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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1944
Page
1
Local readers and advertisers can place notices in advance with per word pricing. Various items including 7 Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam Cards are offered at 1.00. Resolutions of Respect and church notices carry discussion charges. Obituary pastry and obituary notices priced at regular advertising rates.
A 1944 column blends humor and reflection on wartime ambitions. It contrasts business dreams with farming, riffs on prewar catalogs, and recounts quips about river pilots, mystery plays, well bred insult, and a radio cue about Dewey. It closes with advice on effort and focus.
Letter humorously proposes a postwar ad campaign to recruit house trained flies. Aubrey C. Guyer riffs on training flies to clean sash and window panes, imagining a Fly Training Institute and a vast army to house-train pests for domestic benefit.
Purple and White Tattler details staff roles at the annual yearbook, announces updates to positions, including John Butikofer as Senior Editor and Owen Nickels as Sports Editor, plus an exchange of duties with Richard Kimpston. It also notes a successful junior play The Coster’s Last Stand, grossing about 85 with net around 50 for the banquet. Johnnie Warton's portrait highlights a senior student born December 3 with interests in skating football astronomy and Naval Air Corps ambitions.
Gossip from a junior class scene asks about a handsome blonde from Etkader and Elva Mae’s knowledge. It teases Delores, Amy, Hawkeye, Dale’s lipstick, Uppy’s Saturday night, Charlotte’s liking for the printing office, and eighth grade science with a Swans float joke. It recalls Carlyle and Eileen’s happiness and a class party.
A school note reports on classroom activities across grades one to five, mentioning new pupils Mary Lou and Leland Sparks, Thanksgiving scenes, reading progress, art drawings of a turkey and gingerbread man, and a Christmas Eve poem by Janice Torkelson about songs, decorations, and the holiday joy.
Six grade classes completed six weeks testing with those never absent or tardy named. Art centered on Thanksgiving pictures while the Tat tler staff welcomed Jim Bovis. Marie Adrian sold subscriptions totaling 24.50 to win a writing portfolio in a drive ending December 4 with prizes for top male and female participants. Declam students began selections and an elimination contest will precede the home contest. Our first basketball game against Arlington is Friday requiring fan support. Wahonoka Campfire girls met December 20 at Kathryn Johnsons home for thanks and a brief business session.
A Minneapolis grain house, a regular oats supplier, reports higher prices and solicits oats orders for a December 10 arrival. Prospective sellers are urged to contact immediately to save at least two to three cents per bushel on good quality heavy oats.
In advance of a 30 ton shipment a 3 ton truckload will arrive today November 30. Quaker Dairy Ration priced at $48.00 and Sugared Schumacher Fd at $52.00. 40% Hog Feed Concentr and Balancer cost $93.00 and $80.00. FOP Pig-N-Sow Meal $70. Look out for 1 4 tons at ton rate. A 30 ton car arrives about December 18 with specials on two ton lots or more.
Poems articles and stories on Thanksgiving were followed by the drawing of names for the Christmas party. The meeting adjourned and a lunch was served by the hostess.
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation targets about 90 000 members in 1945 led by L Shaffer as Organization Director for Fayette county with most counties setting goals at Des Moines meeting. Fayette county aims 1 300 members as state plan grows by roughly 14 000 from 1944, moving toward 100 000 by end of 1946 with about 800 members attending.
Burnell Benson says boys collect waste paper every Wednesday around 4 40 PM. People should tie bundles and leave them in front of homes for pickup. Thanksgiving dinner guests included Mrs Ted Neuman Richard Mr and Mrs Peter Luchsinger and Mr and Mrs Jacob Hoover. Remember Scrap slaps Japs Sock em.
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