What's Happening to Camp Dodge in Iowa Headlines
Article surveys Camp Dodge fate amid idle status and calls for reuse or sale. Officials discuss Army needs, cost of reconversion, and potential rental of 2000 acres to aid soybean crop expansion. Editorials question idle status and future funding implications. District politics piece notes secretary of state candidacy surge and upcoming nomination paper deadline.
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Camp Re Dod
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Mark G. Thornburg
Towans
Clyde L. Herring
Paul Cunningham
Iowa
Food For Freedom
Hawkeye State
First Chicks Off Sunday as Hatchery Expands
Capper operations began for 1942 with the first batch of chicks on Sunday and a hatching percentage slightly above normal due to good weather. The initial batch is small relative to capacity, but production will rise weekly. New incubators have been ordered and are expected to arrive despite initial supplier doubts. A second 1942 mailing shows at least ten orders for every one in 1941 at this date.
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Cappers
Supt Robinson Heads Local Scouts Drive in Elgin
Supt Robinson leads a local effort to enroll Elgin residents as friends of scouting for the Wapsipinicon area council. Campaign begins Tuesday February 17 with Captains G J Mosby Rev Paul F Zoschke and Dr R A Crider heading teams of five or six workers.
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J. Robinson
Elgin
Friends of Scouting
Wapsipinicon
Robinson
G. J. Mosby
Paul F. Zoschke
R. A. Crider
Reverend Zoschke speaks at Wisconsin conference event
Rev. Paul F. Zoschke attended the Northwestern Conference Mission Committee annual session at North Freedom Wisconsin. The committee met Tuesday and Wednesday. He was also one of two speakers at the anniversary meeting of the North Freedom Women's Missionary Society Wednesday night.
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Paul F. Zoschke
Northwestern Conference Mission Committee
North Freedom
Wis
Zoschke
North Freedom Women's Missionary Society
WSCS Meeting Planned for Circle Hosts
The Women's Society of Christian Service will meet Thursday at three home circles. Circle A hosts Mrs. Co. J. Robinson, Circle B hosts Mrs. Albert Schori, and Circle C hosts Mrs. Z. C. Warton.
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Women's Society of Christian Service
Co. J. Robinson
Albert Schori
Z. C. Warton
Auxiliary Meeting Notice and Local Family Update
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet February 18 at the home of Mr and Mrs Sheldon Boyle. Mr and Mrs Myrlin Feller and their son returned to Anita Monday afternoon after being called home last Wednesday due to the illness of Mrs Chas Feller. The Telegraph-Herald and the Elgin Echo subscription is $5.80 per year.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Sheldon Boyle
Myrlin Feller
Anita
Chas. Feller
Telegraph-Herald
The
Elgin Echo
Club Talks Scouting, Movies and Bond Sales
The Community Club met at the Coffee Cup Monday evening with a 6:30 dinner followed by a brief business session. ONeill reported a movie operator’s plan to remodel a town building for cinema, which the club felt was outside their scope. Supt. Robinson outlined Scout activities and school matters while Baumgartner introduced bond publicity plans as a precursor to more efforts. The meeting adjourned early as Alber Hanson Family sought a new order in Engin but found none and later located a place just outside Gunder.
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O'Neill
Supt. Robinson
B. J. Baumgartner
Bond Publicity Committee
It's a Small World in a Painter's Coincidence
Mrs F W Hughes of Los Angeles writes about a roofing company estimator who resembled Charley Neuenschwander. The man introduced himself as C N, sparking a long chat about Elgin and a surprising coincidence involving a fellow townsman from a small old town.
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F. W. Hughes
Los Angeles
Calif
Berta Strauch
Mr and Mrs Shaffer Move to Parsons Kansas
Mr and Mrs Ray W Shaffer of Fredericksburg relocate temporarily to Parsons Kansas where the husband works on a defense project. The piece notes their address as Care C H Corse route 3 and mentions United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps with a Victory slogan.
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Ray W. Shaffer
Fredericksburg
Parsons
Kansas
C. H. Corse
United States Defense Savings
Schools Share in Benefit for Red Cross Ambulances
Clermont and Elgin schools donated about 60.21 to the Red Cross ambulance fund after a benefit basketball doubleheader at Vermont high school gym. Elgin won the junior game 9 to 2, Clermont the main event 33 to 24. Supt. Robinson said Fayette county schoolmasters allocated 100 to Red Cross ambulance purchases.
