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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1938
Page
8
Classified notice for E R Withell D C Chiropractor listing services including X Ray and Neurocalometer in the State Bank Building Elkader Iowa. Advertisement notes differences among chiropractors and provides contact at Elkader.
Illyria residents hosted relatives from Elgin Forest and nearby towns over the weekend. Community members offered sympathy to Mrs. Arthur Yearous on her brother Roy Ernst’s funeral at Highland Lutheran church.
Grace Foxwell and guests join Mrs Nellie Foxwell and others while Mrs Alice Cummings visits Alpha friends. A Hallowe'en party is sponsored by the Progressive Home Study club and Farm Bureau at the Myria church. Various local residents host and visit, with a farewell party for Rev J J Snyder featuring hymns solos and a skit, followed by talks and a token presentation.
Cheery Valley news records weekend visits across Shullsburg and nearby towns. Names include Christ Teutchman, Fred Ubersax, Arthur Friederich, Albert Lee, Jacob Steffner, Huber, Peter Bach, Nashbaum, Jacob Gehring sr, Walter Dennler, Christmna, Ern Meyer, Jake Butikofer, Francis West, Emil Bruellman, Leo Rothlisberger, Tofield Fisher, Marie Fisher, Imogene Pulfer, Hilda Meyer, Eva Mae Frieden, Rev J J Snyder, L Christen Dean, Gordon Pollock, Frank Christen, Alma Hanson, and others. Attendees gather at multiple homes and attend church services in Elgin and nearby communities.
L and Fred Ubersax visited Frank Christen for supper Sunday. The Dennlers and their relatives gathered at Elmer Dennler’s for Mrs. Jake Dennler’s birthday. Jepson and two children from Elkader visited Martin Hanson. Duff visited L Christen and Jake Christen. Harvey Solberger and son left for Cedar Rapids with Mrs. Jake Solberger. Mrs. Fred Dennler joined them briefly. Walter Mitts and children visited her father John Friederich Saturday afternoon.
Lawrence Cannon and family joined friends for a Sunday outing at the Waterloo cattle congress with Hans Winkler, Mr. and Mrs. Dumermannuth, Pat Raftis, and Chas Gehring. Numerous local families visited and hosted each other across Oak Grove and nearby towns, sharing meals and Sunday visits.
Brainard items record multiple local residents returning from Monticello after a week with George Moats and visiting families in Elgin Cedar Rapids and nearby homes. Names include Mr. and Mrs Sheldon Moats, Mr. and Mrs Wm Graverard, Mrs Clara Bartlett, Mrs Frank Lyon, Mrs Sidney Nutting, and others such as D H Craft and Tom Reeder.
Saturday visits at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo and numerous home gatherings are recorded. Guests include the Gilbert, Moats, Howard, Peters, Appelman, and Dinan families across West Union Hawkeye and Lima areas. Church activities note Friday choir practice and Sunday services led by Rev. A R Belknap. Gamma notes: infant Garry Nutting ill for a week and Laza lines 7 months.
Congregation members gathered at Parsons age in St Olaf for a general fix up. Locals attended the Cattle Congress in Waterloo last week. Mellien Loftsgard works lumber in Gunder. Mrs T Loftsgard visited sister near St Olaf. Norma Loftsgard stayed with Martin Halverson’s family Saturday night. Lovisa Buraden helps with house work for H H Gisleson. George and wife welcomed an 8 pound girl at Postville hospital on Sept 28. Mrs Kurth and Mrs Hanson to host Ladies Aid at church parlors Thursday.
Special CFI photo shows ten acres of exceptional corn with two 16 foot stalks. Othel Davison, a tall man from Clarinda, holds a large ear from his own crop. The right stalks include four ears on two stalks, one 16 feet and the other 14.5 feet tall.
The United States Geological Survey reports that ocean water once covered land west of the Rocky Mountains. The arid states, including Arizona, were submerged about 39,000,000 years before humans appeared. Nearby social notes list visits and gatherings from October 13, including Delores Nyborg at S.T.C. and several local residents in Joe Lind, Jim Bilden, Ole Gisleson, and Lawrence West homes.
The Massachusetts lake known as Chaubunungamaugeshu is linked to the name meaning You fish on your side I fish on my side no body fish in the middle from a local treaty. The text also notes Patrons Wealthy members of the Dutch West India Company held a charter granting privileges to settle across New Netherlands except Manhattan.
Seeds that stay viable vary by species tobacco seeds have lasted up to 20 years in storage while pulses including peas and beans show examples of 85 years vitality after harvest. These findings highlight enduring viability among plant lineages and seed preservation.
A Collier's Weekly writer declares the war boomerang a deadly weapon not returning like a toy. When thrown properly it travels in a straight line and can cause a fatal wound from about 500 feet away.
Flocking birds of the more intelligent kinds such as wild geese designate a sentinel by touching or pecking to select the next in line as they travel in groups.
In 1516 Sir Thomas More described a six hour workday as the ideal, outlining a society where labor is shortened to promote leisure and virtue. The concept appears in Utopia as a normative standard for productive harmony.
Two week period ending September 24 lists transfers in Wadena Elgin and surrounding areas by Sidney Corbin John Falk John Corkery Susan Stillman Stuie and others. Transfers include Wadena Herriman's Add Elgin and multiple parcels with prices ranging from one dollar to five hundred dollars.
The passage discusses the use of the title Ms for married or single women in business, notes the oldest North American land raised above sea level is in the northeast, explains that ocean light returns by about 2,000 feet depth, and states St. Peter's bell in Rome weighs 18,600 pounds.
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