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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1945
Page
4
Classified items announce a Rawleigh sales position in Central Fayette County with no experience needed and all essentials supplied. Other notices promote piano tuning, poultry starter feeds, farm tax records, stamping services, and community meetings on wartime food production in Iowa.
War era guidance urges avoiding nonessential travel with spring vacations canceled to ease transportation strain. February car tire quotas drop to 1.6 million while tractor-implement tires stay at 50 thousand. Citizens urged to conserve energy and prolong life of appliances as production slows. Russia to raise more home grown food aided by 20 thousand tons of seeds from the United States for Ukraine plantings.
Will Hoffman died Thursday noon at his Arlington home from a heart attack at age 55 He is survived by his widow two daughters Mrs Leonard Gamm and Mrs Mike Cunningham one grandchild his mother and one brother Leo of Arlington Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at St Johns Lutheran church in Arlington.
The notice explains changes in tire and inner tube certificate requirements and outlines inspection needs for commercial vehicles every six months or 6,000 miles. It lists valid and expired gasoline, sugar, and food coupons, and stresses preseason binder checks to prevent tying malfunctions, urging inspections of binder heads for wear and adjustment.
An advisory note urges readers to consult repair manuals and service tips for making quick fixes. It highlights homemade self feeders and automatic hog waterers as time saving devices. The piece mentions hog gains depend on feed and moisture content and hints at price ceilings affecting farmers until summer.
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