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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
4
Rates explain up to 25 words cost 25 cents per insertion and over 25 words at 1 cent per word. Additional 10 cent weekly handling if replies go to office. Cash with order. Phone payments allowed but due before month end. End of month billing incurs 10 cent per line.
The piece promotes genuine long lasting parts for International equipment and a service shop with skilled mechanics at Torkelson Bros. in Elgin. It invites readers to visit The Echo to see a story featuring Harold Learn and to call for tickets, highlighting a four flag event at the Avalon.
A government appeal asks householders to fill their fuel-oil storage tanks immediately to ensure fuel stockpiles meet winter demand. The notice stresses higher consumption than previous winters and urges prompt action across the region.
Fifteen pounds of sugar is the maximum allowed to any one person for home canning. The note corrects a misunderstanding among housewives about the sugar allotment for home canning.
The Army Quartermaster Corps will declare a three month holiday in procuring herringbone twill fabric, increasing available supply for men's work clothing and production.
Wartime rationing continues with Airplane Stamp No 4 in War Ration Book No 3 becoming valid August 1 1945. Airplane stamps 1 2 and 3 remain usable. The shift implies a continued rise in civilian shoe supply as Army footwear production declines.
President Truman urges farm safety in a proclamation for the week of July 22 naming National Farm Safety Week. He emphasizes farmers’ skill and labor as vital to wartime food production and notes labor shortages heighten the need to conserve farm manpower and ensure production.
Russian army units march with their top singers at the head of each company. They perform a song stanza then the company joins in the chorus, impressing spectators and giving soldiers a sense of power and unity. Singing lessons are compulsory in the Red army.
Fragmentary OCR note describes preventing knotting in double stranded thread work by threading ends and blotting both ends to keep thread from tangling and avoid knots.
Soldiers and relatives in Clermont Elgin and nearby communities update on furloughs discharges and postings. Harry J. and Lawrence M. Larson, sons of Albert R. Larson, discharged within days of each other after service in the Second Armored Division and Third Infantry. Fritz Trudo’s son Richard travels toward the South Pacific. Lt C J Robinson, former Elgin schools superintendent, returns from 19 months in the South Pacific and heads to New Orleans. Other notes cover furloughs and visits, religious activities, and local incidents including a dog death at a hospital lawn and a snake encounter with a farm boy.
Mr and Mrs Thad Walters and Mr and Mrs Francis Walters returned from Peoria Illinois Monday evening after visiting Lew Walters who was injured when dirt and rock caved in at a coal mine He showed some improvement. Mrs Wm Corkery and her sons visit Howard Crandall in Oelwein while Merle Voshell travels to Waterloo for a week in his home Nellie Messerli from Detroit summers with the Will Pennell family Shirley Molumbly returns to Emmetsburg Barbara Corkery visits Hattie Duff of Volga stays with Walter and Mel Roys W C T U meets at Mrs Mel Roys Dixie Leonhart visits Don Leonhart Maynard Powers of Crystal Lake visit Harold Hermen family Marilyn returns home with them Irene Flower returns from Cedar Rapids.
Odd Independence Day blast woke residents after a plant valve failed to close. Margaret complained after utility workers misidentified her by first name. Mel Midgarden dispatched to Lamont to check refrigerators, but the right Margaret was found two weeks later.
State of Iowa v 1940 Mercury convertible coupe owned by Fay Miller stands charged with transporting intoxicating liquors. Allied Mutual Casualty Co seeks $129.11 unpaid premium from Howard Bly relating to a policy covering Jan 2 1944 to Jan 2 1945. Also lists marriage licenses issued last week for several couples including Butterfield Fopenhagen Clavey Parks.
The National Safety Council notes that burns account for 25 percent of farm home deaths, higher than the national 17 percent average. It warns that winter months are the danger period on farms and urges avoiding kerosene or fuel oil for kitchen fires, favoring slower, safer burning with paper and kindling.
The apple maggot of railroad worm should be controlled immediately by spraying. A spray mix of three pounds lead arsenate and three pounds hydrated lime in one hundred gallons of water is recommended. An effective secondary method is to pick up and destroy fallen apples beneath trees to prevent maggots from burrowing into the ground for winter.
Metal trim dishes should be washed with mild soap. Strong soaps ammonia or washing soda can destroy the trim.
A practical note suggests softening candle wax by placing a base in a basin of hot water then pressing the candle into a mold or candlestick. The technique aims to shape the softened wax until it holds a desired form.
If you want to buy something or have something to sell advertise it in the Echo Enterprise.
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