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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1956
Page
4
Two small ads from Elgin: 70 feeder pigs about seven weeks old for sale by Carlyle Kirkeberg, Elgin, priced 39 cents. Also cabbage and tomato plants for sale by Mrs George Menjzger, Elgin, phone 3633, pricing 39 to 41 cents.
Wadena News reports a birthday party held Wednesday afternoon at a Wadena home with guests from West Union Elgin Arlington Fay ette Volga and Mary Wadena. Cards provided entertainment. The local school closed with a noon picnic and large crowd. Graduation exercises featured Stuart Sears of Waterloo, Elwood Rubens valedictorian Patricia Jones salutatorian. Ruth Hall of Waterloo visited Flossie Voshell. Mr and Mrs Francis Baldwin welcomed a daughter born Thursday at Oelwein hospital. Mrs Robert Whittenbaugh hosted a dinner party at West Union the last 1956 meeting of her club with a short meeting and theater attendance. Guests included Morris Klingman Don Leonhart Tom Sniffin Joseph Ficken Arthur Herrling Kenneth Baldwin Francis Baldwin and Lyle Kuhens.
Mrs. D. O. Dean visited Guttenberg with Mrs. Mary Bailey while Mrs. John Kiple of Dubuque joined. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cooper of Canton Ohio stayed with the Norriss Cop per family. Clyde Wenger and Debby were weekend guests of the Gernands in Volga. Mrs. E G Steinman aids her ill brother-in-law Merle Trousdale in Durant as Upper Town University music department staged a recital by students from Daryl Hanson’s classes.
Sunday afternoon at Zinita B Graf Hall a piano solo by Mareia Wolf was followed by a coffee. Mrs Wolf attended. The Sam Howard family of Alpha were dinner guests in the Ed Boleyn home. Karl Meinhard and family traveled to Cedar Falls for an ISTC honor convocation where daughter Donna is among the honorees. Donna Meinhard of ISTC Cedar Falls visited home. The Fourth grade Iowa history class and Clyde Wenger toured Effigy Mounds on a Tuesday trip. Elgin High mixed chorus and chaperones Karl Meinhard and Leo Giether enjoyed a Backbone State Park picnic and an evening movie. Judy Nus of Arlington visits the Wengers this week. The Wahonka Camp Fire Girls hosted skating party events with wind instruments and Johnsion.
State tax officials sought guidance and the attorney general’s opinion upholds a tax commission regulation. A husband and wife filing jointly are entitled by law to only one standard deduction, affecting state income tax filings.
Iowa state highway commission moves to grow right-of-way grass into hay to aid farmers. Gov Leo Hoegh urged use of surplus hay to supplement drought-stricken crops, with an estimated potential yield of about 16,000 tons.
The Veterans Administration reports that over the last two years the typical GI homebuyer was 32 years old with a monthly income of 494 dollars. The average purchaser paid about 11,800 dollars for the home.
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