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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1950
Page
2
EWE notes list writer in chief and staff, then detail April 15 music contest travel to West Union. Girls chorus names I and II sopranos, lots of students, with selection pieces "Bless This House" "So's I Can Write My Name" "Down to Carlow." Boys chorus lists voices across parts, set to perform "Lilo Train" and "The Shadow March."
The annual edition lists sopranos Gruver Hecker Boleyn Gilbert Dean Medberry Medberry Mosby Schori Wenger Yearous Benson Baumgartner Benson Boleyn Mosby Pinney Tillotson Torkelson Trudo tenors Ash Minihan Holmholt Ogle Pinney West Wolf Wolf and others set to sing Oh Vreneli Alleluia Christ is Born and Sit Down Servant. Pages close to completion with April 7 deadline and about 90 books sold at 1.75 each.
Elgin locals report dinners and visits across Postville Forest City and Patch Grove. Guests include Mr and Mrs Francis West Mrs Selma Schneider Dr and Mrs H H Wolf and families plus many weekend stays and illnesses.
Electric brooders can make thick brooding safer with less effort and possibly lower cost. Provide lambs access to high quality legume hay. Beef offers a market for large amounts of roughage, crop residues, pasture and forage that are hard to market otherwise. Iowa allows extended corn planting with reasonable maturing prospects as moisture and nitrogen largely limit yields on most soils.
John Lunn of Grinnell was injured last week when a piece of machinery fell on his knees. The impact drove the heel against the pavement, fracturing the bone in his heel.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a confused scene with mishandled names and unclear action. Key elements appear attempt to reference Sobers and Allen in a perceived police context, but the exact events, dates, and roles remain unreadable.
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