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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1942
Page
2
The Elgin High students edit the Purple and White Tattler, detailing school life. Coverage includes class notes, wind study, farm visits, a crafts and art section, Friday popcorn sale, and student bios. Names such as Mavis Dereche, Betty Streuen, and Miss Dunkle appear amid student bylines and campus events.
Fragmented report describes a chaotic first day at school with a crying girl comforted by teachers and staff. Mentions fever, implied classroom tasks, and a chaotic scene as students adjust. Other notes reference sports practice and a late game outcome.
Wadena area clubs meet for all day sessions with lessons on finances, food, labor, and health amid war effort planning. Groups like Mink Creek Study Club, Good Neighbor Study Club, and WCTU report meetings at members’ homes with luncheons, talks on Victory Gardens, home economics, and community service plans.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous personal names and places such as Fort Leones, Mix, Mowe, Toomer, Wake, Sumter, and others. The text appears to be an incomplete social or local notes roundup with scattered references rather than a cohesive event. No clear incident or date emerges.
Local Elgin notes recounts of Supper at the Due Faber mame and a Steak supper at the Coffee Cup. Visitation and family news include Janet Krohn George Gomes Minrhell of Buffalo Dect Jams Cori Barbera Woogie from Was Union Harold Con ne and Dome Wenger enjoying meals and visiting relatives. The piece mentions Mr and Mrs Elmer Stellers of Wesere Mir as parents of a fourmer bar, Miss Sissiens formerly Margee Coast of Zigon, and Leniise Lite visiting kin while Mrs Boy Smith of Elks y hosted dinner guests and funeral attendance for Judge Ho e Taylor.
Forest Ranger Mel Cummings photographed two bear cubs found by a lumber jack near Cass Lake Minnesota. The mother bear awakened from her den as the lumber jack felled the tree and carried away the third cub. Three cubs in a litter are rare and the den was open likely due to the mild winter.
Over the past weeks visitors including Shiley Olson and Sheldon Olson called on the George Vaegha residence. Mr and Mrs Arthur Keily and Mr and Mrs B J Baumgartner hosted gatherings in honor of Mrs Herve Hobbins birthday anniversary. Reuben Howard wed at the Sheldon Barle home Friday evening.
In Kingsley, March 23 marked the 6th wedding anniversary of Wes Bien. The couple’s daughter, born on March 13 six years earlier, is noted in the family notice.
Douglas Corrigan, famed for a nine year old $900 plane from New York to Dublin in 1938, shed his flying tugs last week. He now serves in the ferrying command, piloting bombers from west coast factories to east coast ports where overseas pilots take over.
Old Monroe county jail at Albia was auctioned last week with the buyer granted days to remove the structure. A derailed freight car at Storm Lake caused $1700 in damage after churning along the rails for a quarter mile.
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