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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
4
The report covers Chicago prices for December corn and notes the broader farm product price index rose 17 points mid September. It mentions rising pork packing and hog production in the northwest, and outlines pasture, corn seed, and soil conservation efforts across Iowa with outlook conferences and county plans for 1987.
Grand Meadow residents and neighbors visited relatives across Hartland Eston and Clermont. Numerous guests included the Olson, Lyngaas, Erickson, Kluss, Buraas, Aanes, Madsen and Reinhart families with outings to homes in Hartland Waukon Clermont and near Frankville.
Julia Wettleson visited Mrs B Nelson’s home Sunday. Sunday school instructors meet Monday at the church basement led by Rev S J Strandford and Rev G Gunston. Loftsgard family visited H Amundson’s Clermont home. Numerous locals hosted meals and guests from Decorah and St Olaf. A Marion church Mission festival is planned with Rev Schmidt as speaker. E E Landsgård improves after illness. O K Hoag A O Wold H E Landsgård families visited Mrs B Nelson. Landsgard families spent Sunday with P K Peter Palmer. Halverson helped Loftsgard farm work. Edwin Loftsgard moved household goods to Elgin. Loftsgards now reside in Elgin.
Millard Olson and H. H. Sersland of Decorah were supper guests in the Donald Gilson home a week ago Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rose of near Monona and Mrs. Frank Miller of Ludlow were dinner guests in the Louis Sutter home Sunday.
Tom Collins stars as a genial editor in the new comedy Diamond City News airing three times weekly on Mid-Continent stations. Sponsored by Mid-Continent Petroleum, the show follows a modern country weekly and its community. Collins is a noted after-dinner speaker.
The mortuary practices of Pharaohs nobles and officials differed from commoners who could not afford elaborate rites. The elite received extensive funerary ceremonial treatment in life and after death, while commoners faced simpler burials due to cost constraints.
It is estimated that the glacial period lasted not much less than 500000 years and that the ice likely retreated from the northern United States at least 25000 years ago. The ice did not advance or retreat steadily.
An unclear dialogue fragment presents a line about paying a small deposit and six months of no further payments. A character named Lady of the House responds with a question about information source as the scene shifts to social compliments.
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