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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1935
Page
2
The article details a Wadena parade with floats and a seven o clock dinner at the Presbyterian church for about ninety three alumni and students. It notes float prizes, a junior ball game, and a klittenball win by the high school girls. A baseball win for Wadena at Clermont is also reported.
Brainard Items Axalia Nutting spent last Thursday and Friday in the Levi Learn home and attended the school picnic at Pleasant Hill school taught by Laura Learn. Visits to Clarence Tripp and Frank Lyon homes occurred Sunday. Mrs Glen Boyer had her tonsils removed at Oelwein hospital last week. Rev and Mrs G A Thomas were dinner guests in the Herman Boyer home. Mr and Mrs John Barnhouse and Robert Grover were supper guests in the Sidney Nutting home. The Don Gummings children have measles but are improving. Robert Grover of Elgin is visiting his sister Mrs John Barnhouse. Cecil Tripp was home after visiting Barker family for three weeks.
Wadena fans expect a pitchers duel Sunday at the Wadene diamond with Fayette’s Shorty Thomas facing Wadena’s ace Everett Acke. The small town club has a strong attack and locals anticipate a test of Little Eight strength after the game.
A mixed local column blends a poem in memory of anol der with questions to a dream maker and memories of home, measles jokes, fishing, radio quirks, a baccalaureate attraction, humorous exchanges, and short snapshots of townsfolk at work and leisure amid summer farming in a western town.
E R Ballard custodian of the state park near West Union became the first to dip in the new lake under construction. He slipped on the runway edge as water gates were closed, struck his head on a rock, and was pulled from the water by workmen. A physician stapled two stitches over a right temple wound. Ballard was dazed but unharmed beyond the scare.
A medicine peddler from Anamosa named Five coats was challenged by a Cascade pharmacist and admitted he had no license. He remains jailed in Dubuque County, according to the Cascade Pioneer report.
Judge H E Taylor arrived forty minutes late to open court after a furnace fire at his WaukOn home. He wore burned lower face and bandaged wrists with singed hair and eyebrows as attendees wondered about the cause. The incident occurred Thursday forenoon and explains the unusual delay.
West Union man warned by explosion after pouring crankcase oil on kindling and igniting it near live coals. The blast damaged area property and sent debris nearby, prompting cautions from local authorities.
The Waukow liquor store manager selection ignited conflict as the county chairman’s brother was released to clear room for Samek. The chairman is entangled with Sena ttor Mullaney and B. E. Manley, a state commission member. Republicans are blamed for the unrest. Funeral services for Amil Marks, 46, were held Wednesday at Sumner. he was the brother of Mrs. Henry Topp of Elgin.
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