26 Apr 1951
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1951
Page
1
A lively guest column laments skipped poems, editor's health, and the Mississippi flood. The author notes photographers in river towns, homes soaked by muddy waters, and calls for warm sun to dry fields and resume seeding and haying. The tone mixes humor with concern for ongoing flood cleanup and agricultural delays.
A collage of quips about bachelors, censor, and pessimists contrasts with local news. It notes church, study club, and Elgin events, including Hans Keiser’s European trip, Mary Patterson’s school close, cement block shipments, car updates, hospital return, and silo filling at Fountain Run Farm.
In 1928 a Baptist choir of thirty five members performed the Easter cantata Hosanna before a large audience as recorded in the Echo files dated April 29.
The primary room hosted mothers for a spring program on Tuesday April 10 with rhythm band songs and readings from The Little Red Hen and The Gingerbread Boy. First graders read in a supplementary book Up and Away while practicing addition and counting to 60 and writing to 20.
Elgin area notes list numerous visitors from Cedar Rapids Chicago and Dubuque. Names include Helen Wenger Abbie Perkins Etta Roberts and more visiting friends and relatives in Chris Wenmee Frank Greghley homes and other local households. Several residents traveled to Chicago and Chileago for visits with Lehman and Dummermuth families.
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