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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1947
Page
1
Public notice records second class mail and postmark details under the Act of March in Fayette Iowa. The fragment indicates a filing or mailing status with references to Elgin and a state area, but specifics are unreadable.
Advertising rates list foreign display and local display per inch, readers per line, and classified word charges with prepayment minimums. Includes agency commission note, cards of thanks and in memory cards at regular rates, and limited memorial resolutions or church poetry items.
Elgin residents praise Rich’s Pipe Dr\u00e9ams as the graduating class stages its own commencement, with fewer speakers and more home talent likely in future shows. A college professor reports a slot machine study showing 2067 plays or $246.70 to win a $6.70 jackpot. A renter eyeing farms notes long tenancy and urges early connections for better farm contracts. The burglar alarm at Elgin State Bank sounded for about half an hour last Thursday evening, but few people reacted.
A scattered village record blends odd anecdotes with local color. An alarm mishap during a bankers’ meeting reveals indifferent authorities. A mother visits a golf course near the state insane asylum, and a neighbor jokes about “crazy people out in the pasture.” Small-town chatter covers a post office visit, a predicted Aunt Jenny card, and candor as a virtue. Other items note a May wedding at the groom’s parents’ home, a stock sale to Schori firm, and school hires and medical trips.
At a Tuesday American Legion post meeting and among local citizens it was decided Elgin will hold a traditional Fourth of July celebration this year. Committees for various preparations were formed to organize events and activities.
The note recalls memories from old timers asking about door titles above Chic Sales canning factory, a locked man at whistle time, who released a woman, Bryant's buggy atop a brewery, girls taking rides in the buggy, oil street lamps by the white church, a crow that spoke, a high dive from the river pier on a bicycle, Fourth of July anvil blasts, the first cement sidewalk, and a lady who trained children for Christmas cantatas at the small white Methodist church. Readers are invited to send in questions to stump the editors.
Ida Pringle DeSart died May 20 1947 at Elgin Iowa aged 85 born Akron moved Clermont at seven married W Francis DeSart January 11 1879 in Elgin four children Roy Ralph Roy Florence live in Elgin Calif death followed long life in Elgin with ten years in Sonoma Calif funeral May 24 at Muehliethaler with Rev Bruce D Jones music by ladies quartet burial Elgin cemetery extensive survivors listed.
Public health nurse Flossie McBride will start a two to three part program to locate new TB cases. The first phase involves canvassing exposed individuals, followed by tuberculin skin tests and X rays for positive reactors. The survey is funded jointly by the Fayette County Tuberculosis Association and the State Health Department.
George Washington Tripp of West Union dies at 91 after long service as a Sunday school teacher. He leaves two sons Clarence and Zita, a granddaughter and great granddaughter, with funeral at Brainard Baptist Church conducted by Rev. G. W. Ukena. He was married to Sersh Martin in 1820 and joined the Christian Church of Brainard in 1697.
A new class featuring a pen of five market lambs will be open to sheep raisers this summer at the Iowa State Fair. The addition aims to showcase top stock and encourage exhibitor participation at the annual event.
The twentieth annual Soil Management and Land Valuation Short Course will be held on the Iowa State College campus June 3 and 4. R M Visquain directs the program with topics on land price trends crop rotation soil test limits erosion control and the economics of soil management. Keynote speakers include Aaron Nelson Farm Credit Administration Omaha and P W Manson Minnesota State on drainage practices. The two day event aims to aid rural appraisers farm managers and others involved in farming.
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