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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1942
Page
2
The school staff and students celebrate Christmas spirit with messages of generosity and kindness. Articles cover grade study topics, decorations, and reflections on World War II events in Africa and Toulon, noting lessons in arithmetic, English possessives, and history.
In home economics the class prepares lunches with cheese souffle macaroni salad and assorted desserts and dressings. Budgets and sewing start next semester while science moves from disease to electricity. Algebra review and a semester test prep continue. Betty Cline from Fayette joins the class as a new pupil. Declamatory contest participants are praised with congratulations to the winners.
Eugene Wenger writes that November’s top story is the Axis defeat in northern Africa and the French fleet scuttling. German Italian forces under Rommel retreat as Montgomery’s British Eighth Army advances, with American and British forces landing in Morocco and Algeria and pushing east toward Tunis and Tripoli.
The Junior class welcomes Dorothy Cline of Fayette. Juniors are busy preparing for semester tests scheduled for December 18 and 21.
A Wahanka Camp Fire Christmas party included a sleigh ride and hot soup at Alma Grimes home with guardians present. The column lists senior Reuben, Betty Schori, odds and ends from Elgin High, with class chatter about teachers, cheese, sleigh rides, and Christmas package deliveries to service members.
Birthday calendar notes dates for Charlea Becker Lois Feller Ivan Torkelton George Bovis Donne Jean Robinson Carroll Klingman Betty Cline with days listed as 22 through 1 for various names.
The interim committee urged modernization of mental hospitals and state institutions. It called for separate housing for workers, expanded ward vocational training, and better wages by comparing with Knoxville hospital. It recommended legislative changes and stricter control by the same department. It noted unused capital funds and proposed continuous statutory revision and legislative research to save time and money. It reported liquor stores revenue drop and trial rationing limits per store manager.
Resigned Adel Republican floor leader Custis Gregory faced draft considerations after renomination last spring. He was told he would be taken in the draft before the legislature convened, but a change let him avoid service due to age. A replacement legislator allegedly won election. Gregory cannot attend the next session. Main Street. A watercolor “Belle Plaine Iowa” by Frank N Wiktox was shown in Cleveland Ohio at the Cleveland Society of Artists gallery, depicting a Main Street day scene.
A historical notice lists H Brackin along with Schneider Martin Wenger Clarence Kirkeberg and Albert Dennler as directors in a hiring or appointment record. The fragment suggests a governance personnel update within a organization or company, with monetary or statistical figures nearby indicating compensation or budgetary figures.
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