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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
3
Marjorie Scheel serves as local editor for Clermont Enterprise. She is a member of the Iowa Press Association and the National Editorial Association. The paper notes her role within Clermont, Fayette County, Iowa as a second class mail matter.
A driving rule states that faster speeds require more following distance. Stopping distances show a 35 mph car needs about 120 feet with two wheel brakes and 61 feet with four wheel brakes, versus 39 and 20 feet at 20 mph, so more space is required when speed increases. Mr and Mrs Fred Cline and Mrs R S Henderson visited Waterloo last Wednesday.
In Clermont, students share daily activities from Tom Sawyer antics to Christmas crafts as 3rd and 4th graders host visitors and display Nativity figures. Clermont hosts Elgin in a double header, winning 23 to 7 with the junior team and 24 to 16 for the seniors, led by Schrader and Gress.
In memory of Mrs. Martine Amundson who died December 14 1937. Christmas memories bring tears as eight children remember her working hard to clothe and feed them. Her prayers and Bible reading are recalled, and hope of reunion with father and mother in heaven is expressed by the children.
Grand Meadow area residents attended church services and shared meals at local homes. Multiple families visited relatives in nearby towns, while farm bureau activities and church programs were held. Mrs. Delores Erickson recovered from illness and several locals joined in Sunday school and confirmation events.
Commencement will run May 3 to June 5 1939 with over 1000 degrees awarded in the field house on June 5. Hawkeye sports schedule spans January to June featuring 64 contests 57 dual. Grants and gifts total 52415 in 1938 up from 1947. Jimmy George named conference MVP the first sophomore and Iowan to win the honor. A pneumonia study course in December to train 40 physicians and technicians will cover 42 pneumonia types and serum typing stations statewide.
In Fayette County Iowa Frank Fitzgerald et al unknown claimants are warned of a suit by Thomas MacGaheran claiming absolute fee simple title to Clermont premises. The petition seeks quiet title against all adverse claims and confirms MacGaheran's possession under a Fayette County tax deed. Default possible if unopposed at the January 8 1939 district court term in West Union.
Mrs Louise Miller and daughter Chrystal spent Saturday in Dubuque. Mrs Nels Simerson of Ossian visited Cedar Rapids Saturday. Mr and Mrs B A Lenhart visited West Union. Bertha Frisbie is able to be up at home after a fall injury. Harold Olson and daughter Charlotte of Decorah visited E C Olson Sunday. W R Blake returned from Des Moines where they were since Thursday. Supt and Mrs B A Lenhart and several students attended the Schoolmasters dinner in Maynard. A note remarks that a nation that once chips its teeth cannot keep its mouth shut.
A flurry of weekend visits and supper gatherings highlighted regional social life. Among those hosting or visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Len Simek with the Cowles at West Union, Bernard Thomas of Arlington with Robert Hackett of Fayette, and Helen Mager who returned to Cheyenne after a Wyoming visit. Various couples attended dinners and a Pioneer hybrid seed corn company banquet in Oelwe, while others traveled to Cedar Rapids, La Crosse, and Mealy hotel in Osage for events and leisure activities.
Mrs L L Carr hosted the Contract Bridge club at a one o clock lunch in her Hutchinson home on Tuesday. Prizes were won by Mrs E L Crowe and Mrs Dan Burke with guests from Minneapolis including Mrs Florence Clemens and son Donald and Leif Lar son.
Parisian students march through Paris with signs urging Corsica remain French and Venice become French. They clash with police on St Germain Boulevard before dispersing in front of an Italian exposition as tensions rise over Franco Italian border moves. News of Italian troop movements fuels uncertainty.
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