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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
1
Thursday May 30 1H0 Rich's Pipe Dreams notes primaries on Monday June 3. Voters urged to cast ballots for best men in each party, eight to eight polling. Commentary covers politics crops weather flies and local reflections with quotes from Winchell Cadman and Hoover era references.
A garbled passage mentions Kohler and wife with daughter Mrs Ralph DeSerit, and a marriage announcement for Emma LAL Gulsvig wife of Jer me Idzhs and a 1 pound boy born recently. The text also references tickets and noisy chatter about busy work and chickens in a fragmented local column.
A fragmented notice mentions Clerms and a baseball fear at Clermonts for Fitzgerald gallery and two ads. It references a daughter, a widow named Wednesd, and individuals including Brainard of Strawberry Point with Mrs G F Moser and Ruth of Manchester and Henry Wins.
A jury cleared two Oelwein police officers of liability in a suit by Morrison, a 24 year old Celwein Youth, who claimed tear gas damaged his eyes during his Dec 4, 1937 custody arrest. The plaintiff sought 27505 damages, asserting excessive force and eye injuries.
Marion Township held an organization meeting on April 28 to plan and re elect officers and cooperators for the 1940 41 Women’s Home Project work. It notes Marion has six square feet? cooperators are needed and lists leaders and committee members.
Local real estate transfers filed with W J Rogers abstract office show W M Knox to Fred T Cline for 68 Ls 7 and 8 B 77 and L 8 B39 L4 B el fex Roy Clermont J E Raftis to Elizabeth Kohler WD 1 Ls 3 and 4B3 North Side Add Wadena M A Klingman to Elizabeth Kohler WD 1 Ls 12 and 13 B2 North Side Add Wadena
The Mitchell County News reports that it required a full week of work to remove the wreckage of the Illinois Central train from the track below Orchard.
A neutral vessel designated to return American citizens stranded in the war zone sailed from New York toward Galway, Ireland. The line at last reports the ship can carry about 1,000 passengers, will be unarmed, carry no cargo, and travel without convoy while belligerent governments are notified.
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