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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
3
A table by relief administrator Leonard Arthur details how relief money from May 1 1934 to September 30 1935 was spent in Fayette County. It shows direct relief outlays for those unable or unwilling to work and work relief funds paid to workers on municipal projects across towns and communities.
A Texas village sees World War veterans organize a new Legion post as Ben Haffner reports. Officers’ election is stymied by a drunken member insisting on permanent status, prompting the chair to crack down and joke about temporary versus permanent.
The town council of Clermont Fayette County Iowa orders a special election to be held at the Opera House on the Sunday in November 1935 from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. Voters will decide on a public measure presented by the town.
The town council grants to Central States Power & Light Corporation a 15 year franchise to erect operate and maintain an electric plant and distribution system within Clermont Iowa including rights of way over streets sidewalks and public grounds. The ordinance sets conditions on extensions near customers limits on street interference a bond requirement for moving structures and arbitration for purchase terms with a mayoral signature date in 1935.
Real call farm offers 56 fertile acres with buildings and springs near Clermont. The old West homestead lies one mile from Clermont on paving. 170 acres of good clay soil with rolling terrain, nice improvements. Numerous farm bargains and exchanges available. contact Grether's Exchange in Elgin Iowa for particulars.
Upper Iowa will present its first dramatic production of the year, Ten Nights in a Bar Room. The show runs twice this week on October 25 and 26.
The story of human progress is tied to transportation facilities. Civilization advances with good roads, enabling mass tours across regions and broadening vision. Automobile touring is a healthy and economical recreation, and good roads are essential for mass mobility.
Road construction has surged over the past few years, surpassing the pace of the previous five decades. The shift reflects intensified public works and investment in infrastructure. Local officials report expanded paving programs and renewed maintenance efforts across multiple regions.
A humorous exchange about a wife who works in an office and returns exhausted. Bingle suggests the office could use another married woman, while the other comments on the fatigue and the social implications of such office life.
An advertisement notes 8 to 10 cent photos for Christmas from Schneider's Cottage Studio in Oelwein with a deal of three extra gift photographs with every dozen available until November 15 The copy also mentions Want Adg as good salesmen and comments on relief expectations from a big work relief appropriation in a reflective tone.
The duck hunting season opened Monday October 21 and will close November 9. Ducks may be shot only between dawn and 4 p.m. and hunters must possess a duck stamp.
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