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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
8
A vintage guide advises Iowa mothers on making child snow suits from old clothing or new fabric. It stresses light warm materials, two piece or one piece designs, bright color accents for visibility, ample size for movement, soft collars, and easy fastenings with secure buttons and long front openings.
Mrs. R J Salting nuts in the oven is the recommended method this year. Peel peanuts and blanch almonds, other nuts need no blanching. Melt fat in a pan, coat nuts, bake at 300 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes, stir, then salt while warm.
Mrs Helen Sage advises adding water to air using wide shallow pans on stoves radiators and fireplaces to restore humidity in dry homes causing shocks fatigue headaches and dusty air. Excess dryness can rot wood joints and threaten furniture while humid air improves comfort and health. Goose hunters report near miss as bombs and gunfire disrupt a river outing.
A Waverly merchant sold 1,600 shotgun shells with a 10 shell limit. all sold in an hour. Cedar Rapids papers report J. D. Siegle’s shotgun shells funded $30,000 in war bonds with a shell for each $500 of bonds. Harold Fulton’s dog survives porcupine attack after quills pulled. The sheriff still seeks the hunter’s identity.
County Extension Director Max O. Naylor urges cholera vaccination as essential pig insurance for Pocahontas county farmers. With rising hog numbers and cross‑farm labor and equipment sharing, vaccination at eight weeks old provides life time immunity and helps distinguish cholera from swine erysipelas for prompt action.
Stouder warns vaccinators to ensure correct disease targeting avoid erysipelas when cholera vaccines are used. Properly stored virile serum plus accurate pig weight estimates are essential to avoid wasted time and failed immunity. Skimping on dosage endangers herd health.
Iowa state health department reports pneumonia deaths held at 549 for the first half of 1943, near the 553 in the same period 1942, marking a pause in a six year decline. Earlier years show sharp drops from 2100 deaths in 1935 to 962 in 1942, with virus pneumonia rising last year and less affected by sulfa drugs.
The department warns pneumonia deaths may rise in fall and winter and stresses early serum and sulfa treatment, noting serums target over 30 pneumonia types and that treatment should begin before sulfas. Early diagnosis is the key to successful outcomes.
At the 1943 annual meeting in Plover Iowa the Farmers Grain and Coal Company reduced the board of directors from seven to five. Article IV now states the board is five directors elected annually at the June meeting who serve one year or until successors are elected. Dated November 9 1943.
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