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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1936
Page
8
Oak Grove News reports the Social Hour Club gathering December 16 at Mrs Beryl Boleyn’s home for their Christmas party. Numerous local families shared Christmas meals and visits across several homes, with friends and relatives listed as guests and hosts throughout the surrounding area.
Ilyria items from Fayette recounts dense with Christmas visits. Numerous Foxwell and Rothlisberger relatives host and dine, with guests from West Union Tur key River Oak Grove and Minneapolis joining in. Local youths enjoy holidays while Elgin and rural schools close for semidetached breaks.
The article lists Christmas day visits among residents including Jim Muncie and the Medberry and Holzer families. Oak Grove School closed for a week of vacation after a Wednesday program enjoyed by visitors. Various locals from Volga area guests dined or visited different homes through Christmas week.
A brief item notes guests joining Mr and Mrs Roy Kimball this Saturday at their home east of Elgin.
Ida Meyer and Harold and Earl among dinner guests at Kenneth Mark. Numerous neighbors attended showers and visited from Tuesday to Sunday in various homes including Joe Frieden, John Dennler, and Jake Butikofer. Christmas Day dinners and programs marked by family and local friends from Decorah to Clermont.
Mc Gregor judge W. L. Eichendorf, who presided at the Albert Deke Cornwell murder trial last month, has handled seven Clayton county murder cases in 16 years. He acted as prosecutor in two, and as judge in five, including the Cornwell case.
An ancient gateway dating to about 1344 B C and linked to Thothmes III was discovered at Armant Egypt. The monument features a procession of figures dancing in exact ballroom movements, carved into the stone.
Mount Desert, described as the largest rock built island on the Atlantic coast, boasts a romantic history. Samuel de Champlain discovered it in 1604 while Sieur de Monts, under royal commission, sought French dominion in America. It later hosted America’s first French missionary colony. Louis XIV granted the island as a feudal fief to Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac, Detroit founder and Louisiana governor.
A Collier's Weekly note surveys odd laws abroad. In Japan a person must bet exactly 20 yen or nothing at all on a race, in France a man may not become a fisherman or merchant seaman without navy service, and in Greece police may not enter a private house from sunset to sunrise even to arrest.
Uncle Eben cautions that politeness cannot appear abruptly for all. He notes that some men rushing to be polite resemble a swallow-tail coat hastily worn over broad overalls.
The term U boat comes from the German Unterseeboot meaning undersea boat. The abbreviation was widely used to designate Germany's submarines in total war.
A spring or summer bee lives about six weeks and labors to death producing roughly a teaspoon of honey. The Roman rostra in the Forum were decorated with captured galley prows, rostrum meaning beak in Latin.
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