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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
1
The Elgin Echo notes it is published every Thursday by R P Strauch and is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
In this 1941 column fragments discuss a Rich’s uptown signabout drinking, a rural schools float parade, a humorous Ankeny ordnance tale about a foreman called Superintendent of Personnel, a father and mother quip about intelligence, and a Bellamy Brooks joke on life’s unfairness with a marriage as an irresistible force.
A collection of light snippets features a grocer turning away a job seeker, a pun about ideas entering empty heads, optimist jokes, and a provocative note about a church group changing dress norms. The items mix social quips with brief anecdotes and a dated signoff by W. F. Churchill, not Winston.
A recap of Fayette County happenings from 1916 including Rudolph Brause testing a mechanical corn husker on his farm between here and West Union, house work at Ward Brabham’s nearing completion, and Birth of a Nation screenings in Oelwein last week. John Berndt and family visited Farmersburg for a christening of Irma Charline Evaline. Mel Kohler and family returned from Forest Lake Minnesota. Keith Gray and Louise Schultz wed at the bride’s home south of town on Oct 11. Hans Keiser installed Lyon & Healy piano in Wesley Miller’s home and a player piano at Tille Everson’s near Clermont. Wadena reportedly has five diphtheria cases. Sheldon Boyle family welcomed a daughter born Oct 13. A. M. Weibel, Edward Grimm and Thos. Knudtson attended Hikader on real estate closing, Grimm becoming owner of a 200 acre Clayton county farm. A farewell party for Thomas Kerr and wife at the Chas. Rothlisberger home Friday. Helen Nelson returned from Iowa City after dental surgery.
The young people will lead the Sunday evening service at 7 45 with Mrs Kurth presiding The program theme is Fishers of Men featuring sketches about Christian workers by Merle Ruckdaschel Harry Johnson Clarence Muehlthaler Mrs Clarence Kohls and Mrs Alden Oelberg Everyone is welcome
Helen Dennler daughter of Albert and Mrs Dennler of Elgin married Richard Grover son of Lewis and Mrs Grover of Waverly at Lancaster Missouri on a Saturday evening October 18. Rev Gaither of the Methodist church officiated. Attendants Norma Grover and Kenneth Medberry attended. The couple will reside in Waterloo.
Transfers include Mabel Knudson to Richard Olson for 900 dollars with multiple lots in Clermont, Florence Baldwin to Oscar and Geo Gregerson for 775 dollars covering parcels in Clermont, Sarah Kiple to John Kiple for 1 dollar across several lots in Elgin, and Elizabeth Falk and Fred Falk to Clarence O. Torkelson for 1 dollar in Elgin's second addition. Other entries list additional lot sequences and townships in Elgin and Clermont.
Jane and Anthony Hough of Indianola thought they found their two lost baby chicks’ mother in a hen returned by the neighborhood search. After taking it home they discovered the real mother hen beneath the rhubarb the next morning. They now have two hens, with no claim on the second.
A truck loaded with fish crashed through the Thoms bridge near Waverly causing two feet of water depth and fish to cover the structure. A bystander was injured while a nephew cut off the hand of a man trapped by drive chains of a corn picker. The arm was amputated midway. Norman Seeley Jr. alerted a railroad crew after a tree fell on the track, aiding a flagger to stop the freight train.
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