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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1945
Page
1
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A rambling column mixes playful notes about a Copper hill slide near Canada and Otter Creek Bridge with warnings of hazards at gate posts, Low Grover corner, and creek banks. It shifts to local finance chatter, Prohibition echoes, a humorous ice cream moment, old west jokes, a church anecdote on electricity, and a rural misanthrope’s quips about marriage and timing.
The dialogue sketches misunderstandings about trust and responsibility with quick quips about bachelorhood and a baby arriving home. A sergeant jokes that last month's laundry produced an unexpected bundle. The tone is light, satirical newspaper humor of daily life.
Editorial from PURPLE AND WHITE TATTLER featuring staff bylines and the column about welcoming a New Year. A dog narrator muses on calendars and self renewal, noting that people use the date to discard old habits and begin anew. It asks readers what they will write on their 1945 page.
The 1st grade pupils work on addition number combinations. Mary Lou and Leland Sparks left us during vacation to go to school at Clermont.
The report covers Second and Third Grades with art projects like snowflakes and igloos, reading animal stories, and letters to a missing student Stanley Lehman. Sixth and Seventh Grades discuss science on elements and compounds, religion history, and new history workbooks. Visitors Hazel and Harvey Gilbertson, Bernice Blockhus, and school features include a club paper debut and a class profile of a senior student nicknamed Shirley Frieden.
The column names future ambitions and local rumors from 1945. It notes Frieden eyeing beauty work, New Year antics, burglar alarm sightings, party crashers at Mosby’s, Campfire Girls, and gossip about Joan, Owen, John, and Jack. It mentions Santa’s kindness to some girls, watches and bracelets, and a West Union item in Elgin.
Mr and Mrs F W Hughes return from Fremont Nebraska after Christmas and New Year’s at Mrs A F Plumbeck’s home with Dr John McKellar of Chicago visiting relatives. Albert Dummermuth and family came back from Clinton Missouri. Leslie Cooley and son visited Elgin relatives from Dubuque. Merlin Feller joined them returning from Dubuque. Verle Kniel resumes teaching in Guttenberg. Harold Greenley goes to Cedar Rapids for business college. Edith Keiser returns to Elkader as school instructor. The young son of Wax Thomas is improving after illness.
Elgin State Bank Fayette County Iowa shows total resources 1 386 294 13 with cash 434 596 26 and U S government obligations 170 828 04. Deposits total 1 315 970 38 including check deposits 836 399 49 savings 118 853 11 time 184 786 11 and other 14 790 51. Capital 70 323 76, total liabilities and capital 1 986 294 13, sworn by cashier B J Baumgartner and Asst cashier Edna Hunsberger January 9 1945.
A local tip advises homeowners to clear rubbish from and around their garden before starting work and to maintain tidiness to keep the space a beauty spot.
Stanley Boyer underwent an appendectomy Saturday at West Union hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Alph Shaffer hosted dinner guests Sunday at the Robert Kerr home. Mrs. Walter Pritchard remains ill under medical care. Eva Boyer stayed overnight Wednesday at the Milton Miller home.
Lima Peru outlines a disaster preparedness plan ranking well with U S chapters. Ecuador has expanded to thirteen of fifteen provinces with Red Cross programs. Venezuela hosts a strong hospital and nursing school, a pattern also seen in Argentina and Brazil.
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