Elgin High School Yearbook Page Highlights
The Purple and White Tattler edited by Elgin High students features editor Mavis Durscher and Betty Strauch, with articles on sportsmanship, library research over lectures, and a slogan urging effort over luck. It notes seventh graders with top history marks, Campfire Girls meet, and Freshman Initiation Day with mock celebrity impersonations and new teachers welcomed.
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Purple and White Tattler
Elgin High
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Elgin High School
Jemima
Adolf Hitler
Alice Marble
Don Budge
Sitting Bull
Miss Burrington
Krohn
Miss Kennedy
School News Across Grades One To Seven
Primary pupils held a field trip and collected leaves and seeds while creating flower designs from wallpaper. A butterflies collection started with seven. Janice Pinney was absent all week. Second and Third Grades note three fish named Blackie Goldie and Spotty. Dramatization of Little Red Hen performed. new blackboard design shows squirrels and trees. Fourth and Fifth Grades report 100 percent in spelling with charts. War of 1812 and Columbus Voyages studied. Karolyn Falk absent one day with a cold. Sixth and Seventh Grades study Poem of the Presidents. seventh grade learns graphing. sixth grade studies Current Events using newspaper clippings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mavis Durscher
Betty Strauch
Harvey Gilbertson
Anna Schupbach
Lois Miller
Verlie Bailey
Hazel Gilbert
Betty Schort
Elizabeth Walters
Georganna Falk
Mabel Grimm
Betty Ann Schneider
Janice Pinney
Miss Dunkle
Blackie
Goldie
Spotty
Bonnie Lantz
Shirley Reusser
Karolyn Falk
United States
Home Economics Club Initiation and Plans for Tag Day
The Home Economics Club met Wednesday afternoon and held an initiation for new members. Lunch followed. A tag day is planned to raise funds for the playground, with hopes for broad support. The Junior Class Party went to Postville Thursday evening, with bowling and a show, then treats at a restaurant. Cheer leaders are to be elected from seven candidates. demonstrations Friday morning and next Friday will determine the final selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Economics Club
Postville
Mavis Durscher
Mabel Grimm
Verlie Bailey
Betty Schori
Anna Mae Schupbach
Florence Ogle
Bernice Blockhus
Last Year's Seniors and Class Oddities Highlight Elgin Pulse
A survey of last year seniors lists their new positions from teaching rural schools to Navy service, with names including Eva Boyer Ethel Boyle Erma Butikofer Mabel Butikofer James Christ Opal Dennler Rose Marie Dennler Bob Falk Phyllis Frieden Leo Hutchinson Keith Kohler Lavern Larson Gladys Miller Calvin Nelson Evelyn Roberts Phyllis Roberts Glen Schupbach and Urges junior class unity. The sports note recalls a late August football scoreless stretch and Arlington game where Mac Donald connected on a long pass before a botched extra point left Arlington with 6 Elgin 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Boyer
Ethel Boyle
Mr. Robinson
Erma Butikofer
A. I. B. Des Moines
Mabel Butikofer
James Christ
A. I. A. Fayette
Opal Dennler
Rose Marie Dennler
Bob Falk
Business College
Cedar Rapids
Phyllis Frieden
Leo Hutchinson
A. I. B. Des
Arlington
MacDonald
Elgin
Battle ends in 6 6 tie as Elgin halts late Arlington drive
The game stayed tied 6 all after Wenger connected with Barker for a late touchdown but Arlington blocked the extra point. Arlington then held Elgin on downs near midfield as the whistle blew with the ball on the Arlington 20. Starting linemen are Blockhus Adrian Gilbertson Barker Boleyn Wenger. Next game Friday Oct 3 at Calmar. Conference standings follow.
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Wenger
Barker
Arlington
Elgin
Blockhus
Adrian
Gilbertson
Boleyn
Gerald Frieden
Calmar
Mink Creek Study Club Elects New Officers
The Mink Creek Study Club met at Mrs. Chas. Ulish home on Wednesday Sept 24. Officers elected for the year include Mrs. Robert Ernst president Mary Flanagan vice president Mrs Alfred Johnson secretary treasurer Mrs Wilder Mattocks leader Mrs Ralph Shaffer assistant leader and Mrs Howard Shaffer music chair. A book review on One Foot in Heaven by Mrs. Robert Ernst was enjoyed and a lunch served. Next meeting to be at Mrs Wilder Mattocks.
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Mink Creek Study Club
Chas
Ulish
Robert Ernst
Mary Flanagan
Alfred Johnson
Wilder Mattocks
Ralph Shaffer
Howard Shaffer
Music Cim
Heaven
Dawson Clark
Auction Bridge Club
Esther Sherlock
Wm. Nelson
Arthur Herrling
Frank Welch
Lyle Kuhnes
Robert Bigler
Community Notes From West Union Area Gatherings
(Compiled from local in home and church gatherings, birthdays, dinners, and visits.) Mrs J H Wilson presented a purse to a honored guest at a pot luck lunch. Mrs Bigler plans to move with husband to San Diego. Clair Whittenbaugh travels with her husband to an airplane factory job. Justin Herwig hosted Ed Medberry Alton Medberry Lloyd Watters Duane Watters Ella Allen in honor of her sixty second birthday. A Red Cross sewing group worked on men’s pajamas for shipment. Joe Marold, longtime Iowa Telephone Co. employee, funeral held in Dyersville. Shoppers and guests gathered for showers and dinners in several homes.
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J. H. Wilson
Bigler
San Diego
Calif
Robert Bigler
Clair Whittenbaugh
Justin Herwig
Ed Medberry
Elgin
Alton Medberry
Myria
Lloyd Watters
Duane
Arlington
Ella Allen
Oelwein
Dorothy Weber
Lou Gebhart
Keith
Monona
Floyd Hall
Davis
Postville
Sid Walters
Thad Walters
Presbyterian Church
Red Cross
West Union
Roy Leonhart
Joe Marold
Dyersville
Marold
Birdseed Pillows In Portuguese Inns Spark Interest
Visitors to Portugal report that the inn pillows are filled with birdseed. The seeds are said to be the best pillow for a hot summer night, making pillows unusually firm and distinctive in their comfort.
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Portugal
Iowa's 1941 Summer Drier and Warmer Across Months
Iowa's June through August 1941 averaged 73.4 degrees, 1.2 degrees above the 69 year summer norm, with 10.38 inches of rainfall, 1.48 inches below average. Nearly 80 percent of rain fell in June, while intense heat spanned late July into early August, causing flooding and erosion mainly in east central and southwest counties.
Co-eds Take Chance On Blind Dates At Pomona College
A campus census at Pomona College California surveyed 292 coeds. Only 56 opposed blind dating citing fear of the unknown. The remaining 234 were willing to take a chance on a date.
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Pomona College
Claremont
Calif
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Gus
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L. Tripoli
Wadena
Hawkeye
Wadena News
RADIO
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Iowa Telephone Co
Glenn Probert
Patty
Herman Peterman
Volga
Good Will Society
Inez Chase Christen
Bill Yearous
Waterville
Floyd Patterson
Philip Leahy
Tom Flanagan
Mrs. Parker
Lamont
al Dahlgren
Mason City
Harry Humphry
Will Whittenbaugh
Charles Whittenbaugh
Gayle Whittenbaugh
Sterling, Colo
R. P. Strauice
Lehman’s Hdn
Iowa
GREEN
Castra
Weibel Mill CO
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Echo - Enterprise
Echo Enterprise
Fayette
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