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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
3
The notice records that matter was entered at the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter, marking ownership and mailing category for this item.
WAACS recruit from all sections as candidates shift to print and spoken appeals. Republican enthusiasm outpaced Democrats with 3 498 delegates versus 1 990. Camp Dodge hosts two week training for Iowa State Guard units across battalions and towns, with units rotating between Centerville Ottumwa Oskaloosa Newton Des Moines and more.
From Cil Bluffs to Des Moines and beyond, Iowa National Guard units including the second regiment and medical detachments will train August 9 to 23. After camp, every state guardsman except those excused will have at least two weeks of riot-quelling drill, to support the mobile flying column and any additional troops as needed.
Mr and Mrs Wm B Miller and Augusta and Willett were business visitors in Des Moines Tuesday last. Mrs G Koland accompanied them home that evening after a week there with daughters Mrs Herbert Moeller and Alma Koland. Margaret Crowe returned to Delve home after a two week visit. Ammazette Henderson employed at Des Moines suffered a severe sunburn while swimming and is confined at home there. Her sister Mrs Joe Kula of Davenport went to Des Moines to care for her.
Next Sunday July 26 a church wide emergency appeal will launch to rebuild Luther College Main Building after a fire caused by lightning. The appeal follows a resolution by Luther College Board of Review and General Convention declaring the rebuilding imperative.
The article notes an $85,000 insurance shortfall for a new building and outlines a plan led by Dr. A. J. Bergsaker and Luther College trustees to solicit additional funds. Pastors will exchange pulpits and campaigns extend to East Clermont, Highland, and West Clermont congregations with Rev. Oscar F. Engebretson and Prof. Karl Hanson directing solicitations.
Twenty five years ago Clermont finished a week of chautauqua that impressed locals with entertainment and instruction at low cost. The event drew talent not available otherwise and left attendees convinced they received full value for money amid a week of communal activity.
The Grizzly Giant, a famous leaning sequoia in Yosemite National Park, rises 209 feet and leans about 4 degrees 58 minutes off center. Studies show it has been off center for centuries but is not in danger of falling.
The rocky promontory of Mount Athos in Greece houses 20 Greek Orthodox monasteries and restricts entry to women, enforcing a policy that bans female visitors from the territory.
A quoted tribute praises tobacco as superior and indispensable to many roles. It extols tobacco as a lone companion, a bachelor’s friend, a hungry man’s food, a sad man’s cordial, a wakeful man’s sleep, and a chilly man’s fire, claiming no herb matches it under heaven.
A fly can carry up to 6,600,000 bacteria on its hairy body. It spends one day as an egg, five days as a maggot, five days as a pupa, and after 14 days begins laying eggs.
The article notes that copper was the initial metal utilized by humans, marking the dawn of metalworking. It discusses early adoption and the significance of copper in ancient technology and daily life.
Nassau, capital city of the Bahamas, was named after William II prince of Orange by acts passed in 1695 by the lord proprietors. The acts authorized building a city and forts to replace those destroyed by Spaniards in 1684.
Some kinds of fish can move one eye independently, allowing one eye to fixate on an object while the other scans surroundings. The Better Vision Institute notes this unusual ability as a notable adaptation in aquatic species.
Dreads the unpleasant task ahead of him. He fully realizes the serious fuel problem that confronts the nation and that next winter he may be forced to say none today when patrons place a rush order for coal.
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