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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1933
Page
8
Poem reflects on autumn evenings and aging with softer lights and quieter days. It contrasts past joy with contented later life, noting spring’s fears of fall yet embracing autumn as a peaceful, vivid page. The piece conveys solace in aging and the calm of lengthy, mild nights.
Local social calendar lists aid supper at the church on Friday November 10. Families and neighbors share dinners, visits, and hospitality across Elkader Volga City Randalia and Arlington. Notables include Mr and Mrs L W McKellar and I F Shaffer, Mrs Lulu Rothlisberger, Floyd Patterson home guests, John Anderson’s eighth Atlantic crossing, and remodeling lunch at Highland schoolhouse.
A string of visits and social events filled last week from Elkader to West Union. Names include Fred Schneider, Gertrude Miller, Ruth Rothisberger, Lucretia Turnbull, Bella Larson and family, John Schmid and Maria, Takio Yearous, Mia, LeRoy Rothlisberger, Gottfred Frieden, Lena Hunsberger, and more. A rural teachers Study Center in West Union and a corn husking contest at Alton Medberry farm drew locals. Ed Medberry won and will enter the county contest Tuesday.
Oak Grove residents hosted and visited over the weekend with numerous guests at West Union and Clermont. Edith Holzer and Clara Holzer visited Spillville to see Bill Bros clocks while others shared meals and card parties. Several families were noted for Sunday gatherings and friendship events across nearby towns including Elkader and Elgin.
Social notes list visits and dinners among residents in West Union area churches homes and farms including Jane Thursday Mrs Ed Boyle Margie Barker with Mrs Thos How ard Sr in Elgin Bart Allen at Henry Holzer home Rev J C Peterson Scott Keiser Lauer hosted by Edwin Bauman and calls on Roy Leuchtenmacher Wm Kohls family Rob Wilson and others attended gatherings and corn husking at county farm Community members shared hospitality and quilting at Luchsinger and Bartlett households through the week.
Cheery Valley neighbors and relatives held a sequence of Sunday and Wednesday visits. Johnnie Friederich visited Otto Blockhus. Frank Christen and Jake Christen dined at the Dennler home in Oak Grove. Minnie Butikofer stayed with Ern Lerch. Hangen, Howard, and Rosa Schlupp dined with Jake Frieden near West Union. Frieden and Elkader area hosts welcomed Sam Lehman, Eliza Friederich, Anna Schupbach, and Jake Butikofer. Jake Butikofer hosted parental visits. Alice Hanson joined Tommy Howard for supper in Oak Grove. Jake Yearous family and Siarlotta Medberry visited Elgin. Arthur Friederich spent Sunday with G. Friederich. Alice Friederich stayed with Oscar Frieden from Tuesday to Friday. George Christen and family plus Jake Den. were noted in the final lines.
A set of fragmented sentences notes aging eligibilities loves and anatomy from an old text. It mentions presidential age requirements a busy life before marriage the stomach size the liver pancreas and intestines and a miswritten line about Cod Liver preventing babies from getting crickets Grace Abounding linked to Charles II context.
The narrative lists multiple social visits and a funeral in West Bend for Mrs. Dan Bannart. Attendees include Reuben Christen, Junior Hanson, Lola Hanson, Adolph Elvers of Garnaville, Bert Thomann, Ethel Mae, Clara Ten, Leo Lucy, Ernest Christen, Leo Aden Ellen and Edwin Hanson, with gatherings at the Adolph Hanson home and Hanson Bros. in Garnaville.
Ray Olson of Rockford is jailed in Fayette County by Sheriff H. J. Nehring on Waterloo led larceny charges. Fingerprints will be sent to the state investigation department to check past trouble. Separate note reports about about 160 teachers attending a West Union meeting led by Supt. L. G. Meyer.
George Cooley of Oelwein began serving a sentence Monday after pleading guilty to intoxication. Judge Jay Cook of the Superior Court of Oelwein imposed the sentence following Cooley's plea. Marriage licenses issued recently.
From the office of the Clerk of the District Court a series of name changes and transfers are recorded. The list includes Gilbert Knutson of Postville to Bertilla Javert of Postville and John H. Howard of Elgin to A Arleta Gehring of Elgin among several other pairs. Other transfers cover Edward L Meskel of West Union to Zita M Raftis of Wadena Harry Stillman of West Union to Bessie Fishman West Union Tre D Moora of Volga City to Blanche L Witham of Volga City Rudolph J Fritsch of Garner to A Frances Theobald of West Union Carl Glade of Oelwein to Bertha Paters of Oelwein and Carmen Swenson of Postville to Beryl J Miller of Clermont.
The Iowa legislature opens a special session on November 6 to tackle tax revision, liquor control, and emergency relief. If these three issues are resolved satisfactorily, a major objective will be achieved. Will Rogers criticizes politicians for talking about irrigation schemes to create more farms and shift the cost to taxpayers.
Dr Jean Newton argues jealousy is natural but harmful when it distorts judgment. Real love should keep possessive feelings in check to avoid turning hurt into bitterness, recognizing jealousy as an ugly, unbalancing emotion that inflates trivial fears into mountains of trouble.
Iowa legislature shows taxes on wheat and cotton totaling 430000 collected since August 1 the tax effective date. Rivermen lament the Winneshick area becoming a lake due to government dam plans, fearing loss of land and wildlife refuge, suggesting diving gear to locate the reserve.
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