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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1942
Page
1
Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam notices offered at regular rates. Obituary poetry and church society or school notices with admission charged also priced at standard advertising rates. Thursday January 8, 1942.
A collage of World War II era readings includes wartime price pleas and a Waverly grocer ad urging thrift. The War Dept seeks quiet on selective service moves, while a Madrid Register-News excerpt mocks isolationists and promotes support for soldiers.
Local bird fans report Starlings multiplying in Elgin, challenging native species. Described as chubby black with brown spots and a long bill, the imported birds are seen as a growing nuisance worse than sparrows. Residents alarmed by feeding pans being overtaken by the flock.
Paul Barcus of Audubon suffered severe burns to one hand when a motor backfired igniting his gloves and clothing. He managed to extinguish the flames, leaving burns limited to his hand after the incident.
Elgin State Bank of Iowa Fayette County presents the December 31 1941 condition. It lists resources including loans and discounts U.S. bonds securities and other real estate owned cash items and total resources and liabilities with capital stock surplus and deposits. The sworn statement is signed by Samuel Mosby vice president and B J Baumgartner cashier and notarized January 6 1942 by Edna Hunsberger Notary Public with directors Max Thoma F E Kohler Attested.
Elgin Iowa January 5 1942 town council met in town hall with Mayor Falk and four councilmen present. Minutes approved. Bills audited include supplies labor and postage with total payments to Creighton Corner, Central States Power & Light, N W Bell Telephone, and others. A poll tax of 3 dollars for 1942 was approved and marshal and street commission salary raised by 10.06 per month. Meeting adjourned. Parallel world war news notes cite Allied seizure of Timor and Japanese advances near Penang Sarawak Manila Aparri Legaspi Hongkong and Manchukuo troop movements.
A historical capsule from January 4 1917 lists New Year events in Castalia including visits by Mr and Mrs Harley Steele and child Bobby, births of Gerald Wayne Vinton and a son to Wesley Miller Jr, newborns Willie Krueger and others, moves of Olaf Bartlett, and deaths prompting family travel. Local business ads begin the year with bank and merchandise listings such as Elgin Savings Bank Citizens State Bank Max Thoma and many merchants and tradespeople.
The Clayton county transfer summary lists 13 real estate transfers from the past week. Notable entries include Selma Meisner and Wm. Lerch as heirs of Selme Lerch, Admx., transferring land in sections 34 and 35-94-6 and 26-94-86.
The Boyden Cooperative Creamery installs a milk-drying plant with capacity of 250 pounds of milk powder per hour. Milk powder is high on the government list of defense-needed food products. Harlan residents respond to John Schnepel’s offer to mail fruit cakes to servicemen, providing nearly 70 names and addresses for delivery.
An Exchange letter warns that 400 Dutch farmers and their families will be moved to Russia by January to work the fields under Nazi orders. It claims by next summer up to 10,000 Dutch households will reside in Russia, living under occupation, with harvests controlled by Nazis and soldiers enforcing obedience. It asks if 10,000 American farming families would join similar work for the Nazis.
The Monona County Conservation Club plans its annual buffalo dinner for January 16 and has ordered the meat from See Park in South Dakota. Also noted is an exchange of school portfolios between South Maple Grove near Humboldt and a Victoria, Australia, school, with a recent return containing pressed plants and bird and tree specimens.
Two Christmas greeting cards arrived in Adel in the same mail with identical content and envelopes but different postmarks one from Columbus Mississippi and the other from Columbus Wisconsin. A Denison poultry fire destroyed Mr and Mrs L H Christiansen’s flock last week and neighbors organized a chicken shower with games and a lunch.
British sources say a raid on the Norwegian coast involved hand picked commandos led by British soldiers. The commandos are specially trained and have intensified their small scale operations against German occupied lands.
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