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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
8
Illyria items recount visits and guests across the region including LeRoy Burrow in Janesville Wisconsin for summer work. Numerous families from Hawkeye Elgin Forest and Fairbury are noted as guests or helpers at various homes and social events.
Community notes show visits and gatherings across households in Decorah, Elkader, and surrounding areas. Rev J J Snyder called. Lea Humphry and family dined with Myrtle Foxwell. Guernsey Smith joined his mother at the hospital in Iowa City. Noel and Paul visited aunt Ida Meyer. Gin Cheery Valley and Will Frieden with family guests at Paul Bossard home. Walter Medberry and Ida Frieden joined Arthur Groth for meals near Decorah and Kenneth Medberry’s call at the Decorah hospital. Clarence Doty returned from Michigan and Chicago. John Rothlisberger visited West Union relatives with Walter Roethlisberger.
Lawrence Sehneider of West Bend spent Monday and Tuesday in several homes including Jake Frank and L Christen. Many locals visited relatives, attended weddings and showers, and shared meals. Eleanor Butikofer recuperates after appendicitis. multiple families hosted guests in West Bend, Benson, Elgin, and surrounding areas.
Brainard Items notes Mrs. Sullivan hosted at the Ine Peters home Sunday. Marie Erhardt stayed with the Marshall Helms family Sunday. Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Nutting attended a WCTU meeting at Mrs. Nehring’s home in West Union. Nutting visited her ill brother George Schroyer. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Boyer visited Carl Appelman’s home Sunday. Reuben Miller and daughters returned home near West Union after a month with Vern Boyer.
Mr and Mrs Ray Gilbert of Marshalltown announce the birth of a son on March 14 named Robert Doyle. Brainard LCA meets at the church Thursday with a picnic lunch to follow. Patterson visited Frank Lyon's home Sunday afternoon while families move in the area and nearby residents relocate to new farms and parsonage. Brainard Church Notes report Sunday school at 10 am and services by Rev Show of Manchester postponed due to bad roads, now set for Tuesday.
Grand Meadow residents share visits across families including Reierson Martin Lyngaas Olson and related households. Local gatherings feature callers at St Olaf and Center schoolhouse directors meeting with new director Martin. Mrs Burnas and Erickson households assist with chores while Dorothy and neighbors report illness and recoveries. Ed Johnson visits Mrs Landsgard home and residents travel to Clermont and Stanley areas.
The piece lists cynical rules for avoiding club involvement at Albia Commercial Club as it wraps up its annual drive. It advises staying away, arriving late, criticizing officers, avoiding offices, skipping meetings, withholding dues, steering clear of recruitment, and feigning disinterest when banquets occur or profits vanish. It mocks passive, self serving behavior harming the organization.
A Monroe County News column urges residents to scrutinize abuses but urges tolerance for the Commercial Club in Albia. It promotes resigning when opposing actions occur and warns against disloyalty, while acknowledging past mistakes yet stressing the town needs the organization.
The Progressive Home Study Club of Illyria townships held its March meeting at Mrs. Leo Rothlisberger’s home with thirty attendees. It was an all day family gathering with a pot luck dinner. afternoon sessions included farm bureau activities and games for men while women led sessions on household hints furniture arrangement and topics like Life in Canada and What to Do for Tired Children. County agent Paul McElroy attended the meeting and the group scheduled the next gathering for April 12 with Mrs. Mabel Dennler identified as host.
The Romans made a pork and pine nut sausage seasoned with pepper bay leaves and cumin. It linked to Lupercalian feasts and was later banned by a Christian emperor as heathen but the ban lifted when bootleggers kept sausage selling despite the prohibition.
English historian John Stow, impoverished after funding A Survey of London, was granted a license to beg by King James I in 1604. Collier's Weekly notes Stow's wartime era support for his work on Elizabethan customs and conditions.
The main Jodo sect temple Chion-in in Japan dates from 1630 with a nearby belfry housing a 1633 bell. This bell stands 12 feet tall, 9 feet in diameter, and weighs 74 tons, being the second largest bell in the country.
Kensal Green in London houses many notable graves including Thackeray Leigh Hunt Sidney Smith Kemble and Sir Charles Eastlake, marking its status as a famed burial site for prominent individuals.
Albert Wangler advertised rewards for lost jewelry after a mysterious call from a woman claiming to have found his watch chain and Elks charm. The wife later uncovered the items in the coal room near the furnace and collected the reward, exposing the fraud.
The notice claims no restrictions on garden production but notes its back impact justifies a limited crop. It promotes Echo and Enterprise subscriptions offering a free World Atlas or Webster Dictionary with three year plans and reduced prices for two or one year options. Invest offer before time ends.
In cities above 100000 population one passenger cart served six residents. Figures show 630, 107 cars in New York, 407,517 in Chicago, and 405,743 in Los Angeles reflecting rapid urban vehicle expansion.
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