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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
8
Cheery Valley residents traveled to La Grange Missouri this weekend for the funeral of Mrs Edward Grimm. Local families and friends expressed sympathy as community ties were noted. A party hosted by Alma and Gladya Hanson honored Mr and Mrs Theodore Hanson with guests and games. Nursing and visiting patterns were mentioned, reflecting a close knit area.
Local notes list visits and gatherings as West Union area families and friends frequent relatives and neighbors. Mentions include Ernest Meyer, Martha Chapman, Grace Peters of Elgin, Elgin residents, and several families from Cedar Rapids and Volga, with transit to hospitals, funerals, and weekend stays noted.
Rain or snowed roads hindered travel as neighbors gathered at numerous homes over the weekend. Walter Medberry helped patrol roads and several families hosted Sunday. George Howard and family plan to move to a Brainard area farm, with neighboring families also relocating. A farm bureau play is slated for February 13 as part of the upcoming program.
Harold and Melbert Meyer joined Walter Dennler for Sunday supper as did Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Howard and family on Saturday in the Louis Dennler home. Clara Holzer and Paul Voshell wed Sunday January 26 with congratulations from the community. June Kerr and Fern Kerr visited Silas Wilson Friday. Clara Brabham and Anna Mae Brabham of Elkader dined with Roy Leuchtenmacher Thursday. Anna Mae and William Brabham and Thomas Powell were guests Sunday. Catherine Powell has pneumonia but is improving. Edwin Bauman and wife dined with Rosa Mueblethaler in Elgin Sunday. Forest Shaffer has mumps, cared for by his mother Mrs. J. M. Shaffer over the weekend. Bert Allen attended Clara Holzer’s wedding in Henry Holzer’s home Sunday.
Brainard residents Mr and Mrs Edward Frisbie and Robert Bowers visited Sunday at Herman Boyer’s home. Grace Petars underwent appendicitis surgery at West Union hospital last Friday and was recovering well. Agralia Nutting dined with Rev G A Thomas last Wednesday. Mrs Joe Petera and children visited Chas Peters in Elgin last Thursday. Frank Barnhouse spent several days with the Merman Boyer family. Beatrice and Clara Boyer visited Sidney Nutting Tuesday night. Mr and Mrs Raymond Mays and Willis Lyon attended supper at the Wm Nutting home Sunday. Mrs Roy Burnside stayed with Jim Bartlett Sunday. Mrs Chas Peters and Mrs Joe’s unnamed relation noted in incomplete line.
Peters spent last Friday in West Union. Mrs. Wm Nutting and son Jimmie spent several days last week in the Frank Lyon home. Brainard Church Notes list Sunday school at 10 a m and services at 11 a m morning and 7 30 p m evening.
Gunder News reports Elmer Bear visiting Clermont and Amelia Wold staying with her aunt. Mrs Gilbert Halverson and Mrs Joe Lind recoveries noted. Pupils from Clermont and Postville were snowbound at home. Edwin Loftsgard and Louis Kjosa visited Monona. Chas Bergan returned from Dubuque with an arm reset. Halvorson ill, Mary Ostlie assisted, John Hellum visited. Kenneth Kjosa helps at T Herbrandson home.
Fayette county 4 H club girls enter a second year focusing on home efficiency. Leaders will conduct a series of training schools on storage, equipment, and general efficiency indoors and outdoors. The first session is Friday Feb 7 at the Legion hall with club leaders assistants and county committees attending.
Fayette county farmers gathered at the Farm Bureau office in Fayette on Tuesday January 28 for an all day meeting led by Carl Malone of the northeast Iowa association. Each attendee brought livestock and grain inventories plus year to date sales to start farm records. Malone stressed records reveal leaks and strengths, show profit or loss, compare results, and supply data for tax assessor and crop reports.
The innominate bone forms the hip socket for the femur head and consists of the ilium ischium and pubic bone. There are two innominate bones in the skeleton with each produced by the fusion of these three parts.
Indigo was introduced into Louisiana as early as 1718 and became a export article within ten years, marking a notable agricultural and commercial development for the colony.
Alfred Turner Fayette LeRoy Alcorn West Union Helen Humphrey Arlington and Edna Brause West Union attended a district conference for Junior Farm Bureau representatives at New Hampshire on Monday January 27. Plans for the coming year were discussed. The proposal for a week long short course faced opposition as the group doubted its reach versus weekly meetings.
The article explains early Atlantic cable design with seven copper wires in gutta percha, hemp cover, oil pitch beeswax, and an outer shield of 18 strands of seven iron wires. It notes improvements in modern cables with twisted copper transmitters, rubber and jute wrapping, and galvanized outer protection.
There are more than 420 known carnivorous plants, yet none actually feed on human flesh.
A fragment notes an iron bed used in the castle of Nerie in 168, contrasting with drow beds not common until the eighteenth century. The brief reference hints at early iron bed use in European furniture history.
A partially readable OCR fragment describes a local event with unclear names and places. The text mentions Dr. Wy HA. Osgued and references a photograph activity plus a symbolic dowry context, but specifics remain obscured.
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