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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1941
Page
6
Elgin area residents host and visit relatives across nearby towns and states. A steady stream of dinners, Sunday visits, and stays with family mark a busy week as neighbors share travel, illnesses, and community events. Photographs and studio ads punctuate the town pages alongside announcements from Schneider's Cottage Studio and local hardware store promotions.
A Special CFI photo from Edmonds Washington notes a more elaborate crossroads sign than Seaside Oregon. The Echo records September 1941 details claiming the Honolulu sign outshines the famed Seaside post and wins a mythical pennant.
Elgin St Pauls holds church service at 10 o clock with Sunday school at 11 a m Community Church Dlyria offers Sunday school at 10 a m and worship at 11 15 a m Union Church Clermont schedules worship at 7 30 p m A cordial invitation is extended to all to worship with us Joseph C Warton Minister.
Elgin Baptist Church outlines Sunday worship at 10 o clock with Sunday school at 11 led by Hugo Hackmann. Harvest Day program planned with Sumner services at 3 pm and evening service at 7 45 pm with Rev. William Baier of Storm Lake in the pulpit. Wednesday prayer at 8 pm, choir rehearsal at 9 pm, Tabitha Society meets Wednesday at 2 pm on November 19.
The Women's Society of Christian Service holds its next general meeting at Mrs C J Robinsons home on Thursday afternoon November 20. A Ruth Circle committee will serve.
The North Fayette District of the Boy Scouts of America will hold its annual meeting at West Union High School on Monday evening November 17. A pot-luck supper welcomes Scouters Cubs Scouts and their families and the general public. Local committee members Melvin Hanson Elgin and Rev E E Ramsey Clermont promote attendance with Clarence Schori on the nominating committee. Officers will be elected in a brief business session followed by a color sound movie Scouting Trail to Citizenship and a closing Cubs and Scouts ceremony. Family group pictures are urged at Schneider's Cottage Studio Gelwein.
Henry Ward Beecher told his congregation about a letter addressed to him that bore only the word Fool. He quipped that he had seen men write letters and forget to sign their names, but rarely sign their names and fail to write the letter itself.
Nearly sixty people attended the Legion and Auxiliary Armistice family supper at the town hall Tuesday. A pot-luck meal followed by a short program featured patriotic talk by B d Baumgartner, reading by Bernice Blockhus, cornet duet by George Bovis and Iva Torkelson, plus group singing and visiting.
The piece argues that the habit of shifting blame starts in early childhood. It suggests addressing alibi behavior when signs appear in first grade, noting initial blame shifting toward others as the first symptom and warning of future issues with accountability.
A moral lesson discusses how parents and friends influence a child’s honesty and accountability. It notes that removal of penalties can curb avoidance of punishment, while admitting mistakes helps growth. It then shifts to Gibraltar, describing its impregnable rock, strategic naval base, and dimensions.
A botany note explains how poison ivy and poison oak differ from Virginia creeper and fragrant sumac by the glossy leaves and smooth lead-gray berries of the poisonous types. Poison sumac is distinguished by dull gray berries and boggy growth, unlike true sumac which grows elsewhere.
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