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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1947
Page
1
A collage of small humorous items and quotes. Rich's Pipe Dreams promises of clothes before marriage fulfilled with a basketful after each wash. A bishop leads a Sunday school Q and A session where a boy asks why angels walked Jacob's ladder. A scarecrow borrows a pipe for Halloween. Also a verse on insomniacs finding comfort in sleep and waking life.
A collection of humorous lines about domestic life and professions, including a Chinese laundry joke about credit and payment, a police exchange about intoxication, and flirtatious verses about milkmen and the mailman, all in a dated vaudeville style.
The water works extension begun a couple of weeks ago under Bert Kohler is nearly finished with a two inch main laid along Franklin street. It starts at the M W Kiple home, runs to the school house, west to the railroad, then north to connect at the Wm Grover place. Gordon Mosby will be a cornet soloist with a lyceum company representing Upper Iowa University in northeastern Iowa towns this winter. The three Elgin lady clerks are vacationing in Des Moines for the Eastern Star Grand Chapter meeting. Mr and Mrs J D Shaffer left for Milwaukee to visit their daughter and husband and plan to travel to Chicago by motor. They also intend to visit relatives and stop at the Lindlahr sanitarium. A sign on a wall offers medical consultation and philosophy wisdom.
Miss Marjorie Herwig daughter of Mrs. Lester Gehring became the bride of Keith Kohler son of Mrs. Ethel Kohler in a Oct 22 ceremony at St Pauls Methodist church officiated by Rev Bruce Jones. The couple will reside in West Union after a Minneapolis wedding trip.
Real estate transfers include Kate Bigler to John A, Joseph L and Millard C Larson for 2367.04 dollars and lot details. C C Corbin to Bessie Morse for one dollar. John A Larson to Melvin Anderson. Creighton Conner to Andrew Dummermuth for 1500 dollars. Marriage licenses issued October 18 to F B Conkey and Viola Soules. Clifford P Hyde and Jeanette Hof. Frederick J Boettcher and Pauline Engelke. Keith W Kohler and Marjorie Herwig. Additional pairings listed for Oct 20 and Oct 21 among West Union and Oelwein residents.
Earl Louis Medberry lived with handicaps yet sought usefulness through travel and service. He joined a motorcycle cavalcade in 1947 and helped organize the Decorah Branch of the Little Switzerland Motorcycle Club of America serving as treasurer. He supported the Elgin American Legion Post 362 and Disabled Veterans of America Post 8, and engaged with Luther League at Gander. He recently expressed faith, was baptized by Rev. S. J. Strandford, and leaves his parents, brother Gene, a grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Lehman, and many relatives, with a hopeful future reunion in mind.
Ike Trunnell, a farmer near Liberty Center, killed a protected golden eagle after surprising it fighting an old black hen in his chicken yard. He wrung the neck as the bird threatened private property, earning him the title champion bird catcher of the week.
Fayette Extension Director M C Wangsnesa urges farmers to poison rats before freezing weather. Rats destroy about $6 000 in grain yearly per rat yard. Use red squill or barium carbonate with pre baiting, keep pets contained, and conduct clean up and rat-proofing. At Harlan Harold McKeig sells 18 acres for 18 000, a Shelby county record.
The State Conservation Commission opens the 1947 pheasant season despite low populations. It urges hunters to target cocks only to protect future hunting, noting a wild ratio of up to ten hens per cock maintains fertility. A 1947 census found 149 cocks per 100 hens. Every town hunter should observe the Kill No Hens rule to sustain pheasant hunting.
In Hamburg Iowa a garden mishap spared a cotton row that thrived despite high water. Harry Lyon, a Jefferson barber apprentice, cut Dale Harding’s hair for free forty two years ago, and last week Lyon retired with Harding as his final customer, also free.
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