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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1929
Page
3
A Mrs Rubyn Chinn guided readers through squash recipes for winter meals with baked in shells and baked with bacon and cream. Local notes mention visits, travel plans for health, and community events including the Dairy Cattle Congress and a city clerk records job update for Ned DeHart.
Detroit reports Chevrolet Motor Company says over 1,200,000 of its new six cylinder cars have been placed on the road since January 1, three times the best year for rivals and surpassing the entire 1928 Chevrolet output. Eastern Iowa vets urge poultry house readiness for winter amid parasite checks and ventilation needs. Road crews repair soft spots on a county road near Kohler Bros. farm with gravel planned after dirt work.
About fifty to sixty local workers began employment this week as the dressing season starts at the Wescott & Winks plant in Sumner. Total payroll nears one hundred with more hires to come as the season progresses. Thousands of birds are being dressed daily and refrigerated cars will move packed product to eastern markets.
A reflective piece contrasts professionals like doctors dentists and lawyers as repair men trying to fix a flawed human condition. It questions how much repair the human race requires and underscores the ongoing societal need for care and justice.
Walter Was kow buttermaker of Arlington topped all entries at the Dairy Cattle Congress last week with his butter securing the gold medal. Otto Weger of Strawberry Point won silver with a 95 1/4 share. Third went to a Minnesota buttermaker. Winning gold and silver strengthens district No. 11’s bid for the national banner again this year.
County Holstein Breeders meet at Farm Bureau office to set annual cattle consignment sale for November 2 in Oelwein. About 70 head were available with 50 to 60 expected to sell. Several notable lots already consigned by those scouting inventory.
N. P. Kerr of Lime Springs arrived Saturday for a visit at the George Falb residence, sharing time with the Falb family and neighbors.
Iowa State College dean of agriculture Q F Curtiss reports the corn borer has expanded into Ohio Michigan and Indiana adding about 12000 square miles of new infested territory. The infestation rose 17 percent this year with losses in older Ohio areas estimated at 10 to 25 percent of the crop. Tall rank corn is favored by the pest. Drastic action is urged to protect Iowa fields.
Mr and Mrs Charles Feller expect to travel to Moorehead town this Friday to visit their son Myrlin and his wife Edna. Ellen Hanson and Ernest Christen and Elizabeth Christen will leave Friday for West Bend to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Ed Riser of Postville and Mrs Marie Bakewell of Chicago were guests in Floyd Sires home Sunday evening.
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