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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1938

Page

3

The Rocking Hair Brigade and Town Notes

Village column covers Washington gossip at length including shifts in local families C A Speer moving to Wapello Mrs Speer and Myrtle Morton remain. Y W party plans and toy donations. old fireless cookers. health notes from Rochester. births including Larry Duane Shalla. deaths including Mrs Fred Anderson and Will C Bardo. D A R meeting. bell preservation talk. local social news from Washington and nearby towns.

C. A. Speer Washington Wapello Mra. Speer

Deaths of the Week Summary

Mrs. Fred Anderson died at her Oklahoma City home last Saturday. Her husband had died two years earlier. Mrs. Solomon Weekly, a former Seventy-Six township resident, died at her daughter Effie Fisher’s Waldo Ohio home last week. William Edward Page, 70, died of a heart ailment at his East Fourteenth Street home Tuesday night. Mrs. Christian Bumgarner Anna Schafer Bumgartner of Brighton, 86, died at her daughter Will Croft’s home from pneumonia.

Fred Anderson Mary Virginia (Smouse) Anderson Oklahoma City Solomon Weekly Effie Fisher Waldo Ohio William Edward Page East Fourteenth Street Christian Bumgarner Anna Schafer Bumgartner Brighton Will Croft

Road Trip Through the South with Pecans and Billboards

The narrator reports a cool morning drive from Penney Farms Florida to Knoxville Tennessee. Georgia and South Carolina show countless billboards, pecan orchards, red sands, and cotton fields with little labor. They stop near Greenville for dinner and note water power as rivers descend from the mountains.

Florida Georgia Chattanooga Gray South Carolina Greenville Cumberland Mountains Greenwood Asheville

Review of the Week’s News and Local Updates

The YWCA Christmas party will be held at the Y on Thursday December 22 with requests for toys and money. Guy Gilliottte led in Iowa votes with L J Dickinson pursuing a possible recount. Sealing of corn for federal loans has begun and labor shop owner changes hands to Gust Bramer. Henry Russell’s son Henry died on the battlefield in France October 14. Sam Gardner, a county pioneer, died December 13 at 86. Patricia Keeley’s illness remains unchanged as influenza recovery continues. Henry Steck returns home after discharge from Camp Pike officers training.

Odd Fellows Elect Officers And Local Projects Noted

The community reports Odd Fellows elected Fay Murphy as noble grand. A Legion project builds a PWA sign on the cemetery road site. An ice skating rink on South Fourth Avenue is prepared for cold weather then opens for visitors. Poultry show draws big crowds with a women’s handcraft division. Laird Hawkins of Ainsworth is found guilty of drunken driving. An eye injury occurs at Tucker and Eicher garage from a wire brush. Local church and school activities, hospital insurance for calendar factory workers, and Christmas seal sales are mentioned along with holiday community events.

South Fourth Avenue

Quotes on lawsuits laziness church opinions and cooking

A collection of wry observations noting that successful lawsuits feel like the lawyer’s advice, lazy parents produce industrious children, large churchgoers seek popularity over piety, couples seen on trains prompt gossip, and many people endure poor meals at home.

Veterans and families receive government insurance checks and reopening of medical office

Vere Mary Mc Avoy received her first government insurance check after her son Dewey was killed in action in France. Cant Henry Hall reopened his medical office following honorable discharge from army training at Fort Riley Kansas. Mr and Mrs Ardoren were summoned to Chinen for the cortane Meer of their car io We Alea Tree 8 Work Procreescine. They started laying the hotel for boarding and the first floor concrete and steel orders were placed.

Vere Mary McAvoy Dewey France Owens Henry Hall Medical Department of the Army Fort Pilew Wansas

Sells Farm and Miscellany Report from Local Notes

The 194 acre farm sold for 31000 to Higbee of Winfield Beacon. timber included. C F Norton connected with missionaries in India. his family runs a school there. Howard McCleery expected to return to the county to farm north of town. Esther MacGugin returns from six weeks in Colorado. voting rights there require one year residency. Wally Bidwell John Teeter and Lon Brindley share a birthday and age. they dined at Harvey and Warfel. Mrs D W Lewis, former schools superintendent wife, dies in Pasadena. Charley Means and Peter Berdo swap houses. Peter plans a new home project.

