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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
1
The Elgin Echo Dial publication information notes a second class mail matter status entered September 1, 1891, at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa under the March 3 1682 act.
Advertising rates listed include readers line ten cents per line ten cents per word for classified ads three lines minimum thirty cents per week if accompanied by an order otherwise minimum charge applies blind ads or inquiries at zero cents per week minimum. Cards of Thanks memorial cards and resolutions of respect church notices and obituaries with admission charges follow regular rates.
A series of candidate announcements for Fayette County offices subject to Republican voters at the June 2, 1952 primary. Hazel Gehring state as county auditor. Hazel Gehring also noted as county treasurer with Knox. W M Knox as county clerk candidate. Herbert Klammer for state representative. Grant Lauer for county recorder. Odney Oelberg for county sheriff. Fred House for county supervisor. Fred W Gremmels and Robert Wilson listed for terms beginning Jan 2, 1953 and Jan 2, 1954 respectively.
Norman McCauley announces candidacy for county treasurer beginning January 2, 1953. He plans to seek the Republican voters in the primary on June 2 and encourages participation. Echo Want Ads offer a channel to sell surplus spring cleaning items like old cards.
A collage of local quips and anecdotes highlights spring cleanups, missing park benches, and donations. The piece blends humor about doctors, ministers, teachers, and workers with reflections on liberty, honesty, and everyday life in the community.
Mr and Mrs Ern Baechler of west of Elgin marked their silver wedding anniversary on Apr 30. About 100 relatives and friends gathered at their home Sunday evening May 1 to help celebrate this milestone with well filled baskets and warm memories.
Four young Elgin men T. J. Capper Charles Hassler George Taunt and Elliot Webb left town to find cheaper land in the west. Capper remains in Elgin while Webb lives in West Union. Roof shingles at Elgin Baptist church to be reshingled soon as old material weathers after twenty nine years. Elgin Red Cross sent $50 to the Mississippi valley flood relief fund to the parent chapter in West Union. Elgin church workers attended the Dubuque district Women’s Foreign Missionary Society convention in Fayette last week on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Celia Lehman was taken to the Postville hospital last Wednesday for medical treatment. Chas Gruver underwent lung surgery at Colonial hospital Rochester and his doctor expressed optimism in an early report. Alfred Kirkeberg dislocated his shoulder while working on his farm and was treated at home. Celia Lehman returned to Elgin on Monday and Mrs Mike Adrian was released from Iowa City hospital and moved to Crystal Lake.
After Mr. Adrian was released from Mercy hospital in Dubuque he may return home briefly before planned further surgery. Elmer Lembke of Hiyria underwent exploratory surgery on his left leg at Mercy hospital in Dubuque and remains a patient. Near Algona a son on the E M Huber farm recently fathered a litter of 18 pigs all alive. At Woden a ewe on the Jelle Troden farm birthed quadruplet lambs as spring arrives in Iowa.
A Belmond infant born March 7 weighed 24 ounces and now at one month old on April 7 weighs 38 ounces. The baby’s growth is noted as remarkable for the small early birth.
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