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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
3
Clermont Enterprise of Clermont Iowa reports local news with Marjorie Scheel as local editor and member of Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association providing weekly coverage to the community.
The piece analyzes the rising impact of independent voters in Iowa with Wilson and Valentine on the same stage as Willkie and Roosevelt attract Republican and Democratic backing. It notes independents could tilt the election, Wallace’s speeches shaping New Deal messaging, and observers doubting major third party influence.
Six graduates and one boy from the prior spring class are entering or planning higher education. Dorothy Brorby, Phyllis Gress, and Ammazette Henderson attend the American Institute of Commerce in Davenport while Mary K. Guritz goes to Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. Janet Olson and Bernard Schrader start at Upper Iowa University, with Rita Rounds planned for St Mary’s Hospital Rochester nursing training in 1941. Other returning students include Irene Erickson at St Olaf, Norman Erickson at Coe College, Lois Brandt, Chrystel Miller at Upper Iowa, and James Rounds at Loras College.
A scattered Iowa page notes a Ken Sett school roof collapse yet classes continued while two feet of water flooded the gym. Nora Springs' Glen Behne family saw all 40 chickens vanish then return to the pen. Asa Berry of Lake Mills suffers a neck injury from a sneeze. Soils Conservation Service members in Marion hosted a banquet featuring a 26 pound lake trout. A purse recovered by Mr. Dunker and a billfold found by Myr Willey highlight small acts of honesty. An Emmetsburg man loses sight in one eye from a slipped screwdriver. An ox team in Ames draws excitement. A 1896 monster mass meeting handbill is found in Red Oak. Apples on one stem found in Belle Plaine. Delinquent tax lists exclude New Sharon firms. Elkader’s Harry Larson reports 12 potatoes equal a peck. Pleasantville’s Nero tale ends with a barn fire after a fiddle contest win. A sack of $1700 found in a bedclothes leads to relatives. Fearlman markets blankets with a novelty delivery in Eldora. A Ute highway fill collapses after heavy rains. Rex the dog from Bridgewater earns a medal for saving a family from fire.
LIKES FAIR Mate Rice 16 formerly of Monticello visited the fair there again this year. Rice was one of 36 men who donated 100 dollars apiece to start the Monticello fair years ago and is the only wing member remaining. This stag at Keeley Institute drinks at Keeley premises and shows a big shuck deer not giving up the bottle with a companion holder.
Accidental protection spikes on desert flora like cacl and Werenel arose from leaf and stem modifications. These changes were adaptations to climate, not deliberate shielding, reflecting plant responses to arid conditions.
The article notes that higher egg production lowers the cost to produce a dozen eggs. It states reading a laying flock at 60 percent costs very little more than a flock at 40 percent, highlighting efficiency gains with higher lay rates.
An old promotional note describes Alka-Seltzer as a remedy for stomach discomfort and heartburn with alkalizing buffers. It claims relief for pain such as headaches neuralgia colds and muscular aches and pains. The copy invites readers to enjoy a sparkling glass after hard work or exercise.
The provided lines read as fragmented prose about a pastel halo, a family dinner, sports slang, and a general praise for progress with no clear event, date, or named entities to summarize into a news card. The passage lacks concrete facts or individuals to ground a T or S.
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