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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
3
The column urges drivers to trust their own driving and act with courtesy. It argues most traffic accidents could be prevented if individuals follow common sense, law, and courtesy, rather than relying on others. Courtesy pays and self-reliance in driving is essential.
Mosses absorb water like a sponge and stay near the ground due to lack of tubes to transport water. Tiny shoots arise from the moss to become new plants from spores.
Salt water is converted into steam and then condensed back into fresh water. The salt remains as a residue. On ships, distillation units are often carried for emergency fresh water production.
County rural young peoples group hosts an old fashioned scavenger hunt on August 18 with prizes for top scavenger teams and penalties for dress code noncompliance. Girls bring pies boys supply ice cream as part of a county fair event plan. Lois Kiel chosen to represent Fayette county in the state 4-H girls health contest at the Iowa State Fair with a 98.3 score, among top entries.
Farmers seeking help to establish soil conservation demonstrations such as terracing strip cropping contour farming pasture improvement and gully control on their farms should submit requests at the farm bureau office soon. Erosion control and pasture improvement demos this year have proven successful and spurred further requests. Fayette County fair opens August 22 with a large exhibit by 4-H members Home Project women and farm bureau workers. Over 100 dairy calves 85 baby beeves 150 market pigs 30 colts and 75 lambs will be shown by livestock clubs 7 demonstration teams will compete for prizes with one team representing the county at the state fair.
County visitors to the state fair are urged to visit the 4 H Girls club department. See Great Grandmother's Kitchen and the Special Lighting Exhibit with lamps of ancient times. Also view the Girls Room of Long Ago, Styles of Long Ago, Great Grandmother's Cupboard and Over the Garden Wall preserving.
A Washington Post report describes a large African cricket that digs bur rows to amplify chirping heard nearly a mile away. It notes a flying gooseberry locust that drums its hollow abdomen by tapping with a leg. Beetles also "talk" by tapping bodies in rapid telegraphic codes.
Captain James Cook, who redis covered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, called them the Sandwich Islands in honor of his patron, the Earl of Sandwich, head of the British Admiralty. After the native name gained use, the Sandwich name was discontinued.
Echo exclusive photo shows Roy Camp and his team of oxen in Aledo, Georgia. The oxen are in demand across the country for centennial parades and events emphasizing a touch of the long ago. President Roosevelt appears in Barnesville shaking hands with Senator Walter F. George as he urges Georgians to back Lawrence Camp in the Senate race. Col Edwin Watson stands nearby.
British meteorological office tests reveal the entire atmospheric ozone would make a 2 to 3 millimeter layer if gathered at the surface. Ozone protects health by filtering ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
A Norwegian folk museum in Lillehammar highlights a founder who traded old furniture from family attics for medical services. Each day a relic helped settle the doctor’s bill, echoing a quirky practice from the past.
At Frank Lick Springs in French Lick Indiana Phil Miller national amateur trap shooting champion and skeet trap field manager has eight setter pups under schooling early training. They are expected to become full fledged bird dogs according to Miller.
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