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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
3
Elizabeth Priest local editor of Clermont Enterprise is listed as a member of the Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association. The Clermont post office in Fayette County, Iowa is entered in the post office as second class mail matter.
Sour milk is an unusually valuable feed for young chicks promoting feathering and rapid growth. State pests including the corn bill bug seed corn maggot and sod webworm threaten corn stands with early damage and replanting advised. Select male chicks for breeders early during feathering period.
A farm management study of 68 Iowa dairy farms shows last year's livestock and products sales in the northeast accounted for 84 percent of cash sales, with calves raised by nurse cow methods reducing ailments. Tips include selecting future herd leaders at 8 weeks, nursing vs hand milking, and five quality egg practices to beat heat. A traffic officer recounts arresting a 110 pound woman after she resisted a speeding ticket, with the woman blaming temper.
At Decorah a track meet featuring Luther and several schools saw Upper Iowa trio Floyd Paul and Fae Tate excel. Paul won the high hurdles, low hurdles and high jump while Floyd took discus and placed in shot put and javelin. Fae earned pole vault and high jump runner up positions as all three ran on the half mile relay team that finished second.
The Argo Gazette reports seven members of the R. F. Whitcher family on No. 56 farm southeast of the city now face typhoid fears. Latest cases include Mr Whitener and his daughter Mary, with Marion, aged 15, the most ill though the condition is now improving.
Oelberg of Lima at 78 and Harriman of Albany each have a new tooth after replacements. A Winneshiek county baseball league opens with Burr Oak Fort Atkinson Frankville Nordness Spillville Ridgeway and two Devorah. Engagement rings feature a Dearest design with diamond emerald amethyst ruby sapphire topaz. Young ladies share this with their beaus.
The Iowa death toll from the auto accident reached 140 when Jack Wray of Bloomfield was killed early Sunday. Oklahoma inmate A C McArthur, who escaped from the state prison at McAlester ten days ago, was arrested in Oklahoma City Saturday night. Decorah’s nearly built airport will be dedicated Sunday June 21 with 20 planes expected. The Highway 51 paving contract was awarded to Bituminous Paving & Material Corp Des Moines for a two inch coat of crushed rock and oil.
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