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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
8
Oak Grove residents and relatives from Garnaville Milwaukee and Janesville shared weekend visits and dinners in numerous homes including the Dennlers Muncies and Brabhams. Multiple trips to Chicago Rockford and Decorah punctuated social rounds with extended family and departing farewells.
Social notes list numerous visits: Mrs Walter Rothlisberger and Coronel guests of the Roys near Volga. S H Foxwell and family with Mrs Charlotte Medberry in Fayette. Mrs Katie Richards in West Union. the Gehring and Schneider families at Hart-Parr factory in Charles City and stop at Little Brown church near Nashua. McKellar family attended Moore reunion in Manchester. Frieden relatives from La Grange Mo visit Elgin. Ida Sammy Frieden and Earl Schneider accompany home. Marion Lehman assists Rex Medberry. Mary Wander of Oelwein with Fred Schneider family.
S H Foxwell and family hosted supper with Lulu Rothlisberger family. Elma Pollock leaves for Guernsey to teach junior high math. Edward Wenger family attend Andrew Baldwin funeral in Waterloo. Various guests from Elgin to West Union share meals and attend church and reunions, with several families visiting and hosting duties noted.
Thirty six Hofer and Denner family members gathered at the Chas Odegard home near Gunder for a picnic dinner honoring Ida Reuf of Emmetsburg. Numerous relatives from nearby towns visited, stayed, or spent Sundays at various homes including Hanson, Dennler, Elvers, and Christen households with multiple short calls and Sunday visits across the region.
Lillian Christen spent last Saturday evening with Alma and Gladys Han son. Robert Hanson spent Saturday with Ellen Hanson.
Gunder News reports various residents visiting relatives and traveling between Oelwein Decorah Northwood Osage and Clermont. The group includes Gilbert Loftsgard Hiram Halverson Alfred Kirkeberg Mrs Betsey Christianson Mrs Roy Meyer and families. A confirmants photo was taken at El kader and Almer Amundson returned from travels to North and South Dakota and Canada noting forest fires observed locally.
Brainard items show residents visiting relatives in Chicago and Racine while others spend weekends with friends and family. Edith Crain Carmel and Grace Peters share time. Marian Patterson returns from Cedar Falls. several households host guests including the Boyers Nuttings and Pattersons in various homes across the week.
Brainard church announces Sunday schedule with morning worship at 11 o'clock after a 10 o'clock show and evening service at 7 forty-five in the evening. The note confirms regular weekly worship with three services.
The Marion 4 H club met Monday evening at Alma and Ruth Opsand home. Alma Opsand presided as roll call answered with A Health Rule. Demonstrations covered Orange Butter Cake and Variations in Sandwich Fillings while talks addressed How to Care for Teeth and Use of Iowa Cereals. Tea was served, group sang, and attendees included Marjorie Reierson Opal Larson Edna Loftsgard Lillian Loftsgard Bernice Reierson Josephine Loftsgard.
A compact notice urges readers to phone their news quickly to 20 early and sell it through an Echo Want Ad. The ad emphasizes immediate submission to expedite publication.
A Washington Star note outlines how hair color signified status in ancient Rome. Rich women tinted hair red, middle class yellow, and poor women used diets to tint black. Queen Elizabeth wore golden red hair, and 15th century French fashion celebrated red hair while widows in Papua tinted hair white as mourning.
The rings of Saturn encircle the planet rapidly and are thought to be a swarm of particles each with its own orbit. A spectroscope measured ring particle velocities, showing inner edge particles complete a revolution in about five hours and outer edge particles in about fourteen hours.
Ancient Phoenicians voyaged along the African coast trading goods. They often anchored to sow harvests and then reaped crops before continuing their maritime routes.
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