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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1939
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch and is listed as second class mail matter at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa.
Town ties Northwestern in a Big Ten finish and Minnesota drops to eighth as local chatter mixes holiday plans and Thanksgiving humor. Readers recall a year of growth, celebrate the Hawkeyes’ rise, and note bank pens and Christmas displays while sharing light quips and editorials.
Stockholders elected officers for the coming term including Fred Reichert as president and A S Hoag as vice president. Yeomen elected leaders J I Phillips and Mrs J C Cooley among others. Other notes mention a Franc DeSart family departure, pole shipments for Miller & Sons, weather changes, rural school teacher shortages, river rise near Dubuque, tobacco buying, and Des Moines raising 161000 for a Y M C A building.
A columnist calls FDR’s November 23 Thanksgiving Franksgiving. Another writer counters, noting last year’s celebration on November 24, a day later, arguing against overreaction to the date shift. The exchange spotlights political and cultural tensions surrounding the holiday.
The Echo editor notes readers often urge posts about others and their faults. To address this, a proposed grouch column would publish readers’ grievances under their own names, with standard advertising rates applied.
The Scandinavi countries are among Portugal's best customers for the tamed wines of Madeira, reflecting strong cross Atlantic wine trade and regional demand.
Elgin school declamatory winners advance to Clermont state prelims and sub county contests. First place: Humorous Betty Alice Schori, dramatic Anna Mae Schupbach, Ethel Boyle and Harvey Gilbertson as oratorical. second place: Werley Bailey, The Miracle, plus other students from Wadena Clermont and Elgin. Calendar shows board meeting and upcoming basketball games and holidays.
Elgin High School will award letters to boys meeting two thirds of games in one activity and displaying satisfactory sportsmanship. Seniors receive denile letters while underclassmen get felt letters. One letter per student per year until a new policy is adopted.
The December schedule lists events including a Declamatory contest at Clermont and a basketball game at Clermont on Tuesday December 12. Randalia visits Elgin for a Friday event.
A local notice indicates a job deadline approaching for a case presided by Judge T Zette in New City. Details are sparse but the scheduled cutoff is imminent and will affect involved parties and filings.
William A Nelson near Postville recounts five generations living in one farm home. The line begins with Nels Everson who claimed the land, then Anna Everson, Andrew Nelson, William A Nelson, and Alma and Donald Nelson, all born on the farm. The Herald invites similar family lineage notices.
German physicist Fahrenheit pioneered mercury thermometers replacing alcohol making a lasting standard. Oklahoma data show 61.4 percent of farmers in the state are tenant farmers based on official figures.
The term Little Shade Umbrella traces to an Italian word meaning little shade, with its East use signaling royalty and power as a symbolic badge.
A Percheron mare studies her reflection during a facial as beauty treatments accompany the pre show regime for entries in the International Livestock Exposition set for December 2 to 9. Exercises daily rub downs massages and hair styling are part of the routines.
A rare photograph shows Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith with their wives at a YMCA dinner in New York. Both men spoke against European dictatorship while the YMCA raises funds for its youth program.
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