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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
3
Elizabeth Priest is named local editor and member of Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association. The Clermont Fayette County publication is registered as second class mail matter in Iowa.
Town State College will host the 15th annual Weishea exposition May 14 to 16 for high school students and their relatives and friends. Eastern states pass laws requiring graded eggs sales. Michigan requires eggs by weight. Planting rape now yields pasture by early June for hogs. alfalfa or red clover pasture lacking means rape is best short term.
Delegates to the ninth annual girls 4-H club state convention at Iowa State College are being chosen across counties from June 25 to 27. Each club sends one delegate with leader. winners of educational trips and a Best Groomed Girl contest proceed, with the state winner earning a trip to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago. Also notes quack grass control advice amid dry conditions, recommending a spiny tooth harrow to surface roots for destruction.
Two youths used a tale of fundraising for church training to sell magazines in Nashua. A woman questioned their pastor claims, uncovering a false denomination. One boy admitted the deceit. another refunds were collected and no charges filed. The incident prompted local church leaders to intervene.
Mrs. Minert of Waukon, head of the I F W C preservation panel, lists flowers not to be picked. The compiled list includes Tristman, ten tians, columbine, Dutchman's breeches, jack in the pulpit, liverwort, May apple, bloodroot, shooting star, sweet William, Solomon's seal, lady's slipper, blazing star, bittersweet, peach apple blossoms, hardy asters, black eyed Susan, wild sunflower, golden red, bervane, bouncing bet, white snakeroot, common dew violets, butter and eggs, yarrow.
The Pilgrim Society founded at Plymouth in 1920 maintains Pilgrim hall built in 1824. It preserves a valuable collection of portraits and memorials of the early settlers and associates.
In Carlinville Illinois F A Stayton aged 92 and his 67 year old son W F Stayton filed applications for old age pensions. Irene Ballard of West Union and Alton Anderson of Lakota announced their upcoming marriage with a bridge party hosted by Evelyn Turner the previous Wednesday. The wedding is set for May 27 at the Ballard home in West Union.
County relief committee urged immediate removal from relief rolls of anyone refusing bonafide work, urging cooperation from all employers. They requested reports on offers refused and listed contact points including Mr. Olsen. March 1935 case load totaled 301 for relief and 810 overall. National Re employment Service registration became a condition for unemployment relief.
Walter Olsen, Director of Relief, states that relief recipients must plant a garden or lose aid. The Emergency Relief Committee in Wagner County ruled gardens are mandatory for continued assistance, and families who have not received seeds should call at the Oelwein Weis Union relief office to obtain seeds.
The article notes three foot arches besides the main longitudinal arch and describes the interior ball arch the outer arch from heel to little toe base and the mid instep arch. It adds a Waverly grandmother aged 82 makes five 18 by 20 inch doli quilts for the Dionne sisters forming 168 squares per quilt totaling 840 squares while noting occasional differences may spark family fireworks.
Sunday gatherings and visits fill a weekend in Grand Meadow as residents frequent friends homes from Bert Lyngans to Arthur Olson. Picnics and a school reunion marked the week with multiple hosts including the Lyngans, Landsgards, Olson families, and Reiersons.
Historical note states the Black Death killed by estimate over 25 million people, surpassing losses from any war. The figure highlights the plague as a defining global calamity in history.
A quirky speaker from a Chinatown context claims kinship to wise ancestors. The passage blends sly humor with enigmatic phrasing as the sage reflects on lineage and memory.
Clermont and Pleasant Water project leaders held a training school at the home of Mrs Edward Krueger in Elgin with Miss Lewis on Friday May 1. The session covered nutrition and soup making with a menu of vegetable vitamin soup cherry short cake and cheese sticks.
During its history the school presented diplomas to graduates personally by five U S presidents: Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur and Cleveland who attended and handed the diplomas themselves.
Cast iron was highly valued in Europe during Edward III's reign with iron pots and pans regarded as nearly crown jewels, underscoring the era's metal craft prestige.
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