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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1943
Page
1
The Elgin Echo, published each Thursday by R P Strauch, is entered at the Elgin Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
Advertising rates listed for cards of thanks memorials obituaries and related notices at regular dates. Includes in memoriam cards and church society or school notices with admission charged and obituary poetry.
Rich' tps presents a humorous yet practical mix of gardening and home life amid wartime values. The column jokes about locker rooms and unconventional gardening, notes neighborly duties, praises spring cleanups, warns against littering cemetery plots, and urges victory gardens while mentioning a potential Jap air raid along the California coast.
A local Californian crafted a facade of Hitler to frighten enemies, but birds soon pecked its eyes and mustache, highlighting the futility of such tactics. The passage muses on judgment, providence, and resilience amid war.
From the April 25 Echo files Cliff Christ returns to Wa seca Minnesota for a two week visit and expects to join the colors soon. Mrs G Barnhart visits H S Steele family. Mrs Frank Capper returns from Cedar Rapids after attending a Carson Piere Scott Co convention. Mrs Mary Skarshaug ill with appendicitis but improving. Chas Capper and Ray DeSart on railroad mail runs. Max Lehman and Carrie Freiburghaus visit Decorah by auto. roads good. Melvin Boyer returns from Camp Pike Arkansas for a few days with his parents in Brainard.
The Elgin library notes praise Julia Truitt Yenni's House for the Sparrow for its tender humor and charm, while Elizabeth Coatsworths The White Horse follows Sally and Andrew on a sea voyage with pirates. Uphams Little Brown Bear introduces a child learning to face darkness and daily tasks with playful adventures and illustrations that almost tell the story themselves.
Funeral services were held in Huron for Andrew W. Lynch age 68. He worked for C. N. W. Ry in Waseca before moving to Huron 30 years ago where he became a shop foreman. He is survived by a daughter Sister Mary Adoline of Mound, a son William in the navy at Great Lakes, two brothers Leo of Waseca and Thomas of Minneapolis, and a sister Mrs Arthur Ward of Waseca.
Miss Cook of Marengo performed her first solo at Grinnell college church as a storm disabled the organ. The interruption did not deter her, and she received high praise from her music instructor for poise under pressure.
The latest notices outline boosted production for baby carriages and strollers to meet anticipated demand, with no cap on recapping certificates after May and play shoes returning to rationed lists. It also details changes in farm and meat feed rationing, new WAAC entry standards, blanket sizing limits, and continued use of cast iron sail pipe amid a tight coal and transport outlook for winter 1943.
Mr. and Mrs. Clement Messerli Jr of Wadena received a war department notice that their son Pvt. Clement C. Messerli Jr was killed in action in Africa. He enlisted May 1, 1941 and served with the first AEF in England and North Africa after stints in Ireland and Scotland. His last letter dated February 23.
New fire coats arrived for the Reinbeck department and were worn immediately. Fire Chief Walter Hawkins was trying one on at home when a call came reporting a blaze at a nearby farm residence.
Soldier Morris V. Amundson writes from India after four months abroad asking Rich to keep sending the Echo. He notes limited comforts, dust, rain, and life on a brick barrack post with oxen power, seven-day workweeks, and scarce but favored American goods at the PX. He hopes for the paper to arrive regularly.
A town ration calendar lists second inspection deadlines for Class A by Sept 30 and Class B by June 30. Class C or bulk coupons second inspections by May 31, with vehicle rules on 80 days or 5,000 miles. Various fuel, coffee, sugar, blue, and red stamps have expiry dates, and a farm survey notes labor shortages may reduce Iowa dairy output.
This year renewal of drivers licenses costs 75 cents while the license remains valid for three years instead of two. A receipt will be issued to attach to the present license due to wartime material shortages. Renewals should not be attempted until the announced renewal period.
W M Rowles of Onawa a federal housing authority field representative leads construction of a new town in Washington named Ordnance. The planned community will house 350 families with homes in units of 2 4 6 and 8 plus administration buildings community centers and residential food stores.
The Office of Defense Transportation requires all trucks to maintain operation records and inspection records. The period for estimating mileage and gasoline needs has passed, and operators must have records on their certificates to avoid tires, mileage, or gasoline issues with ration boards.
A. L. Moeller of Lake View hauled in a 12 pound northern pike while fishing off the Black Hawk lake shore near his home. He summoned help to land the fish and had to release it back into the lake. It is reported to be the largest pike caught at the lake in several years.
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