Insurance warnings and local notices in Echo column
Community notices warn about fire insurance and trash dangers, urging coverage. Local agent R P Strauch of Mill Owners Mutual and Farmers Mutual promotes insurance and mentions the Avalon theater tickets. Also selling land, plants, tickets, found theater tickets, and reports on Iowa road revenues, school grants, WWII bonus appeals, and public notices from the Town World War II bonus board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. P. Strauch
Mill Owners Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Des Moines
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
Fayette County
R. P. Straueh
Middletown
Burlington
Buffalo Township
Davenport
West Independent
Department of Public Instruction
Bettendorf
Ankeny
Altoona
Danville
Council Proceedings Elgin Iowa April 2 1951
Elgin Iowa council met in regular session at town hall with mayor and all councilmen present. Minutes approved. Bills audited and allowed including salaries for mayor, councilmen, treasurer, and labor, plus repairs and supplies. Numerous entries list payments to Kohls, Butikofer, Schweinefus, Pfister, Falk & Sons, and others, with tax, insurance, and utility costs noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Iowa
Dean
O’neill
Muehlethaler
Schori
W. P. Kohls
Fred E. Butikofer
Henry Schweinefus
Gottfried Pfister
L. C. Muehrethaler
Chas. O'Neill
Leo L. Sehori
Max Thoma
Internal Revenue
Iowa Old Age Survivor Insurance System
Max R. E. Kohler
Mareh
Alfred Ruckdaschel
Gehring Hardware
Governor Signs Many New Measures in Liquor Commission Battle
SU reports George Scott of West Union, a member of the Liquor Commission, will serve until July 1 and remains an outspoken critic of the state administration. He pushes to hire a comptroller, a move opposed after a prior comptroller was fired. despite recommendations from interim and legislative committees, the motion failed for lack of a second at a commission meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Scott
West Union
Hquor
Beardsley
Scott
Commission
Commisson
Elmer Drees
Drees
Liquor Commission
Iing
Benson Couple Mark 50th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs August Benson celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary today after forty four years in Elgin. Most of their children joined the festivities Saturday May twenty two as neighbors and friends note the silver anniversary of Mr and Mrs Henry Holzer nearby south of Elgin. The Baptist youth group gathered at Edwin Krueger home on May twenty five with Karl Miller elected president and other officers slated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Benson
Elgin
Henry Holzer
Edwin Krueger
Karl Miller
Witty Odds and Ends From a Tiny Town
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about forgetful professors, a new father with triplets, a cowboy at a drive in, and a joke about marriage. The items mix mild irony with everyday mishaps and a poke at stubborn pride.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Falb & Light
Dia
John
Falb
Franz Appelman
Clermont
Eeho
Avalon Theater
The
Elgin Echo, Stationers, Ee Tfp
Otto Blockhus
Marion
Bolson
Clermont Cooperative
Iowa City
Elgin Produce
Sohn Deere
Falth & Light
Dial
Elgin. Rae
E.“Howard
Echo
Avalontheater
Will Christen
Coleman Hosta McDonald
Town
Marvin Flack
Moi
Torkeison
Echo Office
Harold Grimmo
H. W. Falb
John Deere
Dial 3181
Bae Sommes Eee
Don
Louis Sutter
Lacre Oy Bale
Alvin Halverson
George Metzger
Maynard Lantz
Ray Klingman
Ers
Arthur Gcurn
Russell Swift
Ey Commission
Eanee Durether
Ubrarian
Royal Halleolk
Anhor
Cerieia
Glen Schor
University
Ot Commerce
Des
Moines
WHO
Orpheum
Clem "Schmid
Hans Friederich
Ray DeSart
Naiages
Brockway
Aes Union
Wadena
G. W. Alderson Orvin Th
Ompson
Kenneth Baldwin
Council Proceedings
D. O. Dean
Interstate Power Co
State of
Gales
R. E. Kohler
HEROT
John Tillotson
Aining
Arning
Tuifiena
Tips
GrePrio
Nawmiaacr Dja
Merrill Olson Gunder
George Christensen
John Kleppé
Packers
West Union Auction Exch
Orvin Thompson
George Schatz
Jira
Niles
Mgr
Dugan
Mac
Sorfle
Mark Don Ewe
Elgin - Cooperative
Teor
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