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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
4
Elgin was among the first schools to adopt six man football and all games this year will be six man. If Elkader and West Union form teams, Elgin will schedule more games. Some regular players haven’t reported for practice due to factory work or corn harvest. Coach Tate should have good material once the squad is complete.
Local notes report school renovations at Center school with a new flood laid by Clarence Kirkeberg. Residents attend Elkader meeting on Elgin road graveling, while families travel to Minneapolis for the state fair. Ancient glass works in London linked to Pepys is described, with Fontainebleau sand and barefoot workers.
General Morgan led a six week raid beginning June 1 1863 from Alexandria Kentucky ending July 26 near Lisbon Ohio. He was captured and confined at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus and escaped on November 26.
Farm Topics from the University of Illinois describes renovating thin sods and bare spots by scarification and reseeding with legumes such as alfalfa sweet clover and red clover plus timothy. Soil testing limestone and phosphate applications precede scarification with rolling after seeding.
A poultry expert advises checking for mites and lice in hen quarters and painting roosts with anti-mite prep. Excessive open corn crib access can fatten hens, harming laying. Broody hens ruin layers if not broken. place in flat-bottomed coops, provide mash and fresh water to break broodiness.
A Missouri Farmer writer notes hog cholera can be vaccinated, unlike turkey blackhead. Prevention hinges on sanitation and balanced rations. the suggested operation to prevent blackhead is costly and risky, making it impractical.
Parts of Australia lack sufficient water for sheep this year. Moving hens between homes may halt production. Lime in drainage makes soils acidic. pasture types for turkeys resemble those for dairy cattle. Sudan grass and other summer pastures are advised. Sumner is a poor time for radical feeding changes.
The Pleasant Valley Local No 1378 of the Farmers E and C Union held a picnic near the H W Helms home on Sunday September 4. The piece notes community cards, visits, and local happenings including barn painting, a sick child, a fishing tale, a large bass caught by Clayton Pringle, and a funeral in Elgin with many relatives listed.
Instructions for the 1938 Christmas Seal Sale will be given and programs of antituberculosis work will be discussed at a conference of Christmas Seal workers from the area. The gathering is Sept 15 at the Congregational church in Elkader and includes workers from Allamakee Black Hawk Buchanan Chickasaw Clayton Delaware Dubuque Fayette Howard and Winneshiek counties. The seal sale marks the thirty second annual campaign to fund tuberculosis control locally statewide and nationally.
Publishers of Fayette county newspapers will meet at West Union on Friday September 9. The group meets every second month alternating with the Northeast Iowa group, with Tom Powell of the Union serving as president.
At Tuesday board meeting Illyria Church decided to call off the church picnic dinner due to low attendance after the morning service. Please inform others of the change.
The heaviest rainfall of the year drenched the area Monday night into Tuesday morning with near four inches in twelve hours. West Union reports 3.92 inches while three inches fell in just three hours Tuesday morning.
Mrs Louise Little returns to Minneapolis after several weeks visit with her sister Mrs Geo Vaughn and other relatives at Arlington Strawberry Bend Dundee Rev and Mrs P F Zoschke arrived home after a two week Benton Harbor Michigan vacation visiting relatives Charlotte Tebbe accompanied them from Zion Illinois after weeks there
The text traces the name Ireland to Fire and Ire land, noting the pronunciation Aima with stress on air. It compares Ireland’s size to Maine, its length about 306 miles, and its irregular oval outline to a knotty potato called Irish. It mentions Walter Raleigh growing the first potatoes in Youghal, County Cork, linking the potato to Ireland’s adopted child.
Ill Rev. P F Zoschke remains bedbound this week while Mrs Paul Kocher visits Oelwein and stays with the Holzer family. Clarence Becker, en route to Akalon Kansas, visits his mother Mrs Alice Becker and relatives. Walter Dummer-Smiths attend Elmer Anderson's funeral in Ossian. Frank Kiple visits Jesup and Oelwein with family as Mrs Kiple visits Graham Denniston's parents. Groups from Elgin West Union Pastville join a Davenport outing for Chevrolet dealers.
Coffee is the leading agricultural crop of Venezuela and the principal export, accounting for about half of foreign shipments. It grows best at elevations from 500 to 2,000 meters, with estimates placing the number of coffee trees on estates at around 260 million.
Irvin Unger and Walter Ellerbrock of St Louis completed a 75 mile endurance swim from St Louis to Chester in 24 hours 12 minutes. They stopped only once during a storm near Crystal City Missouri after washing ashore on rocks. Arriving in Chester they signed autographs in the press box while hungry and tired, having had no food for more than 40 miles upstream after losing their raft.
Heavy rains expose roof weaknesses and prompt calls to providers. A playful collection of quoted exchanges follows, including a couple debating lost keys, tide home in a rumble seat, and coal as winter nears. A mother chides a child about a bull dog while Betty’s cure for stuttering hinges on a long distance collect call.
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