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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1929
Page
7
Friday and Sunday visits fill Clermont activity as neighbors drop in from Mason City, Iowa City, Elkader, and Waterloo. Local residents Farewell Madeline Brinken to Rockford. Hjalmar Meckelson’s fall injury sidelines at home. clerical staff at Clermont exchange keep steady shift patterns.
Memorial Day program begins at 10 AM in the Clermont high school gymnasium with call to order invocations songs and address by local figures. Procession to the cemetery includes color guards band firing squad veterans flower girls and citizens amid community notices and local visits.
School District No 3 reports May perfect spellers Albert Kohls and Maxine Westcott. Eugene Westcott missed three words all year. Whole school attended May attendance, five yearly absences, one tardy. Fourth and fifth grades mapped Salt Levee and Iowa. Clermont school exhibit and program attended. Eugene Westcott birthday picnic May 16. Health posters by fourth and fifth grades. May 26 school picnic largely attended by parents. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Richard Crowe Kellogg Idaho and Mr and Mrs Arthur Dibble Spokane Wash. Approximately 70 attendance. William Burrow honored for perfect year. De Frances Dibble teacher. Subscribe offers for local papers and a reminder to vote next Tuesday.
The Fayette county Historical society organized Friday at West Union named Mrs. William Larrabee Sr of Clermont as president E R Ballard of West Union as vice president L G Meyer of West Union as secretary and John Jamison of Oelwein as treasurer A governing committee includes D M Parker Fay ette Henry Lauer Eldorado Frank Camp Walter H Beall and John D Shaffer to plan the organization The collection aims to preserve Fayette county relics and records from early times to the present and will be kept in a locked room in the new court house under L G Meyer custody.
My and Mrs Emil Halverson of Chisago City Minnesota came Tuesday and are visiting relatives here. Mr and Mrs Merritt Burt of Castalia and Mr and Mrs Harvey Buddenburg of Waukon were dinner guests of the Ed Burt family Sunday. In the afternoon the H W Buddenburg and C J Burt families also visited with them.
A mass meeting at the Fayette County Courthouse gathered about 100 residents to form a Road Issue election outreach committee. Members include Victor Perry, E M Hoag, W P Lauer, J M Smittle, H R Young, and others from multiple townships. The county also let the Wadena Arlington gravel contract to A R Hewitt with work to start by June 20 and finish by August 15. A county Historical Society plan was announced May 24 to collect relics, with court house basement space granted for exhibits and loanable historical articles from across Fayette County.
Judge H E Taylor presided in Waukon last Thursday over criminal matters. Roy O Connor pleaded guilty in Oelwein Superior Court, fined 300 and three months in jail. Bootlegger Dude Damon pled guilty and received 300 fine and three months hard labor. Anna M Brennan, 58, was granted a divorce from J H Brennan, 76, on cruelty grounds, married in 1887 in South Dakota. One license issued to William P Kanner of Minneapolis and Helen Frances Robbins of Oelwein. The Elgin Echo sold sales books from McCasky and Crosby-Wirth lines at competitive prices.
East Church holds divine service with Holy Communion at 11 oclock. Luther League meets at 8 p m. Mission Society hosts Friday with Mrs Nele Helgerson, Mrs Helgerson and Mrs George Hanson as hostesses. West Church offers English service at 9 45 a m. Pastor G Gunster attends. Irene and Lawrence Horan, De Frances Dibble, Louise Amundson and Mr and Mrs Melvin Olson were Oelwein visitors last Saturday.
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