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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1942
Page
6
Mrs W H Pollock and Cedar Rapids visitors recall thanks for hospital cards and letters. Numerous friends visited Elgin neighbors in Oelwein and surrounding towns. Local wrap features many homecomings, dinners, and family visits across Iowa communities.
Sunday worship at 10 with Sunday school at 11 and choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30. Circle A of the WSCS meets with Mrs R W Muehrenthaler Friday afternoon Nov 13 in a postponed meeting. Circle A at Mrs Leo Schori home Circle B with Mrs Rob Grimes Circle C to be announced later. Joseph C Warton minister.
The Progress Club met at Mrs. George Andersons home Monday evening. Janet Krohn read Chapter 2 of the Great American Novel and Vida Burington reviewed Stately Timbers by Robert Hughes. A bingo party is planned for Nov 20 and a Thanksgiving party on Nov 23 at Edna Hunsbergers home. A visiting party from Onalaska, Wisconsin toured Mrs Schricker and John Larson homes, returning Monday with Mrs Schricker bound for an Idaho winter. Clara Blockhus plans surgery at St Marys hospital Thursday morning after a stay in Rochester Minnesota clinics.
Horses are rarely white at birth often gray and turn white with age. Arabian circus horses commonly display gray coats. The message ends with a note that want ads yield results and suggests trying one.
Chicago veterans DL Yeoman Eric Rellis and Roslyn Nowak enjoy a late 19th century exhibit showing 1816 candy choices such as stick candy molasses taffy lozenges and gum drops. The display highlights thousands of pounds of hard candies for service members and foregrounds field ration sweets like fruit drops D bar and malted dextrose tablets.
A pound of gold uses the troy system with 12 ounces per pound, while a pound of feathers uses the avoirdupois system with 16 ounces per pound. Consequently a troy pound is lighter than an avoirdupois pound.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge wife of the late President and Captain Herbert W. Underwood join Rear Ads tiral Randall Jacobs in watching 115 Waves of officers just graduated last weekend in Northampton Massachusetts.
A special CFI photo to Echo from Bob Foulson Reuben Herman of Peoria shows his unique 40 pound gourd on display with 9 000 other gourds. Herman designs gourds into utensils bird houses and stands, illustrating a craft exhibit in Peoria, Illinois.
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