Two Free Movie Tickets And Insurance Offers
Notices advertise two free tickets at the Echo office for the movie The Caddy at the Avalon theater with dates October 11 and 13. Also promotes polio insurance by R P Strauch Elgin with rates 10 dollars for family coverage and five dollars for a single person, plus various sale notices for livestock and a 1940 Ford Deluxe. The piece references legislative moves on prison transfers and a probe into WOI TV at ISU, plus ar ticle fragment about an Elkader address tag reminder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Halverson
Elkader
Echo Office
Avalon Theater
Leslie Lantz
Robert M. Hanson
Elgin
Sales Tax Collections Continue on Increase
Atty. Gen. Leo A. Muegh said Iowa will resist federal income taxes on profits from WOI-TV at Tywe State College Ames. The Internal Revenue Service ruled in August that the state must pay taxes on WOI's profits. Resistance will focus on that WOI-TV's operation is tied to the college's general educational activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atty
Leo A. Muegh
Towa
Woi-Tv
Tywe State College
Ames
Federal Internal Revenue Department
WON
Hoeph
WOL TV
Budget committee wary on Breen request move
Budget committee members report they will go slow if they act on the Breen request, highlighting a cautious approach amid competition with private business.
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Breen
Bridge work to finish this week at Turkey River site
From present appearances the fill and dikes at the Turkey river bridge will be completed by this weekend. The last dike near Ern Holz er's was to be finished Wednesday, then back water traps by the old mill and fills there. Grading and smoothing of fills remain. Navy discharge: A H Brackin received his honorable discharge Oct 2 after training in San Diego and two years at Guam. He served on USS Philippine Sea. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. B H Brackin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey River ‘Bridge
Ern Holzer
A. H
Bud)Brackin
San Diego
Calif
Guam
B.H. Brackin
Pathfinder class meeting at Volga Methodist church
The Pathfinder class gathered Sunday at the Owen Cummings residence in Fayette with Rev Maynard and numerous members and guests. Attendees included E T Smith Wm Chase John Follon Geo Oldfather Alma Follon Hattie Duff Andersons from Blooming Prairie Minn Dale Blaker Fayette Cy Morse Dubuque Vera Oldfather and her daughter Chicago Garland Allan Dubuque. Mr and Mrs Allan of Dubuque visited Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Volga Methodist Church
Owen Cummings
Fayette
Maynard
E. T. Smith
Wm.Chase
John Follon
Geo, Oldfather
Alma Follon
Hattie Duff
Anderson
Blooming Prairie
Minn
Dale Blaker
Cy Morse
Dubuque
Vera
Avid
Chicago
Frank Oldfather
Garland Allan
Beardsley to appoint replacement on town board
Governor Beardsley must name a Democrat to replace Robert L. Jones on the three member central town board after Jones resigned due to ill health. Jones, 64, had served since June 30 and was chair of the board. vacancy created by October 1 resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 5S. Beardsley
Central
Robert L. Jones
Chariton
Jones
Il Health
Vhe
Wath Pugret
State delays construction of Des Moines warehousing facility
The state will delay until next spring before starting work on a new warehousing complex north of Des Moines near Camp Dede. The advisory committee for the Towa liquor warehouse approved the delay amid years of efforts to secure centralized warehousing for state agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dede
Des Moines
Towa Liquor Warehouse Advisory Committee
Sunday visits and Farm Bureau trip details in Sterling area
Sunday visits in the Wheeler and nearby households include the Albin Benson family from Sterling visiting relatives around Volga. The Walter Roys hosted a dinner guest, Michael Fugger, while his mother Mrs. Kenneth Fugger and Dr. R. E. Grant’s daughter stayed with relatives as her husband serves in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LE Wheeler
Albin Benson
Sterling, Colo
Volga
Walter ‘Roys
Kenneth Fugger
Michael
California
R. E. Grant
Korea
Hilda Staack
Janice Nading
Diane
Pon
Eva Meyers
Blooming Prairie
Minn
Walter Everitt
Geo. Old
Local Families Attend Social Visits and Moves
Purported end of the day notes a family moving Thursday to a new home near Postville where they will work for the Joe O’Neills. The Verlyn Schmidt family of Dubuque called on Randall Borden’s home Saturday. Mr and Mrs Kirk Hicks and Mr and Mrs Bill Berger were Sunday supper guests in the Clark Hummel home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fis
Postville
Joe O'Neills
Verlyn Schmidt
Dubuque
Randall Borden
Kirk Hicks
Bill Berger
Clark Hummel
Quarry Move to Martie Stone Quarry East of Town
The R. J. Cooney Construction Co of Waukon moved to the Martie stone quarry east of town early this week to rush stone for surfacing the road from the Millard Gigleson home north of the Clermonts Gunder road.
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R. J
World of a Newspaper Snippet in Fractured Humour
A garbled, OCR style collage of jokes and quips about schoolmasters fathers mothers doctors and teachers. It includes lines about a schoolmaster reporting a boy describes the boy as a good worker who talks too much and a father’s witty reply. Other bits mention a burial a vaudeville style exchange a doctor vaccinating a patient and assorted stray lines about life and work.
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Elmer H. Largon & Son
Appelman
B. H. Brackin
Arno H. Miller & Son
Monona
Dr. I. C. Jerdec
Clermont
Thunder Bay
O'Neill Drug
Paulson School
Stanton Halvorson
K-F
Duroc Jersey
Frank H. Lawson
Atte Salames Ceas
Jim Taylor
R. P. Strauch
Iowa Mutual
Fornado Insurance Assatstone
H. P
Poland
Iowa State Fair
Jacob
Keith Lee
Highway
Decorgh
Frigidaire
Call
West Union. de
Dresser
Walter Kohls
Clarence Johnson
Selde
Edwin Loftigani
Dial 8900
Wm. F. Luepker
Luana
Leghorn Spring
Jake Wander
Fort, Des Moines
Lowappare of
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Anamoga
Fort Madison
Board of Control
Anamosa
Reformatory
State Legislative Budget Committee
Woil-Tv
Iowa State College
Edward Breen
Fort Dodge
Norge
New
Coleman
Ward
Einhard
Dial
Tegen
West Union
Volga News
Wenger Sales Commission
Harry Wenger
Diz” Dean
Oly
Wadena
Carl G. W. Alderson
Wadena Orvin Thompson
Colonial Furnace
John Tillotson
Iowa
Iy Colonial Sandel Eter Cma
West Union Auction Exch
Sand Hills
Nebraska
Floyd W. Whitford
Mel
Martie
Murphy
Riley
Phil
Abe
Mitner
Chamber of Commerce
Sczori
Elgin Cooperative Co
Dr. LeGear
Heo
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