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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1928
Page
6
Elgin news notes Clean Up Week activities as residents urge full participation. Local illnesses and visits, road conditions, and property moves appear alongside farming setbacks from frost. Clerical and social updates include shifts in housing, business moves, and church activities.
Belle Creek Community Club met at Mrs Anna Heck’s home on April 18 with a roll call on house cleaning hints. The program featured April a month of memorable days versus Mary Jacobs Current Events, Esther Kiple Capitols fashions and thrills, and Nellie Reusser’s Farm segment. A two course luncheon followed. Next meeting slated at Mrs Mary Jacobs’s home.
J W Reed Sons, contract grader for No 56 from West Union to the Clayton county line, moved equipment to Cresco for a summer contract. Remaining work on No 66 will be completed by the county. Mr Kennedy of Wadena will finish the Elgin Wadena road to the old gravel near Lena Hunsberger farm after that project.
Mr. and Mrs. Myrlin Feller are rehired for the coming year in Soldier Iowa. Mr. Feller enters his third year as high school principal while Mrs. Feller begins her first year as primary teacher. Both received salary increases and signed contracts.
The eye ear nose and throat clinic of the Postville Hospital will be held Tuesday forenoon May 1. Adv. Munsingwear.
A mixed scoop of household advice on jelly sugar ratios lemon stain removal and shoe sizing sits alongside local society notes. Mentions include Mary Hanson of Postville Samuel Lehman repair work Berg Kohler and Muehlerhalve Falk ownership, and various visits and a baby contest entrant Betty Alice Schori with birthday plans at Helen Allen’s home.
Bulletin 228 outlines soybean varieties and how to obtain it from Iowa State College. It highlights slogans to promote purebred bulls, rising cod liver oil feed demand, calving time care for dairy cows, and feeding practices for young heifers. It includes an example Iowa farm using accounts to improve profitability and field reorganization, plus local social notices.
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