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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1919
Page
2
Public notice describes weekly publishing cadence and pricing for classified ads. Includes entry in post office as second class matter, focal column, single line per insertion, consecutive display and local news until discontinued. Subscriptions priced at one year for $1.50 and six months for 75 cents.
A compilation of soldier letters from World War I era France. Oscar Gragerson reports guard duties, hopes of furlough, and Christmas snow near Le Mans. Paul F Albright writes from Treves about sights, cold weather, and army life in Germany. Dr Ray DeSart describes convoys, camp life, and entertainment duties on French roads, with vivid scenes of morale, cooties, and a siege of mud and lights.
A mailed note from Roy F. DeSart describes securing a German silver frame and possibly an iron helmet, listing Higinhoya names and organizations for later lookup after camp release. He reports light snow, freezing nights around 30 to 35 F, and signs off from Paris with camaraderie and duty.
A summary of ratios comparing nutrient removal by sweet corn and field corn shows sweet corn removes 32.8 lb nitrogen 2.1 lb phosphorus and 14 lb potassium per acre from one ton production, while field corn removes 58.8 lb nitrogen 9 lb phosphorus and 11.1 lb potassium per 60 bushel yield.
Readers owing the firm of R. W. Moser & Son are asked to settle at Citizens' State Bank and bring accounts for adjustment. Mrs. R. W. Moser and Son issue notices. Mrs Paul Steffan of Prairie du Chien seeks Rochester treatment for long diagnosed slow starvation with her brother Fred Schnalder accompanying her. Alden Pinney named honorary delegate to Mid Continental Congress for a League of Nations event in St. Louis. For sale three Big Type Poland China sows due in March and April. Ben Erickson buys a Model 90 Overland from local agent H. T. Knudtson.
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