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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
2
Mrs. Glen Minger hosted a card club, with H J Aeschuman winning first prize and Ed Raft second. Numerous visits, church society meetings, and local dinners populate this Wadena page, listing shifts in hospitality, confirmations, and a planned garden sale led by Mrs. Fred Ernst.
The Marion Busy Bees 4-H club met at Yvonne Gisleson’s home on Saturday September 25. Arlene Hanson led the meeting in the absence of the president as members reviewed fair ribbons and the Elkader fair booth placement. New year planned with Oct 30 meeting hosts Norma and Alma Opsand and officer elections to follow. girls aged 12 to 21 in Marion township invited.
Local residents from Clermont and nearby towns share weekend and Sunday calls. Dr J C Jerdee and others called on Osage and Water loo residents, while Freman visitors came from Fayette Sumner and Jesup. Coe College student Norman Ericken returned home. Clermont high seniors had pictures taken and juniors chose rings. Legion Auxiliary officers attended a county meeting in Waucoma led by Helen Wills and Dora James with updates from county secretary B P Belding.
Poem recalling childhood memories in Clermont hills and nearby landmarks in Hawkeye state. Mentions Colonial mansion, river, mills, cornfields, and lush rural scenery. Composed by Mrs. Othelia Nelson Swenson.
About twenty men in Owatonna organize the Secret Six to observe traffic law violations. They will operate incognito, record driver details including date place and license, and hand the information to police to warn violators. The Morris Tribune notes this cautionary effort to increase road safety.
F N Fabri cisus of Iowa State College Dairy Department received a perfect score for a tub of butter at the 11th World Dairy Congress in Berlin Germany. The report also highlights a Minnesota boy Earle Hemple 11 who suffers word blindness yet reads and writes numbers and shows memory strength. He is under observation at the University of Minnesota with a treatment plan proposed to cure the condition.
A U S Senate committee set a Dodge City hearing for October 25 to study aiding western Kansas farmers in irrigation well development. Hugo L Black, newly appointed supreme court justice, addressed the public Friday amid Klan membership controversy. Roosevelt expected to meet Black on return to Washington this week.
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