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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
1
The fragment references a newspaper headline about high Nazi relatives fleeing Germany and contrasts old and modern social mores. It also includes a dialogue snippet with a clerk and a customer about arranging an account, and a remark on political rhetoric versus substance.
Elgin once earned the nickname Slabtown from slabs building homes, recalled by F. E. Lehman of La Porte City. The column notes more fishermen, jokes about weather forecasts, milkweed and hemp in the war effort, and light jokes about tin Lizzies, orators, and local characters, reflecting small-town life and morale.
From the Echo files May 30 1918 Superintendent J E McCoy ends a successful Elgin period and accepts the superintendent role in Winthrop. The McCoy family departs with well wishes as Mrs Mary Skarshaug visits Cedar Rapids and local youth enlistment and war service unfold. Florence Berg and Kohler shine in Upper Iowa University events while Fred Hanson enters navy radio service. Dr J H Bower enlists as a veterinary and sails to Petersburg Virginia for training.
The list outlines ration calendar deadlines for Class A through C allocations with second and third inspection dates, vehicle mileage rules, and expiration dates for gasoline A book No. 6, Fuel Oil Period 5, Coffee No. 24, Sugar No. 13, and other coupons. It notes blue, red, and yellow stamps with respective validity through specified dates and mentions War Bond Scrap drives.
The Iowa State Guard training at Camp Dodge begins June 6 for two weeks, with a second two week period to follow. Regiments in northern Iowa will drill as a unit, easing crowding from last summer. The guard fills in while the national guard serves the country. Lt. (jg) Paul Hill, trained in safety education, mistakenly used a three cent stamp as a free franking privilege. Former Senator Clyde L. Herring, back in Iowa, urged viewing rationing as sharing to improve public reception. Draft quotas for May and June track modest calls, with July projections uncertain. Renewals require a 1941-1943 license. do not mail license and renewal fee to the state house.
Karl W. Fischer the Iowa Commissioner of Public Safety announced that renewal of drivers licenses would begin June 7. The renewal fee is 5 cents and the extension certificate attached to the 1941 1943 license will extend the current license until July 5 1946. Field clerks will be stationed in every county to accept renewals.
The new method adds a branch post office number to addresses in large cities, quickly adopted by postmasters. Millions were informed of the change and mail already shows the postal unit number. The system speeds mail distribution to branch offices and aids clerks. example given is John C. Smith 222 Mattapan Ave Boston MA. Doctor A F Fritchen of Decorah is named Commander in the US Navy, one of three town residents to reach the rank. Six townans hold Lieutenant Colonel in the Army.
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