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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1951
Page
4
Two pillows filled with all new feathers and a small Norge oil burner offered by Amanda Krueger of Clermont Illinois. Public notice appears as a simple local listing with contact name and item details.
Advertises a used combination gas range for 45 dollars a Norge oil heater for three rooms at 45 dollars and a Monarch combination gas range in excellent condition for 85 dollars plus acceptance of old range.
An automobile wreck without adequate coverage could ruin your future. If you lack ample protection, see Employers Mutual Casualty Co. FR. P. Strauch, local agent, dial 3711, Elgin.
Mrs I D Mohler celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Oct 30. They married in 1891 and have lived in Hamburg all their married life. A shad seining crew removed 20 tons of shad from Black Hawk water recently. Carl Schweinfurth found a baby screech owl last spring, now named Chuckie, as a household pet. Bud Weiss lost his left hand in a corn picker accident near Wesphalia. A bolt of lightning killed 23 year old Anthony Noonan on a farm near Ayrshire. Gottlieb Fritz died of carbon monoxide poisoning while changing a tire in Sumner after starting the motor in a closed garage. John Posthuma brought home a 14 inch circumference apple weighing over a pound from near Hollandale Minnesota. The will of James Kent of Britt left 65000 to philanthropic causes.
With one week left in the accounting period Iowa series E F and G defense bond purchases total 16 348 077. Fayette county savings bonds chairmen report county sales at 177 530 toward a 225 031 quota. Fifteen counties have surpassed goals led by Van Buren at 138 percent.
National feed committee analysis shows total grains and concentrates at nearly 137 million tons for 1951 52, about 9 percent more than 126 million fed in 1950 51. Low protein by products rise 10 percent, high protein feeds up 3 percent, while 1951 corn oats barley and grain sorghums output runs about 6 million tons below last year.
Iowa crop prospects on November 1 show corn at 494,638,000 bushels unchanged from last month while soybeans total 33,117,000 bushels, below last year’s record. Hay reaches a record 6,860,000 tons, with other major crops below average as the season ends.
Mechanical drying of most harvested grains and forage crops will eventually be a routine farm job. Crop drying is being rapidly accepted by seed companies, grain elevators and farmers not merely because of development of drying equipment and methods, but because changing conditions make such new methods economical.
New Iowa Soldiers Home commandant George R. White of Marshall town is appointed to succeed George Hinshaw who died recently. Robert C. Lappen of the Iowa board of control said White will assume duties at once. White, an insurance man and World War I veteran, has long been active in American Legion and may influence state affairs. Mrs. Eugenia Anderson, U S ambassador to Denmark, spoke in Des Moines at a Democratic women workshop replacing Mrs. India Edwards who could not attend. Anderson is a former Iowa native who moved to Minnesota before her appointment by President Truman. Republicans hold a similar campaign momentum with A B Ab Herman, executive director of the Republican National Committee, completing a Des Moines party workers workshop and continuing as GOP campaign director and county leadership.
A day long session drew members of the Young Republicans and Iowa Council of Republican Women along with state officials and party workers. News centered on Iowa's new five million dollar office building facing repeated water leaks and a single boiler heating both the state house and the new complex during a cold November stretch. Officers named Glenn B. Savage of Clinton as president of the Iowa Motor Court Association with Robert Kay, G. & Roba, Carroll, as secretary treasurer and John S. Howland of Des Moines as counsel. Directors include John Kauffeman of Sioux City, Robert Nelson of Council Bluffs, Frank Moureau of Mr. Pleasant, Mrs. William De Bruyn of Ottumwa, Mrs. Bayard Lodden of Ames, Louie Wilson of Des Moines, and 4H. B. Scott of Mason City.
A collage of witty captions and street scenes from The Broadcasters notes a 25th wedding anniversary quip about killing a chicken. A Park Avenue building gains a new doorman who fondly asks if Mrs. Brown is expecting. A caller is jokingly reminded of family ties as a mother. The page also riffs on keys, speedometers, and radio exercises with playful exchanges.
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