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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1942
Page
1
Rich surveys rural life during wartime shifts as farmers rise with the sun, buses run on new schedules, and sugar rationing looms. Postmaster Mosby reports defense and savings bond sales, while J F Mitler leads county efforts urging bonds and stamps to fund the war. Local residents debate clock changes, dew, and balancing daily routines with national demands.
Readers debate pensions and pay for veterans with mentions of ten thousand dollars yearly, twenty one dollar monthly stipends, and the need for a pension repeal. A Chicago Tribune suggestion questions salvaging rubber stamps for defense and a call to buy at home to save tires.
Elgin Savings Bank marked Thrift Day with a house warming as the new banking house opened to the public. Local residents and visitors noted extreme cold days, while families and businesspeople traveled for health, travel, and decorating tasks. Mrs. Houg attended a funeral in town, and others left for California and Florida for health and business purposes. A farm house burned, cows perished in a straw stack accident, and area residents returned from Ames with reports on a short course.
The Lever Bros company plans an introductory campaign for Swan Soap in Elgin and Clermont and the surrounding rural area. February 16 week will feature house to house canvassing with sample cakes and coupons redeemable at local stores. Rural residents will receive coupons by mail and can redeem them later.
A War Department communique states General Emilio Aguinaldo allied with Japanese invaders urging surrender to General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur’s forces reportedly dismissed the implausible demand as laughable. In Arkansas, a local photo captures Mrs. W. R. Pickering with a remarkable cow named Grumpy, noted for her long calving record and unusually high milk yield.
Mrs Pauline DeSart died at St Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids on February 2 after a short illness. Born August 5 1860 in Clayton county she lived in Elgin since 1876. She married John L DeSart in July 1885 and leaves one daughter Mrs Will Kendall and four sisters. Funeral services were held February 4 at 1:30 p m at Muehlethaler Funeral Home with burial in Elgin Cemetery beside her husband.
A wartime appeal urges citizens to support the front by buying U S Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. The message contrasts terms and stresses the value of investing in the nation’s defense through Savings Bonds.
A local ad notes $12.00 for hogs and highlights general price increases on farm purchases. It promotes Bolson’s Hi-Test Mineral Protein Conditioner Pig Meal and Bolson’s Poultry Feeds as cost-saving options, urging farmers to visit and ask for the products.
M H Morse 100 of Wyoming Iowa is believed to be the oldest to seek a Iowa homestead tax exemption. He recently filed his honorary Civil War discharge as part of the exemption application. In Adel a printing error turned a column heading into a joking label for the weekly Sick Stuff page.
Transfers filed in the week ending February 6 1942 list Ernest Baechler and Rosa to Lena Baumgartner with one dollar for several parcels in Sutters Addition Elgin and surrounding sections, Lena Baumgartner to Ernest Baechler and wife Rosa with similar parcels, and Henry and Clara Hackmann to Hugo J Hackmann with substantial NW and NE NW parcels in township 14 range 95-10.
AIA paper recalls a wartime classified listing offering four auto tires in good condition for sale or trade. The ad mentions a five room bungalow as a possible trade and urges readers to remember Pearl Harbor and buy U S Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.
Forty years after Traer had the youngest mayor at age 24 B Frank Thomas now district judge of Iowa's largest counties is noted. The 1942 record year in agricultural history sees 2 769 000 000 eggs produced in Iowa and nationwide 22 eggs per person. Iowa leads in egg production and becomes the top state in eggs.
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