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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
8
A rural digest discusses pruning vineyards and uniform sheep, praising grit for hens and dairy quality balance. It notes corn yield gains, debates dairy versus beef, silo and forage importance, and warns that wild birds protect crops, urging seed frugality and farm-wide feed growth.
The article discusses improving flocks through selective culling and careful use of incubators and brooders, notes on the value of rightly balanced stock tonics for digestion and nutrition, and explains that while farmers can make their own tonics, correct proportions and ingredient quality matter. It also covers persistent rural land values amid economic shifts and the appeal of small farms for independent living.
Col Palmer notes a steady rise in laws enacted, citing figures from the Fifty-sixth to the Sixtieth Congress. He says the current Congress may surpass all prior sessions in enacted measures, with 9 741 laws passed by the end of the last term. Palmer, from New Jersey, carried enrolled bills to the White House for thirteen years.
John Burroughs and Toho Muir voyage through the Grand Canyon region and recount the petrified forest. Burroughs asserts the trees were not real trees but fossilized molds, formed when mineral matter replaced every cell and knot, preserving exact details like a stone cast.
Prof Arnold of Sheffield University told the Royal Institution that within a year a British steel named Nova Superior will be on the market with four times the cutting power of current steels. It stems from Continental Steel Works of Sheffield after a patent dispute with Bethlehem Steel Company of Pennsylvania. The new steel aims to reduce reliance on American patents and is not expected to require major machinery changes.
Brooklyn New York forms a Hebrew Longshoremen Union and a stonemasons union sprouts in Mankato Minnesota. Newcastle New Jersey builds a workingmen clubhouse as the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks expands to Lawrence Massachusetts. May 1 in New York City hosts gatherings of Cap Mokers and the United Cloth War. Legislative moves include an eight hour day bill for hoisting engineers in Pennsylvania and a Minnesota federation with 230 unions statewide. Moving picture operators in San Francisco join the theater workers, while Seattle seeks the 1910 AFM convention. Cost of a new Cleveland locomotive engineers building tops $1,000,000. The 1908 New York State union earnings average 207 dollars in third quarter, below 227 in 1907. Blue labels issued by cigar makers total 27,172,150 in 1908 down from 31,580,004 in 1907. Washington DC trades unions resist a boss worker “raised union” movement. After SF federation adjourned, 25 new unions formed and 11 reaffiliated. International Photographers back a wider union compact with allied printing trades.
The pardons committee at Des Moines heard evidence in a decades old murder case claiming exculpatory testimony. Witness Animes Ogg asserts that Exekil Itverest, a Liscomb resident, supplied beer to be delivered to Charles Russell, who died of arsenic poisoning after drinking it. William Adams, of Liscomb, is serving a life sentence, with Ogg now saying the poison was bought for Myerist, not Adams.
Crowds gathered as Haunters Christ Anderson and Henry Rothman duck hunters clinging to an overturned boat went over the falls in the Cetar River. Companion Frank Bentz leaped to help and perished. Anderson, assistant manager at Her tick Refrigerator Co., and Bothman, a saloon keeper, were not seen again. The wreckage was recovered a mile below the falls.
Frank Bennish a 53 year old Bohemian farmer and father of thirteen, recently moved to the Sarah Spurgeon farm five miles south of Shellaburg. He reportedly faced a corn theft charge for feeding horses and threatened self harm while seeking a family revolver. Coroner Lutes investigated. Bennish had long lived near Norway and was well known.
The historic Glen Row structure on South Linn Street, more than a century old and part of Iowa City's early history, is being demolished by owners J. C. Cochran and his son F. 7. Cochran to make way for three modern residences. The old capitol stood at the site now housing the United States Express Company in the town center and was moved after the second building was erected in 1810s.
Iowa Supreme Court ruling in the Sharp versus Davis case holds that a liquor permit holder has little protection when selling alcohol to a minor. The decision, written by Judge Evans, rejects the defender's claim of written parental consent as a defense to an injunction. The ruling tightens liquor laws and adds burdens on licensed pharmacists.
A baby girl born six weeks earlier in a Minnesot a arrival to Afton with Burt Schultz and wife is found dead in bed the morning after arrival. Authorities suspect smothering as the child seemed healthy the previous day. In Des Moines, two youths, Waller Joy and Noy Anderson aged 17 and 16, were arrested for mistreatment and running away from their Stuart homes.
Prof. George W. Tannehill age 70 known as the blind mathematician died in Cedar Rapids. For forty four years he taught mathematics at Town College for the Blind in Vinton. Tannehill became blind years ago due to illness.
Town Presbyterian churches will be called upon to give 22000 dollars for State mission work. The sum shows a light increase over last year’s appropriation, reflecting ongoing support for regional church outreach.
City finances under the Des Moines commission form show 100000 saved, with expenditures this year 20000 under appropriations. The system adds accountability, interest-earning funds, and elimination of political patronage, with each commissioner directly overseeing a department to curb waste and boost revenue.
In Clayton Allamakee and Winneshiek counties the red and gray fox populations have exploded, threatening poultry and fueling trapper business. A Clayton County town reports forty red foxes and many gray ones trapped, with prime pelts selling up to seven dollars. Rabbits, once nearly extinct, rebound and damage apple trees, while minks and muskrats run plentiful, boosting profits for trappers.
In Des Moines, Father Romanelli reports an anarchist attacked him in his study during Lenten services at St. Am Inoge Catholic Church. The pastor fended off the assailant with a revolver, driving him to the door as police are notified. Fire damage to the Normal building in Bloomfield totals several hundred dollars, a fifth incident in three years. Incendiary activity hits Eugene Paine’s offices in Town City. three arson attempts in the same neighborhood are noted, with no suspects named. Farmers in Dilote and Vielaity report a swindle over palm trees, charging $25 per thousand for nine to twelve inch trees, far above nursery prices.
A 14 year old Corlisy Dudley broke both arms in a hay wagon accident near Chiur dau. Funeral services for Marecatine mayor Harney Schmidt were moved to Family Theater to accommodate mourners. Danish couple Hans Laouridsen and Christina Jenren, rumored wealthy, face immigration violations with deportation for the woman. Gavridsen reputed as a Danish gold trader and the man linked to a Copenhagen hotel family.
The Iowa Senate defeated a move to take up constitutional prohibition, voting 31 to 20 against. The action followed committee refusal to report the resolution. Senator Proudfoot argued the issue, while supporters claimed it exposed a subterfuge tied to a constitutional convention in 1914. Other bills were killed, including taxes on railroads, stock-ownership taxation, and civil rights measures.
In Iowa a push to increase kidnapper penalties to life in prison gains traction with Tullfiin of Atuscatine backing a harsher standard citing twenty five years of vanishings, while Rep Cooper proposes raising the penalty from five years to life. The Whipple bill to create a state board for three institutions passes the House amid debate. Bank guaranty measure fails by six votes as minority report is blocked. tribal party lines show Republicans contributing to the margin.
The Good Roads bill, the main roads measure of the session, has passed both houses. It allows communities to organize into districts for road work similarly to how drainage districts are formed.
Allen of Pocahontas introduced a bill in the Senate to require county and city inspections under Julie Wader directing the Board of Control. The Senate committee on cities and towns recommended indefinite postponement, deeming court ordered inspections by grand juries sufficient.
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