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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1929
Page
6
Fair notes prize categories for poultry including rooster and hen by breed with small cash awards. Grand champions for duck and turkey noted. no stock prizes this year. Grounds access granted to exhibitors and horse stock with advance viewing.
Crawfordsville notes welcome back residents Mr and Mrs Walden Smith. Mrs Will Anwyl mourns uncle Dudley Robinson in Los Angeles. Local visits by Lee Hanna Arthur Yard and others. Crawfordsville consolidated school opens Sept 2 for 1929 20 with no prior registration for existing students. Books at Williams grocery with list posted. High school enrollment anticipated higher. faculty listed for grades 1 2 3 4 6 7 and more pending.
Paul's mother Mrs Ebner and sister Irene joined Mr and Mrs Rodney Mayhew of Middletown Ohio for a small dinner at the Will Mayhew home on East Main Street. Guests included Mr and Mrs Harlan O Tuaghlin and Marjorie and Rob McFarlane.
The Kitchen class of the Methodist church in Sinsworth socialized at the home of Mr and Mrs Dewey Stephens. Officers were elected to the new Friendship class with Elsie Platt as president and Gl Sands as vice president. A program featured violin by Robert Stephens and piano by his mother. Next social set for September at Glenn Sands home.
Senator Brookhart says the debenture plan for farm relief will be adopted as part of the tariff bill and that the house will likely accept it. He notes the plan follows the equalization fee principle and is favored by Governor Lowden and supporters who have driven the policy.
Announcements show a series of local gatherings including Aship The Aub family picnic at Weeds park in Muscatine, assembly near Columbus Junction depot at 10 30 am, and a procession to the park. Oak Ridge Cemetery association schedules a Monday September 2 prelock tea social at 6 Hill with Fred Schwalbe and family visiting. Various clubs and church groups plan meetings, bake sales, and lectures through late August and early September, with dates and hosts named.
Elmer Huckins the so called tin social wizard who offered investors 26 percent on their money continues payments despite his firm being under federal fraud charges. A warrant charges him with mail fraud while John H. Leenhouts reports investors have still received 26 percent checks within the last week.
Frank Wilson fifty was wounded and under guard in a hospital after trying to steal chickens from Walter Dunn. He fled but was shot when found carrying birds from the Dunn chicken house. Wenzel of Milwaukee arrived in Washington to visit Miss Maude Hott. Raymond Rittenhouse and Stanley Faird left for Des Moines for the fair and a nine month course at the American Institute of Business. Weather forecast notes cloud distance varies with observer and cloud type.
New York reports no word from Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Lusche after their Aug 22 sighting above the Azores. Experts suspect head winds and fuel scarcity doomed the attempt to cross the Atlantic. Admiral Hues orders North Atlantic vessels to watch for survivors or debris. merchant ships told to keep lookout for the missing Swiss fliers.
Lucie Carper of Olds and Madicom Hangald principal Mason share social afternoon with Miss Alice Tonmeson of Dike and W T Smith superintendent of Crawfordsside. Florence Holmes hosts a small gathering Monday then a woods outing for a plenary supper with Mrs Wil Brown and sons Bobby and Bruce and the Brown sisters Luella Leila and Barbara of Morning Sun Iowa. Irene McCoy of Kanis visits grandmother Mary Meces.
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