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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1937
Page
5
The room reports detail music and art classes for various grades, a new study table to ease crowding, and painted color desks. A poetry and story club forms for grades three and four, plus a newspaper and magazine project linked to the library. Doris Hanson is absent this week as Caddie Woodlawn is read.
A confused elderly woman asks where the Second Baptist church is and a patrolman replies he does not know where the First Baptist church stands, in a brief Bee-Hive style exchange.
The American Legion unanimously elected Daniel J. Doherty of Woburn Massachusetts as national commander on the first ballot at the 1937 convention. Raymond J. Kelly of Detroit, runner up, urged a unanimous vote with Doherty as the chosen leader.
Agricultural advisory items cover winterizing spray equipment, transplanting peonies for next year, and thinning perennials. Messages warn on grazing too late in fall, pasture recovery after stock removal, and protecting orchards and livestock from pests and diseases. Also mentions a pinkeye vaccination approach and factors slowing market poultry movement.
A truck and trailer carrying a $1,300 cargo of beer rolled off a 15 foot grade near Sheldon on highway 33. The driver and his asleep relief escaped injury as the rig burned, tearing out guard rail cables and breaking several posts along the road shoulder. News Photo Service Exclusive to the Echo in Fayette County.
The passage discusses replenishing flocks with spring pullets, extended feeding due to abundant grain, and advises separating penned cockerels or keeping them on a separate range. It offers a fattening mash recipe of 64 parts ground yellow corn, 30 parts wheat middlings or ground oats, 5 parts dried milk, and 1 part salt.
John W. Tilton of Rochelle Illinois, a youthful editor, is shown at his typewriter after release from a six month term for probation violation tied to a Dyer Act conviction. President Roosevelt granted executive clemency and remitted a $2000 fine.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed large western crowds from the rear platform of his special train in Casper Wyoming after arriving with Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming greeting him in Cheyenne. O’Mahoney said greetings were brief and time limited as coverage notes.
Mrs Lisyd Swartley and Erma Grether of Towa City visited their parents Mr and Mrs Hans Grether. Mr Swartley returned from Fayette after visiting his parents and accompanied them back to Iowa City. Mr and Mrs Knudt Arno and daughter of Osage stayed with Mia Arno's parents Mr and Mrs Carl Blockhus and other relatives from Friday to Sunday. They also stopped at Ole M Blockhus home near Ossian on their way home.
A young couple on a stroll spots an overhead aircraft and identifies it as a mail plane, sparking a brief exchange about recognition from a distance as autumn weather looms.
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