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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1948
Page
2
Iowa State College extension nutritionist Mildred Nelson outlines strawberry dish ideas for parties and everyday meals. Recipes include strawberry shortcake, meringue pie, parfait ideas, and a scone puff, with directions for freezing berries year round and a note on safe storage and serving suggestions.
Rain delayed opening games. complete schedule listed for 1948 with first and second halves. May through August shows matchups: Elgin, Littleport, Volga, Clermont, Guttenberg, Wadena, Arlington, Garnaville, Edgewood, and Arkmeton among others. Some entries show typos and misprints that mirror old clipping style.
Fee County voters will decide in June’s primary on renomination for County Recorder. C A Munson seeks County Auditor nomination in the Republican contest with Hazel Gehring. The text also covers cattle feeding practices to prevent bloat and notes 1947 town fire losses reaching $3,297,073, the highest since 1931.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Olson traveled to Postville Sunday to welcome their great granddaughter Linda Loa Meyer who arrived at Postville hospital the same day Linda is the daughter of Harold Meyer of Postville Mrs Karl Martin is back in since Saturday Ralph Schreder hosted supper in the Lou Engelhart home Luana Mrs Elmer L Nelson and Chuckie left Wednesday for a ten day visit with relatives in Viroqua Wis accompanying by her sister Mrs Martin Hein and two daughters from Fairbank
The Elgin High senior class lists 22 students with 12 girls and 10 boys for class of 1948. Members include Marie Adrian Alice Frieden Ardis Frieden Joyce Gehring Phyllis Gehring June Grimm Shirley Herwig Alta Larson Donna Medberry Dora Lee Medberry Edna Nelson Phyllis Pinney Jim Bovis Hubert Boyle Lyle Butikofer Robert Hanson Leo Lehman Clarence Moore Robert Moore Noel Smith Jennings Mitts Mahlon Lantz and officers Treas. See’y. Hot lunch menu May 17 to 22 features chili cr concarne crackers mixed vegetable salad bread butter pineapple upside down cake juice Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Friday offerings with varieties of meats, fish, salads, bread, desserts and juice.
Town State College agronomists recommend sudan grass rye and rape for emergency pasture crops. For an emergency hay crop they advise soy beans sudan grass and oats, outlining crop choices to rapidly establish forage.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Schrader and children were supper guests Wednesday of Mr and Mrs Carl Weelz at Luana Lloyd Anderson and Douglas were callers at the Richard Grie benow home Sunday afternoon. It pays to grow soybeans in rows if you want a grain crop.
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