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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1940
Page
4
Part time winter work for ages 16 to 25 at nominal pay apply to K P Strauch at the Echo office at once. Wanted laws to file all kinds Elmer Pinney east of the bridge West Elgin. Farmers an Echo want ad will sell old engines motors appliances replaced by the REA.
Isanti News editor urges motorists to dim their headlights after a late evening auto trip. The column calls for wiser juries to indict drivers who fail to dim lights, arguing that dimming is a courteous practice to reduce glare for others.
Iowa's farmers and homemakers are invited to Iowa State College for Farm and Home Week for the fortieth annual program from Feb. 12 to 17. The notes discuss hatchability from skim milk, storage of beef and lamb, wood for smoking meat, hog price trends, butter storage, and growing soybeans for high protein dairy feeds.
The article advises cracking soybeans for dairy cattle and outlines ration guidelines, noting one third of grain may be soybeans if legume hay is scarce. It urges flax sowing with little price impact risk and emphasizes timely butchering before Iowa Home Butcher ing Week to ensure proper curing temperatures. It also reports Iowa's rise to first in red clover seed production with 246,000 bushels and mentions regional leaders Ohio Indiana Illinois.
Farm Bureau News Letter reports a full-day 4-H boys county club committee and local leaders gathering in Fayette to outline the year's work. Attendees include L G Dennler, Kenneth Kerr, Irving Deering, and club presidents Thomas Dennler and others, aiming to strengthen teacher member cooperation and program harmony.
Plans are complete for the Fayette County Farm Bureau annual meeting set for Saturday January 13 at the U S gym. The session begins at 10 30 am with department reports and updates on the organization. L D Hitch, chairman of Fayette Co A C A, will deliver the principal address as officers are elected and voting delegates named. A noon picnic dinner will be served.
Re-elected Fayette County Holstein Breeders Association president Fred Pieplow of Aurora presided over a meeting in West Union where about 90 breeders and families attended. The report noted strong 1940 Baby Beef Club entries with 40 Hereford beeves on feed January 11 and urged unlisted members to contact agent Diamond to participate.
Within one week ending January 5 1940 transfers include Adoheh Amundson and Gina to Helen Sampson WD $235 L 2 3 4 and 6 B 57 Thompsons Add Clermont Othilie Swenson et al to Wm A Nelson WD $1000 L 1 2 7 8 and NE 1-3 L 4 B 59 Thompsons 1st Add Clermont etc local transfers list multiple individuals and parcels with designated dower deeds and executors
At a state house conference Commissioner Karl W. Fischer and Chief A Knee of the Iowa Highway Patrol outlined plans to tighten enforcement on seven major reckless driving types this year including driving while intoxicated with drunken drivers to be prosecuted.
Fischer said patrols will halt cars with obscured views and reckless speeds. Stop sign violators from country roads will be targeted. Defective lights brakes and steering will be checked. Overloaded trucks and convoys will be pursued. A rigid examination will arise for those deemed unfit to drive. Public safety demands action against a few violators who threaten thousands weekly.
Elgin story notes Dr Floyd Ernst of New Albia visited Fred Reichert’s home last Thursday amid reflections on conscience. Lee Yardley of Calmar begins as egg grader at Welch's Produce Station. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Chas Neuenschwander in Phoenix Arizona on January 4. George Vaughan and wife returned from Minneapolis after a week with relatives. Florence Casper attended an electrical appliance demonstration in Cedar Rapids with Central States employees and will start secretarial work there next Monday.
Aquatic animals do not drink water as a primary source. They obtain moisture from their food and through their skin, enough to sustain their systems.
County Safety Councils. Sympathy. Merchants who write advertising copy will sympathize with the Frenchman who complained that quickness, speed, and abstinence all made him fast. He learned the sentence The first one won one dollar prize and gave up trying to learn English.
Hog producers aiming to vaccinate their hogs may attend a cholera vaccination school on Friday February 2. The meeting, organized to provide practical training, is expected to cover preparation and administration steps for effective immunization in farm herds.
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