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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1928
Page
8
Local notes list numerous visits, gatherings, and travel among residents in Clermont and nearby towns. Knut Groth’s Elgin trip, extended family visits, school absences, and spring vacations populate the week. Several residents plan or enjoy visits to Cedar Rapids Decorah and Mason City with relatives and friends.
Plant and animal husbandry guidance covers feeding rates for cod liver oil in poultry, soil erosion fixes,incubation vs hens for hatching, and coop disease prevention. It cites USDA data on cooperative associations, livestock loading injuries, and a film on tuberculosis spread. It also cites insect damage costs across crops, livestock, forests, textiles, and homes, totaling near two billion dollars annually.
Hog prices look unlikely to rise as pork and lard stocks stay high. On March 1, storage surpassed last year by 212 million pounds of pork and over half again as much lard as a year earlier.
Sunday gatherings feature the Learn, Wagner, Nelson, Kloster, and Brause families visiting relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, W. J. Scott, and others. Rheumatism illness improves at G. E. Brause home while many families share meals and move between West Union and Elgin areas.
The Denison Bulletin denounces civic apathy with a Telegraphic style exhorting residents to engage in public affairs. It warns that those who avoid participation or advertising harm the town, likening inaction to digging graves and driving the hearse.
In Hope Street a brilliant fire at Mr and Mrs Slipps residence drew a large crowd. Mrs Slipps escaped in a henna silk blouse. firemen wore blue tunics. The weather was pleasant with a strong wind. Rumors say the blaze was larger than any in years and may have cost about $5250. Buston Transcript.
A Home Economics Division guideline from Iowa State College suggests dropping eggs into water just below boiling, covering and removing from heat. Let them cook in the hot water for about eight minutes to yield tender jelly like whites and softly cooked yolks.
Jiffy Lac and Household Lacquer promise quicker dries, with a 40 minute dining theme, advertised for cost savings and convenience at City Drug Store.
Iowa farms pay at least 80 million dollars yearly in interest on mortgage indebtedness per an Iowa Department of Agriculture estimate. In 1927 interest equaled over 11 percent of farm gross income with more than one third of farm capital in land, buildings and livestock financed by loans. Total real estate mortgages exceed one and a half billion dollars, while chattel mortgages and unsecured notes remain unquantified. Debt survives as a heavy burden though slowly declining since the war’s end, linked to the farm dollar’s purchasing power.
A Mallen Nebraska Tribune piece notes the phrase nothing in the paper means no local misfortune occurred in the past week. It urges readers to appreciate absence of fires deaths crimes and suicides, rather than complain about lack of news.
A column notes some people argue endlessly on topics with no progress. It warns against habit forming arguments and urges dropping the habit quickly. The piece mentions local neighbors and social scenes as context.
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