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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1941
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R P Strauch in Elgin, with mailing through the post office as second class matter. The notice confirms its status and distribution in Elginette County.
Display and classified rates listed for foreign display local display readers and jassified per word with in advance payment terms. Cards of thanks memoriam and resolutions noted with obituary poetry at standard rates, with agency restrictions and minimums.
A column mixing local color with comments on political solicitations for a Democratic speaker at the West Union postoffice dedication. It notes lavish diamond talk around Leap Year, Sadie Hawkins plans, New Year resolutions, a safety council slogan, mistletoe antics, a paintbrush sage saying about drink and fuel, and a comical tale of a repeated bun vendor jailed in the calaboose.
Fragmentary lines reference resolutions and a greeting for a Happy New Year. The text suggests an optimistic note about keeping resolutions and a wish for a joyful start to the year. No clear events, people, or organizations are identified in the readable portion.
Items drawn from January 4 1911 Echo files detail Brainard residents Mounce Craft Mer vin Brown and Melvin Boyer wolf hunting on Ridge Sunday. Other notes describe John Capper’s stair accident, Henry Feller’s child losing a thumb, visits from West Bend and Dubuque, Decorah water works, Christmas travel by auto fading with snow, and Clem Keenan’s visit from Dubuque after a merchants banquet.
Mr and Mrs H E Landsgard and many relatives share Christmas dinners and visits across families in Arling ton Decorah and Gunner area. District No 5 school resumes after vacation as neighbors recall Christmas events and dinners at several homes including B Nelson West Hoag and Loftsgard households.
Sam Sherman of Oelwein was convicted in district court of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. Judge T. H. Goheen sentenced him Thursday to a lengthy term in the reformatory. Sherman had been jailed since July 6, facing the heaviest sentence permitted under the statute.
"Bud" Foote departs for federal assignment at Burlington to oversee shell loading plant construction as county engineer. The brief leave of absence marks a transition in his duties and responsibilities.
Notice from Fayette County Iowa in the matter of Leo Beucher trustee for Clermont State Bank stockholders. Final report filed August 19 1920 seeks approval to distribute remaining assets to stockholders and pay trustee and attorney fees. Hearing set January 16 1941 at 10:00 AM in West Union Court House.
Brainard Itema notes the death of aunt Mrs Lizzie Olzan in Detroit on December 28 and burial at Clermont the 36th. Christmas visits fill the community with many families staying with relatives in Greeley Sidney Nutting Hawkeye Randaila Fayette and Waterloo. Church notes list Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. and services at 7:30 p.m. January 5 with Rev U E Burroughs.
A week of 15 traffic deaths pushed Iowa's 1940 auto fatality total to 546, surpassing the 541 deaths recorded by the same point in 1939. The year closed with 542 deaths.
Charlies E Smith aged 62 died in St Paul Minnesota on December 9 after 35 years in the railway mail service. He led the St Paul branch as president for 22 years and retired January 1. A Mason, he belonged to Macalester lodge which managed the funeral. Born near Wadena Iowa, he moved to St Paul in 1904. Surviving: widow, daughter Joan, mother Mrs Nannie Fritz of Elgin, and brother Franklyn of Hood River Oregon.
The Baptist church will observe the Week of Prayer with daily services each evening at o o clock next week. This long standing custom is followed by many churches during the first week of the New Year. Rev Zoschke has listed topics with Monday focusing on Abraham the Man.
Tuesday through Friday highlight biblical figures named Faith and their traits with Elijah serving devotion, Samuel as during Wednesday, David as Thursday, and Solomon as Friday the Man of Wisdom. The brief list presents a thematic sequence linking virtue to each day.
Library notes list new adult titles Pinkerton Invitation to Live Douglas The Vision Hutchins 30000 on the Hoof Grey Lighted Windows Loring Patch of Blue Hill Older Boys and Girls Adventure North Pinkerton Seven League Boots Halliburton juvenile Dr Dolittles Circus Lofting Smoky House Goudge A Book for Jennifer Dalglesh The Little Train Lenski Morrison. An excellent series of bible story readers for grades 1 to 6 is also now available to gong readers.
John Frederickson of Harlan continued his yearly gift tradition by donating a piano to the Elim Orphans Home at Elk Horn this Christmas season. The act underscores ongoing support from local benefactors to the home.
Santa Claus arrived late to Corwith and was found by several boys who then locked him in the school house, delaying the appearance and causing a local stir in the town.
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