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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1934
Page
8
Attendees report difficulty hearing music on Wednesday and Saturday nights due to children playing noisily in the park. Parents are urged to cooperate and keep children elsewhere during concert times, with playing advised before and after performances.
The Adeline club met for the seventh time this year with one member absent. the group chose to go to a movie together.
Several children underwent tonsillectomies today at Washington County Hospital including Beatrice Moore 13 Edith Zihiman 12 Keith Wykoff 5 Irene Kauffman 11 Wayne Higby 5 and Elsie Ruth Marshall 6. A note requests quieter nighttime traffic around the hospital to avoid disturbance.
Alice Crawford aged 69 died yesterday afternoon at the county home. The body was sent to L A Jones funeral home for arrangements not yet set. She formerly lived in the Kalona area and had spent the last year at the county home.
State liquor stores will open in Perry Boone Rockwell City Charles City Storm Lake Webster City Newton and three other cities by September 1, the Iowa liquor commission announced. The Iowa City store is not among the openings this month.
The article notes 28 distinct kinds of orchestral drums used in India and observes Hindu bands frequently employing up to twenty different drums in performances. It highlights regional and traditional percussion roles within Indian music.
Demonstrations by girls in the county 4 H club run 9 to 12 a m and 1 to 2 30 p m with a funeral recess. Mrs Grace McIlrath Ellis of Marengo will judge nine demonstrations each about 25 minutes. Exhibits at the Methodist church show clothing contests with garments already displayed and more entries expected. Georgina Sterling entered linen undergarments made from Irish linen over fifty years old and brought from Ireland in 1913 by her grandmother.
Dick McCleery addressed the Rotary Club on Some International Problems. He argued that economics drove the World War and urged steps like retiring land surplus, adjusting war debts, and reworking tariffs to stabilize postwar conditions both in the U S and globally. He warned of long term global jigsaw puzzles and questioned reliance on artificial fixes.
Mrs. George Dowell has returned from Rock Island Illinois. Rev and Mrs Vernon H Carter plan to be home from a two week Christian church vacation. Mrs. Morrison and Miss Wilson came back from Chicago. Several others report trips to Des Moines Redwood Falls and Lake Okoboji with family members and friends.
Local column records visits and errands in Merrimac and nearby towns. People listed include Mrs. A N Amrine, Carl Amrine, Doss Van Winkle, Elmer Reshley, and families visiting Fort Madison Wayland Mt. Pleasant Fairfield and Wayland. Sympathy extended to Mrs Gleede Cold in McCarty family loss.
The 36th annual Iowa League of Municipalities convention will be in Waterloo August 21 to 23. Mayor L H Childs of Fort Madison, president of the league, notes the group was founded in 1898 and has never skipped a year. Waterloo previously hosted in 1903 and 1919.
Community announcement invites all to hear the Kerrigan Harmony Five at Valley Church on Thursday evening August 9. Attendees are asked to bring sandwiches for their own families. Also noted is the Gardner reunion set for August 16 at Lexington ME Church and Virginian Rohrer’s visit with family at the Ray Page home in Oskaloosa.
Miss Lois Holland returns from a week in Chicago where she attended the Century of Progress exposition with Miss Nita Corbin. Corbin plans to study voice in New York with Estelle Liebling and continue teaching at Drake University this fall.
Six bids to reinsure the Davenport based Regis ter Life Insurance Co will be reviewed by District Judge W R Maines. The contest covers 28 million dollars in policies and final acceptance hinges on recommendations from the state insurance department to be presented with the bids.
The text traces an early steamboat idea from 1671 to a 1729 patent claim and notes a possible 1807 patent, reflecting the evolving early American patents for steamboat technology.
Mr and Mrs A E Atchison and family relate a scorching journey home from Richland Kansas. The thermometer hit 112 and drought sights in Kansas and Missouri caused water hauling and thirsty livestock. Washington County is praised as their "spot of the universe" while relatives in California plan visits later in the month.
Mrs C T Black and Mrs Mr R Sample visit the Alfred Johpson home in Ottumwa. Mrs vy A McKay and granddaughter Betty Jean McKay return from Chicago after four days at the Century of Progress exposition. Hazel Hunter of Pine Ridge is visiting the Darnell home with sister Mrs Dunnell. Merle Little of Miami to join later. Charles B Anderson of Columbia University, visiting grandmother Mrs A Anderson, is preparing two dictionaries English French and English German.
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