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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1931
Page
4
Dr Lyda Hellam comes home this evening after attending a chiropractic convention in Des Moines. The item mentions saving handkerchiefs with Killeenex and promotes Oh Boy root beer along with a syrup secret. Weather forecast calls for fair tonight and likely Wednesday. Hog prices top at 7.95.
Mrs Chas Benz and daughter Lucy visited Davenport and enjoyed Wildcat Den state park. Mrs Henry Jugenheimer of Le Claire visits relatives. Rebekahs prepare to serve a chicken dinner at the Chautauqua on Aug 14 and sell tickets. Davis children visit grandmother Gosling in Ainsworth. Pickett sisters return from Princeton Missouri. Ward and Westphal plan Chicago trip for shows. Ward to Rock Island first. Krause family hosted weekend guests from Sioux City. Fry family members visit from Sioux City and Murray, Iowa. Bert Fry and family travel to Davenport for convention. News closes with concern over a New York infantile paralysis epidemic.
Local residents and visitors are listed with travel to Davenport Muscatine Keosauqua and Creston. Families attend Legion conventions trips with relatives in Keota Iowa City and Middlebury Vermont. Names include Ste wart Norton Crone Widmer Mangold Pullen Meerink Ward Allen Thorne Jones Wilson Alcorn McKay Wells and Gregory.
Mrs H B Eldridge returns to St Louis with her children after a three week visit at the W S Eldridge home. Relatives Nell and Alice come from Omaha and Mable from Des Moines. Edna and her children are expected from Iowa City and Mrs Steck plans to visit her sons in Owosso Michigan.
Whipped by howling gales, forest fires in Montana Idaho and western Washington leaped their bounds today destroying property closing roads and lowering timber stands. Men and outfits were sent to the fire fronts by every method including a special Kalispell train buses and trucks from Spokane and air planes.
Mrs. Harry Miller, who came from St. Louis, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pratt while her foot received treatment. Howard McCleery of Iowa City came to town on business. Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Moore Jean and Fred Jr. left for two weeks at Lake Okoboji.
About 150 national guards men assembled at the Main street armory in Oklahoma City after 1 p.m. Their only comment was that officers ordered them there at 1:86 p.m. The report said Governor Murray could call them to seize the oil field and declare martial law.
Sunset Circle will meet with Miss Dorothy Orris on Friday afternoon Aug. 7 to answer roll call with suggestions for next year’s program and to elect officers. Mr. and Mrs. L Gehring of Burlington visited Merle Twinam Sabbath. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Carson and children of Brighton visited Monday with Rev. and Mrs. A N Porter.
James Hill and two companions discover five young polecats in the woods near Sanford and bring them home as pets. The wandering animals, now cared for by the boys, join family life in the town.
In Biddeford Maine Ralph Labbe and Ovila Bouthot unearthed six hundred nine gold and silver Spanish coins believed to be more than a century old while digging in a garden.
Low Mississippi water and the Capital river boat being in Red Wing Minnesota led the Rock Island lines to cancel the rail boat excursion. The item notes several local social updates including travels, visits, and a medical operation in Knoxville Tennessee.
Classifies twenty pigs offered for sale at Head Spring with reference R38-12. Listing notes quantity and location to facilitate bidding and pickup.
Albert Franzen and Miss Beaulah Wilson join Devport events for Legion convention. Mr and Mrs J Hoy McEhinney from Pittsburgh visit their mother Mrs T J McElhinney, while Mr and Mrs William Nelson of Hastings Neb arrive this afternoon. Homemade ice cream and cake on U P church lawn Tuesday evening. Mr and Mrs Charles Gilbert and nephew John Hoover plus Mr and Mrs Louis Baird plan a Colorado vacation starting Wednesday.
The young people's Interchurch council will meet at 7 30 this evening Tuesday for an important business meeting.
Des Moines Iowa Aug 4 state agriculture department prepared a survey on the grasshopper situation at President Hoover request to gauge damage in Iowa. Hoover said federal aid would be available to afflicted states and telegraphed Governor Turner asking for the extent of damage. Mark G Thornburg state secretary of agriculture handles the report.
The Washington Iowa city council enacts Ordinance 192 levying property taxes for the next fiscal year. It specifies separate funds including general, city hall, fire, sewer, library, parks, and road funding with stated millages and amounts and sets road levy at five mills for agricultural land and other property. The ordinance becomes effective upon passage and publication, dated August 8, 1931.
Miss Alice Kurka of air field is visiting her sister Mrs Laurence Libe for this week.
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