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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1937
Page
10
The Cratchit family gathers for a modest Christmas feast with goose and pudding. Tiny Tim’s fate looms as the Ghost warns Scrooge that his choices may condemn him and others to starvation.
Mrs Addison Connor and children left for Detroit after visiting her parents Dr and Mrs J N Irwin. Miss Dora Saunders returned from Davenport Muscatine. Mr and Mrs Wm Britten of Winnipeg visited A N Bales and Mrs Ed Swank. Ed Arnold of Toledo visited his mother Ida Arnold. Mae Marr of Keota stayed with C G Marshall. Co E S met and initiated Marjorie Hagans and Ruth Rich. Leonard Bridges returned from Rock Island. Commercial club met at Pringles Tea Room to discuss holiday plans. Sunday supper guests included several local families and Winnipeg visitors. Private funeral services were announced.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 30 p m at the late home for Dr N A Sloan who died Tuesday morning. He had been in failing health for years and bedfast since last March. He was a longtime member of the Presbyterian church for sixty years.
Paris December 8 The French air ministry moves to accelerate military plane production by creating a new Air Production Department to oversee all output and a fusion of technical services The plan aims to coordinate factories while preserving competition and assign responsibility for faults, citing a 60 percent production rise under state control.
FAIRFIELD Iowa June 77 C J Fulton longtime Iowa legislator and former Fairfield mayor died at his home from a stroke He served Jefferson county as representative in the 33rd and 34th general assemblies and as state senator in the 39th 40th 41st and 42nd sessions
Indianola reports Joseph Lepley 81 found dead on his farm hog lot. He lived alone half mile south of Lacona. Body mutilated by hogs after neighbor Lester Oxenritter heard activity and Harvey Lafen last saw him.
A goatherd reportedly uncovered the Delphi oracle site when his herd cried and pranced near a chasm that released intoxicating air. The priestess who delivered prophecies sits above the mysterious place, now possibly vanished as the chasm or its fame fades.
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