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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
2
The student newspaper reveals festive decorations across Elgin High with red and green ropes icicles a silver wreath stars and a decorated Christmas tree. Classes share reports on crafts songs and programs while planning the Dec 22 Christmas program and a school banquet.
Wadena News reports multiple Christmas gatherings including Mink Creek Study Club at the Jennings home with poems and contests, gifts to families who suffered a fire, and refreshments. Bernadette Corkery hosted the R N A lodge party with officer re elections and gifts. The Strawberry Point declamatory contests featured local competitors with advancing winners. Various clubs held meetings, lectures, dinners, and bridge games with prizes and Santa appearances, as residents prepare for holidays and school vacation.
A witness described a tense moment when a driver says a sneeze caused an impulse to push the accelerator, leading to unintended actions. Authorities note no further details available and investigations continue.
General Sir Archibald Wavell, hero of Libya, is assigned to lead British forces in India. In a photo he inspects Malayan defenses with two high ranking officers nearby as Malayan frontier line remains the scene of sharp fighting and firm British resistance.
Mrs George Fay were Mr and Mrs John Fay and family of Fayette Mr and Mrs Howard Crandall and family of Oelwein and Mr and Mrs Gordon Fay of Waterloo
At the December 10 meeting the C B S elected Worthy Matron Mrs B H Brackin Worthy Patron C B Schori Asso Matron Mrs H H Wolf Asso Patron A M Weibel Secretary Mrs R W Muehl hater Treasurer Mrs R P Strauch Conductress Elizabeth McMillan Asso Conductress Mrs Lyle Light The officers will be installed at the January 14 meeting.
A bidder at the Boone county delinquent tax sale offered one half of one quadrillionth for a parcel of land containing 233 acres then delinquent in taxes. To reduce this bid to figures it took 39 ciphers added to the figure 1, and no one could state in plain English how small the bid was. It was the next thing to nothing.
The sixth hen in Mrs. Gerritt ver Steeg’s Knoxville henhouse laid an egg that bore a shell imprint of the number six, printed in large figures about three quarters of an inch high, equivalent to 48 point type.
An Algona man asked to remain unnamed gave his wife a bicycle for her 50th birthday. Houdini Pig, a boat owner from Graettinger, rode home with H C Jensen and son Chris. In Ringsted the pig and trailer end gate disappeared, later found four miles out of town. A Sumner state highway patrol officer was cited for improper parking. the mayor's court dismissed the case.
A Mapl eton wedding between Mildred Wight and Vincent Fields was followed by a death when Mildred s aunt Mrs Oscar Bakke aged 66 collapsed after greeting the bride, presumed heart attack. Also notes a hay stack topple near Northwood killing seven cattle and a will from Eagle Grove gifting meat to charity.
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