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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1949
Page
3
Clermont residents share a weekend of visits and travel to Decorah, Waterloo, and West Union. Families welcome newcomers B Kruel of Richland Center Wisconsin to Norbert Gerner’s home west of town. Amundson and Erickson households host relatives and friends, while Amvet Auxiliary conducts meetings and community dinners.
Last week locals report a baptism at 2 30 pm at the parsonage for Denice Deborah Berndt with Rev. Nesset officiating. Sponsors were Frances Shay Waubeck and Charles Gress Cedar Falls. Also noted are visits and family gatherings in Elkader Waukon Hawkeye Nanua Wheaton Hampton Walworth and Charles City areas with multiple relatives attending events and dinners including an Easter supper honoring Mea Nima.
The plan links sanitation to disease prevention by removing environmental factors enabling transmission, noting flies spread multiple diseases and guiding grain storage, dairy feeding, and crop rotation. It highlights grain carryover risks, farm management adaptions, and two top insecticides chlordane and chlorinated camphene for grasshopper control.
Twenty five years ago Frank Sieleman and Miss Lyda House wed on April 17. The couple will live with her parents in West Union while he works at the West Union Motor Co. Mrs C J Westpfahl, formerly of West Union, died in Charles City on April 23 at 64 after two years of illness. Funeral plans await her children Carl Harry Ella and Freda. Juniors stage The Path Across the Hill at the Opera House on April 30. Austin McQuilken of Wadena died aged nearly 83, survived by wife and daughter Florence Musser and granddaughter Bat Bat. Gail Cain, previously in the Iowa Soldiers Orphans home in Davenport, returns to Clermont. Mr and Mrs Geo Dibble return from wintering in Washington and California to visit sons and daughters in the area. Wm Henderschatt and Florence Shaffer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary April 23 after moving to Clermont in 1909 where twelve children were born.
About four of five Tewa farms now have electricity, but researchers note lighting in many farm homes remains inadequate and needs improvement to enhance daily life and productivity.
Clermont students and staff share memories from page five. Visitors included Mrs Gordon Hoopman and others while several pupils earned perfect attendance over six weeks. Art class produced May baskets as the week’s activity and room guests included Barbara Wickam and Mrs Griebenow among others.
During art period we decorated our room with poppies rabbits and ducks. We held a poppy border across the top of our blackboard. In the last arithmetic contest Clifford Larson's team won. We enjoy these contests and participate eagerly. Each morning we have a short citizenship period to discuss becoming better citizens. We also select playground monitors Helen Henderson Elliot Olson Larry Bergeson and Sandra Schaye. Our visitors for the past two weeks included Mrs Merlin Martie Mrs Glen Schave Marlene Martie Dorothy Burger Mary Ellen Schave Ronald Lyngaas and
Sharon Olson welcomes visitors and notes a birthday for Sandra Shave on April 16 to 21. The third graders received candy on Shave’s birthday. Daily lunch menus list mashed potatoes, roast beef, pickles, bread and butter sandwiches, stewed tomatoes, prune sauce or similarly dated meals with counts 137 to 144 served.
The passage argues that small, affordable remodeling can boost efficiency in livestock housing, but long term success requires effort and risk. It contrasts produce with comfort and responsibility, noting many abandon work for security and ease, then cites Mo. Exch as a source.
Experiments on two Iowa farms show young and thin feeders moved from drylot to mixed biome alfalfa pasture with grain, achieving faster, cheaper gains over six weeks to two months without losing overall weight gain, suggesting profitable pasturefeeding.
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