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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1943
Page
4
Local ads offer roofing, harnesses, farm gear, and hardware from Clermont and Elgin Iowa. Listings promote sales, estate auctions, tractors, farm equipment, and a July 20 1943 school board meeting with budget notices. Names include Larson Roofing Co Feller's Hardware Independence Produce Co Torkelson Bros and R P Strauch.
A large feed company seeks two men for good paying local work. Must have car and farm or sales experience helpful. Personal interview by arranged box notice in Elgin Iowa. Also reports on Decorah missing child, Grundy county poultry growth, Sheldon Sun feature unseen babies, Guthrie Center accident, and a call to buy U S Defense Bonds and stamps.
Soldier Elmer Meyer writes from Fort Jackson South Carolina about reassignment to form a new training cadre for a fresh unit of the same artillery type. He notes eighteen from C Battery joined him, hopes for recruits from the Midwest, recalls prior unit moves, and urges letters home as soldiers stay busy and hopeful for acclimation and return. He mentions Myron Anderson and fondness for Iowa.
Elgin local notes list Robert Gruver accompanying Leo Boleyn visiting Waterloo and returning to Traer, while Leo Falk Otis Torkelson and Gerald Boyer traveled to Chicago for business and back. Families Embertson of St Olaf and Palmer of Detroit visited and relatives Bailey and Trippiee returned from Janesville after two weeks.
Ration deadlines listed include Class A second inspection by Sept 30, Class B by June 30, and Class C by Aug 31. Commercial vehicles require inspections every 490 days or 5,000 miles. Gasoline and book coupons valid through July 21, with various period coupons active July 1 to fall 1944, and blue and red stamp validity extending into summer.
The Iowa Taxpayers Assn released a second report on county office costs. Fayette county shows 21 cents per capita for assessors and Clayton county 27 cents, with a state average of 28 cents. Overall Fayette per-capita costs total $1.90 versus $1.79 in the neighboring county, both under the state $2.08 average.
A playful page mixes humor and home advice about upgrading living spaces. It notes that dream rooms can be created by remodeling attic or basement spaces, with a light jab about a door painted with figures and a nudge to protect homes with Mule-Hide Corduroy roof while costs stay low.
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