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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1945
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for RA Foreign Display Local Display Readers and Classified per inch per line and word with prepayment. Notices for Cards of Thanks In Memoriam Resolutions of Respect and obituary notices charged at regular advertising rates in church and school notices.
A stream of jab line items and quips critique postwar politics and social norms. References to OPA meat rationing, Henry Wallace as commerce secretary, a retiring secretary Jess Jones, parental quips about hair and maturity, gender and body image jokes, grandparent lineage, liquor costs per person, and a sharp aside about politicians. A note on public figures and social foibles punctuate the humor with a Washington focus.
In zero weather two Jews debate silence as one jokes about freezing hands. A divorcee asks about heavenly divorces, answered there are none due to lack of lawyers. Editors receive a literal translation request for a hydraulic ram. A young friend asks to publish a plea that girls should not babysit on game nights.
A school publication lists staff editors and seniors with humorous name meanings and quirks. One senior, tall and 18, enjoys wrestling and radio music, prefers brown items, dislikes being called red, and loves mashed potatoes with chicken gravy, bacon, and eggs.
A student nicknamed Red aims away from farming, favoring physics and film stars Cary Giant and Betty Grable with Spike Jones music. The Del maceo Home Economics club and Wah anka Campfire girls met, planning future events. In Kindergarten through Seventh Grades, classes began new programs, with geography studies, health posters, and a basketball game showing sixth and seventh graders leading 11 to 0 at halftime.
Becker led with 10 points and Hanson 4 as A Larson and Gilson topped the losers with 4 each. Dean Torkelson refereed. The game ended 16 to 8 in favor of the younger grade team after a hard fought match.
iH Gilson continues to recover at Oelwein hospital after surgery. Wm E Baumgartner travels to Kansas City for an intensive Rahe Auto and Tractor school program. Elgin Savings Bank stockholders report solid condition and strong year ahead with Gus Gunderson as president and Samuel Mosby as cashier. Walter Kohls returns home from Camp Grant on a 10 day furlough to visit family.
Clarence Hoag of West Union found a fox wedged in the crotch of two tree limbs. The animal had leaped for a bird in a bush, became trapped, and froze to death unable to free itself.
A Calmar family marks January 1 as a birthday date for sons born four and two years earlier. The notice urges purchase of U.S. Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps and advertises Social Security booklets and deduction records. Echo office sells receipt books at 25 cents.
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