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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
2
The Purple and White Tattler weekly high school publication edited by Betty Schneider with assistant editors Betty Schori and Betty Strauch.
The article profiles Letha Mae Adrian a 17 year old junior and Florence Ogle a 15 year old junior detailing their favorites birthdays and future ambitions in music and beautician work. It also covers Senior News Campfire Girls and plans of teachers plus several local notices and student activities including a baccalaureate ceremony and an upcoming commencement.
The Purple and White Tattler staff bids readers farewell as the year ends. Messages from editors praise the Echo for publishing space and thank readers for patience with errors. Highlights include reflections on honesty, study topics across English, geography, and arithmetic, perfect attendance by Dorothy Grimm, and notes on reading habits and learning.
The all-school picnic is held on the school grounds this Thursday. Students will receive their report cards and enjoy post lunch games. A baseball game against Clermont follows the picnic activities.
Agnes Kneeland a local teacher spent a two day vacation at her home last weekend while students took State Achievement tests at Decorah. She assisted in correcting test papers as selected by the county superintendent. Mr and Mrs Bourget of Minneapolis Nina welcomed a 16 pound baby boy.
Tender vegetables may be put in after last frost. In northern Iowa plant after May 10. Plant beans and sweet corn soon, but cold soil delays sowing. Grow sunflowers to support pole beans, then plant beans around them. Edible soybeans, Lima beans, and Navy beans have varied suitability. Great Northern for small seedlings.
The passage explains military unit names by branch noting that cavalry use troops and air corps use squadrons while hospital personnel are in corps. It highlights basic structural labels across Army branches without detailing units or actions.
The mitre, a tall headdress worn by church dignitaries, cannot be traced farther back than the middle of the eleventh century, with its origins and early use noted by scholars.
Mrs. Thomas Statheim, while cleaning a chicken at home in Girrard, extracted a guzard that a jeweler later confirmed to be pure gold. Authorities report no further details available.
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