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Clermont
Elgin
Red Cross Ambulance
Vermont
al Doerring
Luana
Postville
Supt. Robinson
Fayette County
Red Cross
Scout Anniversary Marks Growth of Boy Scouts in America
The nation observes Scout Anniversary week February 6 to 12, noting 32 years since the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. From 61,495 in the first year to nearly half a million active in 1915, and today ten million men and boys influenced by scouting, which builds citizens and strengthens American democracy.
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America
Boy Scouts of America
Upper Iowa Press Meeting Set for Friday February 13
Public relations chief Virgil C Welch announced the annual Upper Iowa press conference scheduled for Friday afternoon with speeches and a business session. Gene Fuelling will preside, speakers include Fred Hill C W Buckley and Forest Seymour, followed by a 6 pm dinner and an 8 pm basketball game between Western Union and Upper Iowa.
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Virgil C. Welch
Upper Iowa
Western Union
Gene Fuelling
New Hampton
Fred Hill
Hamburg
Towa Press Assn
C. W. Buckley
Des Moines
Western Newspaper Union
Forest Seymour
Register and Tribune
Towa
Music Festival at Upper Iowa Hosts Fayette County Event
The Fayette county music festival arrives March 20 21 with Upper Iowa University as host. It is the fourth annual critic festival for Fayette county schools. Soloists small groups on Friday, then glee clubs choruses bands and orchestras on Saturday with critic judges offering constructive feedback for future state contest preparation.
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Fayette County
Upper Iowa University
Upper Iowa
Masons Hold School For Elgin Clermont Lodges
In Postville instructor Carl Cox led a Masons school in the local lodge with about sixteen members from Elgin and Clermont present. A second session is planned in Clermont next Thursday with Cox and Ray Douglas expected to attend. Afterward the group met at the Coffee Cup for lunch and a brief visit.
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Carl Cox
Postville
Elgin
Clermont
Opperads Plan Move From Charles City Farm to Floyd Site
Mr and Mrs P E Opperad living on a farm near Charles City say they plan to move on March first and their new address will be Floyd.
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P. E. Opperad
Charles City
Mareh
Floyd
Farm sales advertised in Echo Enterprise two on same day
The Echo Enterprise lists two closing farm sales for Tuesday February 17 in opposite paper sections. Mrs Helgerson north of Clermont offers four horses, forty cattle including twenty Holstein and Shorthorn cows, nine feeder pigs, two hundred fifty pullets, corn oats and feed plus machinery. the farm lies two miles north of Clermont and the sale is by Thompson and Waters with Farmers Savings Bank of Clermont clerking.
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The
Echo-Enterprise
Tryphena Knudtson
Wadena
Clara Helgerson
Clermont
Helgerson
Hans Gunderson
Thompson & Waters
Farmers Savings Bank of Clermont
Mrs Knudtson Sells Fresh Cows Ewes and Horses
Mrs Knudtson lists a sale featuring 1Q milk cows fresh and springing, 14 head of young cattle, 4 horses, 28 Shropshire ewes lambing now, a full line of machinery much of it nearly new, and household goods. Auctioneer Yoah W Thiele and the Elgin State Bank clerks conduct the sale as she quits farming after selling the farm with no definite plans for a new location.
Young Farmer’s Closing Out Sale Near Elgin
Reuben Nydegger, now awaiting induction, plans a closing out sale on Wednesday February 18 at his father’s farm a mile south of Elgin. The sale features 10 head of cattle Holsteins and Short horns including six cows plus three brood sows seven fall pigs two horses hay grain and machinery. The Elgin State Bank will clerk the sale thiele willuitton this sale.
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Army
Reuben Nydegger
Elgin
Thiele
Read Complete Details in This Week's Issue
Advertisements in the Echo Enterprise invite readers to review stock and machinery sales this spring. The notice notes limited sales in the territory and a small chance to meet needs for understocked or ill equipped farms.
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Echo Enterprise
Forther
Youth Clubs Earn 63 Dollars From Waste Collection
The Boy Scouts, the Cubs and the Campfire Girls in Elgin have gathered waste paper and cartons from homes and businesses since Christmas. They earned 63 dollars from their first sale last week, planning to split four ways with each organization receiving a quarter for their treasury and the school playground fund getting the remaining quarter. The group aims to continue and hopes for another shipment soon. Mrs. R. B. Strauch returned home from Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo Friday and is cared for at home by Mrs. Lena Cooley.
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Boy Scouts
Cubs
Elgin
Seco
R. B. Strauch
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Lena Cooley
Kohler
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