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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
3
Marjorie Scheel of Clermont Enterprise, serving as local editor, is identified as a member of both the Iowa Press Association and the National Editorial Association, highlighting her professional affiliations within the journalism field.
The piece reviews Iowa tax shifts affecting trucking and highway funding, noting the compensation tax reduces truckers’ share and that the old ten mile tax overcharged personal drivers. It cites possible legislative fixes and cites MacNider’s national boom with excerpts from 27 newspapers. It also notes other presidential contenders touring Iowa, including Taft, Dewey, Gannett, and Willkie.
Irven Twedt of Moorhead promised his children a May basket before death. A large May basket with 100 nomination papers to place Mrs. Twedt on the Monona County Republican ballot arrived. Jack Mullenax and James McNeely alerted officials after spotting a loose Burlington rail, preventing a potential Zephyr wreck. A Corydon bomber landed safely after motor trouble in a field.
In a farm scene Mrs Huldah Christensen was marooned on a slanting porch roof after her lower sash failed her upstairs window. A passerby heard her cries, climbed to the roof, opened a window, and pulled her inside after she clung for two hours. Meanwhile Keota reports 35 cases of whooping cough last week.
Clermont Local News Advertising notes community events and visits. Families such as Biglers Hackmann Rounds Light Swenson and others share Sundays and hospital visits. A rural school closing picnic, confirmation dinner, and a birthday surprise for Alma Anderson are described with many local names and addresses. Want ads get results. Try one.
Clermont students wrap up the year with class picnics and sightseeing. Freshmen visited Backbone State Park at Strawberry Point with Miss Morf. Sophomores, also at Strawberry Point, had dinner Wednesday. Juniors toured Festina, Spillville, and Ft. Atkinson. Seniors’ trip included McGregor, Dousman estate, Villa Louis, Dickeyville Grotto, Gutena, and the Monastery at Dubuque with Supt. Ressler. Kindergarten and grades 1-4 picnic nearby. 4th-6th grade picnic at city park. 7th-8th grades to West Union fairgrounds for final day. Mrs. Banning, Miss Boley, Miss Olson, Miss Smith, and Miss Vasley are referenced. Mrs. Smith finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Last spell-down winners noted for sixth and fifth grades.
Woodland Progressive Study Club met at the farm home of Mrs. Hans J. Larson and Mrs. George V. Larson on Tuesday May 14. Roll call featured a cake recipe. Program chair Mrs. Frank Leehy led readings and selections including Star Spangled Banner Mother Sadie Petersen Mother Understands Mother’s Gifts. Mrs. George Larson reported on Achievement Day. Several contests, lunch for fourteen members and three guests followed.
Soldiers stationed at Darwin, Northern Australia, faced a beer famine as transport costs kept prices high. Troops from the Australian defense forces arrived and rapidly consumed all the beer in the town, prompting relief and calls for rationing.
The Clermont Clover Clovers 4-H club met at the Gordon home on Saturday May 18. Members selected five to vote for county officers on Rally Day and assigned ushers and a registrar. Rosina Oestman will represent the club at the Ames 4-H convention in June, with other activities including picture study and a health talk.
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