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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
3
Clermont news notes a Thursday birthday party for Carolyn Kittelson with friends, gifts, lunch, and games. Nearby social items list multiple Sunday gatherings, visits to relatives, farewells for the Jungbluts, hospital grafting care, and local quilting activity with several families and individuals named.
Mrs. R. Jacobson, age 95, of Hawarden, reflects on coming to America in 1881 and jokes about hoping to "pick money off the trees." She declined a return to Holland but wishes locals at Orange City would skip wooden shoes during the tulip festival, noting it wasn’t that way in Holland.
Evan O. Lien born April 16 1870 near Gunder died aged 78 on Sunday February 27 survived by son Oscar and daughters Clarice Myrtle and Bessie with four grandchildren. He served as treasurer and deacon at local churches and led est of Clermont and Highland church civic efforts. Funeral March 2 East Clermont Lutheran with Rev A O Nesset. burial in adjacent cemetery.
A Iowa State College study reports hogs fed a synthetic animal protein factor APF gained 1.36 pounds daily, rising to 1.76 pounds with APF, a 29 percent increase, while using 12 percent less feed. Weaned pigs on a December to March ration showed the significant improvement, potentially reshaping Iowa hog feeding practices.
Fourteen year old Shirley Lou Higdon of Bonaparte asserts she is the youngest person to claim a log cabin as a birthplace. She was born in 1044 in a log cabin her father built in 1914, a six room structure now brick veneered yet still a log cabin.
Clermont adds a Senior Class Benefit Basketball game on Friday March 11 at 7 30 p.m. in the Clermont High School gym with Clermont Businessmen facing school staff for funds. Senior trip to Des Moines postponed due to Bays District tournaments. Typing II student Lillian Franzen earns a 50 wpm pin.
Girls learn sewing progressing to shorts and dresses while Mrs McNitt teaches knitting. Vocational Guidance Films at the high school cover Photography Automotive Service and Transportation. Fifth and sixth graders form a Citizenship Club with officers and plans to recite the American Creed. New and returning students noted. perfect attendance lists and arithmetic ratings announced for grades five to eight.
The roster lists eighth grade students Arlene Ames Marlene Durscher Mary Hoop man Robert Johnson Ralph Kneeland Beverly Nelson Ramon a Olson Carman Swenson and Marilyn Wede along with seventh grade students Alton Ames Lew Barnhouse David Gutcher Roger Kist Mary Ann Martin Ilo Mae Meyer Mary Morse Glendal Nygaard Shirley Olson Judy Paulson Helen Reierson Marguerite Sullivan and Jean Swenson. Those with perfect attendance for all six weeks include eighth grader Kay Jacobson and seventh graders Mary Ann Martin Glendal Nygaard and Helen Reierson.
Poultry raisers can save more chicks and boost egg production in 1949 by preventing Newcastle disease. The disease quickly kills young chicks and disrupts laying flocks for weeks. Start with a thorough sanitation program, cleaning and disinfecting the poultry house before introducing chicks.
More hogs were marketed in January and February than in the same period last year. Data show a clear uptick in sales activity for the early months across shipments and markets.
A brief item notes that careful handling of brood sows leads to healthier litters and suggests checking Echo Want Ads for related supplies or services.
The article states that slot ventilators will provide the right amount of ventilation in the laying house.
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