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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1942
Page
3
Entry shows Clermont in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter indicating local mailing status and classification.
Iowa voters head to the polls Tuesday with the Senate contest dominating attention as districts shift after reapportionment. The state’s population gain fails to keep pace with the nation, reshaping districts and sending incumbents to tight races across multiple counties.
The longest straight railroad track in the United States runs 78.64 miles from Wilmington to Hamlet in North Carolina.
School notes cover Ramona Olson perfect spelling week for grades one and two with several fifth and sixth graders also achieving 100 percent in spelling. Seventh and eighth grades report Halloween art, Kip Van Winkle reading, and colonial history focus. High school notes include seniors selecting announcements, Elgin football win, and upcoming forensic contests in November.
The note lists a string of sensational questions about local youths and their rumored conduct. It quips about student romances, mischief, and fashion, referencing Vivian Osmundson Lois and William, Dorothy and Delores Anderson, Darlene Martin, Howard Helgerson, Gladyce Barnes, LeAnna Osmundson, Glenice H, Margaret Martin, Donna Loftsgard, Lorraine Westpfahl, Delores Schupanz, Dean K, David H, Gerald Aanes, and Quinton Olson. The tone is playful gossip.
San Francisco report details an intimate camera study during Captain Eddie Rickenbacker’s San Francisco visit in September 1942. Rickenbacker, famed WWI ace, was reportedly missing after an inspection flight over the Pacific as the War Department confirms Col Hans Christian Adamson and other Army Air Force personnel were with him.
Mrs. Esther Cooley entertained relatives and friends Tuesday evening in honor of her son Eugene Cooley and his wife from La Crosse Wisconsin who were visiting. They returned to La Crosse Wednesday and Mr Cooley left for Fort Sheridan to resume his army duties.
The article urges batter Jowa and families to store vegetables for fall, winter, and spring to cut grocery costs and improve health. It advocates home production, daily use of fresh vegetables, and a strong war effort through self sufficiency. It recommends heavy fertilization with barnyard manure this month and plowing under, suggesting five to ten loads of fertilizer per acre, with commercial growers using up to twenty loads. Continuous planting of vegetables throughout the season is emphasized.
The article explains fall plowing improves soil nutrients and moisture retention, aiding early cool season crops like potatoes and carrots. It notes manure benefits light soils, contour plowing to prevent erosion, moving gardens every five years, rotating crops, and planting fruit plants after fall plowing. It also covers windbreak protection, slope considerations, and recommendations for fruit plantings.
A dairy farming note urges self feeding hay via outdoor racks to cut labor. It cites fiscal targets a $13 billion revenue rise required by a new act to stave off inflation and mentions manpower shortages risking Iowa herd improvement associations. Two women testers help, bi monthly testing proposed. Iowa apple stocks meet demand with 294000 bushels production vs 74000 in 1941. frost damaged cane risk to cattle from prussic acid.
Incomplete OCR fragment discusses plastic welds and measurement issues. It mentions a quick effect of plastic welding and references to toities, but lacks clear results, dates, places, or named organizations for a precise summary. The readable content indicates a technical note on welding processes needing clarification.
Machinist’s Mate Henry Knock of Parkersburg survived the USS Astoria being hit by enemy fire in the Pacific. About 400 of the ship’s 1,000 crew lived through the action. A scrap drive unearthed relics from early Iowa days. Mayor Wasden of Garner found an old watch case opener inscribed to F. B. Cassill. Secret Service man Burrill Peterson joined the President on a trip to inspect war industries. Storm Lake scrap salvagers found two relics of horse and buggy days.
The two Warntjes spouses of Primphar, Holland natives, died within hours of each other, Mr. Warntjes from a heart attack. A city official notes a cast iron relic and a bronze bell weighing 450 pounds. A strained funeral bulletin mentions Rev. Corwin Taylor of Sheldon. A Knoxville farmer shot pigeons for autumn fare and discovered a carrier pigeon from Chicago among them.
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