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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1962
Page
4
A classified list offers several used cars with varying needs. Models include 1954 Pontiacs and 1955 Fords, detailing issues from motor work to body and tire status, with prices and contact at 760-1559. Some entries suggest combining parts into a single usable vehicle.
For sale 131 7/8 acres with buildings located 244 miles southeast of Elgin. Contact 3406 Elgin for details. Also an ad for a Smith Corona 10 key electronic adding machine to try in Elgin Echo shop.
A sincere thank you to the business and professional people of Elgin for the $50.00 jackpot we won at the cash drawing Saturday evening. It was appreciated very much, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Loftsgard. We would like to thank all those who remembered us with cards and visits while we were in the hospital and since our return home. All were greatly appreciated. Mrs. Berdean Hagelie and Joni Beth
State Board of Control seeks 6.8 million for capital improvements across institutes, edging past the 6.5 million allocated previously. Aimed at new buildings, the request includes a key $1 million item for Glenwood’s mentally retained school and nearly 1 million for Fort Madison penitentiary. Charles Dove of Dubuque is reelected Iowa Parkway chairman, championing the Great River Road project from Minnesota to the Gulf. Former Governor Herschel Loveless campaigns for Harold Hughes in the statewide race.
Ottumwa Democrat Loveless charged Governor Norman Erbe with poor leadership and worsening state finances at a joint news conference. He joked the gold leaf on the Capitol dome is wearing off and said the Erbe administration spends $22 million more yearly with little to show, while Loveless now serves on the Federal Reorganization Board. Charles S. Rogers, longtime Mount Pleasant News publisher, dies at 34 in Mount Pleasant. REMAP Attorney General Hultman asks federal apportionment suit be dismissed, arguing no federal question and a balance of powers issue.
Charles Edwin Kelly, age 21, was hanged at Fort Madison for killing IRS agent Alvin Koehrsen. Sheriff Barkus pulled the lever, Kelly pronounced dead 11 minutes later, 45 days after companion Charles Brown was hanged on the same scaffold. Both men from Minneapolis admitted killing two others and wounding three. Reverend Lester Peter led the execution per Kelly’s request.
Protestant chaplain recited the Twenty third Psalm on the scaffold as Earl Vencel, a 32 year old Council Bluffs truck driver who was wounded when Kelley and Brown tried to commandeer his car, spoke to reporters about the hangings and the fate of other victims.
Mr and Mrs Louis Kyosa visited their daughter Sonja at Postville hospital Sunday evening. The Kyosa couple called at the Arvey Berg home Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Henry Christianson Craig and Clete of Mohona web called in the Kyosa home. Selmer Holm attended Duane Halversons funeral Wednesday at the First Lutheran Church in Decorah. Visitors at the Selmer Holm home included Selmer Groth Melljen Loftsgard Bertha Zahn Richard McCoulough Carol Clara Kurth Web jorn Landsgard Ole Morris Amundson family visited Ole Amundson Clermont. Harold Opsand and wife spent Saturday with Gunda Olson Oelwein and Friday in Cedar Rapids for Margaret Hansons nurse training graduation. Mrs Harold Opsand visited Bernard Hanson Wednesday and Thursday. Evening guests of Mrs George Landsgard and Orlan were Vebjorn Landsgard and Ole.
Mrs Morris Woldum of Decorah was a guest of Mrs Geo Landsgard last week Sunday afternoon visitors were Mr and Mrs Elmer Benson and the Maurice Landsgard family.
Valley Junior High football coaches Galen Mack and James Cook prepare 48 seventh and eighth graders for the season. Four units practice blocking tackling and scrimmages as they prepare for the Sept 24 game against Central of Elkader at Elgin field with probable starters including Patterson Kleppe Roberts Falb Moore Butikefer Palmer Reeder and Chapman.
Elgin area residents and visitors shared weekend activities and meetings. Clara Hellum joined Mrs Toll ergtn at Decorah while Joe Hanson and Barbara of Hopkins visited in Elgin and with George Hanson at Postville hospital. Families, church events, and auxiliary conferences are noted along with plans to travel to Chicago for a Buick showing.
Real estate transfers listed include Pfister Harold L and Frank Strums to William L Pfister and Lois Pfister blocks in Lutra Elgin. Marguerite Leighty and heirs to Clifton Wilson and others in various sections. Olaf Berg to Arvey Berg Lot 4, Thompson's Add. Joseph F. Leahy to Leo Woods Lots 14, Block 1 Clermont. Aulger Paulson to Aulger Paulson and heirs Lots 6-8, Clermont. Leslie Conner to Wm Lerch in Thompson's Add. Lillie Mattoon to Nelle Koevenig Lots 2,3,10,11 Block 7 2nd Add. Robert Smith to Interstate Power Co. in SE and NE quarters, 52-05-7 6957.
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