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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1931
Page
7
Mrs J M Pulver writes from Hardscrabble reporting community notes and local events for the town paper. The item includes brief society and civic updates and reflections from the correspondent.
Miss Margaret Griffith guests at Marjorie and Mary Louise Robertson for Mary Louise’s birthday. The Senfts visit Cedar Rapids relatives. Pfeifer and Gilbert families host Saturday supper. Homer Thotle family also attends. Curtis Snider's at Nick Pinnie’s Thursday. Schlatter family visits H T Carris home Sunday. Keith Wehr at Hiardscrabble school Tuesday. Carlton Bowen and Frances Bowen visit N J West Sunday. Walter Boyer and Jim Pulver call Wednesday.
The cathedral of the Holy Savior in Moscow required about STSO.000.000 and took 50 years to complete. The project faced delays and high costs as it rose to become a landmark in the capital.
Chiropractor Dr Chas Brown offers Neurocalometry from an office opposite the Court House with telephone 102. D O General and A W Clow provide osteopathic work on second floor of the Journal building with services including colon irrigation and anorectal diseases.
Regular meetings held monthly by Washington chapter lodge and shrine units. Ida McDaniel serves as W M and Ernestine Denison as secretary. Damascus Shrine No 10 meets fourth Tuesday at Masonic Temple with Edith Pulver as W P. Washington Lodge No 26 meets first Friday with Harry C Ward as W M. Cyrus Chapter No 9 meets second Friday with J W Eastin as P and A W Yard as secretary.
Railway timetable lists eastbound trains including Golden State Departures Apache Local Passenger and freight services with times around 1 10 a m and 8 36 a m. Westbound services show Golden State Limitted Apache Local Passenger and freight runs with morning and afternoon departures.
Monday assembly featured Hamlin Garland broadcasting from Iowa City to all Iowa high schools. The Jacobs and Mangold tire shop lent the radio. Tryouts for the senior play selected cast members: Richard, William Sartor, Alan, William Masson, Mark, Raymond Witting, Oliver, Grant McKune, Nancy Cherie Mecklhinney, the mother Bernice Adrian, Augusta Alan's wife Mary Pauls, Muff Marjorie Robertson. A line notes a student quote about burning the school house to avoid first grade.
The HI Y club hosted freshmen boys for a noon program with J A Peet delivering a talk to urge joining next year and outline club purposes. Meals were provided by several local hosts. A play titled The Man on the Curb was staged by Raymond Witting and Edna Mae Hartman at a Girl Reserve meeting. Vir. Taylor drove them to Des Moines for a Drake University contest. The track team plans a short play next Wednesday to raise funds for relay beans expenses.
Readings at a Friday afternoon assembly featured student opinions on honesty with quotes from Bernice Adrian Ne Eloise Mallory and others. The exchange touched on whether lies can be justified in certain social situations and the value of truthfulness.
The Brighton community reports a string of social gatherings and travels. Mrs. Ruth Hinson hosts a covered dish party with guests Thelma Knappe and Lillis Laughridge visiting from Teardstown and Keokuk, plus Mary Ellen Wentworth as a guest. Chapter A. P. E. C. meets with Mrs. Pearl Saga. The Writer's Town discussed by Jeannette Shorton. Harmony Club hosts, and farm bureau activities noted. Several residents travel, visit, or return, including Mrs. Thelma Knappe from Beardstown and Mrs. Ora Crumley from Minneapolis. News covers illnesses, deaths, and local services, with details on Bidwell family and Wellman farm ties. Mabel Robinson visits, and multiple small-town movements are listed.
Muddy roads reduced turnout for a Thursday night meeting in rising fall. Frank J. Patterson reports the event, sponsored by English River township trustees with taxpayers invited. PT Jo Kehoe of Wellman was the principal speaker.
An account notes Harry Hamilton Drill and two accomplices detained in Madison Wisconsin on charges of kidnapping Drill's ex wife Helen Drill amid ongoing disputes over their marriages. The report weaves through multiple separations and a prior 1928 annulment as well as Drill’s alleged threat of self harm and the ex wife’s remarriage to deter it. The piece also mentions tax views in Iowa and local social events and accidents in Town City and Kalona with various locals and organizations cited. It preserves names such as Helen Drill and Joseph I. Fisher and refers to local activity, gatherings, and a hospital visit in Iowa City.
Ida Meeks correspondent reports Paul White is recovering from illness and Claire Kron saved wood on a Wednesday. Helpers include Louie Lehwah Donald Holmes Milt Sojka Everett Coon and Ernest Meeks. Cash Taylor and Daryl Strain aid fence work on the Taylor farm. Pipeline workers paused by rain and mumps affect several crews. The Ro Meeks family visited Will Wallace near West Chester and Clara Vondrasek of Chicago joined the Sojka family view. Three weeks more expected.
Mr and Mrs J J Rotenburger and family attended a wedding dinner. Clara Vondrasek and a Chicago friend visited Mrs Milt Sojka. John Lasek was on the sick list. Herman Rohlen peddled wares in the neighborhood. Mr and Mrs Tr Ro Knottiner and Ralph joined Sunday dinner at Melo Lasek home.
Helen Bopp and her spouse were married last Tuesday the 21st at Hills church and will live on a farm. The groom now farms south of Riverside. Best wishes are extended to the newlyweds.
German army officers train carrier pigeons to carry automatic cameras on their chests. The devices take six exposures in flight and the birds are guided back to officers who guide them to release rooms.
In Conan Doyle the author claims Joe Bell, his former schoolmaster, inspired Sherlock Holmes. The teacher possessed an eerie knack for detailing his surroundings and cases.
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