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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is issued weekly on Thursdays by R P Strauch and filed as second class mail matter at the Elgin Iowa post office in Fayette County.
The notice lists foreign display and local display rates per inch, readers per line, and classified per word with prepayment. It includes card of thanks and in memoriam pricing, plus resolutions of respect, church society and school notices with admission charged, obituaries, and poetry all at regular advertising rates with 26 cents for first insertion and commission details.
A 1943 humor column surveys war era life with jests about committees and consumer worries. It jokes on a committee's paperwork, a nose for taxation, movie ads, banter between couples, and telephone miscommunications. It includes brief quips about a coal business revival, a church weight joke, and a court scene among other colorful lines.
Boise Capper reports promotion to sergeant in a Tuesday letter, stationed at Fort Bliss Texas and active on guard duty along the Mexican border. Fred Frieden and daughter visit Elgin from LeMar Missouri. Mrs Mary Skarshaug ill with appendicitis then improving. Lew Grover and wife welcome a daughter born Saturday. Bud Boyer back from furlough to Camp Pike Arkansas with a machine gun crew. Donald Dean arrives from Hoopston Illinois after his mother in law’s death. Ray DeSart resigns railway mail job to return to Al route. Mrs Gus Stoehr returns from Dubuque after appendicitis operation and is recovering.
Hull Brabham and Melchor Yenney left Delwe on Saturday to report for military duty.
Miss Marie Mabel Schupbach of Monona and Reymond H. Wiethorn of Monona were married at the Little Brown Church Nashua on May 1 at noon. Attendants were Glen Plaehtz and guests included Everett Wiethorn and Anna Schupbach. They rode to New Hampton for a reception and plan a weeklong wedding trip before settling on a Monona-area farm.
Miss Georgene Drahn Monona and Ensign William Schupbach Elgin were married in Chicago Thursday April 29 by Judge Roeth. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Drahn of Monona a high school graduate. The groom son of Mrs Anna Schupbach graduated Elgin high then Upper Iowa and joined the Naval Air Corps now stationed in Minneapolis as instructor. They plan to leave Friday with Mrs Schupbach arriving Monday for a visit in Monona. Drilling corn is faster than planting in check row fashion.
Elgin Iowa town council holds regular meeting at town hall with Mayor Falk and four members present. Bills approved include water tax four dollars eight cents and various service costs. clerk’s salary raised five dollars monthly. adjournment motion carried.
The Elgin Boy Scouts gathered junk remnants left in the park after autumn drives. They sold valuable items to a local junk buyer for 9 dollars 90 cents, while the rest was hauled to the dump.
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