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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1925
Page
3
Claire Dewey president of the local Ivaak Walton league notes pheasants released in Way and the expo stock are thriving. He urges Washington Do residents to cooperate with the league, seek landowner permission before hunting, avoid dynamiting fish, and respect game laws to protect wildlife and avoid heavy fines.
At a Washington Y M C A board meeting Don Sherman was re elected president for the coming year. All officers were re elected with Orville Elder as vice president J A Work secretary and Everette Griffith treasurer. Cloyce Kerr and R E Brown joined the board amid re elections of Frank Sage Marsh Bailey and D D Sherman. Next monthly board meeting is set for next Monday.
Mrs Eva Fogarty aged 71 died at her Jamestown North Dakota home. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at her brother Hooker Gamble's home in Columbus Junction. She taught in local schools and later in Jamestown. She leaves three brothers William Hooker and Edward Gamble and three sisters Kate Turner Margaret Parmeter and Mrs Joseph Greer. Mr and Mrs T B Poore and sons Roger and Albert visited Washington for fish and game law discussion.
Frank Miller is appointed manager of the Wann ington light plant for the Iowa Southern Utilities successor to Iowa Gas and Electric. He brings ten years of service and will oversee electric business in about thirty towns formerly served by the local unit. Homer Darbyshire moves to Ottumwa as manager there.
County Auditor A L Griffith reports Des Moines has reviewed tax valuations for Washington county. Farm land and town lots unchanged. Livestock values mostly decreased: yearling Colts 3 percent, two year Colts 13, horses three years 5, cattle feeding 18, heifers 6, steers one year 9, steers two years 4, swine nine months 4. No changes to personal property except livestock.
Gilbert Goff, who recently sold his barber shop in Washington, plans to move to Lisbon and take over the Garden theater on August 24. The theater, a well kept motion picture house, serves Lisbon ten miles from Cedar Rapids along the Lincoln highway, with Goff seen as energetic and capable for the venture.
Advance season ticket sales for the Washington Chautauqua show steady at local banks. Officers urge early purchases to avoid last minute congestion as anticipated crowds fill the program with politicians and entertainment groups including Ferrig, Jolneon, Stringer, Small and the Adam and Eva company.
Mrs Ralph Robertson and family with James Work and others returned from a motor trip through the east visiting Niagara Falls and other cities. Blanche Norris shopped in town while Rev Ralph McLaughlin and son Robert plan a visit then a missionary voyage to Egypt beginning September 7.
The Hagenbeck Wallace Circus brings what is billed as the world’s largest trained wild animal show to town this Friday. Elephants, hippos, lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, zebras, camels and monkeys share the bill with boxing kangaroos, laughing hyenas and trained seals. Open number Arabia features a comedy troupe, aerial acts by Flying Ward-Kimbat and Bob Eugene, plus clown routines. Showtimes are 2 PM and 8 PM with doors opening an hour early for viewing the menagerie. a downtown street parade will pass near noon.
A narrated line features a woman refusing flattery with a witty Scottish flavored jab. The exchange centers on wit over appearance and social propriety, reflecting era speech and humor in dialogue.
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