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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
8
E. Br. Withell D. C. Chiropractor operates from State Bank Building Elkader Iowa. The note mentions X-Ray and Neurocalometer as part of chiropractic practice and highlights a distinction between practitioners in the field.
Oak Grove residents and guests filled weekends with calls and meals. Mrs. Clarence Winkler and children visited Mrs. Tommy Howard and others, while C. Klingman hosted dinner for the Yearovs and Doty families. Several pairs traveled to see relatives, with hospital visits for Mrs. Arthur Patterson and local gatherings at the Vanes, Frieden, and Dennler households.
Sunday visitors including Mrs Fanny Frieden and Ida at Mrs Anna Schupbach’s Elgin home. Howard Medberry and family dined with his mother Mrs Myrtle Medberry. Mrs Russell Jones and baby called on Oran Bane. Social Hour Club met at Mrs Reuben Howard. Guests from Volga City Streater and Baraboo visited various homes. Additional calls and dinners noted with the Dennler and Gillman families.
The Cheery Valley column lists numerous weekend visits and social gatherings. Residents including Mrs Frank Christen, Hilda Meyer, the Lerch and Dennler families, and Ida Meyer are mentioned visiting relatives at various homes in Cedar Falls Waterloo Volga City Decorah West Union and Elgin. Several dinners, calls and church events are recorded, with Littleport Elgin and Strawberry Point among locales.
Irene Ernst, a Cedar Rapids business college student, spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. Eva Ernst. Canton plans involve Jasper Mitts and family visiting relatives. Mrs. Arthur Craft and sons Merle and Gerald stayed Friday with the Fred Rothlisberger family. L. O. Koevenig of Postville and Keith Kohler visited Lew Wenger on Sunday afternoon. A Hallowe'en party is set for Thursday evening October 12 at the church basement, sponsored by the Fan Bureau and the Progressive Home Study club led by Mrs. Ella Richards of State.
Roberts home at Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Klingman of near Volga City visited in the Jerome Yearons home Wednesday. Mrs. Earl Scheffert and son Lanny spent Thursday with Mrs. Guernsey Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fischer of Elgin visited Carroll Klingman and family Sunday. Fred Rothlisberger and Ruts and Arthur Humphry, who went to consult a specialist at Big Stone City, South Dakota, left Wednesday and visited the John Kenyon home in Gary until Friday morning.
Rev Stewart and son of da Porte City will speak at Brainard Baptist church Monday evening October 16 about Pilgrim's Progress and show original paintings. Marvel and Fern Jones of Waucoma spent the weekend with the Herman Boyer family. Merle and Gerald of Marshfield Wis were dinner guests at D H Craft home Friday. Sterling Brooks of Lamont visited Glen Boyer family Sunday. Mrs Frank Lyon and Mrs Win Nutting and sons visited Sidney Nutting last Wednesday. Mrs Vern Boyer and son Leo attended Leslie Wede funeral at Clermont Friday. Wm Bakeman and son Roger of Minot ND visited Frank Lyon and relatives in Elgin Sunday. Clarence Jones and Mrs Georgia Boyer of Waucoma were dinner guests in Herman Boyer home Sunday. D H Craft, Mrs Clara Bartlett, Mrs Ray Gilbert and family visited Wm Barker home in Elgin Sunday afternoon. Fonell Severn and Eva Boyer were dinner guests Sunday in Don Cummings home. Mrs Arthur Craft of Marshfield Wis and Mrs D H Craft and Barbara Gilbert visited Sidney Nutting home Friday. Lowell Goode of West Union visited Herbert Miller home Sunday. Robert Kerr and Grace Howard
A wedding was performed Saturday Oct 7 by Rev R A Belknap at the Belknap home. The note adds community visits and church activities including Brainard Church Notes with Sunday school at 10 30 and preaching later in the day by Rev R C Belknap.
Florence Erickson of Rossville spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. Carolyn Erickson. Numerous guests attended events across the area including dinners with the Olson and Lyngaas families. Arnold Sampson was hospitalized in Rochester while Ernest Holt visited Harmony. Ruth Helen Anderson was ill this week.
In 1899 Madame Thebes, a French clairvoyante, foretold the death of France’s president who died the next month. Years later she claimed Belgium would set Europe aflame and Germany would wage war with the Kaiser dethroned, predicting great changes after. The subsequent world wars and years aligned with her forecast.
Electric Fences Wisconsin becomes the first state to enact a law governing the use of electric fences for farm animals. The measure sets standards for design, safety, and permissible voltages to reduce harm to livestock and ensure farmer compliance.
Population figures show a non native total of forty five thousand seven hundred fifty in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.
A sequence of social visits is reported in Elgin local notes. Mrs Ethel Kohler hosted a Monday afternoon gathering that included Mrs Kohler and other guests. Wednesday evening Mr and Mrs Will Bakeman and Roger from Minot North Dakota dined with Edward C Olesea at Hawkeye.
In Oregon woods loggers coin witty names for their tools. The cross-cut saw is called a misery whip by two burly workers who battle big trees. They also call a saw a briar or Swede fid die and nickname the shovel clown stick or idiot stick.
Isaac Job Greenwood asserts in a statement that in Mount Vernon’s tomb lies George Washington’s mouth with false jaws bearing human teeth crafted by his father John Greenwood. He says the dentures were formed with bone gums from ivory or elephant teeth and made from beeswax molds.
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