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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1929
Page
7
The document cites the Ownership, Management and Required by the Act of Congress of August 24 1912. It references the Evening Journal publication details and related ownership statements.
Notary section records Paul J. Gorham general manager of the Evening Journal sworn to state ownership and management details for the publication dated April 1 1929. It lists publishers Elder Shannon Co Washington Iowa, managers and owners including Orville Elder R E Shannon Bruce Cowden Pool Gorham Max Marble Lew Warren with none listed for bondholders and notes average issue circulation of 2988.
The note recalls grain prices from decades ago with corn at 16 and 18 cents a bushel and a town tale of a keg bursting in the depot thirty years past. It muses on potato planting on Good Friday and a townsman’s remark after paying taxes about lasting six months more.
A mixed fragment lists regular lodge meetings with officers and visiting members, plus train schedules for the Golden State Limited and local California passenger and freight runs. It includes names such as Pearl Kennedy Irene Bickford Sara Walker and Arthur Goodin, with dates noted as monthly meetings and Tuesday Thursday Saturday freight runs.
Oak Park High of Chicago enters a fifteen man team to defend its indoor interscholastic track title at the University of Iowa meet. Four hundred eighty athletes are registered with coaches Louis Ticktin and Henry Soncek. Strong contestants from Perry Dubuque Bloomfield Cedar Rapids and Council Bluffs are listed among the runners and field eventers.
A GE prototype auto switches lights for classrooms using hyper sensitive lenses to adjust illumination. Educators hail the device as a major school advance and say it could prevent eye strain and vision defects caused by poor lighting in schools and shops.
Funeral arrangements for United States Ambassador Myron T. Herrick were simplified at the family’s request. There will be little pomp in the national farewell with the Legion of Honor not awarded. The body will be repatriated under guard, with troops marching along the route and a military band present. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand returned from his estate to attend.
Paris reports a company of Marines to accompany the coffin of U S ambassador Myron T Herrick across the Atlantic. The escort will march in the funeral procession when the body is returned to the United States. In Columbus an armed robbery occurred at Western and Southern Life insurance with three women employees held up and cash stolen.
Community updates from HO April 2 note illness and recovery statuses. Cal Hoskins remains slow to recover after surgery while family and friends share visits and Easter gatherings. Rain and flooding affect travel on gravel roads, schools close, and local events include funerals, farm work, and community meetings with numerous names and places such as Fairfield and Washington.
Mrs Withmer Correspondent reports from Wayland where the last farm bureau meeting of the year was held Wednesday at the Mennonite church. The event focused on meals for all occasions and included a prayerful opening. Thirty seven women attended and planned next year’s Home Economics lesson. Mrs Homer Kauffman is not present.
President Hoover intends no broad changes in diplomacy. He will fill vacancies as they exist and adjust a few Latin American posts. Major moves in London and Paris are not expected for several weeks.
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