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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch and is entered in the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
A fragmented note praises a morsel of suet as daily inspiration while reflecting on cheerfulness, youthful looks, and a playful Bruges of reading about Dickens. The passage touches on recipe curiosity and a writerly return to daily chores and study.
Echo files recall the January 26, 1916 marriage of Kerr and Anna Grover at West Union. The couple, well known in Elgin, pursued a quiet ceremony away from friends, with Anna described as the Gruver family’s youngest daughter.
Rich's Pipe Dreams offers homely musings on life, humor, and community. The piece includes local notes on river cleanup by NYA youths, hopes for a new park with a ball diamond and tennis court, book thoughts from David Grayson, bird feeding tips, and brief town notices about residents, a runaway accident injuring Mrs. Jud Conner, a baby's death, relocation of Ralph DeSart, Theodore’s eye care, a newborn, a money order from Australia, and multiple farm roof collapses, all rich with local color.
A seven year old cuts a world map from an atlas to test his dad’s patience. The boy assembles the pieces quickly, explaining that a picture of a man on the back guided him. He believes fixing the man fixes the world, and the dad is surprised by the insight.
A quip from Elbert Hubbard urges workers to stay loyal to their employer and avoid disparaging the institution they serve. It emphasizes that backing the organization reflects on oneself and calls for resignation only when needed to avoid harming the group.
A hotel manager dismisses concern over ad placement and accepts a dare to run a one inch single column sign stating This Hotel Has Bed Bugs. The proposer promises 10 000 people will discuss it in 24 hours, arguing the ad content matters more than placement.
The text lists initial Tenderfoot requirements for scouts including the Scout oath laws salute flag history flag respect and basic skills such as knot tying. It notes progression through Second Class First Class Star Life and Eagle ranks with a signature line Dale Kelly Ser.
A Spanish 100 cent pound shotgun brought by Hernan Cortez in 1523 is now on exhibit at the Centennial museum of the Texan college of mines in El Paso. This muzzleloader has a 35 millimeter bore and was used in the Mexican War of Independence from 1810 to 1812.
Walter Johnson hurled a dollar across the Rappahannock near Fredericksburg Virginia on Washingtons birthday in 1936 to illustrate how Washington might have thrown the same distance near Ferry Farm his boyhood home.
A statement notes that most earthquakes originate between 33 and 100 miles beneath the earth's surface. The range highlights the crust and upper mantle as the seismic source region, indicating typical depths for tectonic activity.
Senate File 227 appropriates 500000 for the Agricultural Land Credit Fund for 1940 and thereafter. Credits apply to agricultural land within independent school districts when general fund tax levy exceeds 15 mills. consolidated districts are excluded. Claims begin Jan 1, 1940, with filing rules and deadlines, and payments routed through county auditors to the state treasurer.
December reports recount Fayette County No 4 C T A dairy results for the month. E T Smith of Volga topped the herd with 95 lbs milk and 37.6 lbs fat. Rose the Grade Brown Swiss cow owned by Walter Plaht yielded 1265 lbs milk and 59.5 lbs fat. Irving Deering of Clermont noted Plumby’s fat records in Nov Dec and Jan, with 05.1 lbs fat in Nov, 746 lbs fat in December and 82.1 lbs in January, while dry period feeding was cited. During December there were 453 cows on rest with 108 dry and 343 in milk, averaging 627 lbs milk and 26.6 lbs fat for the association. Top herds included Deering 34 cows 965 lbs milk 37.3 lbs fat, Kerr 28 cows 984 lbs milk 37.2 lbs fat, Wagner 14 cows 809 lbs milk 37.2 lbs fat, and Learn 18 cows 54 lbs milk 31.1 lbs fat.
Wrist watches suffer from a fit epidemic in England as watch reporters stay busy. An inquiry found that most owners had influenza. In Spartanburg South Carolina police rushed to a bank on a burglar alarm but found business as usual and eased the clerk's foot from the alarm button before returning to headquarters.
A concise note explains that all planets rotate around the sun in the same directional path. The statement emphasizes uniform orbital motion, noting no planets countering the general heliocentric orbit.
Notice of the Elgin Farmers Dairy Company meeting held in Elgin Town on December 2, 1939. Article 6 of the articles of incorporation was amended to add that the secretary and treasurer shall be elected by the board of directors. By Robert Wilson president and Fleet Frieden secretary.
Ben Winks Jr. died at his Sumner home Monday at 75 after a stroke two days following his son G L Winks death on Thanksgiving. He helped found the firm of Weacott and Winks and later ran Wescott and Winks after buying Frank Wescott’s interest in the partnership.
Beans are not usually used as poultry feed, but call beans are sometimes fed. It is best to cook the beans and feed them as part of a wet mash similar to potatoes fed to poultry.
Helium ranks just after hydrogen as a light gas but is preferred for balloons since hydrogen is flammable. Helium is non flammable and widely used for lifts without ignition risk.
Miss Randi Langaard assists the secretary of the Red Crown Handicap Bowling Sweepstakes as entries flood the coast-to-coast pin spilling classic. The Red Crown Sweeps, already holding the world record for individual participation in a major sports event, surpassed its mark with 309,000 entrants from A. B. I. C. sanctioned five-man teams competing for prizes from January 14 to March 2.
New York entrepreneur Miss Jane English launches a personal service bureau offering yearly reminders for birthdays anniversaries and similar occasions for a five year subscription to help customers remember and purchase gifts.
New York reports a novel revenue stream as the city’s health department runs free dental clinics. Patients’ extracted teeth are melted into silver, yielding a total of 100 dollars for municipal coffers. The program aims to ease financial troubles faced by city services.
In Bartley West Virginia a Pond Creek coal mine blast left 92 dead and a carbon monoxide pocket nearly claimed four more lives as miners and rescuers battled the wreckage. State mine inspector Hugh Lowe collapsed while supervising removal of 34 bodies and was brought out on a stretcher.
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