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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
3
Clermont area residents host and visit relatives across Iowa and Minnesota with trips to Des Moines Iowa City Cedar Falls and Decorah. Guests include the Blake and Dibble families many church members and school staff while weddings births and local events mark a bustling social week.
Senior Marilyn Olson, guard on the CHS basketball team, is profiled with a note on her height, weight, hair and eye color, and her radio hobby. The piece also mentions class activities across grades 5 to 8, with reports on sports, social studies, art, and recent field trips, plus staff visits and parent involvement.
Clermont lists 1949 50 basketball dates including Nov 8 Randalia there and Nov 11 Monona here with open dates on Nov 15 and Jan 24. It shows home and away games against West Union Waucoma McGregor Randalia Monona Calmar Stanley Arlington and Elgin plus girls county and boys county events through January.
Fragmentary OCR mentions dates in February for a boys sectional event with locations including Waterville Elgin and Calmar. Readable fragments point to prep rounds and regional matchups scheduled across multiple communities.
Arthur and Sara Krueger hosted dinner guests Sunday with Mr and Mrs Herman Schulte in Fredericksburg and Mr and Mrs Ed Oghms in Postville. Mr and Mrs Len Simek left Friday for a northern Minnesota vacation. Henry Schweinerus was taken seriously Friday afternoon and rushed to Decorah hospital for major surgery that evening. Jackie Halvorson arrived Friday night from El Paso Texas.
A man described as a “pecker” was taken to Town City on Saturday and admitted as a patient at University Hospital. Details are incomplete in the fragment.
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