School Notes From Elgin High Report
Miss Lyons is very ill and cannot resume school work. Semester closed with exams Tue and Wed after Saturday classes. Senior English debates likely with neighboring high school. War Saving Stamps talk and new chairs for primary class. School board urges curfew at 10 PM on school nights. High school trip to Clermont for basketball. Elgin boys win 36 19. girls lose 4 13. notable players listed.
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Clermont
Bobsledge
Elgin
Falk
Meyers
Elgin Quintette
Grossman
Higin Boys
Oscar Heuser Flying in England
Dubuque Times Journal reports Oscar Heuser, former Dubuque college star in baseball basketball and track, is in an English aviation training camp with American forces. He says training nears completion and he will soon go to France for active service as a commissioned aviator. Heuser, nephew of Mrs L J Hutchinson, has visited Dubuque and is known to many residents.
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Oscar Heuser
England
Dubuque
France
Hueser
Hutchinson
Falb Takes Ownership Of John Pinns Restaurant
Yesterday a deal completed, John Falb became owner of John Pinns restaurant. Mr Pinns and family came from Clayton last summer after purchasing Sam Greenley’s restaurant business and have run the place. They plan to move to Dubuque soon. The property stays under Falb’s management for now, with the sale arranged through real estate man Thos. Kuudtson.
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John Falb
John Pinns
Mr.Pinns
Clayton
Sam Greenley
Dubuque
Falk
Thos. Kuudtson
Certainly Trying Days Laughing About Rationing Pains
A wartime verse laments daily shortages as meatless Tuesdays, wheatless Wednesdays, heatless homes, sheetless beds, and patched finances. The speaker mocks household scarcities, noting barrooms, coffee, stockings, trousers, and other comforts vanish while poverty and resolve grow, all amid anti Kaiser sentiment.
Evening in Bigin after five thirty feels deserted
After 5 30 pm Bigin resembles a deserted village with stores closed and few lights. The barber shop stays open a bit later and the pool hall closes at ten. Night reveals off street lights and scarce activity while pedestrians are rare, giving residents more time for home life and family.
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Bigin
Fuel Administrator Orders Set In Fayette County 1918
The 1918 fuel orders for Fayette County excluding Oelwein took effect January 28. They regulate store hours, opening times for drug and confectionery shops, billiards and amusement tables, school heating, lightless nights, limited household deliveries, Saturday exemptions, lodge and church rules, picture shows, public entertainments, barber shops, restaurants, and urge conservation of fuel with shovelful and pound by pound duty. J W Dwyer presided as chairman.
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Fayette County
Oelwein
United States
J. W. Dwyer
Fuel Administration
Fryette County
Pay Your Income Tax Now Urged By Government
Taxpayers are urged to pay income taxes when filing returns with a June 16 postponement option. A 3 percent discount for advance payments is offered, but taxpayers may waive the discount to aid the country. Also announced is a grand masquerade ball at Clermont Opera House tomorrow with music by Nelson's harp orchestra, twelve dollars in cash. Shipton reports his son John, previously sick with pneumonia, is improving and may receive a furlough when well enough to leave hospital.
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It Ias
Clertmont
Houde
Nelson
H. FP
Shipton
Philadelphia
John
Clermont Waterprise
No Change of Trains Stated by Railroad Board Reply
A letter replies to a remonstrance from Higin citizens to two Rock Island Railway proposals affecting the Decorah branch passenger service. It says no immediate schedule changes are planned though changes may occur, and that objections will be forwarded to the railway company with rights of appeal to the Railroad Commission after public hearings. It notes fuel and equipment conservation motives and reports on Mr Frank Baker of Decorah and a secretary Geo L McCaughan. It ends with local notes of Martin Adams visiting relatives after a North Dakota claim and return to Roscoe, Wisconsin.
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Board’ of Railroad Commissioners
Higin
AJM
Weibel
Elgin
Iowa
Rock Hieland Railway
Decorah
Prank Baker
Commercial Club
Rock Island
Imate
Railroad Commission
Geo. L. McCaughan
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Bilgin Clermont
Klingman
R. Skarshaug Gruver
If. Grossman
Greenley
G. Paulson
Richie
Schéri
G Lg. Jones
L. Klingman
R. Klingman
Paulson
Schori
Liberty Loan
The
Elgin Savings Bank
Elgin, Iona
Gus Gunderson
Samuel Mosby
Martin Adams
Robert Wilson
North Dakota
Roscobell
Wisconsin
the Citizens’. State Bank
Elgin, Iowa
Halstenson
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