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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1953
Page
3
In eighth grade notes Dennis Bear urges good habits for success with a talk on Rats That Make or Break You. Elizabeth Paynter previews Your Tools and Your Workshop and offers study tips such as a consistent study space, doing hard subjects in the morning, and minimizing distractions.
Clermont locals welcome relatives and friends from Waterloo Cedar Falls West Union and Ossian for Christmas gatherings. Capt Bernard Schrader and Jimmie return from Miami to visit Mrs Harriet Dugstad and join Evelyn Olson and children. Other guests include Jane Dibble from Newport News and numerous family groups from Waterloo Cedar Falls and Minneapolis. продолжение remaining local visit details note dinners and movie night hosted by Earl Wolfs and others.
Local social bulletins list weekend visits among Cedar Rapids residents and friends in Clermont, Calmar, and Postville. Staff and students travel for holidays, with multiple families hosting dinners and calling on neighbors. A Villa Marie College teacher returns home for break and a third grade class shares Christmas activities and a holiday poem.
The Brownies reading group started a new book The New Fun With Dick and Jane and are learning new words. In writing, we practice spacing letters tall and straight. We experiment with magnets in science. Tuesday we decorated the Christmas tree and we eagerly await Santa Claus and gifts. Merry Christmas to everybody.
Students in the second grade enjoy a Christmas themed week with tree trimming gift making and room decorations. They discuss a new reading unit about talking animals and practice initial writing in written language class.
The Clermont Iowa town council met with Mayor Will J. Nelson presiding. Present were councilmen Riegel Amundson Appelman Thoma and Griebenow. none absent. Minutes approved. Bills were allowed including Interstate Power Co. for hall park street and signal lights. pumping. Oscar Thompson. Olson's Service. Clermont Motor Co.. Arwell Inc.. CL Brick & Sand Co.. and Elgin Echo for printing.
Appelman moves to buy a new snow blade and remove snow in business districts this winter. The town will lead on trucks and business places to pay for hauling. The meeting adjourns after routine motions and listed town clerk duties. Agricultural data notes harvest yields for 1953 including oats and overall grain, with production figures and comparisons to 1962 and the ten year average.
Crop production in Iowa in 1953 declined sharply from 1952 yet remained above the 1942 51 decade average. The year end totals show grain production at 49,399,000 tons, down 16 percent from 1952 but 4 percent above the ten year average. Corn production details follow.
November milk output on Iowa farms is estimated at 393 million pounds, up 3 percent from 382 million the prior year. The 1952 figure trails the 1942-51 ten year November average of 413 million pounds.
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