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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1952
Page
1
The Elgin Echo Dial in Elgin Iowa lists its mailing details and paper history. It notes entry as second class mail matter on September 1, 1891 at the Elgin post office in Fayette County under the 1852 act.
Classified and local notices detailing advertising rates and various personal updates. Mentions of hospital recoveries, surgeries, homecomings, and individuals including Mrs. Grace Martin and the Troup family with health updates and military hospital statuses.
A clergyman asks about sins of omission and a boy answers. Neighbors the Smiths plan to move, confident of a better neighborhood, while both families joke about prospects. A playful quip between a lady and a tramp ends with a humorous misstatement about a bathhouse manager.
Mrs Edith Berg visited Trygve Husberg in Rochester after his surgery. She reports him slightly improved and able to return home to Hall Claire Wisconsin on Sunday. He will continue medical treatment at home.
A collection of quirky lines and snippets from a newspaper page. Jabs at birthdays, anniversaries, and speeches sit alongside quips about taxes, federal grants, and moralizing fathers. A stray gag about a gorilla-like crooner and a boy biting his own words closes the fragment.
Gerald LaVerne Barker born August 4 1951 Postville died October 14 at West Union hospital after brief illness aged one year. Survived by parents Gerald Kenneth Barker and La Verne Meyer Barker and siblings Staten and Vicki Sue. Grandparents Grace Barker West Union Ethel Meyer Postville and great grandmother Lizzie Dahms Postville. Services Friday Oct 17 Schutte & Sons Postville with interment in Postville Cemetery conducted by Pastor Frederick R Ludwig St Pauls Lutheran Church Postville.
Weekly notice asks readers to send timely items for publication and avoid holdovers. urges prompt submissions by Monday and thanks the many folks who send or phone in news. Publisher’s notice.
About 225 farmers and wives attended the Fayette County Farm Bureau annual meeting on Wednesday evening October 15. Newly elected officers include Henry Bodensteiner West Union president and Maynard Menefee Fayette secretary with several directors named from townships and towns. Retiring officers declined renomination. D. B. Groves of Des Moines and local speakers addressed resolutions, membership records reached a county high, and programs featured the Arlington high school band and the Hillbilly Four from Randalia.
Private Raymond Loftsgard, son of Mrs Ruth Loftsgard, has arrived in Korea to serve with the Seventh Division after entering the Army last January and being stationed at Camp Gordon Georgia. He landed in Korea October 2 and joined the 7th Division the next day. Other notes report Jack Hanson writing from Spain about sailing for Sicily and Robert Hanson flying from Kodiak to Seattle with plans to return home soon.
Burglars stole 500 dollars from the school safety vault at Algona last week. The money was mostly from activity funds and insured. William Gade of Whitte more suffered serious injuries after a slip from a soybean load pulled by a combine, with both wheels passing over him.
The article notes one in three U S women now hold jobs outside the home and cites 112 million more married women working since the war. It argues children need time and personal attention, offering a case of a restless student whose mother’s outside work reduced attention but improved after a daily half hour with her. It warns both too little and too much attention can harm a child, urging every child receive some of our time.
Mr and Mrs Bur nell Larson of dear West Union welcomed a son born Monday morning October 20 at Postville hospital. Mr and Mrs Elmer Reitz of Kohoka Mo welcomed a daughter born October 13 weighing 8 pounds.
William Erickson of Ogden was injured when high winds caused his car to roll forward and trap him between the vehicle and his garage, breaking his ankle as he opened the garage doors.
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