Milt Yardhee Higbee Winfield Beacon Wally Bidwell John Teeter Lon Brindley Harvey and Warfel Bidwell Andrew Carnegie

Academy News notes pep talk and sports updates

Forty years ago Niehe Service-Woehingrtan workers discuss local plants in town. Wade Steck returns from Chicago after visiting an old friend. John Rahenek at Morenan Park Academy reports on football and athletics. The Academy meeting hears a Time Works Wonders talk by Row 7 Fimer Rurequiet. Miss Mary Massey delivers a solo.

Hore Ohlenen Wade Steck Chicaro John Rahenek Morenan Park Academy Academy News Ficher Plavine He Academy Warren Mary Massey

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Tom THE Rocking Hair Brigade Alex Miller Y. W Lester Orr Orr Copppeck Highway Rochester John Shalla Duane Shalla Larry Duane Oklahoma Heights Howard Anderson Mrs. Miller Mrs. Anderson Don Frank Prebyl Kalona John Shattle Emma Bopp Ed Conner Nancy Old Heights Ben Biiley the Heights Fairfield Centennial Brigade Nina” Stutsman EB. E. Stutsman White Shrine Sare Andeneak Will C. Bardo Akanesas City Kansas Nartnershin Indaw W. M. Terry Fema Bordo Riverside Toe Wright Frank Crone PWA Everstine Daniels Loe Cabin D. J. Palmer Alexander Youg Edith Miller Besse Conger Miss Daniels Mre. Ekler Beitel D. C. Russell John Black Emil Hesselschwerdt Journal Cameranal Ralph Livingston Los Angeles Helen Mamie Eda Sproul Nell Samson Tampa McCalls Lizzie Palmer Bea Wilson Linotyne Journal Office Bea Will Carrel Halliean Gladys Mace Bea Crawfordsville Ww. C. Bardo Will” Bardo Arkansas City T. E. Maxwell County M. C. DeLong Marquis Turbott Washington County Susie Schlarbaum Schlarbaum Wayland Wayland Mennonite Church Robert Reaney A. J. Donovan Washington-Riverside Road Brichton George McDaniel East Main Street Sidney Smith South Marion Avenue Glenn Zaring Kankakee TI Laird Hawvivs Ainsworth Penney Farms Knoxville, Tenn Mrs. C. S. Williams Moore's Mr. Williams Mrs. Williams South America Tropics A. Keith Droz Y’s Men’s Club Washington County Hospital Iowa Guy Gillette L. J. Dickinson Martin Nielson Gust Bramer Sam Donahey James Baird H. W. Russell Henry Sam Gardner S. C. Gardner Patricia Keeley Keeley Patricia Henry Steck Camp Pike Little Rock Arkansas Cemetery Road Odd Fellows Fay Murphy Noble Grand Lester Glick Navy California China Laird Hawkins Alvin Hawkins Tucker and Eicher Garage J. A. Porter B. Ward East Third Street South Eighth Ave C. F. Anderson Bigesville, Ill McCleery Calendar Factory Frantlin Kinsley Ernest White Dorothy Denison North Fourth Avenue Pr. C. A. Boice Ely Y's Men’s Club Bernice Derby Howard Mylton Cleen Zarine Kankakee, Til Christian Church Floyd Hunt Joan Lloyd Hunt Davis Hunts Morrleon Tantan Mehnar White Mra Rose M. Peid Keokuk Ft Madtenn Burlinetan Cavalonia Tyee Manthew Ottumwa Ainhetee Teteeratee Betsey the Fox Betsey Patterson Baltimore Jerome Bonaparte Napoleon Harry Dye Elizabeth Patterson K. C K. C. Hall J. M. Kelly Juliet Lemmon Henrietta Hull Helen Junebluth Helen Alcorn Janet Dennines Martha Reister Margaret Griffith Helen Jones Betty Cunningham Helen’ Masson Virginia Sara Marie Navis Willa Briley Maxine Willits Ruth Broyan Owen William Jennings Bryan N. PW. Moner BR and P Ainner Cal Mra. J. M. Wilson U. P Inter-Church Committee C. F. Norton Iowa Gas and Electric Company India Howard McCleery Colo Esther MacGugin Colorado Hamiltons Loveland Charley Means Peter Berdo Peter Niehe Woehingrtan An al Nicht Eles Hecht Aervier Pew Thie Etra
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