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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
1
The Elgin Echo announces weekly publication every Thursday by R P Strauch and records entry as second class mail matter at the Elgin Iowa post office, Fayette County.
A quirky 1946 collage shows Rich's carpenter assistant mocking nail orientation while a photographer sighs over a dour Mr. H. Enpeck who will mail the photo to his wife. Epigraphs praise greatness briefly and quote Emerson Schiller and Miller, with a stray joke about Popeye and a tongue in cheek remark on Dewey and a New York attorney.
A Echo office sighting mentions a Postville youth typing the muse struck him. Easter fashion is lampooned as women race about town in varied hats while a comic exchange questions character by clothes and a cad without a telephone.
Community notes recount a Friday basket social hosted by the Eastern Stars in the lodge room, celebrated for its social and financial gains. Other items mention local residents, visits, and travel including operation outcomes and moving of dental equipment.
Elgin Iowa editor W S Rothlisberger replies to Mr R P Strauch about REA electric and rural telephone lines. Rothlisberger defends cooperative funding, notes farm demand for service, and argues against claims of unfriendly coverage while acknowledging prior supportive articles.
H Hadsel was elected mayor in a quiet Monday election. A goodly crowd gathered Sunday for Easter concerts. Emma and Esther Heck traveled from Cedar Rapids on Saturday to visit their ailing father. Louis Stallbaum reported husking corn on Tuesday. Arn old Bauman returned from Iowa City hospital on Monday. The Becker building’s third floor rooms overlook the post office.
A farmer acknowledges the benefits of new labor-saving tech while noting the costs of metallicizing telephone lines. A March 7 article, from a Sumner Gazette clipping miscredited, discusses REA subsidies and public funding concerns. John H. Reardon receives the Cartmell Gold Medal at Chicago's Union League Club for best produced letters amid executive correspondence.
Researchers identify sx ponin from soap nuts, the fruit of a handsome Indian tree, as a foam stabilizer and emulsifying agent for vegetable oils. The historic use of soap nuts to wash woolen fabrics milks and jewelry is noted.
Mrs. FA Jarrett of Sappa Oklahoma was jolted when lightning struck her home. A cabinet door flew off its hinges, silver tarnished, an electric clock burned from the wall, and kitchen pipes blackened in the momentary blast.
A sunspot event Sunday disrupted telephone, telegraph, and short wave radio across the state for about four hours from nine to one. Experts describe the solar activity as a magnetic stream deflecting electrical charges toward the poles and occasionally reversing currents, a cycle that recurs roughly every eleven years.
A March 25 Echo note from Owczewin Register mentions aurora borealis activity linked to past events, while stating it was not observed Sunday night. The item appears as a brief community note with printing advice from The Echo.
Walter Johnson tossed a dollar across the Rappahannock near Fredericksburg Virginia on Washingtons birthday in 1936 to illustrate the feat that Washington might have performed near Ferry Farm.
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