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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1958
Page
1
The Elgin Echo announces its weekly Thursday publication from Elgin Iowa Fayette County. It lists postal information, second class mail status since September 1 1891, and publisher Etrauch and Herman.
Rates listed for subscriptions in four northeast counties at 2.50 per year and 3.00 outside area, with 500 extra for both zones if not prepaid. Advertising per line 10 cents for want ads, 30 cent minimum weekly with cash, or 0 cent otherwise. Blind ads un inquiries 0 cents weekly. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam at 1.00, limited to 10 lines. extra lines 0.05. Resolutions of respect obituaries and notices with admission charged follow regular rates.
Rich's column recounts a kindergartner's mispronounced expletive learned from an older boy and jokes about liquor dulling senses at cocktail parties. The town pipe pump broke, leaving Ossian without water for two days, hinting that taverns profited from the outage.
In 1957 highway fatalities fell by 1,304 compared with the prior year. Officials urge continued effort in road safety, reminding readers that progress does not justify complacency and that life saved depends on ongoing caution and work.
The 4H and FFA Livestock Sale was held at West Union on Friday August 22. Nineteen head of sheep brought 401.06 and fifty three hogs sold for 2254.91.
Forty five junior cattle feeder animals sold for 11 306 60 and eighty baby beeves for 21 770 00, totaling gross sales of 35 732 44. Baby beeves averaged 27 865 per hundred. Local buyers included Elgin State Bank Elgin Locker Service Metzger Livestock Arlington Co operative Squires Produce and American National Bank of Arlington. Auctioneers were John Thiele Diz Dean and Orvin Thompson Ringman Lawrence Connor Clerk Louis Kiel. Helpers included Bill Grove Vocational Agriculture Instructor and numerous 4 H leaders.
The Fayette County Fair hosted 4 H food and nutrition exhibits with over 250 entries including cookies cakes and canning. Demonstrations on August 20 featured 19 teams with three blue ribbon senior placings and two junior teams earning red ribbons. The Windsor Winners Club and Alpha Clover Leaves led state and national venue selections with demonstrations on bread custard and varieties for major fairs.
The Iowa Music Teachers Association announces Northeast District piano auditions on October 4 in Oelwein Iowa. Students in Intermediate Junior High and High School classes may perform memorized pieces for up to ten minutes each. Judge Dr Paul Beckhelm Conservatory of Music Cornell College Mt Vernon will rate as Good Excellent Superior or Highly Superior with merit certificates to top three in each class. District winners will be named for each classification.
Fication will be selected to appear in the state finals at Sioux City on October 11. Rudolph Ganz, renowned pianist, conductor, teacher, and lecturer of Chicago, will judge the state finals and name a state winner in each classification to appear on the convention program of the Iowa Music Teachers Association in Sioux City on October 12 and 13. District Chairman Mrs Walter Kutshat, 536 N Frederick, Oelwein, Iowa, is in charge of audition registrations. Officers of the Iowa Music Teachers Association are Robert M Larson, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, President. Alvin Edgar, Iowa State College, Ames, Vice-President. Miss Olive Barker, Cedar Falls, Secretary and Treasurer.
The steering committee for the proposed reorganization met on Wednesday August 20 at Arlington and Fayette and adopted Maple Grove Community School as the name. It approved a plan to elect one director per area for a new board, outlining population, valuation, and sections for Arlington Maynard Randalia Westgate and Fayette areas. The executive and director committees will meet with lawyer Floyd Pearson to prepare petitions for a new election, with the next meeting to be held in Westgate at a later time.
Iowa hog producers plan to market about 2,950,000 hogs for slaughter in August and September, a six percent rise from last year and 18 percent above the 1952-56 five year average. August slaughter would hit a record 1,379,000 hogs, up nine percent from August 1957 and 17 percent above the five year average. September intended sales total 1,586,000 hogs, a September record and four percent above the five year average.
Hulda Jane Stoehr, daughter of Peter and Mrs Nicklaus, born August 26 187? at Clermont, moved to Elgin as a child. Married Gus A. Stoehr October 15 189?, had two sons Harold and Otto Peter. She lived in Cedar Rapids 1952 with son Harold, later in a nursing home, died August 24. Preceded by husband and both sons. last of Nicklaus family. Funeral at Muehlethaler Elgin, burial Elgin Cemetery, Rev. Caspers led service.
Pallbearers named Geo Falk Lyle Light Wm Moore Rex Mulford Wm Miller and George Vaughn honored at the service. A group of friends later served lunch at the C B Schori home.
The P T A announces officers, committees, and room mothers for the school year. Highlights include President Mrs M C Larson Vice President Mrs Elmer Easler and Donald Gardner as 1st Vice President Secretary Mrs Herman Helger gen Treasurer Laurence Geh ring plus committees for Program Membership Ways and Means Publicity Health and Grade Mothers across multiple schools. The carnival is set for September 27 with meetings upcoming and a call for parental involvement.
Mrs Lyle Light and co hosts entertained at a coffee Friday afternoon at the Light home for Mrs Robert Kohler who is moving to Florida. Neighbors present included Mrs Ernest Baumgartner Mrs D Welch Mr Thore Thompson Mrs J P Medberry Mr Robert Falk Mr R A Crider Mrs Clara Baumgartner Mr Henry McMillan Mr Don Page and Miss Ruth Loftergard. The ladies gave a gift to Mrs Kohler.
Mrs. Robert Helms of Elgin won a set of copperware in a $50,000 giveaway with iMoore's 5 and 10. Clerk Mrs. D Meyer certified the entry and also won a duplicate prize. Recent visitors included the Harland Sprinkle family of Iowa City and the Glen Gilseth family of Crew-00, with Mr. and Mrs. John Tilson hosting Sunday to Tuesday visits.
The Farley Methodist church hosted the wedding of Richard Ewing, son of Mr and Mrs William Ewing, to Marilyn Polsean, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Polsean, with Rex Mulford and family among attendees. A flurry of visitors and relatives visited Minnesota towns, Iowa cities, and Osage for prior social gatherings.
A fragment reflects on money and value noting that today’s dollar has few if any cents left to spare. The line hints at economic tightening and a sense of diminished purchasing power.
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