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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1940
Page
1
Advertisement notes cards of thanks in memoriam items with one dollar pricing for obituary poetry resolutions of respect church and school notices where admission is charged offered at regular advertising rates.
A collage of quips and reflections on modern life and machinery. The piece contrasts old fashioned skills like pencil sharpening with knives to today’s dependence on machines, while weaving in social bits about singing, jokes, Leap Year dating, and war costs. It quotes Perry of the Wheatland Gazette and teases Edgar Bergen.
A collage of old jokes and quips about salesmen baby care and church humor. It riffs on misdirections and puns, including a salesman boasting of another’s skill, a talking baby, church congregation sizes, and a jeweler repair joke. The tone is light, period humor with regional flavor and punchlines.
Obituary notes the death Tuesday morning November 15 1910 of David W. Clements a leading citizen and prominent Northeast Iowa lawyer from West Union. Also records several brief local notices: Julia Gunderson recovering after hospital operation in Bismarck ND. Harry Smith died in the Philippines at about thirty eight. Benj Schori and wife back from West Virginia. Carl Hackman and wife traveling to Garden City KS seeking a home. Mrs L H Oswald and Mrs Frank Gehring visit Gary SD. Harry Hadsel and wife departing to Cedar Rapids after visit with Hadsel parents.
Arthur Stoehr, visiting his mother, heads to La Crosse for winter work after a few days in Elgin. Robi Greenley of Oelwein returns home, spending time with Sam Lehman who is recovering from a broken leg. Joseph Butler and Sam Lehman finish interior work on R. W. Muehlenthaler’s new house, described as an ideal home. Adolph Schupbach and John Frankhouser arrive from Oklahoma for a relatives’ visit in Elgin.
The Fayette county T B association met at Mealey hotel with a 5 30 preliminary talk by Miss Pfeffer on Christmas seals and sales to be held after Thanksgiving. Nine deaths from T B in 1939 gave a rate of 30.9 per hundred thousand, with seven per year over three years, higher than the state average of 18.9, underscoring continued efforts.
Iowa State College senior electrical engineering student Robert W. Steele from Elgin joins 242 undergraduates and 13 faculty on the annual inspection tour of Chicago area plants. The weeklong trip exposes seniors to large plants in operation to further their engineering education.
Ben Fridholm of Madrid advocates wearing a raincoat to tackle small fires. He tried to put out a truck cushion fire with a fire extinguisher, but another firefighter arrived with a bucket of water and extinguished the flames, including Ben.
The Elgin Farmers Dairy Co board will award twelve cream routes for 1941 to the lowest responsible bidders. Sealed bids must reach the board by noon Monday November 18 1940 and routes set at 2 pm that day. Haulers must supply cream four times weekly during hot season as requested without extra pay. The board may reject all bids.
Premier Molotov left Moscow with aides and met Adolf Hitler in Berlin on Tuesday November 12. The visit drew close scrutiny from smaller nations, notably the Balkans, anxious about Soviet actions compared with the Axis.
Young people at Glenwood Baptist church enjoyed a gathering until Darrel Powers stirred a wasps nest. He was stung seven times on the leg.
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