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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
3
Whittier's Snowbound inspires hearty winter cooking and nourishing meals for cold days. The article lists Jamberlie bacon rice tomatoes and pepper with a bay leaf, Cheese Drop Biscuit dough with cheese, and Perfection Oyster Stew using oysters butter milk and seasoning. It emphasizes warm, energy sustaining dishes for shoveling snow and winter sports.
Enformation from the U S Department of Agriculture outlines feeding dairy cows with silage based on weight. It notes rising manure demand requires imports from South America for fertilizer making. It offers tips on chicken feeding, hatch timing for chicks, and clover selection by soil type and region, recommending red clover for hay and soil fertility, sweet clover with liming, and echoing want ads.
A collage of humorous quips and observations covers topics from editors rejecting mailed scripts to dirigibles, air travel, and public notices. It jumbles claims about a Bulgaria loan, parliament figures, and cultural quirks while poking at censorship, health, and daily life with wry, non sequitur humor.
Claverich and daughter Cecile visited in West Union last Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Sidney Pattern and Mrs. George Tripp called at Boyer home Tuesday. Dorothy Craft and Beverly were mentioned. Robert Barker took examinations Thursday. Mrs. George Craft called at the Joe Patterson home. Rev. Batchler of Wed attended. Mr. and Mrs. Will Brabham ware visited Sunday at the home of Mrs. Sidney Patterson. The Ladies Aid Society met at the Sidney Patterson home Friday afternoon. Phyllis Rowland called at the Sim Bartlett home Sunday. Two little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Boyle are ill at the Frank Lyon home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Appelman and Lewis Appelman of Hawkeye visited their sister Mrs. Glen Boyer over Sunday. Kenneth Rowland of West Union visited his sister Mrs. Joan Peters several days last week. Toe Peters drove to Wadena Monday forenoon. If silage runs short in winter it is safe to refill the silo with corn fodder or stover with water added and evenly distributed. Water should equal the fodder’s weight. Run water through the blower while filling. George Nydegger was sick Tuesday and absent from creamery work but returned by Wednesday. Clarence Winkler substituted. Agnes Crowe was a dinner guest of Mrs. N. M. Fritz Monday noon.
Desorah Journal describes a scene where Arthur Morrison stands atop a truck cab as drifted snow piles reach 18 feet along a road near East Ott Waukon in the county, with large snow banks towering over him.
Mrs T W Doan and her daughter Lois are mentioned in a brief item noting travel to Fiji. The fragment indicates family names and a voyage but lacks full context or dates.
Night watch Odekirk was called to the G C Mirick home after Mrs Mirick spotted someone peering in a window. The intruder had disappeared by the time the watch arrived, a recurring incident that may lead to trouble and a fuller writeup. Fayette Leeder notes and invites more news items.
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