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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
8
Elgin Iowa council approves a five year contract for electric energy for municipal pumping with Central States Power & Light Corporation. The motion passes unanimously after roll call with all six members voting aye. Adjournment follows routine business.
Clerk J Harrington certifies a true copy of the September 17 1935 special town council minutes. It records the granting of a franchise to Central States Power and Light, plus contracts for municipal street lighting and electric energy for the pumping plant. The document bears the town seal and signature.
Notice of a November 5 1935 special election in Elgin Fayette County Iowa to decide on Ordinance No 172 granting Central States Power and Light Company rights to erect operate and manage electric light heat and power facilities within the town limits and for an electric distribution system. The poll runs 8 am to 8 pm at Town Hall. (Filed as a public notice)
The Town of Elgin Iowa approves an ordinance granting Central States Power a fifteen year franchise to erect operate and maintain an electric plant and distribution system within municipal bounds. It covers rights of way on streets sidewalks and public grounds and details expansion conditions charges and arbitration for purchase options.
Clara Holzer returns from West Union hospital while neighbors from Oak Grove and nearby towns spent Sunday visiting relatives and dining with families. Several households hosted guests from Clermont Elkader and Decorah area including Dennler Shaffer Howard and Dennler families. Many calls, chicken fry along Otter creek and hospital calls marked a busy community weekend.
Sunday dinners and short visits dot a rural Iowa week. Genevieve Wilson returned from Santa Cruz to join family in John Howard home. Reynolds, Gilbertsons, Leuchtenmachers, and several couples visited various neighbors in West Union, Oelwein, Janesville, Maiden Rock, Elkader, and Postville hospital.
Lillian Christen spent the weekend with cousin Lucille Hanson near Volga City. Numerous neighbors and relatives visited, dined, or spent afternoons in homes of the Frie derichs, Gregersons, Hansons, Christens, Baumgartners, and others around West Union, St Olaf, Elkader, and Postville, sharing Sunday gatherings and dinners.
An outstanding musical program sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes will air twice weekly after October 2. Each Wednesday and Saturday at 8 30 p m listeners can hear on the Couat to Couat network with Iowa member stations WOC KRNT and KSCJ. The Wednesday program features Lily Pons Andre Kostalanetz Orchestra and Chorus and the Saturday program features Nino Martini Andre Kostalanetz Orchestra and Chorus.
The 1935 Ames Cyclone football slate lists games at Ames against Cornell Nebraska Upper Iowa Missouri Drake and Kansas State with road bouts at Norman Milwaukee Des Moines and Lawrence. A. R. Stepp left a 52 pound watermelon at the Argo Gazette office for exhibition purposes, taking a long chance.
A compact column notes witty lines about flattery and smart judgment. It cites phrases about flattery curing stiff necks and knowing when to let go, attributed to a Column Left item and a Pennsylvania Keystone remark. The items underline sharper thinking and timely restraint.
Mr and Mrs Paul Bossard and daughters Ruth and Marie and Lucy Christen of Elgin visited Friday at the Joe Thoman home and with other relatives and friends in West Bend.
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