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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
6
Iowa crop report by Dr. George M. Chappel says hay is unusually backward due to cold with cut worms and wire worms harming young growth. Much of the winter wheat was killed, oats are not far advanced but a good crop looks likely, barley and rye promise well, potatoes are in perfect condition, and heavy rains may favor hay.
Congressman J A T Hull defeated for the Republican nomination by Judge B F Prouty. He was nominated for Congress on the Prohibition ticket. Two voters wrote Hull's name while others received one vote each. Hull secured double the votes of any other Prohibition candidate.
Theodore P. Shonts of New York Traction Company and Drake University leadership announced a cash gift of 60 000 to the university. The General Educational Board pledged 100 000 to the College of Liberal Arts contingent on raising 300 000. A 150 000 endowment drive for the medical department has been largely successful.
Coroner's jury returns verdict in the Van Cleve triple murder in Mel ourns exonerating Raymond Hardy the youngest survivor. He had been held on suspicion that he killed the family for property. Jury finds three victims were struck by an unknown blunt instrument.
Dorothy Crandall, once touted as Iowa's smallest baby at a birth weight of one and a fourth pounds, died of spinal meningitis. Residing in Waterloo with parents Arch and Mrs Crandall, the child had grown to 23 pounds and was described as fully developed and unusually bright. The father worked as a conductor on the Illinois Central.
The Iowa Manufacturers' Association elected P. H. Keys as president with J. A. Gunn as vice president and FF. H. Bergman as treasurer and G. A. Wrightman as secretary. Burlington won the bid for the 1911 convention over Sioux City. The association voted to establish a Des Moines traffic bureau to handle rates and shipping claims for members. Senator W. P. Whipple of Benton County died after months of illness. Henry Steak, 42, was found dead in Muscatine beside his dead father. A fire destroyed the barn of County Treasurer Peter Hadley at Fort Dodge. Hadley away on his wedding trip. A six-month-old child died in Iowa Falls. parents Ray and Mrs. Joslyn remark the child had been slightly ill.
A string of brief Iowa notes covers appointments and deaths: Mary E Berth haus named Peterson postmaster. Prof J R Combs appointed Emmetsburg schools superintendent. Miss Fern Smith to Pulaski Tenn as a girls college vocal music teacher. Tragic deaths include Mrs. Frank B Sherwood of Sioux City killed by a train at Arion. Mrs. Fred Otto of Fort Dodge dying after gall stone illness. Mrs. George Hooker of Ogden breaking her hip. Frank Dobler of Maquoketa dies of blood poisoning from a rusty nail. H H Morton dies after being served formaldehyde as mineral water in Atlantic. Sam Costello fatally shoots Charles Glidden during a break-in in Cedar Rapids. Corsello not arrested. Fire destroys freight cars at Moingona. depot debate grows. Kate Shelly’s agent William Fitzpatrick near death after collision in Mercy loop. Swaledale near-miss with a small boy and a match. property damage in Swanson barn. Unofficial plan for a $250,000 Des Moines depot on the former car barns site and new east-side car barns for $50,000 amid a streetcar and Interurban depot expansion.
Charles K. Hamilton, famed aviator, flew from Governor's Island to near Philadelphia in 113 minutes at about 46 mph. He tracked a special express train along the Pennsylvania Railroad line, passing Trenton and Princeton as crowds watched from towns along the route. The feat set a long city-to-city distance record for air travel, with the train and aircraft moving in tandem.
Congressman Lodge and Representative Gillette introduced a bill to allow Associate Justice Moody to retire under a new retirement law. Moody has been ill for a year and is unlikely to resume duties next fall. The move would create the third vacancy on the Supreme Court for President Taft to fill, following a long precedent set by Justice Hont.
Representative McHenry of Pennsylvania proposes a bill to extend the Weather Bureau by arming rural mail carriers with flags that show daily forecasts. Each wagon would display the forecast for the next twenty four hours as it leaves its starting point.
Canadian authorities along the northwestern boundary enforce a rule requiring alien laborers to post 200 dollars for admission, excluding Americans. Reports in Washington show railroad laborers and large contract workers from Iran and Seattle are largely shut out. Some American railroad builders in Alaska restrict work to white men, excluding all nationalities except those from northern Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand.
The article discusses the difficulty of turkey raising due to disease in confinement, notes the advantages of old sod ranges, and cites a Virginia plantation that thrived with free range turkeys. It warns against mixed poultry yards, urges good coop maintenance, and recommends green cut bone as a cost effective supplement for winter egg production.
Consul Baker reports on Tasmania egg laying competition at Springvale Gardens near Hobart. Six white Leghorns pen produced 826 eggs in seven months, with feeding of oats and green matter and skimmed milk curds via rennet as a key factor in artificial production. An expert notes native hens would lay at most two eggs per year without such stimulation. Public notes urge proper premises upkeep, green food, and effective fumigation.
In an incubation study hens hatched 128 of 245 eggs and incubators 261 of 645. White Plymouth Rocks and White Orpington hens laid more eggs on frozen wheat than on sound grain. seven Orpingtons laid 181 on frozen wheat vs 214 on sound grain. Hens on sound grain appeared healthier than those on frozen wheat.
The National Poultry Journal advises shipment of nonfertile eggs for storage and warns against selecting ill shaped or oversized white-spotted eggs for hatch ing. For cockerels choose the largest oldest eggs, especially first laid, while round even eggs are likeliest to hatch. Do not moisten setting eggs. hens moisten them.
Do not hatch goslings too early. Keep them off ponds until well feathered as down offers no protection and cold water chills them. They should hatch late spring when warm weather returns. Feed on cornmeal, animal meat and ground vats, moistened, three times daily initially, then once daily as they begin foraging. in warm weather, increase feeding frequency.
Extracted quotes from Napoléon on women show his view of them as "machinery" for childbirth and as objects of affection. Included are lines praising Josephine and describing longing, jealousy, and passionate letters. These passages appear in a new book by Tighe Hopkins.
R G Dun & Co reports little change in Chicago trade with small shrinkage in bank pay tents and improved confidence for the future. Forwarders see gains from Washington conference rate concerns. weather and crop reports are positive. Demand rises in dry goods, clothing, footwear, millinery, and sporting goods. Bank clearings reach 267.7 million, 268 percent below 1909, and 216.5 million in 1908. Failures total 18 in Chicago district. seven with assets over 5,000.
Unseasonably cool weather slows sal ar rest a retail trade and crop progress in the northern United States while southern districts report quiet demand yet advancing cotton and fruit crops. Overall trade shows hesitation with small reorders. industrial output sharply curtailed. Collections range slow to fair. Weekly U S business failures total 163, vs 100 prior week. Canada failures 26, up from 18.
Chicago Chicago cattle and hog prices lead a regional slate with wheat corn oats rye and butter in tight ranges. Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York list varied grade prices for cattle hogs sheep and key grains with no single trend.
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