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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1931
Page
4
A biblical excerpt from The Messenger promises a forthcoming messenger who will prepare the way for the Lord and His covenant. The text emphasizes the Lord’s sudden coming to His temple and the delight in the messenger.
An elderly man at Union Station voices blunt social commentary on economic hardship. He recalls past fights and warns that fear and groaning plenty hinder recovery, urging more grit and fewer experts and excuses.
Quotations from Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book offer tips for ladies in Washington. Suggestions include avoiding salt fish at public tables, abandoning black silk mittens at breakfast, using a fork for pie, and preferring caps after age thirty five.
A dated, mock-authoritative missive bans discussing stomachs, middle age, and public displays at tables. It mocks guidance to women about cham pagne consumption cheese etiquette and avoiding shared reading with men, warning rebellious girls.
A past Washington Star quotation notes brewers told a Senate committee in 1917 that beer used less than three tenths of one percent of U S grain and seven hundredths of total agricultural land, arguing brewing mattered little to food conservation. The piece concludes the main consumption by drinks is dollars, not grain.
A compact guide highlights common misuses and mispronunciations such as writing she writes to me most every week and pronouncing bouquet hoo-ka as in hoot. It emphasizes correct accents and spelling like cretonne and observe the noun.
The By-the-Way notes joke about Clara Bow Rex Bell and a car owner tale. It recalls church humor, old timers clock woes, and readers’ humor requests. Mentions Mr. McElhinney, the M. hk. Church, and a postal bazaar package. The column invites literary contributions and funds for Jim Pennell.
Keota's business district gleams with sixty trees from five to eight feet, colorful lights, and festive storefronts. Stores extend hours after sundown from December 14 through Christmas, while the Woman's Relief Corps receives a $20 aid to assemble holiday baskets. A Methodist church cantata closes the season with a large cast on December 13.
Miss Francine Lacey a State University of Iowa student from Keota enters Chapter CM of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned straight A grades last semester and will graduate in February a half year ahead of her class. Lacey majored in journalism and is the daughter of Mrs Grace Stewart Lacey.
Iowa primary highway No 2 surfacing may be completed within a year under plans by the Iowa state highway commission at Ames. Contracts for graveling or crash rocking 30.66 miles of the Iowa Short Line in Adair and Cass counties were expected to be let at Ames on November 10. The surfacing is temporary relief until these funds permit western county paving. The road is graded and bridged in Adair, Cass, and part of Marion counties, with Mahaska line to Knoxville paving planned. Bemis & Schlick of Des Moines stored equipment at Olivet pending the letting.
We thank friends and neighbors for flowers and help during the brief illness of our mother and sister Wallace Darnell Minnie McMullen C. & McKenzie.
Mrs. G H Holmes traveled to Corning to aid with Austin Turner grandson of Gov Dan Turner. The 2% year old suffered multiple fractured vertebrae and a skull base fracture after falling from a stair to a garage storage loft. He was X-rayed in Omaha and treated before returning home.
Cyrus chapter Royal Arch Masons elected officers at the meeting held yesterday evening. Howard McBride was elected high priest, M. Robinson King, Cloyee Gault scribe, George McDaniel treasurer, A. W. Yara secretary. DeMolay advisory council members Will Carson Wilder Bell and George McDaniel were re elected.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Chicago Burlington and Quincy to abandon parts of its Mt Pleasant to Keokuk branch in Iowa. It requires a connecting track between Mt Pleasant and a Fort Madison Batavia line and delays abandonment until the new link is built. The northern ten miles and the Hamill Moor section are scheduled for removal pending completion.
Local residents report mixed road conditions with water standing on roads yesterday morning and generally similar to the past few weeks. Travelers note roads are not notably worse this morning with some improvement in visibility and flow.
The twelve miles of primary road No. 76 between Nichols and Columbus Junction will be graded bridged and surfaced with crushed rock early in 1932. The route may move west of the Rock Island tracks to eliminate dangerous railroad crossings. Road work aims to pave more segments of No. 61 and related routes in Louisa county during 1932.
Mary Cassabaum 76 widow of William Cassabaum died at home in Columbus City after a short pneumonia illness. Formerly Mary Jane Walker, she leaves three sons Frank Stone Henry W Stone and Charles Hunter and three daughters Charlotte Wilmering Herman Rahmiller and Clyde C Robinson. Funeral set for Sunday at 1 30 in Columbus City Methodist Church with burial in Indian Creek cemetery.
December term of Keokuk County Court to convene with Judge Frank Bechly presiding. Only six criminal cases listed, and the primary action seeks $10,000 damages in the death of Laura Lucille Willis in a two car collision near Keota. Amelia Rash and Wayne Rash sue for injuries and damages.
Fred Outkamp and Mrs. Bert Lowe both of Columbus Junction are named in a fragmentary obituary notice along with a number of grandchildren mentioned in the readable portion.
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