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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1937
Page
4
Agriculture briefs note meat loses less weight when refrigerated properly with wrapping. Iowa State College reports bone meal as the only mineral given to cows at the dairy farm. Soybean production in Iowa reaches about 3.34 million bushels, a 35 percent rise. Proper cream separator use and maintenance ensures larger cream checks, cleaner milk, and efficient fat separation.
The notice lists sale dates led by George Drewes and Forbes on Monday November 22 at 2 12 miles northeast of West Union, Lee Klingman on Monday November 29 five miles northeast of Elkader on Highway 56, and Mrs John Ede on Wednesday December 1 near Clayton Center with weekly sales at the West Union Pavilion every Thursday.
Art critics note a principle from Chinese canon law that design and ornament aspire to balance by pairing elements. The idea appears across traditional painting, ceramics, and architecture, emphasizing symmetry and harmony as essential aesthetic rules.
A concise assessment argues that determined planning yields measurable outcomes, highlighting decisive steps and concrete progress as evidence of capability. The piece emphasizes consistency, discipline, and timely execution as key factors driving success across projects and aims.
Fifty six signers of the Declaration of Independence were examined for education and half were described as college bred. The note highlights the educational background of the signers in the era.
The Iowa Farm Outlook report from Iowa State College projects farm families in Iowa will face slightly lower incomes in 1938 with reduced spending on automobiles education and recreation. It notes cheap feed prices and large crops, a carryover corn supply, and mixed cattle hog and dairy prospects for next year, with dairying a bright spot and lamb and poultry prices likely to rise modestly.
The event ran from noon until about two o'clock Friday morning with many concessions fully sold out and positive turnout. Free entertainment drew crowds, and the Legion Post reported sufficient returns to justify future similar celebrations. proceeds will fund community projects.
Elgin PSoings 2 in use during specified hours with a Friday football banquet at the schoolhouse. Banquet warmup includes players cooking and serving by home economics girls. event informal and hoped to match past success. Local basketball uniforms shown for Nov. 30 first home game against Luana. new white silk-finish jerseys with purple numbers and trunks with purple satin trim. Supt Roberts and Mr Jorgenson attended county schoolmasters meeting at Clermont. six thirty dinner at Lutheran church then school-house business meeting. Armistice Day school dismissal to allow participation in Legion and Auxiliary celebrations. gratitude noted.
Kee New song books have been purchased for use in the high school and regular assembly singing will be installed in our program. Home Economics notes report dinner served by the gophomiora class with beef cuck roast, smashed potatoes, brown gravy, buttered peas, fruit salad, date graham cracker dessert and milk. Freshmen provided breakfast of grapefruit, cream of wheat, muffins, apple butter and cocoa. Sophomores were tested on the meat unit as a final checkup, following a trip to the local meat market.
The third grade studies The Snow Man poem while the fourth grade reads a tale of a French boy who makes pottery and sells it at the fair. Kenneth Larson was home Monday with a bad cold as third grade finishes their newspaper this week for publication.
A humor piece features a General Manager asking about his son running the business while away and a Vice President noting he carried on but forgot the business. Little Richard asks his mother for a nickel for the old man crying outside, who laments peanuts and five cents a bag. The text pivots to nautical imagery and a light aside on marriage as a port of call for trades.
Intermediate and sixth grades work on Geography and hygiene books with Town History next. Bulletin board and imagazine rack are painted for the library unit while the transportation chart and Pilgrim silhouette are displayed. Want to buy or sell Use a want ad.
Derailment after collision with cattle near Sardis Mississippi killed engineer Charles J. Barnett and fireman J T White, both Memphis residents. Three race horses died and no other Desa passengers injured. Ault's turkey farm near Kirkland Illinois claims large scale operations with a colossal turkey weighing about sixty tons expected for market.
Hundreds of Chinese poor near Japanese outposts and Kiangwan front lines receive free meals from Japanese Naval Landing Forces. Each dole includes cooked and uncooked rice vegetables with meat provided twice weekly. Exclusive photo from Bicho.
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