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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1931
Page
1
Rates list for Foreign and Local Display per inch and Readers per line, as well as Classified per word with advance payment. Includes Cards of Thanks Be In Memoriam Resolutions of Respect church society and school notices with admission charged and obituary poetry at regular advertising rates.
A reader letter in the Iowa Falls Citizen questions the high annual salaries of university leaders at the University of Iowa and Ame, urging the public to question long term payrolls amid broader economic concerns. Other notes report Mrs. J F Schricker and daughter HuWa attending a surprise birthday at Henry Yack’s near Randalia, with 36 guests. Walter H Besll announcing a Guttenberg arrival meeting on Friday May 8. Upper Iowa senior day set for May in Guttenberg. and Hawkeye planning a June 11 annual farmers picnic with committees at work.
Quick repulse wants ads note an upcoming sacred cantata at Elgin Baptist Church on Sunday May 10 at 8 pm. The item also mentions local residents and brief personal notices about Middleton, Capper hatchery, and shipping calves to Arkansas, plus a chimney fire at Mrs Martha Chapman’s Highland home and ongoing farm department activity.
Obituary notes the sudden death of Mrs. Andrew W. Lynch at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Huron S D born Edith Christ in Elgin Iowa, wife of A W Lynch. they had two children Edith Rose and William Andrew. Survived by sisters Mra George White Mra M W Hemingway Mra B F Manthey and Mrs Frank Bell and brothers John Christ Will Christ and Cliff Christ Funeral held at the Catholic church in Huron with High Mass. Mrs Lynch active in Catholic Ladies Circle and church work.
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