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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1945
Page
1
The column notes readers complained when a piece was missing from its usual Echo spot and explains Tad allowed the Broadcaster to stay in place one more week. It also recounts local events including a toppled elm on Center street, revealing it aged about 90 rings.
Elgin High School’s Tattler covers weeks of practice for Fayette festival numbers led by Miss Smith groups. It profiles beloved Miss Crowe turning 78, with career of 60 years teaching English history and economics and a wish for a European tour. Also notes modern word quiz, tournament mishaps, cheerleader antics, and season basketball stats.
STATE OF IOWA Fayette County NOTICE To Susanna Gordon Ellen R McGreevy Thomas McGreevy Katherine Priest Will Evans Max Evans and A J Priest Administrator of the estate of Patrick McGreevy deceased There is now on file in the Clerk of the District Court Fayette County Iowa the final report of Ellen R McGreevy administratrix of Dan McGreevy deceased showing no property for distribution and asking discharge The hearing will be at the Court House West Union Iowa at ten oclock A M on April 5 1945 Objections must be filed at that time with the court Attorneys for Administratrix An tes An tes West Union Iowa. Sie
State of Iowa Fayette County district court in West Union will hear an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of J A Boleyn for admission to probate. Dated March 24 1945 Herbert D Klammer clerk Phyllis Wittenburg deputy.
News notes from the March 25 Echo column recount business display changes by Lehman, travels by Mrs. Hughes to Chicago, Sam Yost’s return after four weeks with a leg fracture, Hanson and Christ visiting Cedar Rapids, a church wedding of Louisa Butikofer and Edward Metzger, moves to Wisconsin, and other brief items including a sculptor joke and a prompt to use want ads.
Sunrise service at St. Pauls Lutheran Postville begins 6:00 AM with the combined senior and junior choirs of seventy voices and seven soloists, organ numbers, and a sermon Springtime in the Soul by the pastor. An organ recital at 6:45 by Mrs. F Ludwig precedes the service followed by the annual congregational Eastern breakfast in the Fellowship Hall.
Joseph Adam Boleyn son of Thomas and Barbara Mary Anne Boleyn was born June 6 1887 in Fayette county. He died March 19 1945 at age 77 years 9 months 13 days after long illness. He was the youngest of eleven children and survived by many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church with burial in Virgin Cemetery.
Ben Schneider returned Friday from the Lutheran hospital at La Crosse Wisconsin where he had made a return visit He is much better now and hopes it wont be necessary for any return engagements
A humorous dialogue contrasts a woman's claim of shopping with a man's boast of fishing. The exchange hinges on the idea that both exaggerate activity without outcomes, reflecting light social banter about everyday errands and hobbies.
Dorothy Peterman was granted a divorce from Archie W. Peterman for cruel and inhuman treatment. She receives household goods furniture musical instruments and personal belongings and may remarry after the statutory period. Hop date not specified. Frank Child to supervise Hop reporting biweekly.
A higher bid for real estate involved in Russell D. Thompson et al v E H McMasters was received by the court. Referee Leon R. Layton was ordered to return the down payment of the previous top bidder.
A textile note explains moths attack fabrics differently from wool, stating that even all rayon dresses or salt treated fabrics resemble wool to moths and remain susceptible, while cotton garments are not inherently protected.
A 1944 Iowa Poll survey shows Victory Gardeners canned 44,600,000 quarts of home grown vegetables. Using August 1944 OPA prices, vegetables would fetch 28 cents per quart, valuing canning at 16,152,250 dollars. City and town canning totals and per family figures illustrate widespread garden activity nationwide.
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