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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1942
Page
5
Iowa Superintendent Jessie M. Parker urges keeping the best educators in public schools stressing that strong basic education underpins military training and national defense. She warns about panic during air raids and urges schools to conduct drills to establish proper response patterns.
Public Safety Commissioner Karl W. Fisher announced 1943 plates will reuse 1942 plates for all motor vehicles except motorcycles and trailers. Owners pay 85 dollars, receive a steering wheel license and a windshield stamp showing county, serial, year 1943, and the word Yowa.
The Elgin community group will meet at Evans cafe next Monday evening at 6 30. The chairman has not announced any special business but a salvage drive may be lengthened. Members note many worked in past weeks and more junk must be collected before winter.
Alfred George Kahler was arrested August 25 in Aberdeen for stealing four head of cattle from Lou Hunsberger & Son north of Wadena. The cattle, two steers and two heifers, were valued at about $500. Kahler confessed and sold the animals in Aberdeen. he was returned to Fayette county jail and likely to be arraigned at the September term.
The Elgin Canning Co has completed three weeks of 1942 operations and foresees a record pack if weather stays favorable. The middle warehouse is at capacity, the north warehouse is full, and the south warehouse is about one third full, with room for several big days. Many large growers have already delivered their entire crop.
The American Legion and Auxiliary will meet at the home of Mr and Mrs M J Blockhus on September 16. Mr and Mrs Ern Bauder will assist in entertaining the members.
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Staff Sgt. Gerald A Schori at the Miami Beach Air School runs a “Post Locater” program. He maintains a card file listing every man in the schools with gathered facts. The lobby hosts a large file system. initially a steel box, now a battery of files. Swing service is available to all callers, enlisted and officers.
The Decorah Public Opinion bought the Calmar Courier mailing list and equipment and now runs a Calmar section. The change, completed last week, leaves Winneshiek county with three newspapers while Faytte county has eight. The Courier’s sale to Mr. Kolden of Waukon reportedly fell through.
Harold R. Weibel is to arrive Saturday and depart with his father for Des Moines where he and Miss Lillian Edwina Stonecipher will be married Monday evening. The ceremony will take place at the home of the bride's parents Mr and Mrs J Edgar Stonecipher.
Farmer Gottlieb Puffer reported two young deer observed Friday morning in his pasture as he drove in his cows. He hasn’t seen them since but believes they may be hidden in the timbered pasture area nearby for weeks without being seen.
Supt. C. J. Robinson, who reached the semi finals in the golf handicap at West Union Country Club, was surprised last week to receive 2.50 in defense stamps as his share of the prize money. Lorenz Schatz of West Union defeated Carroll Grimes there in the final round.
Winifred and Elizabeth McMillan are teaching in Clayton County town schools this year with Winifred at Garnaville handling first through third grades and Elizabeth at Monona teaching second and third grades. Both schools started classes Monday.
Dennler Dennler and Harry Butikofer set Thursday Sept 24 as closing out sale date for the former’s farm. Butikofer deferred from army duty to Oct 1, plans to join forces. Denner owner to retire and sell farm. Auctioneers J W Thiele. Elgin State Bank clerk. sale to include corn in the field.
The first meeting of the Elgin Study Club for the year was held at Mrs F C Muehlethaler’s home on Tuesday evening September 8. Local faculty ladies attended as guests. A pot-luck dinner followed, then the program committee presented a sketch introducing the year’s study Who Built America. Betty Alice Schori played piano and Marlene Mosby assisted.
War time disrupts school schedules as bus routes extend with Elgin operating two trips daily. The first starts around seven, the second ends just before nine. Residents discuss adding a second bus if a suitable vehicle can be found.
Mrs Louis Sutter sent samples to the Echo office Monday showing progress of her Victory garden along Otter creek bottoms. A pole bean sample measured ten inches, suggesting abundant pods. She also reported picking a pan full of red raspberries the same day.
A locomotive and two cars derailed yesterday morning while switching on the factory spur. Little damage occurred, and after a short delay the crew righted the wheels and resumed service.
The Fayette County American Legion will host a Stag event in Arlington on Tuesday evening September 15th. Members and guests are invited to attend the social gathering.
The Iowa Press Assn announces a northeast district meeting at Sumner on Friday Sept. 18. Six similar meetings will be held statewide and the Sumner session will cover about 16 counties.
Section one of the Iowa Butter makers association held its August meeting at McGregor with creamery staff hosting. In the butter contest Francis Giblin Ossian placed first Louis L Lehman second and Alvin Thorson Garville third. Lehman was nearest to official score Giblin second and Thorson third in the scoring contest. B W Patsey of the state agricultural department spoke on cleanliness and sanitation warning federal authorities are tightening rules and cautioned operators about off flavors or dirty cream.
Geo Tope aged 38 from West Union died at Iowa City hospital from injuries after a car crash on Lime Kiln hill west of Elgin. The vehicle struck gravel, left the road, hit a telephone pole, then a rock, overturned, and landed back on its wheels. Three passengers had minor injuries.
The Legion Auxiliary requests discarded phonograph records and empty thread spools. Records will be remade for army and navy use, and spools will help employ veterans in hospitals. Bonds or bondage Buy U.S Savings Bonds.
Newark New Jersey Herbert Karl Frederick Bahr, a convicted German spy and former Rensselaer student, is led away to begin a thirty year term in a federal prison. He was sentenced by Federal Judge William F. Smith after being arrested while posing as a Jewish refugee aboard the exchange liner Drottningholm last June.
The salvage drive ended without the hoped quota yet progress shows more residents becoming salvage minded. About thirty tons were received in three weeks, and the committee plans several more weeks of effort to clean up farms and homes. Members H. W. Falb G. J. Mosby Chas. ONeill and G. H. Falb will survey the area to identify remaining junk.
Elgin and Clermont Masons plan anniversary events this year. Elgin marks its fiftieth anniversary chartered in June 1892 while Clermont celebrates its eightieth, chartered in June 1862. A joint November celebration is anticipated with committees formed to coordinate plans.
Thos. Ogle is in West Union hospital with a broken right leg after a tractor upset near the Orvin Thompson home Tuesday evening. He was returning from the canning factory with an empty truck and three trailers when the outfit stalled on a newly worked road, then slid, rolled, and pinned his foot before he freed it with assistance from Mrs. Ogle and neighbors.
Wilma Schaer 36, of the John Schaer family homestead near Elgin, died Tuesday morning September 8 after a lengthy illness. She was the daughter of Jacob and Anna Schaer, both deceased. Survived by brothers Fred and John, who live west of Elgin. Funeral services set for Thursday afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Elgin.
Two local servicemen have landed in England per family notices. Corp. Dale DeSart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray DeSart, and Fred Cooley, son of Mrs. Lena Cooley, have reached England safely.
A terse plea echoes wartime rhetoric urging readers to buy U S Defense Savings Bonds and stamps as a daily patriotic duty. The message frames bond purchases as a high pressure but essential act tied to national security and collective resolve.
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