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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
1
A stream of jokes and quotes from a community page blends miscellaneous humor, marriage banter, and social quips. It references weather chatter, farming anecdotes, a sailor’s tale, and light editorial asides about government and taxpayers, concluding with a compact gag roundup.
Items from 1918 show Mary Skarshaug ill in bed, Camp Funston reports Harry Reichert ill with measles, Dan Sutter on furlough from Camp Dodge, Monnahan announce a new baby, Francis Cummings wounded in France, Evans welcome eight-pound boy. Families adjust as war distant, health concerns near, and new births brighten the era.
Mabel daughter of Samson abd Hannah Humphry pioneers of Ilyr ia township born June 4 1869, passed five months and twenty eight days later. Survived by husband Frederick Rothlisberger, daughter Ruth, son Otis, brothers Arthur and Leonard, two half-sisters and one half-brother. Active in church, music, and community service for forty years, she cared for a homeless boy Stephen Dyer. Services Dec 5 at home and church, with Shaffer quartet, pallbearers listed. Card of thanks from Fred Rothlisberger and family.
A wartime report notes Iowa farmers boosted hogs by 55 percent in 1943 and eggs by about 53 percent since 1941, with corn rising to 641,212,000 bushels in 1943, soybeans up 1254 percent to 300,000 bushels, and milk and poultry also climbing, reflecting federal push to raise meat milk eggs fats and garden produce.
Elgin Iowa council met at the town hall with all members present. Minutes from November were read and approved. Bills audited include Elgin State Bank interest on bonds 17.659 and various payments to Howard Luchsinger Chandler Co state conservation and utility charges, wages, repairs, and street lighting.
The article notes reduced hay and cattle issues due to foot and mouth, with cattle fattened and shipped out. It estimates average Iowa farmer foregone forage production and compares 1943 to the prewar period 1938–40, listing hogs, poultry, milk, eggs, corn, soybeans, flax as percent of base. Gardens described as the best in state history. A want ad suggestion closes.
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