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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1948
Page
2
Iowa State College extension landscape specialist Margherita Tarr offers tips from Our Home Grounds on planning and planting home grounds. Emphasizes shade trees, shrub borders, evergreen drawbacks, and layout guidance using height, spacing, and color coordination for year round bloom.
Tax booklet shows in detail how seven of every ten dollars in special state taxes are returned to local communities through aids and road funds. Fayette county allocations total 991.92 in state funds with 383,345 for roads and schools receiving 149,741, while federal match additional 202,733. County tax funds total 1,201,617 with aid to schools and welfare programs. Thicker corn stands promise higher yields even without extra fertilizer.
The Fayette County Iowa Board of Supervisors met on Thursday after April 9 1948. They approved Art L. Gifford for a class B beer permit in Alpha and Henry M. Stiles for a cigarette permit in Jefferson Township. They also resolved to invest 1500 in United States Savings Bonds Series 6 in Fayette County and ordered noxious weed control with scheduled dates and penalties for noncompliance.
Board adjourned to Thursday May 8 1948 after roll call vote in which all members voted aye. Minutes read and approved, A E Smith chairman and Hazel Gehring county auditor signed the record. Notice for publication directed in each official county newspaper.
Clermont locals share visits and dinners across Decorah West Union Guttenberg and Cedar Rapids with relatives and friends. Notable guests include Olson Linnevold family senior events Amvet Auxiliary meeting May 18 and regional travelers from Volga Des Moines Elgin and Aurora. Agricultural note shows Montcalm barley leads yields. USDA seed price changes indicate 16 up 8 down from last year.
George Vaughn Ley Boleyn and Milton Miller completed the laying of blocks on the Paul Waters dairy building at Postville the first of this week. They have been at the job for three weeks. Tenders on the job were Raymoga and Robert Miller and Elmer Pinney Jr. The building is two stories and 30 by 80 feet.
Dell Smith, AE of Bell, Fayette county board of supervisors, was elected fourth district chairman of the Mental Hygiene Society. The group educates the public on mental illness and promotes advances in mental health care across Iowa’s nine districts, aiming to organize local units to raise awareness and support for sufferers.
It is time to apply the first cover spray to fruit trees two weeks after the petals fall or calyx spray. Apply to apple pear plum and cherry trees with a slightly different mix for peaches and apricots at the same time.
Towns across the county prepare a summer fly control effort to curb disease spreading insects. Last year nearly half the towns and about three fourths of farms practiced some control, improving cleanliness and customer surroundings in stores and food handling establishments nationwide.
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