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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1935
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for Foreign Display Local Display Readers Classified and various notices. Rates include per inch per line per word with prepaid terms. In Memoriam and obituary poetry charged at regular rates. separate card details incomplete and inconsistent.
A May 30 1935 In Iowa page notes population density compares Iowa with Rhode Island and Nevada, cites Mason City as the first Iowa junior college link, and lists Iowa’s leading industry meat packing. It notes Burlington’s first brick house, endowments above two million at Cornell Mt Vernon and Grinnell, Osceola county’s peak at 1676 feet, Keokuk’s 494 foot low point, and Mason City as the world’s largest hollow tile producer supplying 35 percent of drain and building tile in Iowa.
Writer urges the new highway patrol to enforce dimming laws after a Sunday drive from West Union to Clermont where about half the drivers failed to dim their headlights, creating dangerous visibility.
The Sumner Gazette reports a new chain method started at West Point in Lea county where a man paid a five dollar bill to settle a debt and required the creditor to pass it on. In nine hours the bill changed hands 40 times settling about $200 in unpaid accounts, drawing enthusiastic support from local business men.
An Oelwein Register item reports a Decorah auto dealer ran a lengthy ad claiming he is “off the automobile code” and gave reasons. He says the auto code is dead and he will not “buy business” but will pay as a used car is worth, with prices sometimes above and sometimes below code prescriptions.
Lew Wallace declares direct charge of the state highway patrol. He says there will be no politics in selecting patrol men and that efficiency comes ahead of political pull. The statement aims to set a nonpartisan, merit based hiring standard.
The Memorial Day lineup includes songs like America The Blue and Gray and The Mother's Song with Miss Anderson Nellie Mattoon and Verle Kniel among performers. Obituaries note recent deaths of William Boyle Ole Feneke and Rebecca Craft, with other local social events and upcoming high school commencement details.
Des Moines columnists pick fifty women to form an ideal, naming Helen Nicklaus now Mrs Rex Stark for resourcefulness. Home folks approve. Noting absence of mention of the b w, the writer mocks impartiality while promoting Echo Want Ad sales.
A Fayette County Iowa official notice states the final report and petition for discharge of Elgin State Bank as administrator of Rose Reusser estate. It notes debts paid, except Elgin Echo claim barred by statute, and sets a hearing at 10 AM on June 6 1935 at the Court House in West Union. Objects must appear to oppose.
Fayette County Iowa notice of Gen. B Woodard administrator final accounting showing assets insufficient to pay debts and proposed classifications and payments to claim classes. Hearing set at West Union Court House June 6 1935 with opportunity to object. Attorney W H Antes notes bond exoneration. A closing quip about hair on a husband’s shoulder appears.
A special April 5 1936 meeting in Elgin Town resulted in dissolution of Elgin Savings Bank by over three fourths stockholder vote. Assets will be distributed to stockholders after all debts are paid. Officers Fred Reichert vice president and Samuel Mosby cashier approve.
Mrs H Mallwitz honored on her 79th birthday with an open house hosted by her daughter Mrs Will C Heitman. Friends presented gifts flowers and a large birthday cake as the family marked her Madison arrival in 1902 with four daughters and two sons in attendance.
Thirty or more slot machines seized in Allamakee county raids are being destroyed by Sheriff King. The machines contained $363.76. raid costs about $200 will be paid from the contents and the remaining balance goes to the school fund.
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