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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is a weekly Thursday newspaper published in Elgin Iowa by R P Strauch. It notes postal registration as second class mail matter in Fayette County.
Notices offering Cards of Thanks In Memoriam cards Resolutions of Respect church society and school notices and obituary poetry available at standard advertising rates for admission charged events.
Rich's Pipe Dreams praises the garden near the Methodist church in Elgin and recalls a 1916 Ditty from the Mont Enterprise. The column remarks on local gardens, a quip about age, and snippets from Elgin life, including radio soap operas, golf costs, mosquito control, and the parade leading to a big tent show.
A Missouri politician promotes a rally with a provocative men only line, boasting that he can draw a crowd and may reveal unsavory stories if the meeting starts. The remark frames him as a slick climber using bold, controversial language to lure attendees.
Echo files from July 20 1911 recall a freight engine fire spreading from a sugar factory yard into Efford Hunsberger’s field. Brainsard post office closed last week with Postmaster Helms turning over mail. An egg contest at C S Halstenson store ended July 15 with prizewinners listed. Other notes include local business updates, family reunions, a car sale, accidents, and a mistaken arrest warrant mix-up in Cresco.
Manager of a large feed company seeks two men for good paying work in the localities where this newspaper circulates. Render service and do sales work. Farm or sales experience helpful. Must have a car. Pleasant permanent work. Send only name and address. Personal interview arranged. Write Drawer X E gin Iowa.
A Timely Editorial discusses Bode Bugle and Burt Monitor folding amid local newspaper decline. It cites merchants' efforts to revive papers, noting the heart of the community lies in local press and posing a moral about business support for small towns.
The July 1 crop report notes little change in corn, tame hay, and sorghum, with spring wheat oats and flax up substantially while soybeans, winter wheat, barley, and rye fall. Iowa corn acreage rises one percent to stand as the second smallest in 30 years. oats totaling 5,570,000 acres forecast, 4 percent below the ten year average. Rust widespread, hastening maturity. tame hay at 4,338,000 acres, second largest on record.
Vatican City, the independent state led by the pope, records a population of about 7 000 residents. The tiny enclave sits within Rome and functions as the spiritual center of the Catholic Church while maintaining its own governance and civil structures.
Ossining New York Robert J Kirby aged sixty one succeeds Lewis Lawes as warden at Sing Sing Prison He was principal keeper at Attica for ten years and formally assumed the new post on July 16 in the Administration Building viewed through prison bars from the facility.
Morris Stern, a ferry merchant, touted coast to coast service after selling a suit to a New York visitor and arranging another suit bound for California. Sheriff Lear warns dog owners as sheep losses alarm farmers around Webster City. Primghar Municipal band performed a King concert with most pieces by Karl L King, Fort Dodge. Mel Falkenhainer and Vic Parsons aided the Pierce and Jensen families in a Wisconsin trip, surprising them upon arrival as their hosts fled Algona.
Berne Indiana special photo shows Captain Rodney Fleming who lives near Fort Wayne nearing 42 years as an Indiana game warden. Fleming began under Governor James A Mount and President William McKinley era, has survived slugging and shooting, and remains the oldest in-service game warden in the country.
Lawrence Hoover of Belle Plaine shows neighbors a Harvest apple tree branch bearing both apples and blossoms. He notes it is unusual for both to grow on the same branch, though apple trees can bloom in warm fall weather.
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