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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1956
Page
3
The Clermont School page lists students’ activities and achievements across grades. It covers class rings for juniors, typing goals, pins, and project work in shop, chemistry experiments, literature, and history topics. It notes performances, choir, and sports interest with various teachers and programs.
The Town Ladies Aid discussed public entertainment for children including school events, lectures, concerts, and sports banned on Sundays. They hosted harvest home suppers, New Years dinners, and planned fundraisers. Activities spanned church yard funding, tree planting, belfry repairs, and park improvements in Lincoln Park and surrounding areas.
Clermont residents hosted and visited relatives around the Des Moines basketball tournament with many dinners and weekend gatherings. The community also notes a farm move from the Orville Berg place to the Adrian Paulson farm and a report on cattle feeding economics linking corn weight to calf growth.
Nutrition experts at Iowa State College say eggs top the list for protein and minerals, aiding bone and red blood cell formation and overall health. A survey of lawn seed brands in Iowa 1955 shows most fall short of Kentucky bluegrass. High production eggs are plentiful in winter with large sizes and yellow yolks. spring brings deeper yolks as hens get green feed. Shell color does not affect quality. federal grade labels matter. Winter large eggs offer best value per pound. pullet eggs may be cheaper later. For cooking, bring eggs to room temperature and cook slowly to avoid curdling or toughness in custards and baked goods. Farmers should service equipment now to cut planting-season losses.
The group sent goods to Galveston flood sufferers and raised funds as a ten dollar donation to Texas sufferers. A future talk on village improvement was planned a ten minute conversation. Mrs Jack Shaffer entertained the aid in Fayette on May 2 1900 with a visit to Upper Iowa University. The anniversary dinner expressed hope that Mrs Larrabee's prophecies for the Ladies Aid would be realized in years to come.
Ervin Henriksen, 44, died at his Ringsted area farm when trapped between a tractor steering wheel and a shed doorway as he backed into the shed. Claire county mourns the loss of Ab Daniel, 96, a longtime Osceola area resident born in Hopeville, who died in a nursing home. Measles shut two Oakland classes, 32 cases with most absences in Kindergarten. A note on farming costs suggests culling low producers as a method to reduce live stock expenses. Today's best buy.
When harvesting material from farm woods select only mature trees or those whose removal improves growing conditions for new trees or remaining stock. Leave young healthy trees 12 to 16 inches in diameter to mature for future harvest. Plan shrubs and trees for home grounds on paper before planting to avoid wasteful work.
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