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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
2
Arlington gatherings honor visitors and relatives from Portland Tacoma and Virginia. Local residents attend weddings funerals and family reunions while Charley Oldfather obituary recalls a life of farming neighborly service and a Presbyterian service in Taylorsville cemetery.
Three of nine United States Naval Reserve scout bomber airplanes departed Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn last week for Buffalo New York where Curtiss-Wright will camouflage them before sending them overseas. Each two piece bomber carries pilot and observer and uses a 1900 bhp cycle engine, valued at about 5000. The move aims to camouflage and equip the planes for overseas service.
Report from Columbia University scientists details a new natural substance found on Earth, U-238, isolated in pure form during pioneer physics experiments. The device, using a chielatron recording machine, is claimed to yield power vastly greater than coal by weight, potentially 5,000,000 times.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published in 1765, marks the first great mystery story and the forerunner of modern mystery fiction. Its influence extended to early American writers including Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Little defeated Gene Sten by three strokes to win the Finn Open golf crown at Canterbury Country Club. He carded a 70, two under par, in a tournament protracted by rain and delays. Dorothy Hurd covered the event for the Neto Open triumph feature, while a baked plane prototype and cattle show items also appear in the issue with photos from Van Nuys and Kansas.
Mr and Mrs C W Stewart of Los Angeles with his sister Mrs Lillian Weed of Shell Rock spend the day with Mrs Stewart's cousin Mrs Maude Peters In Iowa City Erma Grether receives a brief visit from Mrs Leo Grether and son They plan visits between Elgin and Orange City through July Jd J Potter leaves for Chicago Mrs Alma Pugsley and daughter Dorothy return to Bradgate after days with Frank Gehring and relatives Mr and Mrs C B Schori visit Fayette Ben Schori stays with Karl Fox family Betty Strauch returns from Traer with Betty Snyder who visits Selma Light in West Union still this week.
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