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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
4
The issue reports April dairy prices at a 1934 low, low pork storage aiding hog prices, and limited early June corn maturity in Iowa. It highlights a centennial YWCA camp, pest control guidance for armyworms and cucumber beetles, rust threats to wheat and oats, blackberry cane care, and veterinary vaccine handling with horse disease symptoms and care steps.
Farm Bureau News says Fayette county 4-H Club girls prepare for Rally Day at Upper Iowa University gym on June 29 with afternoon and evening programs. A county tour to Iowa State College is set for June 27, inviting participants from northeast Iowa and the first district to picnic with Fayette County. Vaccine reduces horse losses from encephalomyelitis, with a two-dose schedule 30 days before onset.
The American Legion Auxiliary met last Wednesday evening with Mrs. M. J. Blockhus assisting hostesses Mrs. Bert Thoman and Mrs. Walter Kohls. Officers elected were D. S. Roberts president Frank Greenley first vice president R. A. Crider second vice president Walter Kohlis secretary C. B. Schori treasurer B. J. Baumgartner sergeant at arms F. D. Welch historian John Falk chaplain and Blockhus Greenley and Torkelson as executive committee.
Fayette county lists 552 old age pensioners in May with an average payment of 18.74 dollars each totaling 10 343 dollars for the county. The state average is 19.81 and the grand total 941 229 dollars. Over 4 000 applications were pending at month end with 896 added or reinstated. Death removed 191 recipients and 185 more were dropped. 211 applications were rejected.
David Borntrager fourteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Adam Borntrager of the Dunkard settlement near Fairbank was struck by lightning while milking a cow in the barn. The bolt knocked the cow and four horses, left David unconscious. First aid was given and he is recovering satisfactorily according to latest reports.
Robert Welch, a Fayette Upper Iowa University student, rode a hitchhike from Waverly to appear before Mayor Leonard H. Racker after a speeding ticket. The mayor suspended the $3 fine, leaving Welch to pay only $1.50 in costs.
The Rob Grimes family visited West Union with his parents while Mrs. Mary Goetz remains in poor health as one of Elgin’s oldest residents. Numerous local visits trace through Bloomfield Illyria Waterloo and Decorah, with weddings, births, travel, and a scarlet fever quarantine at the Torkelson home.
A description of Wood’s metal, an alloy of 50 parts bismuth 25 parts lead 12 percent tin and 12 percent cadmium, which melts at a low temperature. A teaspoon of this alloy placed in very hot tea melts away quickly.
In Berkeley last week a resident's improving condition is reported. Mr and Mrs Chas ONeill were business visitors in Berkeley. In Minneapolis Mr and Mrs Perry Garson returned Tuesday after a Wisconsin fishing trip. They joined Mr and Mrs Henry Trehus in La Crosse then Chalek Wisconsin to fish at Rice Lake. William Weibel seeks work, visits Scranton Red Oak Council Bluffs Clifton Mealey home, plans to travel to Topeka Tulsa Kansas City and Ames before returning to Elgin.
The Amish denomination traces a f name to Jacob Amen a Mennonite preacher in Berne Switzerland. Amen advocated avoidance shunning and introduced hooks and eyes for fasteners and feet washing. Amish men avoid buttons preferring hook and eye fasteners.
Lois Lehman left Thursday for Greeley Colorado to attend summer school.
A stray comic exchange opens with a joke about a kiss in the dark and a census inquiry on a husband’s full name, followed by a quip about Gene Tunney. The fragment notes a wife’s plea and then shifts to a line about the burden of cleaning worn floorboards, ending with a hopeful, well-worn line.
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