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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1944
Page
2
The letter form describes harsh wartime conditions and longing for home in Clermont and Paris, with notes on cold weather, long work shifts, and washing gaps. It reports on Gress family service members overseas, shifts in APO addresses, and updates on Kenneth Gress, Aldean Trude, and Emory Landsgard, plus missing Private Harald Neuensehwan- Hee in France.
The text notes the son of Mrs Louise Neuen schwander of Los Angeles returns to Texas. It also mentions S Sgt Bertram Kurth departing Byron Field Texas after a furlough with the Carl Hackmann family, his wife and daughter Jean returning to Texas. An address is given for Howard E Larson MOMM 2/c Rec Station Draft No X-1445A Boston and notes he is the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Hans J Larson of Clermont with a home in La Crosse Wisconsin.
Friday through Sunday residents and families visited at multiple Clermont and Grand Meadow homes including Henry Olson Alfred Olson Ewald Lyngaas and Reinhart households. Several hospitality events and birthday celebrations marked the weekend amid a note stressing that inadequate drainage is costly.
Local residents share visits from Minneapolis and Chicago, church bake sale raises funds, Study Club meeting features Wharton villa paper, Hallowe en party for Sylvia Larson group, and notice of a November dance at the Clermont opera house.
The article lists farm and storage practices such as cribs for corn, tar paper for wintering bee colonies, and handling bulls in pens. It notes large government wood stocks and predicts postwar surpluses of fats and oils affecting future acreages of soybeans and flax. Noxious weeds in Iowa are named, and timber production is mentioned.
A special fall and winter drive targets Jowa farm woodlots to help Iowa reach the 1944 lumber production goal of 60 million board feet.tone of a rural news brief notes reduced meat surpluses and possible winter shortages as cold storage pork and beef holdings decline in September. Feeder calves arriving on Iowa farms face shipping fever from the long range to farm trip, risking exhaustion. rest shelter and ample care are advised.
When pastures fail in autumn, cows must receive supplemental feed to avoid reduced milk. Use soft corn, silage or fodder if available, otherwise allow hay and a grain mix of corn, oats, and soybeans to support production.
The speed of light slows to 122000 miles per second when passing through glass lenses in spectacles compared with 186000 miles per second in air, illustrating refractive effects in everyday optics.
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