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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1938
Page
8
The Good Friday service will be held Friday evening at 7 p m at Trinity Lutheran Church with a sermon on the final of the Seven Words From the Cross. Easter Sunday service at 10 a m will celebrate the Resurrection with children's recitations and Bible verses.
The pastor will explain what the death and resurrection of Christ mean to each person and speak of joy and comfort in the Resurrection. Visitors are welcome at Friday and Sunday services. Sunday school children should arrive by 9 30 am as usual.
Mr. and Mrs. Schoonover show strong interest in Illinois politics as longtime friends of Democratic Senate nominee Scott Lucas. Their shared school days in Taylorville, Illinois connect to Lucas, with memories of Chan dlerville and area neighbors shaping their view of his career. Marie Landau returns from visits in Mediapolis and Strawberry Point as Dr. and Mrs. Boice of Chicago visit family before continuing home from New Orleans. Fern Weber and Mrs. Shillig travel from Topeka and Wichita to Des Moines visiting relatives and touring sites en route to Kalona and beyond.
Ray Box owner of the Maidrite sandwich shop oversaw weeks of remodeling with a new entrance, equipment including a Wurlitzer player and modern fountain, a neon sign and central counter. Local workers Hessie Neff, Bob Pease, Louise Cox and Mrs Dawson assisted. T J Simons did carpentry. John Boileau wired. Al Roe and son repaired the furnace. Eveready Plumbing handled plumbing. Everett Simpson finished floors. Scott's Furniture laid linoleum. Frank Longwell redecorated.
Commodore Oliver H. Perry reportedly penned his immortal note on the flat top of his naval cap to announce the British surrender after the Battle of Lake Erie. The anecdote highlights Perry's quick thinking and decisive action in the 1813 engagement.
Discovered sugar crystals are linked to a sixth century Mesopotamian medicine man who reportedly found them while brewing a curative potion from sugar cane.
Arthur Rowland a 28 year old actor and musician from Hollidays Cove West Virginia was found dead on a rural mine road near Burgetts Town Pennsylvania. He had been shot in the temple and his car abandoned near Zanesville Ohio by an unknown slayer.
Mable Olson and Stella Jorp lund of the county health unit attended an all day district meeting of public health nurses in Davenport on Tuesday. Nadine Geitz of New York City's American Social Hygiene association spoke on social problems and syphilis and gonorrhoea. Gabriel Nadeau, formerly with the Washington Maternal Hygiene program, spoke on home visits, while Mable Nortvedt discussed maternal health and related issues.
Washington saw a rise to 79 degrees with a 2 degree low as unseasonably warm conditions continued. Western regions remained warm and Atlantic and Comer Bluffs reported 84 degrees before cooler air moved in.
Testimony in the Anderson trial reveals Brown listing 2,000 Hanover Woolen Milla Co. shares valued at 50 000 along with 25 000 Beacon Publishing Co. shares at 31 250 and 22 000 notes from Davenport. Anderson faces charges for receiving woolen mill shares as a loan commission from City National Bank and for using bank funds to finance Beacon Publishing, publisher of the Tri City Star. Miller, director and bank chair, says he did not know of Anderson operating Continental Commercial or pirate company while heading the bank and notes bank loans to Beacon and Hinkle were not fully paid or were charged off.
Funeral services for Oscar Carlson were held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the L. A. Jones funeral home with Rev. Paul Westenberg of Swedesburg officiating. Burial followed in Elm Grove cemetery. Pallbearers included Axel Anderson, Emil Anderson, Don Tucker of Brighton, Victor Frisk of Columbus Junction, J. L. Johnson and Taylor Stout.
Dubuque reports a royal diadem valued at about $4.5 million will be shown for the first time in Iowa. The Crown of the Andes will be exhibited next Sunday at the Visitation convent in Dubuque.
District Judge O J Henderson imposed a convenient sentence on Marion Bowman 19 of Fraser after a guilty plea for driving while intoxicated. Bowman received a $300 fine and 60 days in jail with 60 days suspended for good behavior. the remaining days may be served at his own convenience due to his status as the sole employed member of a family of five and his work as a relief worker.
International News Service summaries cite Commander Rosendahl praising airships as defense weapons for the United States. In London Locker-Lampson critiques Hitler as dangerous if not human, Daladier advocates peaceful law respecting sovereignty, Lewis notes textile unions’ stance on CIO.
Newton council as board of health with Dr. E A McMurray decides vaccination may be required for all school pupils if smallpox cases increase. Fourteen cases reported in the last month.
In Ottumwa a special report on Wapello county soldiers relief commission for 1936 and 1937 shows a shortage of 1811 dollars. The state checkers filed the report with County Auditor J. E. Love after months of review and criticized how the relief business was handled as unsatisfactory.
Cedar Falls Dr Harold Bosley 31 director of religious activities at Iowa State Teachers College resigns effective June 1 to become pastor of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in Baltimore Md He will be the youngest pastor ever at that church
New York reports over 1 million dollars in whale harvests as the whaler Ulysses returns from the Antarctic. The crew records a 96 foot whale weighing about 196 tons, signaling a revival of large scale American whaling.
In a letter to Amantius Caesar announced his victory over Pharnaces at Zela Pontus in 47 B C He was the first to say I came I saw I conquered in Latin Veni Vidi Vici the famous phrase tied to his Pontic triumph.
The article notes that at five miles above either pole the air temperature matches the temperature at ten miles above the equator, indicating a surprising atmospheric temperature equality across these regions.
Imagination deeply impacts mental growth as children act as creators by producing original work, aiding cognitive and creative development.
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