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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
1
The Elgin Echo lists subscription rates of 2.00 per year for four Northeast Iowa counties 2.50 for all outside above territory payable in advance. Rates include 10c per line minimum 30c weekly if cash accompanies order 80c if not. Classifieds and notices priced per ad with special rates for cards of thanks memoriam and resolutions.
Echo files report Elgin Cardinals defeated Fort Atkinson 11 to 1 to clinch the 1929 Little Eight League pennant. Pitcher L. L. Kiple fanned 15 and allowed one hit. Team roster includes Herrlong Kiple Jellings and Klingman with manager L. F. Klingman. Additional notes cover travel by Edith Frieden and Lydia Frieden, corn harvest, canning factory work, veterinarians’ trip, a St Paul Methodist wedding, Malta fever in Ern Lerch, and several local property transactions.
The Cheery Valley Pioneers 4-H club met at Eugene Lehman s home with all members present. Roll call named favorite vacation spots. Members planned fair exhibits and rules, noted up to date record books, and set September officers. Reporters include Eugene Lehman and farm economist Francis Kutish of Iowa State College notes 1955 cattle feeding profits will come from margins, not feeding operations.
Fayette County Iowa board of supervisors will meet on August 30 1954 at 10 30 a m at the Court House in West Union to hear taxpayers for or against the proposed expenditure estimate for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1935. Hazel Gehring county auditor.
Mrs. Eunice Canute Strandford died Aug 6 at the home of her son Pastor Anne E. Strandford in Mt. Vernon Washington. Born Dec 9 1889 at Hedemarken parsonage Rothsay Minnesota she was daughter of Pastor Magne Langeland and Sigrid Langeland. She married S. J. Strandford in 1917 and served in Grenora Park River St Olaf and finally supported parish life and women’s organizations. She leaves husband five children including Eunice Selma Olaf Strandford and Arne Eugene, one granddaughter and five grandsons, and three sisters.
Town police reported 133 traffic cases in July addressing speeding stop sign violations failure to obey officers and faulty equipment. Violators paid 236 in fines plus costs. Twenty one warnings issued. Aid given to five motorists in trouble and assistance provided to state patrol and county sheriff in several cases.
On the Andrew Belling farm near Sheldon the farmer continues using the same Blue Ribbon walking plow he first employed on tarra sixty years ago, a symbol of enduring equipment choice.
Iowa crop prospects declined in July due to dry hot weather. Corn prospects fell sharply with a forecast of 509.85 million bushels, 12 percent below 1953 and 6 percent under the ten year average. Oats rose 54 percent from 1953, soybeans advanced in the north and center but fell in the south and west, and pasture conditions were only 5 percent of normal. Hay production is set at 5.92 million tons. pasture and overall yields reflect hot dry conditions across the state.
Private James E Friederich AF 17353319 of the 74th Infantry, to new APO address in care of PM New York. He departed August 3 for Greenland and expects to be absent about a year.
Iowa farms produced about 8.781 billion pounds of milk in July, a 6 percent drop from July 1953 and 11 percent below the ten year July average of 648 million pounds. The decline stems from lower output per cow and fewer cows milking.
The Elgin Iowa town council met in a special session July 26 1954 to hear the budget estimate. Present were Mayor Schori and councilmen Boyle Fauser Muehlethaler with Capper and Dean absent. The meeting verified legal publication and adopted the budget unanimously. A subsequent regular session Aug 2 approved minutes and bills. A special Aug 5 session discussed a new well with guests Cahey and Shawver but no action taken.
July egg production on Iowa farms is estimated at 352 million eggs, just below July last year’s 354 million, and 2 percent above the 1943-62 average of 344 million eggs.
The Tabithas met at the church last Thursday with devotions and music led by Mrs. Fred Burrow and Mrs Otto Krueger. The program included a talk on The Work on Montana Reserve and a quiz by Mrs. Reuben Hackmann. Hostesses were Mrs. Karl Hackmann Mrs. John Luchsinger and Mrs. Clara Baumgartner.
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