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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
1
An advertisement listing saleable notice items available at regular rates including In Memoriam Cards and Resolutions of Respect. It notes church society and school notices with admission charges and obituary poets, dated Thursday June 10, 1943.
A collage of wartime quips and anecdotes touches on ration points for foods like applesauce and brains, jokes about Johnny receiving zeros in school days, a remark about Americans heckling Italian prisoners, a five by five defense worker, and lines about air raid sirens, vitamins, intoxication, and postwar speculation. The tone mirrors a comic column from a period newspaper.
The piece envisions rapid postwar changes from travel to tech leaps and consumer goods. It urges maintaining a good name and credit as essential assets, warning that unpaid obligations can harm one's future while resilience and fiscal responsibility will help weather upcoming shifts.
A June 6 1918 Echo item lists Helen Nelson leaving for summer school at Highland Park college Des Moines Gus Hackmann heading to Jefferson Barracks Mo then to a southern training camp for U S Army Dr J H Bower traveling to Army duty with veterinarians in demand likely sent to France Verle Kniel returns from Alicel Oregon after year as instructor Earl Kiple with 609th Aero Squadron at Camp Green NC Florence Kohler Berg Grether Stoehr Nicklaus return from Fayette U S A Betty Kohler ill with convulsions improving Mrs N H Bakeman arrives from Huron S C to visit relatives
Fayette County Farm Bureau News Letter reports Paul Doughty hired as labor assistant to County Extension Director for summer mobilization. Second 1943 wool pool set for June 14 at West Union warehouse 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Canning demonstrations scheduled June 15 Clermont, June 16 Elgin, June 18 Arlington. Miss Meta Jane Masters leads, teaching hot water bath and pressure cooker methods for wartime pantry.
The tax on dairies raises about 110 000 similar to prior years. It began under the 1989 act and was reenacted by the 1941 legislature despite its 1943 defeat. A school urged advertising dairy demand during war, which prevailed. Rep Earl C Fishbaugh Jr. became Private Earl C Fishbaugh Jr. in military service. Political notes cover party leadership bids in Iowa and WAAC enlistment hopes for June. Scrap drives in rural Iowa face quota risk due to rain and prior cleanups. Quinines contributed 32 702 grains to the war effort through University of Iowa pharmacy.
A complete program has been laid out for the National Federation of Press Women meeting in Des Moines this week from June 10 to 12. Delegates from every state are expected with eighteen contests arranged including news stories editorials and features judged by leading national writers and editors.
Eleven residents with land on Otter Creek sue the City of Oelwein and the Chicago Great Western Railway Co for 7500 in damages. Petitions allege pollution of Otter Creek from deposited material. A restraining order and injunction are sought. Case set to be heard by Judge A B Lovejoy in Independence on June 28. Roy A. Cook of Independence represents plaintiffs.
Elgin Iowa town council met in regular session at the town hall with Mayor Falk and councilmen Muehlethaler Kohls Schori and ONeill present. Absent was Dean. Bills audited and allowed include Elgin Echo printing 32.55 Max Hunsberger salaries 45.00 C J Harrington salaries 30.00 and others for utilities supplies and insurance. Cigarrette and beer permit applications approved and clerk authorized to issue permits. Adjournment followed. Remember Scrap slaps Japs. Sock em.
Tre Hasbrouck, a farmer near Grundy Center, says he planted hemp seed in the morning and by evening it emerged as a plant. Farmers planting hemp report rapid growth and resilience to cold weather across the area.
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