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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1935
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for foreign and Leeds display per inch, readers per line, and classified per word with advance payment. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam are priced, along with resolutions of respect, church notices and obituary poetry at regular rates. Agency minimum and varied per-line or per-word charges noted.
A 1935 editorial selection urges newspapers to publish all local news despite requests to omit scandal or crime items. It argues editors do not create news, they print it, and readers subscribe for complete home coverage. The piece cites suggestion to sell by classified want ads and includes brief notes on financial reverses and tax figures.
Mrs Geo Stamp of Strawberry Point is a guest at the Ed Klingman home. Joseph Butler and wife have leased rooms over Finke's drug store to be at home soon. Lena Schneider went to Maple Grove sanitarium for treatment. Minneola Hawley leaves for Stockon to visit former friends. E A Weidel goes to Luana to assist Rudy Stoehr laid up with rheumatism. Glen Schori sick with scarlet fever. quarantine. Mrs Julia A Bush leaves for Waterloo to attend State Federation of Women’s Clubs as delegate. Birthday party at Wm Lewis home. Leslie Cooley leaves for Topeka to work as a stone mason. School board names Miss Anna Baldwin reelected primary teacher. C Then Schmid to Waterloo as Legion of Honor delegate for Grand Lodge. Dan Goetz family of Elgin visits Elkader. Knudtson ships butter to New York firm from Ossian. Ralph DeSart moving into Mrs Abbey house on Main Street.
The May 18 1995 Echo column notes readers discuss college athletic pictures stirring fatigue and a bathing suit joke for circulation. It lists visits by Miss Clara Miller and Metta Miller to uncle Benedict Miller in Flanders South Dakota and mentions Lee DeSart family Mrs John Wood and others visiting Franc DeSart. James Spraul and Albert Steeckman from North Freedom Wisconsin visited Rev and Mrs Steeckman. A. M. Weibel and family traveled to Postville then Guttenberg for relatives. A birth announced: a girl born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Dibble on May 16.
A Special Execution issued by the Fayette County District Court directs sale of the east 60 feet of lots 23 24 25 in block 2 Martin's Second Addition to Oelwein to satisfy a judgment in favor of E Woolway against Minnie B Tift. Sale set for June 8 1935 at 10 am in front of the West Union Court House yard.
At a special meeting in Elgin on April 6 1935 stockholders voted over three fourths to dissolve the bank and distribute assets to stockholders after debts are paid. The notice requests readers to tell them they saw it in The Echo.
Leo Samek of Postville is named manager of the state liquor store at Waukon with W L Hall as assistant. Also notes a Patman bonus bill could grant Iowa veterans over 41 million dollars, including Fayette and Clayton counties. A humorous aside mentions Ole Nagelatad’s college graduation photo.
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