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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1948
Page
1
A partial OCR segment from an Iowa notice contains scattered letters numbers and fragments mentioning Elgin second class possibly. The readable items are sparse and incomplete, offering few clear facts or dates and no full actions or entities to confirm.
Echo notes from September 6 files recount a Tuesday morning obituary for Mrs. Ludwing Kohls age eighty seven with Baptist church services. Hawkeye baseball club crowned Little Hight League champions by winning eleven of fourteen. Mrs. W. E. Kipie to Postville hospital for appendicitis surgery. Prof. Fred Hadsel and family visit Oxford Ohio a trip from Dr H S Hadsel III. W Evans and Kenneth travel to Rock Island to join old bridge crew building Mississippi bridge for transcontinental train service. John Ernst George Baldwin and Matt Klingman Civil War veterans attend GAR National Encampment in Milwaukee. Center street brick block receives fresh paint with John Christ leading. Paint covers the C Theo Schmid store, Masonic LO O F rooms and second-story living spaces. Check Echo Want Ads.
Local guidance urges residents to buy DDT spray to eliminate flies. Consume guidance to treat seapens garbage cans and any place where flies gather. The notice emphasizes DDT as the only known effective method at present.
The State Conservation Commission sets the pheasant season from noon November 11 to November 30. Daily shooting hours are 12 noon to 4 p.m. The bag limit is two cock birds per day, with a possession limit of four after day one. The season is ten days longer than 1947, with four additional counties Mahaska Keokuk Washington and Muscatine added to the open area.
William Gehring and wife convey property to Lena Gehring for $1.00, including SW SE 10-93-7. Laurence A. Cline Estate transfers to Fred Nydegger Jr. and wife as administrator for $8,500, portions of Lot 5 NW NW north of 693-7 and SW SW and N 28.5 acres SE SW 31- BA-T.
Bishop Edwin Lee, bishop at large of the Methodist church, died Tuesday morning at St Mary's hospital in Rochester after about two months there. He previously served as bishop of the China area before retirement following the jurisdictional conference last May.
Elgin beat Edgewood 6 to 4 with a late seventh inning score. Adrian and Wede contributed solid at bats as Jensen and Erickson provided key hits and home run milestones. Winning pitcher D Schmid allowed 6 hits while Smith took the loss as Edgewood’s offense stalled late.
A Littleport farmer died when a tractor overturned on the shoulder of the road near the John Dinan farm one mile north of Littleport. The vehicle rolled into a ditch while being taken to town for repairs, crushing the driver beneath the machine.
A local editor's note by Bill Sievert rebukes a driver who nearly hit a tricycle rider. The column urges respect for children on roads, emphasizes parental love, and warns that no car is worth a single child’s life. Reprinted from the Manson journal.
Foley wins the northeast Iowa contour plowing meet with the display of a terracing demonstration.
A lightning bolt hit a house in Independence last week, traveling along a drop into the kitchen and making it sparkle like a furnace. Kate Bray, unharmed, fell and bruised herself in the event.
The 1968 campaign reports Iowa reaching 188 percent of its $2 723 quota while Wayne County areas hit 302 percent. Gowans totals contributed push the drive past $12 000 as the effort surpasses expectations in several regions.
Four people died when a plane crashed at Tatto airport near Decorah Ossian and nearby. The investigation cited insufficient altitude on approach as the cause. Pilot Battre had flown three friends for a late evening ride around 9 30.
Mrs Don Chafa near Fontanelle suffered a fractured leg after her cows involved in a double play kicked her. The incident occurred last week on the Fon tanelle farm, with two cows implicated in the injuries.
At the Buena Vista County tet 4-H fair Gordon Atherton of Sioux lost a calf that died from over exertion on opening day. Donations totaling 78 dollars are raised to help him buy another calf. In Waukon gardener Hargid Herman claims honors with a tomato weighing 2 pounds 11 ounces, 1-2 inches in circumference, supported by two stems.
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