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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1938
Page
4
Agricultural notes emphasize prompt egg handling for vitality. Gather eggs twice daily, avoid holding over seven days, and keep storage between 60 and 68 degrees F to prevent premature development. Hatching eggs should be at least two ounces, uniform in shape and texture, with gentle air exposure.
Every school should have a safety program with a school police and patrol run by students. Public officials should sponsor and organize it. Many communities already have patrols solving traffic issues in the school zone. Children show great interest, and training is needed as accidents involve more than drivers.
Jud Tunking defines patriotism as the balance between taking action and remaining silent. He argues true patriotism includes knowing when to speak up and when to listen, and when to withdraw from the public fray.
County Planning Committee reports only forty percent of farmers practice land use to sustain productivity. Fifty seven percent follow procedures that reduce productivity and three percent improve it. Erosion is serious in the northeast, with some fields washed topsoil away. Members urge possible legislation to enable cooperative soil conservation action. Fayette sheep and wool growers set to meet February 19 at the Legion hall.
Nelle Thompson a state 4-H nutrition specialist from Town State College will run the third 4-H leaders training school at the Legion hall Fayette February 22 at 10 a.m. All club leaders county committee members and girls club representatives urged to attend. Thompson will discuss cakes and cookies in the diet and demonstrate types. The cake secrets from this training will be shared with the girls. Whole wheat bread and variations brought by leaders will be judged.
A farmer and his wife walk to the County Fair the wife bearing lunch. the husband offers to take the basket to prevent separation in the crowd. A debut in aviation yields a humorous miscount with a passenger claiming two rides. Football fans share playful quips about walking on feet. Raymond Burke oversees a fox chase west of Hazelton with 250 onlookers. a fox eludes nine hounds after an 11 mile pursuit trailing through Littleton. a three mile procession of onlookers forms.
A reader notes driver ants form massive swarms in the African jungle. They hunt in vast numbers and prey on serpents, animals, humans, and even elephants, surpassing lions in danger.
Mrs E M Hanna of Troup observes her 92nd birthday on February 7 and is noted for a vivid reliable memory aiding lawyers investigating land titles near her home in the East Texas Oil Field. She begins each day with a cold bath and light exercise, manages her own estate, and employs no help with housework. She attributes her age to no specific habit.
Early Friday January 28 the electric chair at Illinois State Penitentiary Menard Illinois executed Marie Porter of St Louis the first woman to die in Illinois She was convicted in Belleville Illinois with Ralph Giancola of St Louis for the murder of Porter’s brother William Kappen on July 3 Giancola preceded Porter to the chair The scene shows the death chamber ready with electrodes and background lighting
A United States postal inspector said Alcatraz prison caused the mental breakdown of Mike Talarico a former Rock Island Davenport area shootlegger. Talarico serving 42 years for using the mails to extort was stricken about the same time as Al Capone.
The Herring gull is a common aquatic bird in the Great Lakes district. They are particularly attached to commercial fishing ports where abundant fish waste and food attract them.
A church at Etchmiadzyn in Armenia was constructed solely to house the spearhead believed to have pierced the Saviour on the Cross. The structure centers on this single revered relic, shaping its purpose and historic significance.
Pembroke College in Cambridge England traces its name to the Earl of Pembroke who died on his wedding day during a tilting match held in honor of his bride.
The common name bobwhite for the native American quail, Colinus virginianus, stems from the male bird’s call sounding like bob white with the emphasis on the second syllable. In the South the same species is called partridge, a term used in the North for the ruffed grouse or American pheasant.
Victor Fox of Gibson Iowa age 22 assembled a low cost tractor from a junked automobile and manure spreader wheels. The machine pulls a plow and other farm implements on a 100 acre tract. It features six speeds and a chain drive and cost about 320 dollars for parts built in four weeks of spare time.
A fragmented reader advisory page offers free services and light humor about gifts and manners. It mentions a spring building planning period, a quirky tip about talking in a dark lane, and a joke about Jazz orchestra leaders. A reader asks for a gift idea for a birthday, with a suggestion of sending a bottle of Four Roses.
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