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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1937
Page
8
A long recap notes social events announcements in Keokuk and surrounding: visits, marriages, birthdays, anniversaries, hospital updates, theatre reopening, awards, and local committee activities. Notable items include Miss Bernice Lyon’s marriage in Muscatine, 80th birthday for Mrs Tucker, district engineer Morrison’s death, State theater’s reopening, and local charity efforts.
Mrs Dave Solomon and daughter Elaine visit with Mrs Roy Crosset and Mrs Burt Pierce in Minnesota households. They spent Thanksgiving together and brought a huge turkey to share with family and friends.
A crowded county update lists marriages and engagements including Kathryn Troutman to Glenn Smith and Mabel Sherman to Charles Wikoff. visitors and travelers, hospital news, a Red Cross registration rise, and local fire and accident notes fill a sweeping weekend digest.
The bureau of fisheries approved B D Duwa of Washington Iowa for fish to stock a small pond near Washington. Delivery will occur next summer or early autumn. Bream will be shipped from a hatchery. the pond is 150 by 125 feet and seven feet deep, fed by an artesian well. Rep Edward C Eichler endorsed the application.
Judge Bechly heard evidence in Kalona district court on the estate of Millard F. Enfield with Emma Enfield administratrix and W. W. Hochstettler trustee. Frank Messer represented the administratrix and A. E. Baldrige appeared for the trustee as the case was submitted to the court.
Investigators hunt an organized gang after eleven bags of registered mail with value estimates from 80 thousand to two million dollars were snatched from a government truck between the general post office and the Hoboken ferry. The theft echoes the Gerald Chapman mail raid of years past and had been kept quiet since Thursday night.
William Fischer 44 of Postville was sentenced to 30 days in jail after officers found a pheasant partly picked and concealed by clothes in a wash basin at his home following his arrest.
A ten year old Stinson aircraft crashed at Roosevelt field New York killing its lone occupant. The plane fell from 100 feet after the motor died during a takeoff and nosedived onto the concrete runway despite the pilot's efforts to land. The name of the pilot was not released.
The article lists a church week with Sunday school at 10:00 A M and worship at 11:00 A M. Epworth League at 6:30 P M led by Dorothy Ferguson. Union service at 7:30 P M preached by Rev J B Pollock. Wednesday study at parsonage 7:30 P M led by Miss Sarah Pollock. Pastor A W MacBlain notes the winter season and urges attendance for fellowship.
Special music program features organ preludes and anthems including Adagio in A, Come Unto Me, I Was Glad and Misericordia. Soloists Mable Livingston, Helen Harvey, and Wachs pieces are listed with entries for director Mansfield and minister Nichol.
Cotter Presbyterian church ladies aid society in Columbus Junction raised 123 dollars at a chicken supper and bazaar Tuesday evening. Obituary notes include Orville Sparrow summoned to Lomax, NL, by his father William Sparrow’s death.
Democratic targets include Kraschel Murphy and Valer tine while Republican hopes center on Wilson Beardsley Wegman and Storms. Senate and congressional races promise lively contests with incumbents facing reelection battles across nine districts and state offices up for grabs amid broad policy debates.
Locals in Washington from West Chester and Martins lend support as Mrs Harold Timmins travels from Munro to Crawford for care. News from University of Iowa City Friday evening notes improvement in patient H Coleman with pneumonia and infantile paralysis conditions, doctors optimistic for recovery.
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