a large turnout of over a hundred citizens. Four suggestions for Clermont’s betterment were discussed and indicate activity for 1924. Hay measurement guidance provided: multiply length by height in yards, divide by 15 for well packed hay, by 14 for shallow or loose hay. The result equals tons in the mow.
George M Graham president of the Qhandiep Motor Gut TM Co addressed the tenth annual conference of Highway engineers at Ann Arbor University. He called for safer roads through five steps: remove danger drivers, enforce penalties on careless operators, build driver education, give schools safety training, and conduct thorough traffic analysis to update regulations.
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