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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1948
Page
2
An essay analyzes how parents praise a child’s fighting spirit yet punish it, risking future behavioral issues. It calls for redirection over repression and outlines how fear and guilt can erode trust and later provoke resentment and misdirected aggression. Meanwhile Iowa honey production fell to 7.38 million pounds, the decade’s low, due to winterkill and dry spring weather.
At Hinnton the stork recently left Mr and Mrs Arthur Hintz their ninth son or daughter, giving the family nine boys and six girls with three sets of twins.
The Elgin Schools weekly edition lists Amy Lou Torkelson as editor with Marlys Wenger as assistant, covering junior and senior class news. It highlights class plays, ring arrivals, new uniforms for basketball teams, cheerleaders outfits, a basketball movie, senior memories and photos, and midyear notes from eighth and freshman grades. It also praises Mr. Minihan and profiles student leaders like Bill, plus updates on agriculture, weather study, and letter writing lessons.
Fayette County Iowa board met August 12 1948 approving salaries and appointments including clerk in county treasurer and Dale P. DeSart to a committee post. Claims were audited and warrants issued. detailed expenses listed for county homes, poor relief, supplies, and services. Additional notes mention grain feeding guidance and pheasant hunting rules with community aid for Melvin Engleby who was in Rochester hospital.
The guidance notes using dry baits for rodent poisoning when freezes quash rodent activity. It states roughage can feed cattle if well supplemented, with better quality reducing supplement costs. It also notes hog prices fell earlier and faster, and federal economists predict about three pounds less meat per person in the last quarter this year compared with last year.
Caution warns dairy cows should not graze on fields sprayed with DD, chlordan or toxaphene as residues may pass into milk. Roasting pits noted as faster than dropping boards for cleaning.
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