Real Estate Transfers and Licenses in November Notices
Real estate transfers filed include Margaret Helms et al to Dorell Mitts and wife for 1.90 dollars in Elgin’s Con ner Armstrong Add. Helen Schneider to Harold Schneider for 1 dollar covering 110 acres in section 13, and Archie Wheeler to Howard Shaffer for 1 dollar in 13-93-7. Also Edward P. Krueger to West Union Lions Club Activities for 350 dollars in West Union, plus H W Falk to Interstate Power Co. for placing a pole on Elgin property. Marriage licenses dated November 3 to 8 list couples from Readiyn Maynard West Union Waucoma Castalia Del weldh Rockford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Helms
Dorell A. Mitts
Conner & Armstrong
Add
Elgin
Helen Schneider
Harold Schneider
SE & SW
Archie Wheeler
Howard Shaffer
Edward P. Krueger
West Union Lions Club Activities, Inc
West Union
H.W. Falk
Interstate Power Co
Iowa Sets Record Corn Crop Amid High Yields
The Iowa corn crop is estimated at 656,909,000 bushels, a record total and higher than earlier in the season, nearly double the 1947 crop of 331,360,000 bushels. The previous best was 634,638,000 bushels in 1948 on 11,134,009 acres at 57 bushels per acre, with 10,769,000 acres and 61.0 bushels per acre in 1948, a new high both for yield and acreage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Socials In Elgin Highlight Local Club Prizes
Wadena notes a string of gatherings with prize winners at the 500 Club eight o clock dessert, Bridge, and Legion hall events. Guests include Mrs. Lester Gehring, Mrs. Frank Welsh, Mrs. Ole Johnson, and many Elgin Fayette West Union and Colfax residents. A long list of visits, dinners, and card parties fills the week. A British correspondence tale ends with Hilda Turner and her husband moving to Colfax after years of pen pals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gehring
500 Club
Elgin
Lester Gehring
Frank Welsh
Wilder Mattocks
Ole Johnson
Richard Benesh
Bridge Club
Arthur Herrling
Otto Herrling
Ruby Benson
Lena Aeschliman
Don Leonhart
Bernard Reisner
Sue
West Union
Dean Probert
Douglas
Volga
Jean Hall
Fayette
Roy Leonhart
Woodrow
Derry Leonhart
David
H. F. Robbins
Charles Nicholas
Mandhes
W. F. Moore
Legion Hall
Roscoe Pritchard
Johnnie Erickson
Oliver Lewis
Low
Women’s Missionary Society
Keith Jennings
Mesdames W. F. Moore
Nina Davis
Albert Morse
Fannie Baumgartner
Annie Poor
Albert Aylsworth
Lillie Livingston
Alfred Nordhus
Nordhus
Jim Thyer
Sharon
Clark Voshell and Sons
Ellie Voshell
C. C. Corbin
Ben Schuenman
Sheffield
W. F .Moore
Armel
Eugene Scovel
Clyde Squires
Waterloo
Richard Aeschliman
Flossie Voshell
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minn
Willard Crandall and Sons
Charles Puffer
Luther Crandall
Hervey Aeschliman
Fred Heiden
Sherryl Aeschliman
Elwin Norbohm
Sumner
Max Jones
Colfax
Jones
Hilda Turner
Salford
England
Hilda
Red Letter Day for Democrats Dec 14
Iowa politics move toward school reorganization with talks of using state aid as incentive or laws to force restructuring. Proposals include simpler district voting, any-time reorganization elections, and rewrites of the Agricultural Land Tax Credit to fit constitutional needs. Motor Vehicle Safety and Financial Responsibility shows over 10,000 licenses suspended, with 43,016 accidents processed, costing $37.3 million in losses. Gillette to Capitol while Washin becomes Senator-elect. fair board to open bids on a $378,000 4-H club project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Kendall Lynes
Plainfield
Iowa State Education Association
Supreme Court
Iowa
State Fair Board
Dormitory Plan Set for State Fair Grounds
The state fair board seeks bids to build a girls dormitory at the fair grounds. It would be the second bidding attempt after last year’s bids were rejected as too high. Funding from last summer’s fair is available. if the bid is awarded, the dormitory for 600 girls and leaders should be ready in 1960.
Population growing in Iowa births exceed deaths by 95 daily
Health department figures show Iowa population growing about 95 persons daily from natural increase. A three year report indicates an average of 167 births and 72 deaths per day in the state. In 1947 births rose 7,773 over 1946 while deaths increased 709. The text notes heating systems as a leading cause of farm dwelling fires, second only to lightning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Department
Iowa
Corn Picker Accidents Reported In New Hampshire
A week of corn picking accidents leaves workers safe with no injuries to William Kahn and Gale. Kahn loses his jacket torn from his body while Gale becomes snagged in the same machine and loses his pants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Kahn
Gale
New Hampton
Mr. Kahn
Hungry tramp and rooster chase bread in rustic tale
An opportunist in trouble seeks a bath, a course in handwriting reading, and a conference on doing. A hungry tramp visits a farmhouse and eats under a tree as a red hen and a gay rooster chase a piece of bread. The tramp laments his hunger.
Lensing’s Better Used Cars Listing
A compact autos ad listing multiple pre war and 1940s cars for sale at Lensing’s. Includes 1949 Ford Custom 8 sedan with radio and heater, 1948 Chevrolet sedan, 1949 Chevrolet Tudor, 1946 and 1939 Chevrolets, 1933 and 1930 Chevrolets, plus notes on extras like air ride tires and new motors.
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Want
Clermont
Arvey
Berg
B. H. Brackin
Echo Stationers
Tire
Phillips 66
Elmer Heins
Postville
Walnut Grove
Clair
Smale
Selmer Holm
Walt. Dummermuth
Gander
Echo Office
Allen Schneider
Dial 3303
H. B. Gilson
Dial
Torkelson
Oran Bane
Louis Sutter
O. K
Walt Dummermuth
William Pfister
Poland
Harold Meisner
Geo. Metzger
Rex Mulford
Bolson
Clermont Cooperative
Town
Elgin Echo
Deep Land Bank Loan
National Farm Loan Association
Federal Land Bank System
West Union National Farm Loan Association
Darrell KR. Peasley
Sec’y-Treas
Courf
Milton E. Huebner
Readiyn
Melba Petratz
Maynard
Edward W. Franzen
Eleanor Lasson
Waucoma
Arnold C. Chensveld
Castalia
Delores Cowles
Ossian
Don Schoentag
Emma Lou Hillman
Delwelh
Richard N. Twa
Belvedere
Alice T. Steensland
Rockford
Towa
Noel Brockway
Wadena News
Motor Vehicle Safety and Financial
Gillette
Capitoless
Guy M. Washin
Cherokee
Ashington
Jows Henior
Rourke Hickenlooper
Senate
Hickenlooper
George ‘Wilson
TITAN
L.A. Wooldridge
Fayette, Iowa
Schori
Kuster Elgi
KXEL
Jet
Toe Inna Humane Society
Torkelson Bros
Coles Meat and Bone Meal
Jerome H. Lensing
Festina, Iowa
University of Wyoming
Lawrence Morris
Morris
University of Wyoming, Poultry Department
Aramie
Wyoming
Elgin Cooperative
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