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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
4
Florence Friederich helps at Melvin Benson home. Dozens of neighbors from Elkader Volga and Shullsburg visit and dine with families including Dennlers Christen Frienerichs and Hansons sharing meals and tasks over the weekend.
Information from the U. S. Department of Agriculture emphasizes high protein feeds for chicks in early weeks, soybeans as a protein source with mineral mix, and cooking soybeans to aid consumption. It covers crop rotation to control plant diseases, benefits of registered dairy bulls, the rise of day old chicks from hatcheries, and sheep feeding and flock condition. It ends with urging farmers to keep old customers sold and advertise.
The Masons plan a big party for their wives and O. E. 8 members at the lodge rooms on Wednesday evening but details were not filled in on time and postponed to next week.
An editorial urges local businesses to advertise in the town paper to show community presence. A Highland rock party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Yearous features high prizes for Mrs. Carroll Klingman and Lee Klingman with Rex Medberry and Raymond Benson taking low prizes. A midnight luncheon followed the games.
A weed with shark green leaves in wet spots this spring may choke small grain crops. BR H Porter of Iowa State College Extension warns marsh cress, a winter annual mustard, seeds in fall and grows ahead of grain. Disking is ineffective. spring plowing before planting is the only long term control. If not plowed timely, plant soybeans or corn instead.
Mrs Josephine Moellerman Belva Benson Hazel Frieden Gilma Olson and R C Jorgenson spent Saturday in Oelwein. For sale a Webster’s International dictionary, 2700 pages and 6000 illustrations, price 15.00 at the Echo Office.
Payrollers on a survey by the National Industrial Conference Board show total government costs for the year ending June 30, 1927 rose to 12.179 billion from 2.919 billion in 1918. The tax burden grows oppressive, especially on farmers, as laws expand expenses and the army of payrollers. One in ten people is supported by tax money, a reaction may come that could cripple essential services. Norton Olsen of near West Union visited his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Geo N. Sehorn earlier this week.
Clayton County history notes a brief gold rush at Strawberry Point and Volga City in 1858 on Widow Massey’s farm. The find yielded only about 50 cents a day, and the excitement faded quickly.
Mrs Ern Schori and daughter Ern estine join Mrs Max Thoma Celia and Ella Lehman for a Friday outing in Waterloo. Mr and Mrs Walter Rothilaberger and John Rothlisberger were dinner guests Tuesday at Celia and Ella Lehman’s home.
A farm advisory urges clean farrowing pens and sows to prevent roundworm infestation among piglets. Do not move sows or pigs from pens for 10 days to 14 days after farrowing, then haul to a clean pasture with no previous pig exposure. Pigs should stay on pasture until four months old or 100 pounds, then fatten for market when feasible.
The text promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as the world’s most popular laxative now sold in drugstores. It emphasizes its fame and accessibility through general drugstores today.
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