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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
6
Elgin residents and guests share meals at local homes including Weibel Hitch and Crider Roberta families. Visitors from Cedar Rapids Fayette Chicago Detroit Mackinaw and Monona join siblings and relatives for weekends and funerals. A youth injures wrist. a California trip and a fifth birthday party are noted.
St Pauls M E Church announces worship at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11 o’clock with J R Snyder as minister and R C Jorgenson as pianist. Illyria Church lists J J Snyder as minister with Grace Foxwell as pianist. Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 15 a m.
Lutheran Church notices detail Norway and Norse services at 9 15 a.m. and 11 a.m. English service, with St. Olaf at 7 30 p.m. Luther League invites all to attend. Pastor J Strandjord signs the notice.
Pastor Paul F. Zoschke leads Sunday morning worship at 10 and Sunday school at 11. Evening service is at 7 45 with B P U at 8 36. Midweek prayer is Wednesday April 28 at 8 p.m. Choir rehearsal follows at 9 p.m with Lillian Jacobs organist.
A Rhode Island clambake is a traditional rite dating to Roger Williams era. The open fire heats cobble stones then rockweed forms a foundation for layers of clams potatoes corn blue fish sausages wrapped in cheesecloth, all steamed under a tarpaulin to seal in flavor.
MIT color laboratory researchers conclude that perfect white is an unattainable standard. Laymen equate whiteness with color, but even the brightest whites differ from perfect white by varying greyness. Dr. David L. MacAdams notes chalk and fresh snow are closest to true whiteness, measurable by Brinyness with instruments.
A large audience heard Rev. Martin L. Leuschner address the Sunday morning congregation at the Elgin Baptist church. The day marked the second anniversary of Rev. Zoschke’s pastorate with deacon John F. Miller speaking for the church and a bouquet given to the pastors by the Women’s Missionary Society.
Cedar Rapids Gazette notes feature Karolin Falk in a snapshot contest. August Winkleman of Guthrie Center visits. families from Low Grover and Rockford attend. A 101 year old Cynthiana man follows opening games by radio. UIL coaches Harlin Muller and Orville Findring named for Riverton and Damont. Mahala Battles, Polk County’s oldest resident at 113, dies in Clarinda. Mrs. Wenger visits J H Wilson home. Elma Pollock spends weekend with Highland family. Mr. and Mrs. H W Kruse and Ole Olson visit the ill O J Olson. Olson returns to Detroit.
The American Physical Society notes a sixth sense where a person detects another in a dark room. Drs J D Vardy and T W Oppel claim human skin is more sensitive than mercury thermometers, detecting temperature differences as small as five ten thousandths of a degree C, potentially explaining the sixth sense per Popular Mechanics.
The Fifth engineers from Virginia demonstrated an emergency pontoon bridge at Eagle Lake Michigan. It measured 104 feet long and supported thirteen ton military trucks. The feat, likened to a Rhine crossing in 1919, shows pontoon design now supports heavy truck trains.
A 1500 year old water clock in Canton, China remains functional. The device uses four buckets on stepped supports with a float rod that rises as water flows, filling the top bucket every 12 hours and triggering a drip sequence that marks time, with the rod dyeing an 80-unit scale.
Excavation at the site of the ancient Roman Senate House reveals exterior walls and four towers uncovered during church and house razing. Inscriptions from Cicero era and urns used for senator votes are among the finds.
A woman scolds a tailor for poor work and admits she has sewn the same button on her husband’s coat three times, expressing frustration with the tailoring.
A brief dialogue scene where a gamekeeper questions a small boy about a warning sign at a woods entrance. The boy explains he read only the word Private and chose to be polite, avoiding further reading.
A Philadelphia Inquirer brief recalls a grocer scolding a boy near an apple barrel who denies stealing. The exchange highlights humor and rural street wisdom in a small moment.
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