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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1941
Page
1
The Elgin Echo records R. P. Strauch as entered in the post office at Elgin Payette County Iowa as second class main matter.
Church society and school notices list resolutions of respect and obituaries with admission charged at regular advertising rates. The notices outline posthumous tributes and acknowledgments alongside standard rate information for publishable memorial content.
A humorous clippage from the Osage Press recalling Joe Louis praise and a controversial counterpiece about domestic violence. The note surveys a mix of editorials, punchlines, and social quips, highlighting a universe of public discourse, gossip, and sensational wire-service filler from a Western Newspaper Union packet.
A lighthearted fragment surveys a boss, a gas columnist, and a jokey exchange about fashion and home life. It notes the gang’s view of a good natured boss and includes a quick joke on suggestibility and chiggers among friends.
The record notes Delta Chapman submitted to surgery for goiter at a Rochester Minnesota hospital. Weibel Bros repair work continues at their mill with a large cement hog yard platform under construction for animal feeding. The Elgin Concert Band plans to play at Fairbank August 15 for the annual picnic.
Relatives gathered at the Baumgartners home Saturday evening for a miscellaneous shower in their honor with a social evening and a ladies prepared picnic lunch. Guests included Ern Meyer and family, Orlin Mason, Martha Chapman and Delbert, Ern Friederich and family, Rosa Baumgartner, Ida Meyer, Hilda Meyer, Elmer Baumgartner and family, Martin Wenger and family, Guernsey Smith and family, Kenneth Mark and family, Melbert Meyer, Herman and Armand Pieper of Hawkeye, Elmer Listical of Waterloo, and Martin Hanson. Also mentions lilies displayed at Kelleher farm near Independence and a tale of Kenneth Swan finding a $25 red reel attached to a dead fish caught while fishing near Titanka.
A grand excursion on the all-steel Steamer President sails Sunday July 27 with two trips from Prairie du Chien at 8 30 p m and McGregor at 9 p m The President famed for its rainbow ballroom and Hollywood powder rooms offers safety and comfort Maurie Bruckmanns Melody Aces return to provide music for both trips on the 1941 voyage.
Parents ask about baby growth and worry about normal variation. The text outlines typical height and weight ranges by age, noting averages for boys and girls, birth weight ranges, and six month to one year growth patterns, emphasizing individual differences and normal variation.
In Fayette County Iowa a district court will hear the petition to admit to probate the purported last will and testament of Ding Dummer muth late of the county. Lewes West Union July 5 1943 Herbert D Klammer clerk SPARROWS A Corydon report notes W W Nickles collected 60 dead English sparrows after a heavy rain and wonders how the birds died while insisting they were present.
Mrs. Joel Clark, county chairman, led a Marion township meeting at Mrs. Selma Lerch’s home to form a women’s group for the Nutrition project. Officers named include Selma Lerch as township chairman, Merlin Cook publicity chair, Arlene Scholen music, Lena Clark health. meetings run October to February. Leaders chosen were Lerch, Scholen, Minihan, Hypestol, Hanson, and Wenger. Co operators include Christen, Wenger, Hypestol, Hanson, Lerch, Cook, Scholen, Larson, and Minihan.
A Sunday noon blaze at Irving Deering’s farm near Clermont destroyed two dairy barns, silos, livestock including 11 head of baby beeves and several cattle, and major feed supplies. Firefighters arrived too late to save structures, with cause undetermined but suspected to involve fresh hay in the barn.
A May state study of Iowa accident reports shows drunken drivers caused 47 accidents, with 38 on rural highways and only 9 on city streets. One death was reported by police.
Clarinda firemen were called to a dive where the motor on an electric refrigerator overheated prompting a gag mask drill. Iowa recovered. A Hampton man later found parts of his threshing machine stolen and recovered from a junk yard where $40 worth of parts had been sold for 40c.
A brief urging Echo readers to patronize advertisers and mention they saw the ads in the Echo. The note highlights supporting local businesses by citing the newspaper as the source.
Severein Blockhus reports threshing east of town where Arno Foscher on the Schori Bros farm harvested 7.5 acres yielding 382 bushels of oats and M. J. Blockhus with 16 acres produced 557 bushels. The grain was early variety and rust free. Both fields marked first jobs of the week with good quality oats.
The Chicago hog top yesterday at 11 dollars 90 cents, up 35 cents from Tuesday as pork prices continue rising. Farmers eye the market closely amid steady climbs in value, signaling heightened attention to hog operations.
Unverified reports claim Hermann Goering, once Hitler’s No 2, is prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp after a recent photograph surfaced. The piece notes his fall from favor with NSDAP leaders and cites Europe as source for the claim.
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