Elgin High School News Roundup
A composite Elgin High School journal covers staff roles and class reports from in class discussions to field trip notes. It notes student work in English science and home economics, a dramatic film, and a chemistry lab accident. Junior and sophomore class updates include geometry, bookkeeping, and transportation topics as well as athletic results from a Maynard tournament.
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Elgin
Maynard
Bobby ‘Medberry
Oelwein
Clark
If It Doesn't Work the First Time
Mrs. X attends a parents meeting and tries family councils and a time allowance plan. Neither approach works initially as husband and children resist. The article stresses patience and consistent calm guidance, noting a plan fails if the family atmosphere remains poor and children are treated as brats.
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Council
Farm equipment tips for prudent farmer buying
Doris Meinhard spent the weekend with Judy Helms and Farm Equipment Fit machinery tailored to farm business needs. Before investing in costly new gear, confirm real necessity. Sometimes farmers pool resources to purchase expensive machines and trade labor during the season.
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Doris Meinhard
Judy Helms
Agricultural notes on farming efficiency and outputs
Cattle feeding records are valuable. Pelt value accounts for about a fourth of live lamb value. Portable wood chippers turn waste wood into livestock bedding. Egg output this spring is expected to be about 4 percent higher than last year. In training a heifer to milk, avoid associating unpleasantness with milking. Town dairymen have increased artificial breeding services by 24 percent over last year. Fine grinding of corn slows consumption, harms digestion, wastes feed. A well fed poultry flock should average 50 to 70 percent production through the laying season. Annual pruning takes little time and is not hard on trees. severe pruning can delay fruit production 4 to 5 years. Farm machinery will not bottleneck production in 1952. inventories and output will meet needs. At least a dozen minerals are required by the dairy cow, but a
Incomplete note on livestock feed and minerals
A fragmented remark discusses rationing with legume hay and salt availability for livestock. It notes potential sufficiency aside from sodium and mentions two minerals referenced as available, but details are unclear.
Local social notes from Elgin and surrounding areas
Mr and Mrs A 5 Jacob with Mr and Mrs C A Johnson of Chicago return home after visiting Fayetteville Ark and Pea Ridge Ark. D O Dean ill. Alma Tripp staying at Deans. Reuben Lehman family from Chicago visit Bertha Lehman en route to Kansas City. St Francis Xavier Study Club meets at George Boyle home. West Union visitors Mr and Mrs Hildebrand and Kathy. Captain G C Hartman guest at Luce home. Mrs Robert Presley of Clinton visits D Q Doan home. Doan accompanies her home. Mrs V W Luce attends funeral in Paulette. LaVerne Schwein erus and Jake Wander visit Castalia. Read Echo Want Ads.
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Jacob
C. A. Johnson
Chicago
George, Miller
Fayetteville
Ark
Rome
Pea Ridge
D. O. Dean
Alma Tripp
Dean
Reuben Lehman
Bertha Lehman
Kansas City
St. Francis Xavier Study Club
George Boyle
Castalia
Echo
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Sarz Ogle
Marilana Ogle
Jim Cook
Jeanine Cook
Beverly Howard
Marcis Wolf
Gene Snyder
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Joseph Arthur Peters
Joe
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Rose Morgan
Uncle Sam
Air Force
Julius Ceasar
U. S
Bayword
Comfort
John Tillotson
Iowa
Midwest
Postville
Judy Cancya
Technicolor
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Betsy Drake
Carey Grant
Honey
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Paramount
Cedar Rapids
State
Brian Donlevy
Virginia Grey
Johnny Weismuller
Callaway
Mucklethaler Funeral Home
Dial
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Wale
Elgin Echo
Briardale
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Briardale Food Store
Crisco
HINES
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Coffyer
Tle
Vin Mae
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Oxxydol
HI Lex Laundry
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