23 Jul 1953
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1953
Page
1
A collage of jokes and quips from a newspaper page notes rustic charm and social pokes. It playfully contrasts city and country life with lines about newcomers, old sayings, and light gags. The excerpt blends anecdotes about courtships, boxes, girdles, psychiatrists, and a Texan road encounter with a Bird of Paradise punchline.
Lou McNally of Luana won the $5.00 gold prize at the cream separator demonstration by Torkelson Bros. last Saturday. He guessed the separator would run 18 minutes after power off. actual time was 16 minutes 10 seconds. John Grimm leases Miss Cook’s front room and plans a radios line. iL. G. Lehman lands the Marion Lutheran church steeple contract. Copper worth over $200 was used and shaped locally before hauling out. Factory beans flow in. about fifty workers were packing Tuesday, total crew about 75. Clara Winkler, longtime teller at Elgin Savings Bank, resigned.
Elgin Iowa town council met in regular session on July 6 1953. Present were Boyle Capper Doan Muehlethaler Sehori with Mayor Falk absent Doan acted as mayor pro tem. Minutes of the previous meeting approved. Bills audited and allowed in General Fund Waterworks Fund and Street Construction Fund with payments to Kohls Meinhard Hardware Don's D-X Service Lehman Welch Interstate Power Co etc. An application from John W Gilson for a fish license on the streets granted for one year at ten dollars. Council approved purchasing a town typewriter. Budget hearing set for July 20 at 8:00 p m. Adjournment.
Notice is given that on July 11 1953 the District Court of Fayette County Iowa appointed Elizabeth Schneider executrix of the estate of Fred J Schneider deceased. All debtors must pay the executrix and creditors must present claims to the court for allowance. Leon R Layton attorney First National Bank Building West Union Iowa.
Iowa feedlots hold 901000 head on July 1 1953 the largest for the date since 1948 stock levels show a 6 percent rise from July 1 1952 and 22 percent from July 1 1951 grain and feed stocks on July 4 1953 exceed last year and 10 year average while corn stocks near record levels. Some southwestern Iowa farmers cool cream at milking using second–hand refrigerators and ice water noting higher profits from selling high quality cream with minimal extra effort.
J Huesch, supervisor, reports June data for 17 herds totaling 348 cows in milk or dry. Average production per cow was 768 pounds with 28 pounds butterfat. 29 305 day lactations completed. standout records include Aldrich Gibbs Strawberry Point Holstein 10460 pounds milk 368 pounds butterfat and Vineland Dy Farms Strawberry Point Holstein 9580 pounds milk 365 pounds butterfat.
In Guthrie Center Hugh Kinman was killed by a lightning bolt while working in a field. Five other workers were stunned but unharmed. The incident underscores the danger of storms to rural laborers.
A historic note on managing stable and horse or deer flies attacking cattle with daily activated pyrethrin spray and automatic treadle sprayers. Flood sanitation aids prevention, while lindane may reduce stable fly presence inside and outside barns. Also mentions a mammoth tusk unearthed near Mill Creek and a seven year old swallowing a key, plus a pioneer log cabin razed on the A. O. Anderson farm built in 1865.
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