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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1950
Page
8
Sunday worship services and Sunday school schedules noted with gatherings at Elgin and nearby towns. Local families and visitors are listed with meals, hospital visits, and weekend entertainment. Progresive Home Study Club plans a meeting with readings and contests.
Mrs Wm Nutting and Judy from West Union visited Thursday evening in Mrs Chloa Lyon’s home. Mrs Wilson Patterson hosted the Ladies Aid Society last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Walter Pritchard and children were dinner guests Sunday in the Charles Corbin home near Arlington, where Barbara and Marian Pritchard spent the weekend. Guests in the Mrs Gunelda Burgden home Sunday included the Woodson family of West Union.
Alfred and Richard Pritchard visited their father Walter Pritchard at Mercy hospital in Oelwein. Don Reeder and Dicky were guests of the Vern Boyer family. Clifton Kerr and family joined dinner at Robert Kerr’s home in Waucoma. Mrs Hex Folkert of Steamboat Rock stayed with her daughter Mrs Wilson Patterson. Georgia Boyer of Hawk Eye, who died Friday, was buried Sunday. Relatives attending included Hermen Boyer and Vern Boyer, Grace Barker, Glen Boyer, Melvin Boyer, Ira Cherry of Davenport, and the Dick Henry family of Waterloo.
Mrs Mildred DeWald spent Wednesday at the Fairbank home of Mr and Mrs Fred Bushby and visited relatives from Des Moines. Mrs Maggie Cook celebrated her birthday with relatives bringing baskets and gifts including the John Cook Lamont family and Arlington residents. The Arthur Thomas family moved Thursday from a farm near Volga to a new rented farm. The Rubens bought their farm from the Thomases on Friday. Clyde Bond and Verda joined Dale Floyd at Arlington on Sunday. Vern Northrup and Fern Arlington spent the weekend with Wilfred Bond for a birthday observance.
In this six weeks period attendance was excellent with twenty pupils never absent or tardy. Perfect spelling papers were earned by Charles DeCook, Wanda Fox, Donna Hinkel, Frances Larson, Martha Messerli and Patricia Jones. Paul Huggins treated his room to candy bars on his birthday.
Cheery Valley social notes detail visits among Dennlers Friederichs and Hofer families, hospital checkups, and Sunday gatherings at various homes. The Good Neighbors Club met November 16 with five hostesses, welcomed 21 guests, a white elephant sale raised 93 dollars, and members thanked helpers and guests.
Iowa City group plans a Christmas event at Bernice Dennler’s home on December 12. Members will bring Butter Nut strips, cookies, and candy to share with orphans or soldiers’ homes, followed by a picnic lunch and party.
Sunday and midweek social greetings are listed as families and individuals visited friends and relatives in Gunder Decorah Postville Castalia and nearby homes. Names include Loftsgards Reiersons Olsons Marks Petersons Lind Schupbachs and Knute Bidne with hospital visits noted for Mrs. Bidne and Johnnie Olson.
Fayette county farmers used more soil conservation practices in October than ever before with district aid. Major efforts include contour farming with buffer strips led by Storng and Strong, contour-strip cropping in Clermont and Castalia, tile drainage with Geo L. Scott and Hugo Hackmann, and terracing reducing soil loss. The district also supported stream control work and took part in the NE Iowa contour plowing contest in Allamakee county on October 3 and 4, with Will Christen representing Fayette county.
Pork producer Howard Medberry of south of Elgin has been named Fayette County champion. He raised 118 pigs from 12 sows for an average of 0.83 dollars per litter and shows an average daily gain of 1.21 pounds per pig. He will receive a personalized engraved plaque at a recognition dinner in Ames on November 22.
An ancient law from around 300 B C in India fined adulteration of food. Hannah Adams, born 1745, became America’s first woman to pursue literature as a profession. A recipe for bitters and a peat based ent ben ics and a 1610 temperature reference appear in the fragment.
A 21 year study at Barro Colorado in the Panama Canal Zone finds treated lumber resists termite attack while untreated wood deteriorates. Results suggest all lumber including shingles and posts should be treated, as termites move to new wood when food is scarce. Soil poisoning helps but is less permanent. drainage ventilation and removal of debris also aid control.
The article describes a portable tying wheel designed by Alfred F Foote to batch bunch vegetables in the field and move like a wheelbarrow. It notes a notched wooden rim to hold broccoli, a welded pipe frame, and suggests a low cost electric brooder made from box lumber and wallboard with a tin can globe. Burlap curtains are crafted by cutting strips three to four inches high every two inches.
Scientists report a DDT resistant strain of house flies requiring nearly double the chemical to die. The finding signals potential difficulty in managing pests with standard DDT programs and urges review of pest control methods and resistance monitoring.
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