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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
3
Published weekly with Mrs. H B Greenley as local editor. Notes include membership in the Jews Press Association and the National Editorial Association. Post office entry lists Clermont Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Local news notes sociable visits among residents of West Union Dover Mills and surrounding areas. A school program and play are announced for Paulson school Friday evening December 15 with Emma Quann as teacher. Clermont Independent basketball team plans multiple games including a home match against Luana on December 21 at the town arena. Community members host relatives and attend church and pastoral conference events in Decorah and nearby towns.
A large group including W. T. Wettleson and family, Robert Wettleson and family, Christine Rypestor and daughter Corinne, Martin Nelson, Elsie Lindgren, Arthur Solberg, and Fred Pfister with families joined rural teachers Lovella Dibble Myrtle Amundson Ruth Peterson at a Fay ette county study center led by L. G. Meyer. Lectures on physical training and geography spurred discussion. American Legion Sheehan Post 376 supported Boy Scout funding and organized Christmas outreach. A Saturday opera house program featured band and chorus performances, a ranch reader, haymakers square dance, and vocal numbers. A social hour followed with lunch. A Sunday gathering honored Orvin Glesne of Elkader, who plans to move to Denver to finish medical studies, with a pot-luck dinner among extended relatives.
The library announces nineteen new books arriving this Saturday. Readers may enjoy Bess Streeter Aldrich Miss Bishop and Silver Fountain, Pat of Silver Bush, Hash Knife Outfit, Murder by the Day, and Pollyanna. Also listed are Magnificent Obsession and Forgive Us Our Trespasses, plus works by Turpin Carroll Ostenso and others. Four football series volumes are on order for future arrival.
The province of Quebec has the longest riverside motor drive in the world, stretching a thousand miles along the St. Lawrence. It connects with the 53 mile Perron highway that circles the Gaspe peninsula, a route that left Gaspe nearly isolated until the Perron road was completed in 1929.
A newly invented electrically operated depth sounding apparatus travels to England for deep-water fishermen. The device indicates sea bottom character and warns of obstructions, aiding navigation and safety at great depths.
A reflective note observes that friendships develop without deliberate selection. It argues that bonds form through shared moments and mutual understanding rather than planned choices, emphasizing organic growth and tending trust over time.
In a talking forest tale from 1933, Reddy Fox relocates Billy Mink by visiting Billy's known haunts rather than his exact home. He flatters Billy to trade a small bit of information about Nutty Muskrat’s winter stores, while Billy probes for intent before revealing his own guarded knowledge.
The West Clermont Las gheran church choir presents The Christmas Adoration on Sunday December 17 at 7 30 p m at West Clermont Lutheran Church featuring soloists Mrs Martin Nelson Elsie Lindgren Mr and Mrs Nelson John Larson Myrtle Bilden Clarence Johnson and others with men and women's choruses and congregational singing under Rev G Gunsten with Agnes Bilden and Louise Amundson as accompanists and director
Texarkana is described as two cities forming one community on the border between Texas and Arkansas. The Arkansas side serves as the Miller County county seat, while the Texas side lies in Bowie County.
Fragmentary OCR describes wind driven sand grinding window glass to dust and rock into ground glassy material. It notes that strong Rand blasta has been used to clean dingy stone and brick, illustrating the sand’s cutting power.
Secretary Henry Wallace urges extension workers to explain how controlled crop production can reduce surplus toil and give farm families more money and time. He emphasizes opportunity for both farm women and men to pursue varied, meaningful activities beyond money and fame.
The article explains opening the clubface for deep bunker shots. It advises placing the ball near the left foot, turning the clubhead right, and swinging across the ball without striking it. The technique relies on the sand behind the ball to explode it upward.
The Challenger survey ship begins mapping the dangerous Labrador coasts with a plan that may take about fifty years to complete the extensive survey.
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