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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
6
Community updates feature illnesses travel visits and family events in Elgin and nearby towns. Residents include George Anderson, Jane Falk, Clarence Becker, Dale DeSart, Jan Richard birth, and several Pacific visitors. Local businesses advertise portraits hardware and studio services amid holiday notes.
The Baptist church announces a Thanksgiving service on Thursday at 10 30 a m with a church dinner. December events include a communion service at 10 a m on Sunday and a 12 15 p m dinner, a junior meeting at 12 45 p m, committee meeting at 12 50 p m, and an English service at 2 p m followed by a church meeting. Ladies Aid meets December 5 at 2 p m. prayer meeting is December 6 at 8 p m. Choir at 9 p m. Pastor Ph Lauer invites all to attend.
J J Snyder minister and Grace Foxwell pianist lead Sunday School at 10 15 a m and church worship at 11 15 a m The community is invited to a covered dish supper and sandwiches followed by a Thanksgiving service at the church in the evening.
A collection of brief proverbs and quips on human folly pride and behavior. Observations compare talkers, generosity, cheerfulness and advice about manners with sharp humor and irony.
Lutheran notes list English services at Norway temple at eleven o'clock and First Lutheran at two thirty. Marion at seven thirty hosts Luther League. I Strandjord invites parishioners to attend all services. You are welcome at each service.
M. E. Church notes J J Snyder minister Mra Lovie Klingman pianist worship 10 am Sunday school 11 am choir practice by committee. Photos for Xmas gifts urged Schneider's Cottage Studio Fayette weekend visit Frances Dennis with Viola Berndt J F Berndt home Chickasaw county supervisors decree indigent drivers must surrender automobile license plates to keep relief funds available.
A Des Moines Tribune contributor cites a Lehigh study of 570 Pennsylvania marriage licenses. It shows laborers wed within a mile, while higher occupations pair with partners farther away. Age and income shift patterns, expanding the search beyond hometowns. The piece muses whether mobility, cars, or desire explain these trends.
A careless driving hearing paused for five minutes as the clerk used three toy cars to aid testimony. A witness needed a string to illustrate towing but no string could be found after searches by four magistrates, two clerks, eight police, twenty men, and three women. The adjournment lasted five minutes before a string was obtained.
In the Harz mountains of central Europe a small herd of mouston or European bighorns has grown from an initial 20 animals released in 1905 to about 250 today. The herd’s expansion is noted by Science Service as evidence of successful adaptation.
A satirical fragment questions the belief that blindness sharpens other senses. It notes blind people train senses but do not gain extra acuity. A pair of quick punchlines joke about cost, appearance, and a famine era tower of Pisa, reflecting humor in terse vignettes.
A compact collection of aphoristic maxims on virtue, reason, and social conduct. It reflects on humility, prudence, appetite for gold, and the tension between passion and judgment, with Biblical imagery and reflections on moral aging and parental shabbiness.
Mrs C B Schori entertained the Batoffe club Friday afternoon at her home with prizes awarded for high and low scores and a traveling prize won by Mrs Leo Schori. The Decorah Ice Cave Creamery produced over a million pounds of butter this year, one of the state’s larger creameries, and Elgin also surpassed a million pounds in the past year, marking high production for the area.
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