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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
3
Clermont Enterprise from Clermont Iowa announces Thursday morning publication under Elizabeth Priest as local editor. The paper states its membership in the Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association and notes mail service as second class matter at the Clermont post office in Fayette County.
A five year old German boy traveled alone from Germany to New York City then by rail toward Minnesota. He carried a bag with written instructions and a budget for transport meals and taxi rides. The plan matched the budget exactly when checked in Dyersville, and he was likely in Minneapolis with a life changing adventure ahead.
Clermont residents report hospital and home visits as neighbors share illnesses and family gatherings. Maida Sperry spent Sunday at home in Fayette while many others visited Ossian West Union Cedar Rapids Mason City Waterloo and Decorah. Marilyn Rae Gress was born at Cedar Falls hospital October 12.
Local notes cover visitors welcomed in Waterloo Davenport Decorah and Castalia scenes. Fragments mention a food of clubs bridge games and a diamond ring prize, plus engineering plans for Elkader high school and a stray wallet mishap with new overalls.
The piece argues that human error is the core highway danger and calls for education through schools clubs and safety groups to instill safe driving. It notes high quality roads and improved safety lines but stresses driver responsibility as essential to reducing accidents.
Persone Nom Grate Ladders, not roads, are the only approaches to Norway's more inacc eptable farma, which are mere ledges on the mountains. Norwegian farmers sometimes pulled up their ladders when the tax collector came by, but a law later made a stationary ladder of tron compulsory.
Uncle Eben laments that life feels like a one man job with little friendly help. The narrator notes the persistent solitary effort and self-reliance shaping daily work and personal conduct.
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