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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1938
Page
3
The Daniel Hurson Cut Stone Co. of Washington DC posted a notice on the safe saying there is no money inside only papers of no value. A recent thief broke in, ignored the sign, forced the safe, and found it empty like Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
Final plans completed for the Fayette county Farm Bureau husking derby at the PLN Sinnett farm this Saturday at 10 a.m. Nine contestants have entered, led by Earl Arthur Maynard and Will Weininger Hawkeye Harold Ehlers Maynard and Harry Johnson of West Union who husked last year. Additional entrants include Oscar Johnson Wadena Doras Latham Oelwein John Wegner Randalia Robert Kruempel Ar lington Lou Dennler Elgin. Officials listed cover starter husk weigher gleaner weigher wagon weigher tabulator and referees from multiple towns. Lunch will be available on the grounds. Farm Bureau also outlines a mass membership drive for Nov 18 with township leaders selected and no outside solicitors.
A Fayette county meeting on October 18 planned a year of home furnishing study for 4 H club girls. Led by the county 4 H girls committee and Mrs Edith Barker of the State 4 H Dept Town State College this begins the first of two years of lessons. Three leaders training schools will be held with lessons covering interior decoration color wall finishes and floor plans.
A Fayette county Rural Young People's group presents a Hallowe'en farmers ball at the Legion hall Fayette Thursday night. The program committee will arrange decorations and atmosphere. A local group will provide dance melodies. All rural young people in the county are invited. Games and dancing are available for non-dancers.
Mrs Hazel Schrader and sons visited relatives at Marquette last Sunday. Mr and Mrs E O Lien were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Alphie Thorson Sunday. Mr and Mrs J M Brorby and family and William Sheehy spent Sunday at La Crosse Wisconsin. Mrs Mary Washburn left Wednesday for Osterdock to visit Paul Wells. Mr and Mrs Albert Halverson called on Mrs Ole Reiers Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs A Anderson and Milo spent Sunday with Mrs Emma Gunderson. Oscar Thompson underwent an appendicitis operation last Thursday morning at the Postville hospital. Florence Schisse and Lumir Bena of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs R Schupanitz. Mr and Mrs Louie Hovland left last Wednesday for Minneapolis to remain a week. J A Erickson R V Brandt.
Sunday services will be held across Iowa including Fayette county churches and a County Farm service. Over 1000 Farm Bureau clergy members, mostly rural church workers, will coordinate special services and invite city residents to visit rural churches and meet farmers. Clergy from all denominations will be invited to participate in the event in coming weeks.
Extension animal husbandry specialist E. L. Quaife of Iowa State College will meet with 35 hog producers in the Farm Bureau rooms Thursday to discuss swine herd improvement breeding stock selection and winter feeding. Meeting begins at 1 00 p m and is one of three planned for the winter to help farmers improve the hog enterprise on their farm.
Farm women at Payette will gather October 28 with county home project committee members and local leaders to discuss factors shaping living standards in the homes they are building for their families.
Frank Pringle spent the weekend at Lake Peppin Minnesota where they did some fishing. Mrs Nellie Miller returned to Cedar Rapids after visiting her two daughters Belva and Floy Saturday and Sunday. Marcella Krueger returned with her folks to Hawkeye Sunday after spending days with her aunt Mrs Alfred Wenger.
The text notes that in 1875 George Custer and George Crook, both West Point graduates, defeated and crushed Northwest Indian tribes.
Florida joined the United States in 1821, became a state in 1845, seceded in 1861, underwent reconstruction in 1866 67 and was restored to the Union on July 4 1868 when civil government was reestablished.
The White House was the first public building erected in Washington with cornerstones laid on October 13, 1792.
The first lifeboat station in the United States was built in 1807 at Cohasset, marking the start of organized maritime rescue efforts. The facility established norms for lifesaving apparatus and volunteer crews, shaping later coast guard traditions.
Naomi Anderan is fitted into the stirrups at a liquid carbonic rodeo event for drug store cowboys and cowgirls staged in connection with a national convention. Minette Grigg watches the proceedings with interest as Special CFI photo by Jun Fujita is featured.
Residents of Kentucky Indiana Illinois Missouri and Kansas witnessed a rare cross country dash as the Seventh U.S. Cavalry (Mechanized) entrained from Fort Knox Kentucky to Fort Riley Kansas for maneuvers. The unit, the world’s largest mechanized force, includes 600 units and 2,000 men under Col. Charles L. Scott. Echo Exclusive Photo Service shows some of the new high speed tanks.
Mrs Ole Reierson and Clara Block host a Sewing Circle gathering at the church parlor with a large crowd. plans for a dinner sale were noted and an announcement to follow. Various local residents were listed as visiting or attending events and a Republican rally occurred at McNeil school house.
The apseds of Robert Fulton’s Clermont, one of the first steamboat ventures, operated at about five miles per hour, showing modest speed for its era and reflecting early locomotive watercraft limits.
Collier's Weekly notes one of the world’s oldest beliefs among Moslems that shooting stars are firebrands cast by angels or evil spirits when they approach the gates of heaven.
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