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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1942
Page
2
The Elgin High school paper presents a piece arguing steady effort wins, using the tortoise fable to urge gradual progress and consistent work over haste. It extols building from the bottom up, noting success comes by small, persistent steps rather than leaps.
In second and third grades art class we made Easter Bunnies and tulip nut cups. Miss Dunkle read Benjie’s Hat by Mabel Leigh Hunt. The library corner gained new books and a cactus shows two sprouts likely to bloom.
Fourth and fifth grade notes show geography themes on Newfound land and Labrador and southern North America. Sixth and seventh grade study birds and decimals. Music contest at Postville from April 10 to 11 features Elgin High sextet and Kenton Krueger soloist performing The Prayer Perfect Rain and The Blind Ploughman. Senior class play debuts Friday evening April 10.
Mr and Mrs W A Peters marked their 50th wedding anniversary as family and friends from West Bend Cedar Rapids and beyond gathered. Visitors included Raymond Wilson Ruth Len Simek Louise Miller and others. Multiple relatives spent Easter and weekend visits at various local homes with reflections on long marriages and community ties.
A woman will travel day afternoon to Camp Wallace Texas to visit her husband stationed there. She will also visit relatives in Baton Rouge Louisiana and expects to be away about two and one half weeks. Her parents Mr and Mrs Geo Belschner accompanied her to Cedar Rapids.
Elgin residents hosted and visited relatives from Cedar Rapids Waterloo Monona and Rochester Minnesota over Easter weekend. Families included Schupbachs Hanson Kors Eads and Pinneys with trips to Chicago and Mayo Hospital for a goiter operation. A 10 year old Merle Hoffa donated his prize goat at Grundy Center livestock sale raising 1.35 for American Red Cross war relief.
In Moscow, Russia, Red Russian army medical corps members work in a dressing station, pumping blood into a wounded soldier. Blood from a blood bank, a system now worldwide, is used as Russia inaugurates the program.
Dunloggin Design, a 1 1/2 year old Holstein bull from Cedar Grove New Jersey, tops the Holstein-Friesian Assn of America index with 999 pounds of butterfat. The bull, owned by Essex County New Jersey, shows his daughters average 763 pounds of butterfat yearly versus 546 pounds for dams, crediting the sire for the boost under equal-parent principles.
Copy of the President's message praising the courage of every member of the U S Army Expeditionary Force in Northern Ireland is distributed to all servicemen. It states you will be supported by the whole force and power of this nation.
Norfolk Va Former professional baseball stars now in the service of the U S Navy and playing for the Norfolk naval team are shown in this soundphoto They are left to right Sam Chapman Bob Feller frank Hutchinson and Ace Parker.
In Fayette county Gov. Wilson appoints Atty. Martin M. Cooney of West Union to the district bench to replace the late H. E. Taylor of Waukon, recalling that Martin’s brother James Cooney formerly served as judge of the 13th district before his move to Wilson & Co. Martin had once lost a bid for Republican national committeeman to Harrison H. Spangler of Cedar Rapids in 1940. Tell ’em you saw it in the Echo.
The Elgin fire department responded last Thursday about 2 30 pm to a grass fire at the Walter Bovis home as it neared the barn. No damage occurred and firefighters did not enter action.
Ervin Rink, a Cresco area farmer, raises about 100 adult mink as a hobby turned profitable venture. He sells pelts at monthly Wisconsin auctions and feeds the animals a ration of ground horse meat, milk, and cereal.
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