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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is issued every Thursday by R. P. Strauch and is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office in Payette County as second class mail matter.
Advertising rates listed for foreign display and local display per inch and readers per line. Classified rates per word with 38e minimum for first insertion. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam cards noted. Resolutions of Respect and obituary poetry mentioned with regular rates. Some garbled text suggests missing or misprinted figures.
A returned missionary discusses Zulu views on female hips as a mark of beauty and social status, comparing them to prestige in the home country. The piece contrasts religious attendance with weekday duties, questioning the balance between church actions and broader community responsibility.
A collage of jokes notices and small town updates lampoons draft talk church goings and daily life. Anecdotes about printers clerks and neighbors mix with brief notices of travel illness and marriages plus local civic chatter and community milestones from Cayuga County Ohio to Clayton Iowa and Cedar Rapids hospital news.
The Methodist Ladies Aid Society will hold its general meeting and reorganize with officer elections on Thursday Sept. 12 in the church parlors. All members urged to attend. a general committee will serve.
Postville Review reports a boy and a girl born Wednesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brad Seybert in the city. The school board plans to open public school September 26 with new room seats and steam pipes being prepared. Eman Was born July 6, 1822 in Bassbs and other local notes follow.
Twenty delegates met at Fayette Tuesday to elect the committee. The Fayette county soil conservation committee was re elected for another year with L. D. Hitch as chairman and Robin Wilson, both of Elgin, along with H. M. Brownell of Harlan township. Township committees named include Clermont Harry Vauslin A C Nesbit and K J Kerr Illyria John Flanagan James Muncie and George Lewis Pleasant Valley Arthur Chapman Archie Howard and Earl Kiple Delegate Robert Wilson.
A Minnesota forestry official releases a report analyzing 73 730 forest fires across Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1928. Smokers account for 34 percent of fires followed by debris burning 20 percent and incendiarism 11 percent. Campsers 7 percent railroads and lumbering each contribute about 1 percent.
The 1230 Verrianie of Broadcast reports that 203 radio stations in the United States are owned in whole or part by newspapers or other media outlets.
The first federal court death sentence in the United States was carried out in 1793 at New Bern North Carolina. Four sailors were hanged on the Ocracoke Island incident reflecting early federal capital punishment practice.
Special photo from Emil Pearson Herman Brown shows a highway patrolman from Auroraville holding a corn plant found on Sid ney Furgerson farm four miles west of Redgranite. The plant bears an extreme silk growth 23 inches long causing the stalk to bend under its weight. Echo advertisers offered savings.
Clayton County Junior Farm Bureau held a September 6 meeting at the fair grounds with a big campfire. Dr. C L Crider urged youths to value courage honesty faith and ambition as essential in a changing world. After a scavenger hunt the group roasted weiners and marshmallows. Milton Ponsar and wife chaperoned. twenty three members attended.
The Elgin Study Club began its year with a 6:30 dinner at Mrs. C. J. Robinson home on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Guests included county chairman Mrs. Pearl S. Schneider and Mrs. Andrews of Oelwein, plus Progress Club members. New president Mrs. Leo Schori led the meeting, featuring a program on Americas and U.S.-Latin relations, with group singing led by Mrs. Ern Bauder and Mrs. F. C. Muehthaler.
Fayette county officers reported on Tuesday that Mrs. Art Weideman of Hawkeye ended her own life while attempting to take her two daughters, Marilyn aged 4 and Kathryn aged 6, with no poison given to Kathryn. Marilyn was improving from effects of a poison administered Monday. Health was listed as the cause of Mrs. Weideman’s act.
Word reached here that John F. Krueger of Madison South Dakota died Tuesday night. The body will be brought to Elgin for burial. These are the only particulars available at this time.
As cool evenings hint at fall many households run furnaces and heating plants. The text urges immediate preventive repairs and a midseason checkup to ensure reliability before the first cold snaps.
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