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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1928
Page
4
Fayette residents visit nearby. families gather for church events and a county fair style homecoming. Rain curtailed attendance, but the community photos and visits reflect a busy week with travels to McGregor West Union and Elgin, several relatives hosting gatherings, and a play moved to a tent due to weather.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Meyer. August 2. Maynard visitors included Will Meyer and children Betty and Merle at Martin Hanson and Fred Schlupp homes. Several local families hosted and visited relatives, including Christen, Dennler, and Larsen families at various homes over the weekend.
A string of social visits moves and calls across Oak Grove and surrounding towns. Mrs Esley Monnahan moves from J A Boleyn house to Clermont. Several families and individuals visit and host in homes from Neillsville to Arlington, with picnics, reunions, and church events mentioned.
Mrs Sven Blockhus and Shirley arrival from Blooming Prairie Minn for a two week visit with her mother Mrs G Nesa and relatives. Henry Vellersven visited Lou Amundgen near Clermont. Fred Muehlethaler and sister Viieda Freiburghaus called on Mrs B Nelson. Etta Opperud of Cedar Rapids spent weekend with parents Dorf and Mrs Opperud. father accompanied her home. C J Anderson family dinner at K B Mark home. Landsgard family picnic at McGregor Heights. Guests at Mrs B Nelson Sunday included Hoag Wald Stearns Olaf John Heflum Landsgård. P Hanson visiting sister N Nelson returned to Decorah. Nels Olson and family visited T T Loftsgård. Irene Opperad left for Fayette. Loftsgård Bros and Olson and Loftsgård started threshing. grain yield good. Gladys Amundson visiting sister Julius Johnson. Munger of Eikader and Ray Jacobia visited Mrs B Nelson. Grandma Munger of Eikader visiting Ray Jacobia.
The Illyria church notes recount a rain soaked community day last Friday with about two hundred attendees on grounds and a hundred thirty at the evening flag ceremony. The Third Homecoming events moved to the tent due to rain, with reminiscences by settlers and a future outlook, plus readings. The Epworth League play The Road to the City drew a large crowd Monday night. A new Community Day and Homecoming is planned for early August 1929, with services scheduled for Sunday August 12. The pastor invites attendance at The Friendly Church. Also included are brief items on life expectancy rising from 21 to 49 years attributed to health education, and notes on the long-known history of sugar from ancient Chinese and Indian sources.
Mrs Webb Mays called at the D H Craft home Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors and relatives visited in the vicinity with several trips to Volga City and Oelwein. Families including Reed, Peters, Rowland, Becker, Howard and Boyer shared Sunday visits and Monday travels. Ladies Aid met Thursday afternoon. Beverly Hovey spent Sunday in Waterloo and Gale Hovey returned from Des Moines.
A collection of quotes on education choice and virtue. It contrasts Johnson Ruskin views on loving industry purity and justice with the enduring right of personal choice. The excerpt touches on silk history and old weaving, and ends with a tip about renewing whisk brooms by soaking in soapy water.
The fragment notes Afghan cuisine resembling certain fare with meat, potato and rice served with spices. It mentions Gouverneur Morris shaping the Constitution’s literary form and a committee including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Johnson and Rufus King advising on revision and arrangement.
The item describes a so called floating opal from a Smithonian institution, noting a manufactured fonting opal filled with fluid to imitate opal rendering. It also mentions Army Air Corps observations on parachute descents, stating that a man descends from an aircraft and opens the parachute within seconds, with a stable descent afterward.
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