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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
2
The Elgin high school notes document a busy period with class meet appointments for editors and a Christmas program set for Thursday afternoon. Also recapped is a Dec 10 basketball win by Elgin over Garnavillo and a 51–21 girls loss, including key scorers Decker and Hedeman for Garnavillo and Lorraine Miller for Elgin.
Ken Blockhus led the Panthers with 20 points on 10 field goals as they routed Hawkeye 68 to 15 Friday night. Frieden 11 and Torkelson 10 followed Blockhus, completing Elgin’s second unit's 14-point contribution. Hawkeye’s Joanne Granneman top-scored with 27 for the Go Hawks while Eunice Gehring led the Panthers with 11. The Panthers extended their unbeaten streak to seven.
Wadena students excel in spelling with several 100 percent scorers in grades one through eight and enjoy Christmas literature and library art. Absent pupils include Geraldine Westcott with parents in Davenport and Robert Whittenbaugh ill. Activities include Christmas decorations, poems, fisheries unit in geography, and a community Christmas program. Local staff additions and visits feature Earl Carpenter and Joe, Dorcas Society at Mrs. Arthur Thomas’s home, and a hospital update on W F Moore after appendectomy life.
Mrs Herve Aeschliman traveled to Sumner on Saturday to help care for her granddaughter at the home of her daughter and son in law, Mr and Mrs Elwin Notbohm.
Local whispers of ghost squirrels near Waukon cemetery gain traction after Harold Smith reports capturing a white bodied red tailed specimen signaling possible sightings.
In Mahaska county a 184 acre farm owned by the estate of Josephine Ruby sold at public auction for 52000 dollars, about 282.60 per acre. Orville Montgomery of Oskaloosa was the purchaser.
At Humboldt Merlin Tinken, 22, reported a good crop with 10,000 bushels of corn from 146 acres he rented last spring from his father.
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