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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1949
Page
1
Rich's Pipe Dreams recalls Leland Capper organizing artistic Halloween store window decorations with local volunteers, later marred by backhouse humorists. Echo ads boast long selling of privies while urban jokes mix with nostalgia and kid mischief across Elgin to West Union.
John Grimm unveiled a new DeForest receiving set at the high school assembly last Wednesday, accompanying the morning exercises by S. U. S. The Stoehr drug company received a refrigeration plant named Nizer to stock six flavors of ice cream. Florence Lehman, ill at West Union hospital, was brought home Saturday. Wm. Schupbach and John Sutter install a new heating plant at the Shafter home. The Illyria community mourns Mrs. Will Flanagan. Anna DeSart and daughter moved to rooms above Falb's market. The J. W. Allen family returned from Eldora to Clermont street, Elgin. H. S. Halstenson buys the Grossman property at Clermont. Nellie will help. Nellie Halstenson joins locally. Farmers save more money than city folk as 1950 farm outlook remains uncertain with business forecasts divided.
A fragmented urban humor piece depicts skeptical remarks about nature and social roles. Characters riff on men and women, marriage, and everyday quirks, weaving jokes about parties, buses, churches, and a wise approach to knowledge as a private asset.
CROP ships food to orphans widows the aged and others in need in Western Germany from American farm contributions. Forty one thousand children are fed in this region as 35 states including this one campaign to fill Friendship Food trains. Over 200000 volunteers canvass for farm to farm aid toward a national goal of 3500 carloads.
A reader praises Ed "Jake" Klingman for hours spent cleaning and beautifying a former eyesore along the river bed. The letter notes the parklike area now rivals any local park, credits Klingman with turning the site into a pleasant view, and suggests renaming the spot Klingman Park. The writer thanks him for untiring efforts and public spirit.
Iowa on October 1 tallies 469000 grain fed cattle, down 22 percent from 504000 on July 1 and below last year’s October total. Feeder stock from July through September rose 95 percent vs 1948 but many cattle remain on pasture. Stocker and feeder arrivals were near records, while market movement and pasture feeding drive the cut in feed lot numbers.
Cream haulers, creamery employees and fieldmen will join Iowa State College extension dairymen in a new approach to help Iowa farmers solve problems in producing high quality cream.
Fragmentary OCR reports on a farm scene discussing grandmothers and greats in relation to cattle feeding. The text mentions Eldora, hay intake, mailie, grain amounts, and feeding frequency, but readability is highly limited and many terms are garbled.
A recent high wind blew a storm window from the Orlie Off ineer home in Manilla. The window fell two stories onto concrete steps, with no pane cracked or broken. The incident caused minor damage and no injuries.
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