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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1941
Page
2
Swedesburg church will host a Smorgasbord Friday from 5 to 8 pm with adults 60 cents and children 35 cents. Gift bags priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar, gift slippers and nylon hose advertised by Moore's Bootery. Local social notes include Mt. Pleasant visit for Commandery meeting and birthday celebration for C O Dayton and son Raymond turning 104 combined.
Washington Demons meet Keokuk Chiefs in the Little Six season opener at home with Don Klein Dick Marshall forward and Dick Moore Jim Arnold or Dave Turner in the backcourt. Keokuk travels with more practice games behind them and Coach John Harp notes steady improvement.
Secretary Leigh Soule of the YMCA announces 30 community men have signed up for the city basketball league at the Y. Teams will be formed and games played Monday evenings at 7:30. Ray Whitehead leads league planning. others may enter by calling.
John Whiting, a sailor on the destroyer U S S Fanning, had been stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Hollis J Whiting of Crawfordsville and grandson of Mrs W A Whiting of Washington. His family has heard little recently as the Fanning may have left Pearl Harbor. His brother Ernest is in U S service at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.
A rough roster-like fragment lists numerous individuals including Bill Kiesevy Ed Brown Red Little Arnold Carr E K Bur ham Chas Sutton Bill Burhart Bill Perdock Jack Tremean Ray Whitehead Gailin Bull Ed Nardy C F Chamberlin J H Donald Don Kiesey Ken White Reno Williams Ellis Finke Wayne Wittholt Tom Gray Joe Pickens Gene Turner Janes Birney M Miller Claire Darbyshire Butch Holden Dale Fuhr Gordon Jacobson Mike Meifone Frank Dea.
Columbus high school defeated Grandview 42 to 25 at Grandview Tuesday evening. Blieu scored 16 and Gentzler 13 for Columbus, while Bieri had 11 for Grandview. Grandview won the second game 22 to 17. Morning Sun visits Friday for Southeast Iowa league action.
Riverside high school and St. Mary's split a Tuesday doubleheader at the public school gym in Riverside Iowa. Public school players Fox and Dean Hartziger led scoring in their teams, while St. Mary's reserves pulled ahead 17 to 14 after a 4-4 tie in the first quarter.
An update notes pipeline work and plant moves across regions. The Hercules powder plant in New Jersey was rebuilt after an earlier blast. The company has laid 26 inch pipe in this county, the largest used here, with crews totaling about 500 on site and prior work in Kansas Oklahoma and Texas.
A long list of names and addresses appears as part of a questionnaire drive. The entries include residents from Washington Iowa and surrounding areas with street addresses and route numbers such as Wellman Kalona Riverside Crawfordsville Ainsworth Keota and Wayland. The document reads like a roll of respondents with multiple repetition of R No. and box numbers and various street details.
Mr Schneiter outlined pipeline work with bulldozers clearing right of way and eight carloads of pipe per mile. Sections 40 feet long are welded by H V Price company using about 1,500 welding machines. Two large trenching machines dig seven feet deep by 42 inches wide, with 800 feet of pipe laid per machine run. Welding, coating, wrapping, and trench backfilling follow, at an estimated cost of 50 000 dollars per mile.
The record notes that rum taxes supported the first public school in Bern North Carolina in 1766. It highlights how taxation on rum and other liquors funded early education efforts and sustained the school.
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