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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1936
Page
2
Wadena residents and guests from West Union Janesville Arlington Hedrick and Elkader spent weekends visiting family and attending events. Attendees included readers at football games and a Friday revival. A P T A meeting and a junior class play were announced for November 16 with several local students listed among participants. The month ended with notes on card club winnings and community visits.
Pass Christian Fass Christian was named for Nicholas Christian, a Norwegian navigator who discovered a channel between Cat Island and the mainland.
A fragment notes water subjected to extreme pressure in a laboratory forms a peculiar hot ice. The detail hints at a curious phase change under confinement, suggesting unusual thermal behavior without fuller context or results.
Oak Grove community members host and visit across several households including Eva Mays, R. E. Rutledge, Dennler, Chapman, Pritchard, Pollock, and Allen families. Card parties and dinners are noted with high scores in 500, with multiple households hosting guests from nearby towns such as Castalia, Brainard, West Union, and Omro. A closing line notes municipal jogs festival chants during annual rites in China.
Grave Creek Mound near Moundsville West Virginia ranks as the largest conical earthwork in the United States with a basal diameter of 320 feet and a height of 70 feet.
Ivan Moore of Wadena, a junior at Iowa State Teachers College, was formally initiated into Kappa Delta Pi on Tuesday evening November 10. He is among 20 Teachers College students achieving full membership. Moore, a 1930 Wadena High School graduate, majors in chemistry with minors in mathematics and biology and belongs to the Chemistry Seminar and Lambda Delta Lambda.
Elgin Iowa city government met in a special session to approve John Falk’s land swap proposal. The town would receive strips of land totaling 4 ft on the west side of Lots 21 and 8, Block 5 and 6 ft by 275 ft along Pleasant Street in exchange for a 4 ft cement sidewalk reroute and related improvements. Mayor Becker presided with roll call showing full attendance.
A glossary style note describes in Surinam Dutch Guiana how bush language names creatures and objects. The text cites the curri-curri and wisi-chal birds and the Jaro-Jaro arkle chain made from muka-mwuke tree sap.
Ethel Rennison has been ill and under a doctor's care for the past week. Mrs Eliza Habeger assists with housework at the Fred R Berg home during Mrs Berg's illness. Mr and Mrs John Lehman of La Porte City traveled to California last week to spend the winter. Mrs Mary Keiser and Mr and Mrs C L Huisinga dined with Rev and Mrs Paul Zoschke Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Cornelius Yearous of Hawkeye welcome a son born last week. JR W Esslinger resigns as superintendent of West Union schools to join a north Iowa book publishing house, effective Jan 1. Baptist Sunday school officers and teachers met at the F K Muehlethaler home for a business meeting with refreshments. Celia Lehman left for Cedar Rapids to visit Vern Lehman before heading to Gunnison Colorado to winter with sister Mrs Frank Knowles, planning to reach Gunnison before Thanksgiving. D R Roberts wrote to Mrs Roberts that he expected to be away.
Since 1875 the Mill Owners Mutual has saved money for policy holders with annual dividends of 20 percent or more and strong financial condition. It emphasizes better than average risks, regular inspections, and prudent management to provide full reserves and protection for properties of all sizes. For complete information are
The subject plans to return to work at school by Monday after a period away for medical reasons. He had a short ride recently and has only allowed minimal recreation. Mr. Roberts went to the Veterans' hospital about six weeks ago and has undergone three operations since. You'll be surprised how easily you can sell it with a want ad.
The piece notes France’s top officers training exists at St Cyr founded in 1808 and the Polytechnic, alongside other institutes like the Superior School of War at Fontainbleau for artillery, Samur for cavalry, and more. It lists the schools and their roles in officer training.
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