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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1938
Page
3
Clermont Enterprise announces Marjorie Scheel is named local editor, joining the Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association in a leadership move for the Fayette County paper.
Margaret Sheehy returned Monday from Dubuque after a ten day visit with friends. Several families visited relatives including the Hans and George Larson groups and Kathryn at Ewald Lyngans. Ed Boyle receives care after a Friday night fall from a twenty foot embankment causing a compound shoulder fracture. Mrs. L. L. Carr and Lavanda attended a Wellman dinner for a sixtieth wedding anniversary with open house for about 150 neighbors and friends.
About 18 000 acres will be dedicated to certified hybrid seed corn in 1938 with over 500 000 bushels expected for 1939. Farmers are urged early seed selection, rapid curing, and careful pasture weed control to boost yields.
Cedar Falls resident Marjorie Olson spends weekend with parents Mr and Mrs Louie Olson. Volga City couple Mr and Mrs Lester Wenger dine with Alfred Wenger. Memorial services in Clermont for Elizabeth Priest. Nellie Murphy returns to Blooming Prairie after weeklong visit with Priest Crowe Leahy families. Local moves include Conner family into former Kelleher house and Cooley family moving into Conner home. Two Clermont students depart for college. Lolita Blake to Iowa City and Norman Erickson to Coe College.
Market notices explain that plain or medium slaughter cattle are marketedApril through June when the offerings yield the year's best prices for that grade of livestock.
The region weighs its stance on federal aid balancing pride and hospitality as a defining early postwar issue, testing political cohesion and regional identity amid economic pressures and national policy shifts.
The president of the Ladies Aid deposited a bag of small coin saying aid money. A new teller misheard it as egg money and quipped about hens. Upset president left in high dudgeon and officials hurried to calm concerns to prevent a withdrawal of funds.
Ossian Bee reports voters rejected an $8,000 pool bond as only 178 for and 146 against fell short of 60 percent. A $99,000 PWA county grant funds a new Allamakee court house and jail. Sept 22, 1938 marks a special election for a $105,000 bond to match 45 percent federal funds. Other notes cover flood control dam benefits, a cow crossing the Turkey River, pasture improvements, and storm damage in Walton Hollow.
A Chinatown figure named Kt Ho remarks that taking a man’s brains is simpler than stealing his property and may be preferable if one can apply intelligence to use them effectively.
A 19th century note highlights three renowned vistas: the Beka’s plateau seen from Lebanon in Syria, the vale of Cashmere in India, and the Mediterranean as viewed from Taormina in Sicily.
Leip zig Germany hosts over a thousand publishers and bookshops devoted to the trade where books have been the chief manufacture for two centuries.
A collage of crash sketches and captions links speed to wasteful fuel use, high repairs, and hefty fines while insurance groups push a safe driver reward. Fatal crashes, costly tires, and lengthy hospital stays illustrate the high price of haste and lane driving is urged for fuel, repair and insurance savings.
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