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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
6
Elgin residents and visitors populate weekend activity with long list of callers and gatherings. Cedar Rapids guests, Postville trips, and Fayette dinners appear alongside moves of local families, anniversaries, and funeral attendance. Several neighbors plan trips to Florida and St Peters burg, while others host card clubs and bridge games.
J J Snyder minister leads Sunday school at 10 15 a m Grace Foxwell plans worship at 11 16 a m at Wy ria Church with services listed for the day.
St Pauls M E Church with minister J J Snyder and pianist William Weibel invites worship at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 a m. The Women’s Foreign Mission Society to meet at Mrs Jay White’s home in Clermont on Wednesday afternoon February 2.
Elgin Baptist Church under Pastor Paul F. Zoschke hosts Sunday worship at 10, Sunday school at 12, evening service at 7 45, B Y P U led by Eli Habeger at 8 35, Women's Missionary Society meets February 2 at 2 pm, prayer service at 8 pm, choir rehearsal at 9 pm.
Lutheran Church notes list January services for Norway at 10 and 11 o'clock with Norse and English services, Marion at 7 30 for Luther League. February 6 has St Olaf Chapel at 9 and Marion at 11 with English service. all welcome to each service signed Pastor J Strandford.
Lucinda Conner also known as Lucinda Howard died January 20 1988 at age 76 in Elgin at her daughter Mabel Grover family home. She married John Conner September 15 1879 at West Union and had seven surviving children. Funeral held at St Paul’s M E Church with Rev J J Snyder officiating and interment in Elgin Cemetery.
The children express sincere thanks for the kindness and assistance shown during our mother’s illness and death.
An obelisk memorials Captain Cook on Hawaii's Kealakekua Bay. In 1928 a bronze tablet was placed below the water surface to mark the exact spot where he fell after being slain nearby.
Elias Benson born in Warburg Sweden July 7 1843 died in Elgin January 22 1998 aged 89 years 6 months 15 days He immigrated 1870 and lived in Clayton County California Iowa before settling in Elgin He and his wife Elizabeth Myens had two daughters Mae Bopp Bartelmay Norma Bakeman Snabel and a grandson Ronald Bakeman Active in St Pauls Church and Pauls M E church he supported construction finances and civic work He was a longtime IOOF member and a respected local figure Burial in Elgin cemetery.
We express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends who helped care for our beloved father and grandfather during his illness and passing. Special thanks to Mrs Mae Bopp Mrs R C Bakeman and Mrs J H Bartelmay for their kindness and support.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that the Ohio crimes act of 1805 carried the death penalty for murder rape treason malicious maiming and malicious arson with loss or peril of life. The piece suggests contemporary readers viewed it harsh yet some believed it did not go far enough.
A Collier's Weekly writer asserts Western sheep herders never desert their hungry flocks in severe blizzards. Herders stay on the job despite freezing and starving conditions, not due to a prison sentence but because staying is the unwritten law of the range.
A report notes that Eve in Eden is shown with blonde hair in a Twelfth century Viborg Cathedral, Denmark, frescoes, attracting interest from researchers and visitors. The description highlights medieval artistic choices and regional stylistic traits.
The Study Club funded multiple new books now circulating at the local library. Titles include The Langworthy Family, Northwest Passage, The Beloved Stranger, Ho Ming Girl of New China, The Secret Garden, Mademoiselle Misfortune, The Flying Carpet, Bring Em Back Alive, Big Little Smaller and Least, Snipp Snapp Snurf and the Yellow Shoes, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Watch for brief reviews in later issues.
A Toronto scientist notes that a fish's age can be told by examining its ear. The halibut shows white on its left side and dark on the opposite side, with the sunward uppermost part dark brown and bearing two large eyes.
Europeans in Egypt noted the Egyptians zeal for funerary architecture and mortality symbols. They describe beings with animal heads, such as lions with crocodile heads and hawk-headed men, set in solemn temple aisles and carved on rock tombs, creating a powerful horror in stone. Some even bowed before ancient deities, drawn by the atmospheric displays.
A toastmaster presides at wedding breakfasts banquets and similar events. He calls on participants to respond to toasts and introduces after dinner speakers. He serves as a general master of ceremonies and often prepares brief introductory speeches with light quips.
Chinatown sage Hi Ho claims ancestor worship offers practical benefit by encouraging concealment of an ancestor's faults while prompting imitation of his virtues. This perspective presents traditional values as guiding social behavior.
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