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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
3
A member of the Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association is recorded as entering the post office at Clermont in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
The state unites weekly and daily papers to promote a scrap metal drive led by Ames Tribune’s W S Rupe, Indianola Record and Tribune’s Don Berry, and Des Moines Register & Tribune’s John Moffett. District chairmen hold meetings as leaders vow to make Iowa second in salvage. In other notes Don Foster, Iowa educator, earns Navy assignment while Lt Col Robert S Shane warns to guard health and tires during wartime. Bishop Edwin F Lee to speak at Des Moines war institute amid Southeast Asia missions.
Albert Markve Hoyland age 70 of Northwood North Carolina and his brother Halvord Hovland 77 of Lake Mills meet their sister Mrs Mohit 80 of Elkhart Indiana in Lake Mills after 63 years apart. They were separated when the children were young in a family reunion narrative.
Madonna Trude, from the class of 1942, visited the high school last Friday. Senior proofs and stamp pictures arrived with notable swapping among students. The column notes declamatory turnout, football defeat at Hawk Eye, and upcoming game with Arlington. mentions typing speeds for Ruth Krueger and others.
Nina Ashby Lavon Lassig Dewayne Johnson and Kathryn brought plants to class. Students drew cat-tails in art. Fourth grade language wrote letters this week. Perfect spelling six weeks: Carol Ressler Judy Swenson Gladys Peterson Oran Shipton Ruth Westpfahl. Dewayne Johnson read a story during Story Hour on Friday.
Nine pupils from our room attend religious instruction at the Lutheran church on Friday morning. We had physical training in the high school gym and played basketball with some good shooters. Both grades have been telling stories for English work this week.
Joseph Olson Henry Follett Donald Steffens and Velma Thorson were absent with colds last week. Students made cork hot dish pads in art and read favorite poems in literature class. A Tuesday gym hike led to a visit to Lucian Appelman’s molasses factory. the trip was great fun.
Pvt. Don Maialfi of Maguckets acted as suction bait while Walter Pidgeon and Adolphe Monjog auctioned off every piece of his military outfit except his shorts to a large Seattle crowd. He was escorted to the platform in shorts and bought back each item as it was sold, ending fully clothed. Bombs the Japs With Scrap.
Iowa readers learn practical advice for storing and ripening tomatoes from victory gardens. Guidance covers picking stages before frost, hanging vines, temp ranges from 50 to 55 degrees, and using waxed paper, with notes on storing onions, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squashes, beets, and carrots in appropriate settings. A mix of garden anecdotes and local items follows, including Yankee visitors and wartime notes.
In Moscow radiophoned coverage, Wendell Willkie, representing President Roosevelt, met Joseph Stalin with Molotov and Pavlov present. The meeting follows Willkie’s push for a second front amid discussions in Britain, Canada, and the United States. Willkie then departed for Shanghai via Kuibyshev.
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