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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1947
Page
3
Clermont Local News clarifies subscription payments including new, end, and renewal options. Payments can be made to the editor Mrs Lucy Engie who will issue receipts and oversee publisher related details.
Delores Schuganitz, a Mercy hospital student nurse in Cedar Rapids, spent the weekend at her parents’ home. The Griebenow and Burrow families attended Herman Griebenow’s funeral at Hawkeye. Gene Thornton leaves for River Forest to enter the Dominican House of Studies. Clermont Study Club plans December 16 meeting with host Hazel Jerdee and Clara Belschner. The Clermont school faculty hosted a shower for Irene Erickson, with gifts and lunch. Irene Ostlie and Leo Jr. return from Philadelphia. Leo to be stationed in Panama. Lester Anderson hosts with Lucas Olson family for supper. W S C S meets with nine members and three guests. carols and refreshments follow.
Prices received by Iowa farmers declined 18 points in November mainly due to lower hog prices, while the overall price structure held steady. The ratio of prices received to prices paid fell from 135 to 128. Guidance emphasizes healthy breeding stock, balanced rations, quarantine of new animals, and disease control to protect livestock and increase meat supplies. Substituting legume hay can meet ewe feed needs, with a grain supplement added near lambing to prevent lambing paralysis.
Many Iowa farmers are taking twice the necessary time for milking. Proper procedure will often cut the chore in half and in addition result in more milk.
Aimed at children six to twelve, the piece discusses earning small amounts for gifts, learning value over money, and starting a regular allowance as a savings lesson. It notes typical prices for gifts and emphasizes that saving teaches responsibility, with a reference to grain and fats production for daily foods.
Senior Boy of the Week Millard Nelson Jr aged 17 with blue eyes and blond hair is highlighted for the week. He plans farming as a career and enjoys physics, swimming, and skiing. Absent this week due to illness are Dorothy Poor Beverly Nelson Gene Mabb Wayne Olson and Gerald Wander. Christmas box drawings, committee work, and a Thanksgiving program occupy students alongside science projects splitting white light with prisms and rainbow experiments.
The report covers third and fourth grades detailing sub topics on Cotton production, manufacture, old and new uses, and fourth grade focus on desert life. It notes spelling contests won by Charles Thorson and Sallee Accola, Christmas committee members, classroom decorations, math progress, and a December 15 deadline for operetta costumes.
About thirty business and professional men gathered at the Legion room for Clermont’s first similar smoker evening. The event was organized by the directors of the Community Club to foster local networking and civic ties.
The report notes a social occasion at Clermont in a house hosted by Chag Jaandersyn, with Mr and Mrs R. D. Odell of St Paul as guests the week prior. It mentions travel plans and visits involving Glasgow family and others, plus a broken boulevard lamp post after a football game and adjustments for safety. Dr R D Appelman of Lavina Montana arrived last Wednesday for a few days visit.
A fragment notes Jue Montana stating she will remain in a role until after the holidays and offers to handle job printing. The clipped text hints at a local business or shop making printing services available during the season.
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