15 Mar 1945
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
1
Advertisement lists pricing for Cards of Thanks In Memoriam Resolutions of Respect church notices and obituary poetry with admission charged at regular rates. Starts with two dollar fee and 30 cent line items for agency cards and other notices.
Purple and White Tatler reports sailors Bob Schmid Merlin Miller and Bill Moore visiting Elgin high, with updates on their transfers and duties. It covers Fan Night class games, a senior win 33 to 20, and Sophomore efforts, plus the Senior Class Play Granny Steps Out set for April 6 and rehearsal notes.
In a tense moment Dick bursts in with a bad temper. Mrs Schori comments on his mussed hair. Dick questions how long his inch hair cut has lasted. Front row assistants fill the scene with cheerful advice. Gene is called to the phone twice, joking about alimony from another wife.
Seniors will send layouts in about three weeks as work on the yearbook progresses. Only one hundred copies are set for printing unless more are ordered, with orders due for a treasury of memories for the 1944 45 school year. See George Bovis or Dick Kimpston to make your down payment.
A sprawling student column recounts local romances and senior figures led by Don Little who turns 18 in October. It highlights his farming plans, favorite foods, and hobby driving a 1941 Ford, with notes on Elgin as his hometown and his noncommittal ideal girl. Also featured are Operetta Notes praising upcoming performances with named dancers and colorfully described acts.
Can You Remember A week of illness keeps Flossie Capper from her post teaching east of town. Several local notes follow: A M Weibel on business to Waterloo and Fairbank sold a carload of wheat and bought middle rngs tankage. Mr and Mrs P H Cashman Elma announce a son born Tuesday, with Mrs Cashman formerly Nelle Neuenschwan der. Ed Hanson visits niece to care for mother and son Forest Welch to start as mail carrier route 4 Monday. George Vaughn returns from Kansas City after two months with relatives and friends, bringing warm weather. Fred Kohler engages 3 for tearing down Abbey house to build a new home. Ella and Lillian Maurer of Forestburg SD visit Mrs Peter Luchsinger and relatives in Velruty last week.
John Lantz sighted the first 1945 robin near his home on March 10, with Mrs. Lantz as witness. The McGregor fire chief counted 45 robins that Tuesday afternoon. The column weaves community notes on Elgin projects, editorials, gas tax talk, postwar aims, social quips, and a humorous wartime anecdote about a priest.
Officials advise avoiding mold by keeping tomatoes melons and other perishables in a dry well ventilated area rather than a tightly closed damp place to prevent spoilage and deterioration of stored goods.
A local birthday notice lists residents celebrating on March 15 to March 21. Names include Walter Christen Elmer Lantz Louise Schori Esther Kiple Opal Larson Sylvan Taylor Ole Embretson Bert Benton Burnell Blockhus Mrs Walter Dummer mouth Joseph Schiltz J H Williams K O Christ Mrs Anna Brabham Berard Benson James Koevenig J A Erickson Louis A Olson Mrs Sam Lehman A P Lehman Pearl Dummermuth Roberta Barker Edward Schmid Jr Dorothy Grimm Laurence Knudt son Orvin Thompson Mrs Edgar Kimball Orlando Loftsgard B tT Simonett Ralph J Schrader Alta Gehring Marie Maurer Earl Kiple Leonard Moore Beverly Livingston Fred Rugland.
In the year ending June 1943, corporate income and excess profits taxes yielded about one third more than individual income taxes, but tax reforms and economic factors pushed 1944 individual income tax revenues ahead of corporate. Profits taxes remained a factor.
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