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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1948
Page
2
Iowa farmers grow more aware of bees boosting red clover yields. Average lower clover seed in Iowa runs near a bushel per acre and bees nearby raise yields to about four bushels. With clover around $45 per bushel, bees prove cost effective. Public dumps breed rats. Iowa timberland is 98 percent farm owned. Forest planting aids erosion control and flood prevention.
Iowa State College extension clothing specialist Lucille Rea outlines spring and summer fashion shifts. Natural shoulders slim waists full but not voluminous skirts mid calf length. push-up sleeves. lighter coats jackets shorter and full. rayon faille and cotton suits favored. dark cotton chambray rising. Gibson Girl style returns with petti coats and lace hems for girls.
Harald Beswick of Stockport is recovering in an Ottumwa hospital after a hedge trimming accident left him with eye injuries. George Delperdang of Remsen suffered a near miss when a wobbling ten pin failed to topple him, then pitched 11 straight strikes plus a final ball that didn’t count. James Osborne, last September, was abducted and forced to drive a stranger to Minnesota before escaping and reclaiming his car. the kidnapper Claude Wiltrow was later captured in Sunnyside, Utah.
Fayette County Iowa Board of Supervisors met February 9 and approved farm to market road system recommendations to the State Highway Commission, naming roads and corridors. The session also authorized bond and payroll actions and approved several assessor and county official bonds.
Ensemble Good Homemakers who sew and shop, will find the ensemble coming back. This makes the reingote, the print dress with the solid color coat or jacket, a good early season duy, and a bolero dress especially good for summer as well as spring. Styling of a print dress is the simpler, the better. Old-fashioned feminine details make the spring styles new. An off-the-shoulder effect is found in most of the new dresses with capes, or the large oval berthy collar, which reaches to the peak of the shoulder pad. Many of the new plain-colored styles feature embroidered ruffling, pleats, tucks and shirings to add interest.
The hybrid corn project, developed at a cost of about ten million dollars, is reported to return an annual national dividend of around 750 trillion dollars, signaling substantial economic impact though figures may require verification.
A five year old, under his mother's strict watch, channels underground resistance into drawings. He pretends friendliness with a visiting lady while privately sketching a car wreck in red and black as a safe outlet for his anger. The incident shows how children express forbidden thoughts when punished.
A new coat of paint may leave a faint water smell that diminishes quickly. Opening windows and using ventilation helps dissipate the odor as the paint cures.
In connection with the granite quarry at Gillney Mai in 1828 the United States inquiry or report references historical actions and potential disputes arising from early quarry operations and their administrative handling during that period.
A brief opinion notes that electricity provides steadier, evenly regulated heat for cooking meat, reducing leaf shrinkage and temperature fluctuations seen with other fuels.
Parcel listing describes 209 acres near Ossian on paved highway 52 with abundant improvements electricity and running water to all buildings and near perfect land. Another 160 acre tract two miles east of Calmar also on highway 52 offers strong cultivation and good improvements. Sale prompted by illness. owner is a leading Northeast Iowa hog breeder and farm operator. Contact details promised.
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