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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1921
Page
5
Iowa reports show teachers earning higher monthly wages than years past while pay for superintendents and principals trails. The piece notes Iowa school property value at 63,329,554 dollars under a new public property invoicing law and recounts various local anecdotes on farming, cornbelt yields, and transportation projects, including a trans-state highway under study by Col. Thatcher.
Buckeye population 180 claims to host the state’s sole moving picture show financed by local business men. The weekly event draws countryside crowds each Wednesday night. In Kellogg Jasper county, German descent farmers cure geese in brine then smoke and bag for summer use. Archibald Livingston wills Monticello farm for hospital use. Lenox college to take the farm for agriculture if $25,900 is raised. College raises funds, relatives contest terms. supreme court rules against heirs. The case travels through district courts twice, college prevails each time.
Iowa reports 4 207 women own manage rent and farm 501 793 acres, two percent of farmers, Nebraska higher. 209 232 men farm and drive 33 424 896 acres with help of women. Governor Kendall backs statewide illiteracy drive to locate and help 1 300 illiterates in Des Moines and beyond. Future census to measure progress in 1925. Also notes drainage projects and Skunk River straightening through Story Polk Jasper Mahaska counties.
The Iowa Supreme Court held that certain patent medicines Beef Iron and Wine and Stearne's Tonic are inferior intoxicating liquors. Sheriff Robb seized 26 cases in Des Moines. Judge Utterback’s ruling upheld they are intoxicants despite permits. The court also ruled leasehold law requires 30 days notice before eviction and voids contrary contract clauses in Fowler vs Delleman.
Paul Parks a 27 year old war veteran from Nelsonville Ohio won selection from over fifty bari tones to debut at the David Bispham Memorial Concert honoring the late American baritone. He has never sung publicly in New York but has performed in the Midwest.
The Perry N Vekroff story shows a marriage strained by a hidden child. The wife hides the child's paternity after the wedding and the husband seeks the father, leading to jealousy and a dramatic revelation. Produced by John M Stahl for Associated First National Pictures. Cast includes Barbara Castleton William Desmond Lewis Stone Adele Farrington Winter Hall and child actor Richard Itchie Headrick.
A schoolboy's essay humorously describes soap as a cakelike non edible substance with a pleasant smell that tastes awful when it gets in the eye. He quips that Eskimos never use soap, and he wishes he were Eskimo.
Wright family announces purchase of a home on Fast Jackson Street in Washington and their intent to relocate with son Arthur and Mrs. Wright, joining daughter Mrs. Earle Corbin already in the city. The Keota community has long valued the Wrights as a respected family.
Riverside Leader notes Bruce Robinson returned from Chicago where he attended the International Livestock Exposition. He brought Mr Rank, a gentleman of color, with a highly educated mule now giving exhibitions with the animal at Fort Madison where a opera house exhibition contract is underway.
About eight Keota residents faced a federal officer last Wednesday who assessed license fees and penalties for operating auto livery businesses without federal licenses. All eight had paid the required amounts.
James Davis, condemned for murder at Sioux City, escaped from Fort Madison prison and boarded an eastbound Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe train. Authorities suspect he is headed to Chicago. Also sought is Ralph Lawshe, serving a forgery sentence, who escaped from the prison wood camp.
Coach Howard Jones announced 1922 football schedule additions with Iowa facing Ohio State over a three year contract. The 1923 game will be at Iowa City and 1924 at Columbus, with Purdue also to Iowa City two years running. Illinois and Minnesota retain home and home series.
The Iowa War Finance Corporation branch announced 285 banks requested loans and will receive funding totaling 15.206 million dollars. About 7.129 million dollars has already been distributed to Iowa farmers, with Washington approving roughly 8.738 million dollars in loans. For the week ending December 3, Iowa approved 1.9 million dollars in loan applications.
An agriculturist aboard a steamer from Matsue, Japan, describes a custom of giving holidays to oxen and horses. Villagers brush and decorate their animals and lead them to pasture, tethering them to a ring on a long rope so they may graze together peacefully.
Fairfield December 13 report says N C Anstead received long distance birthday wishes from Calliforn ia. Anstead’s son Robert could not be present but joined by telephone, a feat described as perhaps the first such call from that distance with clear service and understandable words.
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