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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
7
Community gossip records visits and illnesses across Oelwein West Union Clermont and surrounding towns. Names include Nellie Sheehan Louise Miller George Dibble and Mary Graver among many residents with travels sickness and family gatherings noted.
A fragmented note recalls Emperor Constantine in the fourth century seeing a cross in a vision. He ordered a banner bearing the cross and issued a sign for his troops, shaping early Christian symbolism and military campaigns.
The piece chronicles an ambitious man who seeks the world’s wonders and spends four years in a submarine, revealing the saddest news of the month as compiled in Open Bon Mnenzine.
Valuable sugar MUK sugar is described as milk sugar that does not ferment. It is sold as a fine white powder similar to confectioners sugar, used in modifying milk for babies, in preparation of droga, and in various other applications.
Mrs N Nelson marked her seventy seventh birthday with a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Martin Nelson. Due to illness she resided with son Martin in Clermont this winter while remaining active in hand work. Twenty one relatives attended from Clermont Osian Castalia Postville and nearby areas including Nina Simerson Mons Hanson Henry Larson Harry Louia Amundson Merle Melvin Anderson Nels Gilbert and Elsie Lindgren.
In a Friday game Clermont defeated Hawkeye 25 to 22 after overtime. Gunsten led Clermont with 18 points while Hawkeye trails 21 all at regulation end. Clermont also won the girls game 14 to 12 in a tight contest on the local floor.
The High School Declamatory contest occurs Friday evening February 16 under Miss Phelps, drawing school and community interest. The eighth grade declamatory contest, the Clermont schools’ second such program, is directed by Miss Mabel Lawler and praised for its effort.
The S. and 5 Club met last Saturday afternoon at Mrs. R. V. Brandt’s home. The program included Roll Call, Patriotic Quotations, a review of the July Mentor, a book review of The Good Women by Louis Bromfield, and guest Frank Taylor attended with Mrs. L. D. Hungerford.
The passage proposes the habit of birds tucking heads under wings to sleep originated to shield eyes from freezing. It notes not all birds adopt this, and ends with exhortations to be honest police studious industrious cheerful, reflecting a Globe quotation.
Mrs. R. F. Lear visited her sister Mrs. J. C. Matthews and father W. H. Scott with Scott showing some improvement. The Brause, Johnson, and Wagner families joined Ed Johnson and Melvin Halverson at various gatherings. Florence Kloster plans to return to Chicago, while many locals hosted dinners with Nesvick and Hanson families. Bertha Kerkestue returned to Clermont earlier, and Amelia Nelson and Elizabeth Rounds accompanied their relatives home.
The Farmers' Savings Bank of Clermont held its annual meeting at the opera house last Tuesday. The old board of directors was re-elected unanimously and a director's meeting followed naming J F Miller as president H F Shipton and E Lyngaas as vice-presidents J A Erickson cashier W A Kneeland assistant cashier and H B Greenley teller. The bank reported excellent condition favorable business and earnings higher than the previous year with dividends paid to stockholders ogni year since organization.
Lutheran notes say West Clermont Church hosts morning English services at 11 o clock with evening Luther League program at 730. Priscilla Working Band meets Wednesday February 13 with Mrs. Andrew Nordhus as hostess. Gunsten, Pastor.
West Clermont Lutheran church will hold the next Luther League meeting February 10 at 7 30. Program items include Society Song Prayer Rev Gunston Secretary's Report Magdalen Olson Senior Choir Clarinet Solo Gladys Christianson Piano Solo Harriet Amundson Reading Gerhard Gunsten Vocal Solo Margaret Fox Vielin Solo Myrtle Bilden Solo Martin Nelson Remarks Rev Gunsten collection and closing.
A Washington Stor fragment notes that quiet discipline aids a man in responsible public use by fostering patience and self restraint, teaching when to remain silent and where to keep quiet. The piece frames silence as a virtue guiding conduct in public roles.
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