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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1936
Page
3
The Clermont Enterprise is a weekly newspaper published every Thursday morning in Clermont Iowa with Elizabeth Priest as local editor and member affiliations noted. It states it is entered in the Clermont post office as second class mail matter in Fayette County Iowa.
A touring New Yorker notes opposing Roosevelt stances in New York News and Chicago Tribune, questions why leading papers in different regions push contrasting political lines. He urges readers to rely on personal observation and fact over metropolitan propaganda from publishers with axes to grind.
Final plans for the Fayette County Farm Bureau annual meeting are set for Tuesday November 24 at 10 oclock at the Legion hall in Fayette A free dinner for members and guests will be served. Allen Kline of Vinton will be the main afternoon speaker. Officer elections occur in the morning session with nominees including J F Wilkinson and C H Knos for president Grant Lauer and L D Hitch for vice president Ray A Bell for secretary D R Lynch and M C Hanson for treasurer. A Jefferson township group will present a one act play and May Dawn Smith will sing the 4 Leaf Clover song. The Red Jackets from Elgin will perform. Seventy five members with ten years of membership will receive pins in the morning program. All Farm Bureau members and families are urged to attend.
Five McGregor school first and second graders held an Armistice program at the cemetery for a World War veteran James O Rieley. They sang America and said the Lord's Prayer then knelt. Capt Bergman and Col Huebsch led the return march down town with Bill Kean last due to laughing during the service. Irene Peterson returns to duties at Lutheran Deaconness hospital in Chicago.
The article lists stain removal tips for rust mildew vaseline coffee and fruit stains using salt buttermilk turpentine kerosene vinegar and boiling water. It also reports Mrs Gene Bradford formerly Genevieve Simpson winning the 39th district representation in Washington by a 4500 vote majority.
The Central States Power and Light corporation installs a new billing machine costing 8500 dollars with twenty registers. It records each customer in more detail for bills and creates a duplicate office record. It offers mechanical advantages and enclosed operation for orderly tabulation and reduced noise.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Corsepina expect to travel to Waterloo Friday to see Mrs Belle Cox who will spend her two weeks vacation in town. Mesdames Carpenter White and Rogers visited the Ferguson and Anderson homes in West Union last Tuesday.
A student estimates that a $25 weekly paycheck yields about $5.38 in taxes for an ordinary American family. Hidden taxes push railroad fares to cover seven dollars worth of service. Telephone, gasoline, and other costs also conceal significant tax portions.
Louise Cossuit of Elkader visited Margaret Sheehy Sunday. Mrs Thos Cummings and Mrs Herman Griebenow hosted five tables of five hundred Tuesday evening at the Cummings home for the Rosary Society and Altar Guild. Prizes went to Mrs Kate Horam Mrs H A Lubke and Margaret Claris of Dubuque. Five dollars and fifty cents was added to the society treasury.
Pleasant Valley and Clermont townships report multiple elected posts with names and vote totals. Hans Grether and Geo Boyle top Justice of the Peace and Constable races in Pleasant Valley, while Fred Cline and Lester Anderson lead Clermont in their respective posts.
A collection of cautions warns against night driving when vision is poor. Fragile porcelain faucet handles under pressure may break and cause deep hand injuries. Driving 60 mph against a cement bridge is like a fall from a twelve story building. Two people die daily in the U S warming cars in closed garages from carbon monoxide.
For sale or rent the 240 acre M. W. Dibble farm located one mile west of Clermont and the Clermont hotel property. See Herbert Anderson, referee in partition, Clermont, Iowa, 1900s.
The new 60 horsepower V type eight cylinder engine delivers V eight smoothness and quiet operation up to speeds of seventy miles per hour while offering gasoline mileage that establishes a novel benchmark in modern car efficiency.
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