Elgin Panthers Open Baseball Season In Late March Action
Elgin Panthers win 6-2 over Hawkeye with three pitchers allowing one hit in frigid conditions. They follow with a 6-5 victory over Elkader, Weston the winning pitcher. Next game versus Vulkan on April 9 at Elgin. Senior class play “I Remember Mama” staged March 26 with strong sets and costumes.
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Go-Hawks
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Gilson
Vaukan
Elgin Diamond
Senior Sketch in Elgin High School Assignment
Paul Pinney born December 2, 1935 in Elgin reports to Elgin High School on August 29 to begin an assignment. His insurer aims to evaluate the learning material to ensure no unreasonable risk. He will be the investigator examining what lies between textbook covers.
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Elgin High
Johnny Dollar
Paul Pinney
Elgin
Elgin High School
EHS
Second Grade Cursive Writing and Monarch Butterfly Study
Students practice cursive and blends in word mastery finding new words. Miss Flanagan reads Bambi’s Children as vivid pictures bring the deer friend to life. Science explores the monarch butterfly with a film and drawings, while letters arrive from California Florida New York and Haiti. Lester Grimm celebrates a birthday in the classroom.
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Miss Flanagan
Bambi
California
Florida
New York
Haiti
Lester Grimm
Third Grade Language and Social Studies Class Update
The third grade reports busy language work writing letters to classmates home with mumps and flu, arithmetic practice in multiply and divide, and social studies on materials clothing is made from such as cloth derived from wood milk soybeans coal air and water. A cloth chart is shown while models of a growing town are added and a United States map marks stories read in reading class with climate notes.
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United States
Sixth Grade Music and World Studies Reflections
The passage notes sixth graders tracing music from primitive times to modern songs and studying American Indian music. They discuss why music was written, enjoy a Spread Eagle Dance, and apply fractions in arithmetic while exploring airplanes in science and European countries in social studies.
A House Can Be A Home In Spite Of Modern Attract
A parent reports a kitchen filled with fudge and laughter as teens turned a junk yard stove into a backyard party area. The children cooked, studied, and played games while forming bonds that kept the house warm. Now college calls and the family reflects on enduring home virtues.
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Hare
Safety program praised by patrolman and youth leader
Highway Patrolman Virgil Stanmeyer congratulates Don Elvers, president of the Clayton County Rural Youth, on a farm safety program. The event features a tall staff and flag the group urges be attached to all slow moving vehicles on highways.
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Junior Farm Bureau
Pathfinder Class Meeting at Volga Methodist Picnic
The Pathfinder class of Volga Methodist Church met Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Smith for a picnic dinner. Attendees included John Follows Frank Phillips Will Chases Geo Oldfather Rev Maynards and Mel and Ruth Roys. The May meeting will blee with the George Oldfathers. Nearby visits include Art Staack in Elkader and George and Elmer Maser of Arlington.
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Rural Women and Music Festival Highlights County Events
Rev and Mrs Maynard hosted the county ministerial fellowship at the church. Mrs Merlin Nading and Mrs Paul Boenish attended the Farm Bureau committee women's meeting in Elkader. Rural Women's Day plans were discussed. Volga glee club girls sextet and trio attended the West Union music festival with a II rating for the trio and a H for the sextet. Peggy Mobinson, Janice Kunzman, Marlys Oldfather, Carol Reynolds, Nancy Moats, Yvonne Brooks and Jackie Weidner appeared in solo and group numbers with piano accompaniment.
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Janice Kunzman
PTA Meeting Sees Election Of Officers At School
The last PTA meeting of the school year will be held on April 15 at the school house. Election of officers will be conducted. The notice mentions kindergarten and first grade participation.
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Andi
Farm Commodity Index Slips Across Iowa In Mid March
The Iowa farm price index fell for the month ending March 15, down 2 percent to 286 percent of the 1910-14 base. Livestock and livestock products declined, with hogs down 90 cents per cwt and calves down $1.00, while beef cattle and lambs posted mixed results. Dairy products and poultry also fell, butterfat and wholesale milk prices dropping, and the egg index dropping 6 cents per dozen amid little change for chickens.
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Iowa
First Man to Fly Across the Anartic Continent
Fragmentary note recounts incélillenbrtti as the first aviator to cross the Anartic Continent. The text oddly mentions beliefs about a flat world resting on four elephants and a turtle, rendering unclear factual context and source reliability.
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Incélillenbrtti
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