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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1936
Page
6
Local notes list numerous guests and visits over Christmas and New Year. Florence Follen and Esther Krueger hosted, families shared dinners with Schori and Grether households, and many relatives from Fosston, Rochester, Des Moines, and Waterloo joined in holiday gatherings. Teaching duties and travel updates surprise no one as townsfolk exchange greetings and meals.
Paul F. Zoschke, pastor, Lillian Jacobs, organist, invite worship and communion at 10, Sunday school at 11, and services at 2. Week of Prayer observances each evening at 8. Woman’s Missionary Society meets Wednesday at 2 p.m.
J. J. Snyder will lead church services with Grace Foxwell as pianist. Sunday school starts at 10 15 a m and church worship at 11 15 a m.
Community notes list church service and Sunday school times along with numerous visits and dinners. Local residents including the Krueger, Boyle, Keiser, Berg, Walthers, and Sires families share holiday visits, travels to Iowa City for dental work, and guests from Elkader and Decorah. A correction clarifies a misattributed visitor.
A collage of maxims on anger speech and judgment alongside notes on new US submarines and social pages. The feature covers Vinson bill vessel naming with six 1300 ton subs, then shifts to social events in Muscatine including visits, club hosts, high scores in games, and birthday gatherings with multiple local names.
Not all Indian princes are fabulously rich as incomes and territories vary greatly. There are 602 rulers ranging from the Nizam of Hyderabad, governing a state as large as Minnesota with an annual income of 25 million dollars, to a village ruler in the Simla Hills earning only 500 dollars annually.
A 12 year old was sent to prison for arson in a case cited by Freling Foster in Collier s Weekly. The piece discusses whether states should send youths under fifteen to penitentiaries despite a long standing principle of educational and corrective treatment for young offenders.
Collier's Weekly asserts the next war will be dominated by poisonous gases and incendiaries. It notes over a thousand varieties including suffocants, irritants, tear gases, nerve agents, blood poisons, and blistering agents. Thermite is highlighted as exceptionally violent when exposed to water or chemicals.
The University of California Lick Observatory at Mount Jagnaion reports progress including four of five moons of Jupiter, about 4,700 double stars, and 29 comets observed. The report credits California pioneer Liek, associated with the observatory, and notes its ongoing contributions to astronomical science.
A terse exchange reveals concern over debt and repayment expectations. The speaker asserts preferring steady payments to avoid future burdens, while the other agrees that consistent payments prevent later worries about paying up.
Supt and Mrs D R Roberts and children spent Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Riche in Stanley and West Union. They returned to Elgin Thursday. Clarence Houg and sons Ronald Ralph and Paul with Olaf Houg also visited. Ed Klingman hosted Christmas with Mr and Mrs Louis Klingman as guests. The Houg boys stayed longer with their grandparents.
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