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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
1
Rich's Pipe Dreams notes that northeast Iowa hills and bluffs will soon be ablaze with fall colors as maple trees turn yellow orange and gold. Residents invite daytrippers from across the state to enjoy scenic trips from corn country, promising a pleasant escape among the hills in the coming weeks. Also contains humorous quotes and ad style lines about advertising in business and a hog ad joke.
Florence E Kohler and Louis F Klingman married at the bride’s parents home on Sunday September 21 with Rev Butler presiding. The couple and guests, plus news of a death, travel, and community events are noted along with local market prices and a reflection on child guidance for healthier behavior.
A discussion on repressed anger in children and how suppressing wrath shifts its expression. It notes that quiet children may become bullies or use sarcasm, with extreme stubbornness and cruelty arising from unresolved anger rather than direct expression.
Social items list visitors and guests in Brainard area homes including Mrs Chloa Lyon Mrs Dan Crafe Fred Barker and Ray Gilbert plus the Nutting and Learn families. Farm notes discuss dairy cow fall freshening advantages records storage methods and small farm improvements such as crib building and pond fishing for food and recreation.
Fall tasks advise lime application and sod removal before ground freezes to transform rundown bluegrass exercise areas into high yield grass legume pastures. Completing these jobs now lets farmers resume next spring with a disk, continuing pasture improvement as milk prices cycle with seasons.
In mid July 1946 farmers were paid 63 cents from each dollar spent on food products. The remaining 47 cents went to wholesalers retailers transportation firms and others involved in the marketing chain.
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