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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1937
Page
4
Agricultural updates show red clover prices at a 13 year high and ideal times for planting shrubs in September to November. Economists expect higher egg prices this winter while cold storage meat stocks are down, with rye pasture benefits and sheep lice checks advised.
Elgin residents shared a weekend of family gatherings and outings with relatives from Fayette Decorah Postville Waterloo Dubuque and Elkader. trips included a drive through Wisconsin and Minnesota and hospital news noted for Hazel West and Jane Falb recovering from an appendix operation.
Statement of ownership for the Elgin Echo weekly newspaper Elgin Iowa lists R P Strauch as publisher and owner with editor and business manager credits. Bondholder noted is F W Hughes holding 1 percent or more. sworn September 14 1937 by notary Samuel Mosby. An odd closing line mentions the earth weight and a WPA cost note.
A trial jury panel of forty names was drawn last week in the office of Philip K. Meskel, clerk of court, to serve at the next term of Fayette county district court. Judge T. H. Goheen will convene in West Union on Monday, Oct. 26. Read among the jurors are Elmer O. Anderson Clermont Cleimond Creighton Conner Pleasant Valley Elgin E R Dummermuth Union West Union Edward J Klingman Pleasant Valley Elgin Kuhnes Illyria Wadena Harold Leuenberger Illyria Elgin Milton Miller Pleasant Valley Elgin CG N Olson Clermont Clermont S W Rubyer Center Randalia Walter Schrock Illyria Wadena Ray Sheldon Eden Wadena.
Charles Osborn from near Correctionville Woodbury county will travel to New York as the guest of Robert Ripley of Believe It Or Not fame. He has suffered hiccoughs for 17 years since contracting them while butchering a hog. Ripley covers treatment costs and may hire Osborn as a salary member of his unusual persons collection. an appearance on Ripley’s radio show is likely.
Hugh Howard and Louise Hagedorn, both of Neillsville Wisconsin, were married on Saturday October 2 at St Pauls M E parsonage with Rav J J Snyder officiating using the ring ceremony. Attending were Mr and Mrs Lawrence Howard of Elgin. The couple will reside on a farm near Neillsville Wisconsin.
A passing motorist asks why the Indian wife is not riding. The man replies she has no pony, while the husband rides on his pony with his squaw walking beside, burdened with luggage.
In producing 1,000,000 automobiles the process uses crops from over 500,000 acres, hides from 30,000 cattle, mohair from 87,500 goats, wool from 800,000 sheep, and lumber from 25,000 acres of forests.
Jim and his wife discuss their mother’s wish to be cremated. He rises from the paper and urges action, asking to tell her to gather her belongings and proceed without delay. The fragment hints at urgent family arrangements and a decisive response.
Harlan Webster a licensed pilot and Vera Steiber of Waukon escaped serious injuries when the Tailor Cub plane crashed during a forced landing at a farm east of Waukon. The aircraft struck a tree at low altitude and then hit the ground. Both occupants were unconscious briefly but not seriously hurt.
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared open war on the Committee for Industrial Organization during a Building Trades convention in Denver. He ordered unions allied with the Lewis faction to withdraw if they did not accept the Samuel Gompers philosophy and condemned John L. Lewis as a dictator. J W Williams, head of the Building Trades Department, sat nearby.
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