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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1950
Page
4
Pick ripe firm tomatoes and decide hot or raw packing for canning. Wash scald peel quarter and pack hot or raw with juice, add salt, remove air bubbles, seal, and water bath can pint 35 minutes quart 45 minutes. Freeze tomato juice from ripe tomatoes with headspace for storage.
Classified notices show 10 cent per line ad rates with a 30 cent weekly minimum if paid in cash. Blind or inquir ies ads carry a 10 cent weekly minimum. For sale items include three yearling ewes with three lambs named Franz Appelmann Clermont and a 150 acre farm located west of Elkader and east of Elgin on the Albert Larson and administrators Paul Larson of Elgin and Harry J Larson of Elkarder with description Good buildings and contact details.
Two complimentary passes for Burkhart Riegel at Clermont are available at the Echo office. The tickets cover the double feature at the Avalon theater on August 11 and 12, while supplies last.
Leonhart of Wadena and Davis of Albia were married Friday afternoon at St Am brose chapel Des Moines in a double ring ceremony performed by Father C J Gault Attendants were Mary Fennell and Floyd Murray A reception followed with sixty relatives and friends A shower was held Monday at the Presbyterian church parlors The couple will live in Des Moines where Mr Davis is an accountant for Solar Aircraft and Mrs Leonhart has worked for Central Life Insurance Co since high school graduation
The Elgin local column lists numerous visits and guests including the Howard Boyle family of Clermont dining with the Kohls and Groves acting as fair judge in Cresco. It notes illness, hearts, and recoveries in local households, travels to Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Chicago, and several dinners and picnics across Clermont Anoka Keokuk and Monona with many named families and individuals.
A good legume pasture supports sows and gifts bred for fall farrowing with ample feed. New oats will soon be available and used as a major grain ration if fed whole in a self feeder. If sows run thin, feed each one a cart or two of corn daily to improve condition.
Painted week notes show Howard Medberry erecting three combination granaries as part of a business improvement. Harold K. Conner recently moved from Strawberry Point to West Union to serve as a pharmacist at Rush drug store, living in the apartment above. Several relatives visit, including Mr. and Mrs. Puidck and Mrs. Gil bertson in Litchfield, Des Moines, and a reunion at Warren Joyce’s in Oelwein. Victor Frederick returns from Des Moines after a week with grandparents H. B. Gil son and kin. Harry Wolf from Mattoon visits Dr H. Hy Wolf’s family. Ida Lehman from La Porte City visits her sister Mrs. Albert Schori. John Howard, Sr. attends a family picnic at Warren Joyce’s. Joe Blaski family and Mrs. John Mika of Chicago visit. Jim Cuthbert of Sioux Rapids stays with Lawrence Grimm while in the area. Callers Sunday include Ray Welthorn, Billy, William Schupbach and daughters, and Jacob Friederich.
Mrs Rudy Posseh and family spent Monday at the Firie den home. Mr and Mrs id Medberry hosted guests. Mr and Mrs wy Fal and Mrs Martin Wenger entertained Sunday guests including Gordon Landswerlg and Sumner in a brief social note.
In a compact quip, a man reflects on aging noting seventy years with no cars and twenty-five years stuck at home, the humor and hardship of limited mobility framed as a life vignette.
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