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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
1
Obituaries and society notices appear alongside school announcements and paid advertisements. The column lists resolutions of respect and church notices, with admission charges noted for event listings.
Newspaper editorials discuss how Republican handling over the next two years could determine state election outcomes. They weigh party efficiency, local control, tax reduction, and public sentiment as decisive factors shaping Democratic or Republican fortunes and voter response in future cycles.
A University of Iowa study by Robert C. Williams urges free transportation for rural high school pupils, noting 90 percent of eighth graders in consolidated districts attend high school at public expense and averaging 5.2 miles to school, three times farther than nonconsolidated districts. State aid is proposed to cover transport costs. University alumni groups and clubs expand nationwide as the school marks its anniversary.
The author recounts a farewell from German friends near Odenhausen then travels by train to Heidelberg. They describe German life under wartime rules, housing shortages, high rents, and cautious optimism about peace, noting the pervasive influence of Hitler and the phrase Heil Hitler. The journey includes Heidelberg Castle, the Great Barrel, prison art, and observations along the Rhine and Black Forest.
Eldred Patterson relapses with nurses summoned from Cedar Rapids while Mrs Greenley celebrates a birthday surprise. Dr Hutchinson adds a fountain reservoir for the operating room. Chris Holm assumes Rudy Lehman shop duties. A Perez family trip to Elgin and Ohio is noted. Mary Robbins and John West wed at the Robbins home in Myria. Clyde Boleyn travels to Des Moines with parents. Local Sunday schools prep for Christmas. Knudtson sells 32 DeLaval cream separators last week. Leap year ball planned for New Year’s Eve with possible orchestra. Chris Dennler seeks treatment for ill daughter in Iowa City. Wolves reported east of town amid winter wildlife.
A fragment notes hounds to come out and give them a good chase, implying pursuit or hunt in a public area. No additional context or names are readable to confirm location, date, or responsible authority.
The Rev. Carrie V. Lucas resigned as pastor of the Strawberry Point Congregational church and left Cedar Rapids with her son Donald Anderson for Los Angeles California. Her address will be 417 No Heliotrope Drive in care of her daughter Betty Prouty. Parishioners bid farewell at a potluck dinner after her final Sunday in the pulpit.
Transfers recorded in the week ending November 25 show Ora Fox to Jesse Fox for $1 on lots 18 19 and 20 in Herriman's addition to Wadena. Emma E. Jennings to Ralph R. and Leone Sheffer for $2300 on SW SW 14-93-7. Donald N. and Gladys Henry to W F Moore Trustees for $800 on multiple parcels including lots 158 159 182 and part of 183 in Herriman's addition with adjoining land to Wadena.
The Mississippi River froze across the stream above and below McGregor on Sunday, closing navigation for the year 1938. Records from the Scroggums over the past 50 years show the river typically closes in December about as often as in November.
WPA project 1448F for paving several Postville streets awarded to Fred Carlson Company of DebORah. Bid set at 92796 dollars. Work to begin this week according to WPA director W L Barnaby in Waukon.
Lloyd Faust describes two strangers who entered his Elkport tavern on Thursday afternoon. After offering a beer they slipped knockout drops, robbing him of $40 to $50 while he blacked out. He recovered later with a severe headache and no memory of the incident.
A missionary notes the bewildering diversity among New Guinea tribes with each village differing in customs and language. The same term can mean different things across communities, such as a word for Holy Ghost interpreted elsewhere as sweet potato.
The Baltimore oriole feeds on plant lice ants wasps grasshoppers spiders and weevils. Swallows consume flying insects in any number. Woodpeckers destroy wood boring insects. Robins eat fruit only during the flocking period the rest of the year they live on harmful insects.
Kenneth Sowers, tenant on C. W. Pennington’s farm northwest of Sumner, harvested 37 acres of corn and measured 4000 bushels, an average of 108 bushels per acre, per the Sumner Gazette.
Safety tip warns hunters to open a gun after a fall to ensure the muzzle is clear of mud or snow and that no components are broken. Proper inspection can prevent eye injury or more serious harm from a bursting barrel.
Governor Davey of Ohio rejected her appeal to spare her life. The 32 year old mother of a 12 year old son died in the electric chair at 8 p.m. Wednesday, the first woman executed by electric chair in Ohio.
The history of Chinese cabbage is tied to China as its origin and later adoption in Japan. The term Wong Bok is the Chinese word for Pe Tsai and also the Japanese word for Chinese cabbage, clarifying name confusion.
A brief etymology notes that the term chicken described a young girl on American campuses until about 1921. It traces usage to Steele in 1711 and Swift in 1720, with a disparaging sense established in the United States by 1788.
A note on the term loon as slang for a peculiar walker notes the bird’s fame as a top swimmer and diver and explains that loon once described someone with a ridiculous gait on land. The origin ties to an odd strut observed in the bird’s movement.
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