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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1953
Page
4
Classified snippets advertise roosters and a Holstein heifer for sale near Elgin with contact numbers 3307 and 3600. Also listed are purebred Duroc Jersey stock hogs 1-2 miles east of Clermont and a GE Console radio phonograph in walnut finish with dial 3613, Elgin.
Iowa will mail state income tax forms to individual taxpayers for the first time in 10 years. The move aims to remind about the tax, with estimates of an $18,000 mailing bill offset by increased returns. The initiative follows a 1943 cessation to save about $10,000 annually.
Critics question center lane placement of yellow no passing lines on town highways. Reported issues include reduced visibility and insufficient warning distance for motorists, especially in poor conditions or limited sight lines.
E F Koch chief engineer of the Iowa highway commission explains that 18 foot highways force motorists near the center. Paint wears quickly under heavy traffic so lines are now painted on the driver's side for warning. They last about a year and the policy targets 22 to 24 foot wide roads due to limited manpower and funds.
Elgin locals visit Claude Huisinga in Aplington on Tuesday. DeVere Halverson joined Robert Bemiss and Melvin Ewing from West Union to attend the Iowa Minnesota football game in Iowa City last Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Guy Brooks helped at the Maser home after a power takeoff accident left Mr Maser severely injured with torn clothing and likely multiple broken ribs. X rays could not be completed due to swelling. Local residents also note visits from AL Kupper Schmidt and various Sunday gatherings and calls across neighboring homes.
The Bonjou family spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Hampton. Mrs. Duarte O'Brien entered Manchester hospital Sunday for surgery. Cedar Rapids visitors joined Blanche White at her home and winter plans with Mrs White. A 1 H Rally at Elkader featured county officer installation and talks by Dean Meyer and Fred Gernand with Alaska slides. Local attendees included Walter Roys and Billy Moore along with Johnny Pope Johnny Moore and William Smith.
Carl E Stromme, 72, was found Saturday morning beside a 20 foot dry well on the Norbert Germar farm near Volga. He likely fell Friday night, sustaining a broken neck. The Beiderman family, preparing to move in, discovered the body about 9:00 a.m. Services were held Monday at Blake Funeral Chapel in Volga. Silent relative Lavilla Berger and Mrs. Vernon noted as survivors.
Mrs Lera Robinson entertained neighbors Thursday evening with a handkerchief shower honoring Blanche White who leaves Sunday for Cedar Rapids to spend the winter. Cards were played. guests included Marian Phillips Grace Olson Helen Phillips Eva Brandt Cecile O Brien Minnie McEwen Lucille Moore Mary Cox Grace White Rose Christeleit Tressa Robinson and Carol Reynalds.
A garbled montage of dialogue and jokes captures flaring lips, trembling frames, jeep cautions, and rail crossing mishaps. It parodies college questions and marital quips as an Arizona co ed jokes about going to college and letters from a wife’s milliner, ending with a guns versus machine gun pun.
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