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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
6
Elgin residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from Clermont Clermont and Fayette. Notable trips included Bess Stohr from Elkader and Jimmie Koevenig from Postville joining family gatherings. Several dinners and weekend visits occurred with families in Elgin and nearby towns.
J. J. Snyder and Grace Foxwell lead Sunday school at 10:15 a m. Church worship follows at 11:15 a m with pianist accompanying.
Elgin Baptist Church schedules morning worship with communion at 10, Sunday school at 11, and an afternoon service at 2. A junior meeting at 2, Wednesday prayer service at 8, choir rehearsal at 9, and Mission Society meeting at 2 in the church. Pastor Paul F. Zoschke and organist Lillian Schroeder lead.
William Weibel will play at St Pauls M E Church with worship at 10 oclock and Sunday school at 11. The Ladies Aid Society divisional meetings today include three sections at Brackins, Dummermuths, and Stewarts homes with picnic lunches. W I M S meet at Mrs J White in Clermont Thursday afternoon Sept 8.
The C. K. Preus auditorium hosts an 85th anniversary festival with speakers Dr. Aasgaard Dr. Gullixon and Dr. Stub. On September 9 a classic motion picture about Martin Luther will be shown at Marion and St. Olaf. The film lasts one hour forty five minutes and offers insight into the Reformation. Dr. S. J. Strandford, Pastor.
The text lists days of the week in Spanish with mixed spellings and errors. Domingo appears for Sunday and Martes for Tuesday, with other days displayed as Gunes Mierceles Jueves Viernes Saba. The fragment notes inconsistent Caribbean usage and typos.
Turin stands out for its regular grid of streets with most intersections at right angles. The city preserves its traditions and still shows traces of a Roman Castrum with the cardo and decumanus crossings visible in parts of the town.
Seed specialists report clover can maintain germination for up to 20 years, soybeans two years, oats three years, and corn and wheat ten years, preserving viability over long storage periods.
The term Spanish Main originally described the mainland from the Orinoco mouth to Panama and is often applied to the Caribbean region. It also means sea.
The Land of Two Flags refers to the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, a group of islands jointly governed by Britain and France under a unique condominium arrangement.
Rarotongan natives of the South Sea islands place graves throughout homes including kitchens where tombstones double as tables and household fittings.
Reno Nevada is named for Gen Jesse Lee Reno who commanded the Ninth Corps at Bull Run and at Chantilly. The note ties the city’s naming to his military leadership and historical battles.
The pygmy marmoset, born in Brazil, is the smallest monkey. It weighs about four percent of a pound, roughly twice a mouse, with thick fur and a long tail.
In Schubert era Vienna a term arose for evenings when his music was performed. The coined word Schber tiades defined such gatherings marking a distinctive musical social occasion in the capital.
Half hidden behind estate walls Bermuda gardens echo the Hanging Gardens of Babylon with royal palms poinciana vines and shrubs allowed to go native in a lush display of beauty and seclusion.
Elgin residents hosted and visited guests from Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois this week. Gertrude and Erma Grether spent Sunday to Tuesday in Iowa City with relatives. Numerous guests from Monona La Crosse McGregor Minneapolis Cedar Rapids Chicago and Maywood connected to local families during the period.
In 1516 the monk Fra Tomas de Berlanga brought bananas to the Western hemisphere. The first American market shipment by steamship occurred much later, around 1889.
Durum wheat, widely known as macaroni wheat in America and Europe, yields semolina a gritty coarse flour unsuitable for baking.
A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton, 1208 pounds.
The trout season closed today on September 1. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gehring were ill and confined to their home last week. Milton Huneke of Burlington visited Ern Baechler and stayed until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Heins, Betty, Jack, and Joan Pike visited Mrs. Heins’ father A. M. Weibel from Thursday to Sunday. Workers at Schori & Kaster Lumber Co. added cement approaches to the weighing platform. Mr. and Mrs. Will Lehman and son Albert, Alberta Johnson, and Mrs. Nick Lauer headed home to Rock Valley and Wahl, S. D., after two weeks visiting Elgin area relatives. The Baumgartners and several others returned from the German Baptist conference at Baileyville, Illinois, where Baumgartner was elected treasurer for the third year. Call 20 to share news. New Globe oil heaters are in at Feller’s Hardware in West Elgin. Johnson and Schwitters returned to Steamboat Rock after visiting in Chicago. Postville resident Robert Beese, jailed in Waukon since July 12 for illegal liquor possession, has been paroled to the sheriff. Mrs. John Falk Jr. and Kathryn Falk of Postville, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Pierce Cashman of Chicago, and others were guests at the Falk home. Sylvan Hoag drove to Minneapolis to escort his sister Mrs. P Hallin home after two weeks with her parents. The Hougs joined for two weeks in Minneapolis and Fergus Falls with their son Gerhard.
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