Elgin Iowa News Briefs and Local School Year Close
Elgin highlights include calendar events from May activities at the high school with senior skip day baccalaureate services and the final week of exams. The Decorah Vikings beat Clermont-Elgin 2 to 0 in district baseball, ending Elgin’s season at 27 3, with details on players and postgame reflections.
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Elgin Lutheran Church
Decorah
Decorah Vikings
Clermont-Elgin
Calmar
Tigers
Howard Kitterson
Tiger
Viking
Gary Gilson
Elliott Olson
Vikings
Stan
Jim Stanley Shaffer
James Schaer
Wadena
Elgin High
Wadena Riverside
Llyria
Jim Schaer
E.H. S
Jim
Elgin Baptist Church
CBY
Veishea seniors enjoy trip and homecoming desk decorations
Seniors returned to a surprise by juniors with desks crepe paper decorated. Seniors’ six car caravan left at 5 am Friday from the schoolhouse. Chaperones included Mrs Crider Mrs Mitts Mrs Wolf Mrs Krueger Mrs Wenger and Mr Zurbriggen. Culture and activities featured band practice speeches and sports updates.
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Veishea
Crider
Mitts
Mre, Wolf
Krueger
Wenger
Zurbrigzgen
Gunder
Stan Wenger
Clermont Junior High
Keith
Marlene
H. S
Cheery Valley 4-H Member Shares Hobbies
A Cheery Valley 4-H Club member describes summer interests. The speaker enjoys swimming on the second of the month and collects matchbooks as a hobby, noting membership in the Cheery Valley Pioneers 4-H Club.
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Cheery Valley Pioneers
Notice Resolution For Destruction Of Noxious Weeds
Fayette County Iowa Board orders landowners to destroy noxious weeds by specified dates in 1956, with groups for different weed types and penalties for noncompliance. Weed destruction program to be overseen by the Weed Commissioner, notice published in official newspapers. Hazel Gehring, County Auditor.
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Board of Supervisors
Fayette County
Iowa
Hazel Gehring
Oil royalties pledged to Upper Iowa University
Mr and Mrs C W Colgrove of Hollywood California assign oil royalties to Upper Iowa University. They expect more than 2.5 million dollars over 20 years and have already provided 250 thousand dollars for the Coilgrove Walker Memorial building under construction. They pledged 100 thousand dollars for increased construction costs and for furnishings and equipment. Colgrove notes the estimate rests on eight years of field performance and engineering appraisals. Colgrove was born at West Union and is a Minnesota University graduate.
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C. W. Colgrove
Hollywood Calif
Upper Iowa University
Eugene E. Garbee
W. H. Antes
University Board of Trustees
Colgrove
Coilgrove-Walker Memorial
Garbes
West Union
Fayette
University of Minnesota
Royalty Income Spent on Operations and Student Aid
The text states that royalty income shall be allocated to operating costs, funding new buildings, and establishing a student loan fund. The measures imply financial support for infrastructure and student access, directing revenues toward institutional needs and aid programs.
Fayette County Board Adopts Highway Improvement Resolutions
The Fayette County Board of Supervisors adopts several road projects for Farm to Market funds and state highway support. Resolutions authorize county auditor notices to certain residents to prevent legal settlements, plus multiple project plans with locations, lengths, costs, and stabilized surfaces across Bremer and Fayette counties.
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Cary Williams
Homer Lee
Carl Belsch
H Sanborn
John Hoehne
Gran
Carmiz
Doakas Pahmer
Frank Smith
McIntyies
Oran Cemetery
Buch' 2Ran County
Oelwein
Helene Brown
Greene County
Gelwein
Earnest Scheler
Black Bank County
Betty Jean Rodrigues
Lian County
Lamont
John Nuehring
Dubuque County
Waucoma
Board of Supervisors
Fayette County
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Robert Wilson
Col Vail
Cheirman
Raye
State Aghway Commission
Moe
Oran
Robert Wilton
S. W. Cor
Ford
F. S&s
Bremer County
N. W. Corner Bee
Board of Supervisore
Annual T B Meeting of County Association Held at Fayette Bank
The executive committee met Monday evening May 7 at the Fayette bank to chart plans for the coming year. They aim to contact all public and parish school adult personnel. Attendees from here included Mrs R D Fox and Mrs H G Streigit and Mrs Arbie Schroeder.
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County
T. B. Association
Fayette Bank
Mirs. R. D. Fox
H. G. Streigit
Arbie Schroeder
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Youngberg
Sharon Seago
John Seagos
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Tiger Tales
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Elgin Oil Company
Hobert Wilson
T. B. Meeting
First Baptist Church
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