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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1930
Page
5
Four Sioux City men including Leo Kimberley and William Schultz were sentenced to ten years in penitentiary after confessing to wholesale robberies of freight cars. The confessions cited thefts totaling thousands of dollars.
Mrs. Andrew C. Peterson, widow of an Omaha railroad engineer fatally injured in a collision near Sibley on November 29, received a $17,500 settlement from the railroad, announced in Sioux City.
Union motion picture operators in Burlington will return to work Sunday after arbitration with the Central States Theater Corporation. They quit December 2 in solidarity with musicians, who were not employed when the Rialto theater moved to the old Grand Opera house after a Rialto fire. Non union staff have been running projectors at the Rialto and Palace locally, affecting several Iowa cities.
Emil Ahrens age 16 and James Seiler age 15, both of Boone, confessed to stealing automobiles and breaking into filling stations. They surrendered guns, a dozen blankets, gasoline and oil when arrested and were turned over to Ames authorities.
Clements Flockman 43 killed himself with gas. despondent over job prospects. Survived by widow and two sons. Local authorities report the death occurred in Burlington on December 17.
The Albia city council approved a Sunday movie ordinance last night, settling a two year dispute over the policy and allowing cinemas to operate on Sundays. The vote confirmed the change and sets the new schedule for local theaters.
Col Hanford MacNider United States minister to Canada attends the Northwest States Portland Cement Company annual meeting in Mason City where he serves as president. He and Mrs MacNider depart for Ottawa to resume official duties after the event.
Olmsted Inc in Des Moines files suit in Des Moines county court claiming Maryland Casualty breached a contract by prohibiting Olmsted to employ sub agents in 48 Iowa counties. The action seeks $37000 in damages and unspecified relief.
Mrs. Anna Rowey Bruce and Marie joined Mrs. Mae Bray for straw baler dinner. Hazel Rice entertained from school. Maxine Balderson visited. Oz Gowey carpentered with his sister Rosella Spalding. Many families hosted gatherings, including the Jones and Emry households. The Bible Gleaner class socialized at Pleasant Plain Friends church. Christmas programs planned at local schoolhouses.
Local groups schedule December 18 meetings with Christmas exchanges, pot luck suppers, and officer elections. Activities include Harmony Community, P. H. club, Damascus Shrine, White Shrine ceremonial, and M. E. B. ladies aid events with hostesses named.
Kalona marks a double weekend win with the high school team defeating an opponent 18 to 12 and the visiting junior high team beating local juniors 22 to 7. Local residents including the Small and Bevins families visit relatives, with several Iowa City and Wellman connections noted.
Lexington correspondent reports Santa Claus appeared Saturday at the Montgomery Ward store amid eager children. Local residents Everett Green and wife, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fleming, and visitors from Washington are mentioned with social visits and weekend travel notes.
Local report notes Fairfield visitors Charley Parcell and spouse from Fairfield, while a fire destroyed the old house by McKain's bridge. Hog cholera is reported in the vicinity, as Brighton residents share word of recent events.
A community concert at Pap list church drew a good crowd and raised about 15 dollars for the A M E church. The program featured twelve spirituals led by Rev H J Parker with a choir from the colored church performing classic spirituals such as Holy Holy and Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
In Fairfield Connecticut two young brothers, Paul Boros aged 6 and George Boros aged 5, disappeared after chasing a ball onto thin ice. A motorist found a girl crying that her brothers left her, and two bodies were later recovered from a hole in the ice.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Stuart Tansey's home for the Civil War veteran who died Friday night after months of illness. Born January 12, 1835 in Morgan County Indiana, he was 95 years old. Tansey moved to Iowa in 1837 and served in Co H 7th Iowa Infantry, later marrying Maggie Brown and then Fannie Lingo. He leaves several descendants and was honored by American Legion and Woman's Relief Corps with a firing squad salute.
Ramon Franco, leader of the failed attempt to start a revolution in Spain, admitted the effort failed but argued the revolt is not dead and will triumph in the future from Lisbon via London.
Washington December 17 Democrats in Congress will press to avoid holiday adjournment until a drought relief loan bill passes. Representative John N Garner minority leader in the house announced today.
A brief excerpt mentions the week spent with his mother, Mrs. Ann Parcell, highlighting family time and associated routine.
Joplin Missouri December 17. At a mass meeting of railway workers Hutchinson vice president of the Frisco lines warned that unregulated highway and water competition is forcing railroads to reduce staffing to 1910 levels. He cited federal participation in waterways and the Mississippi Waterway Service and noted hard road construction shifting freight to commercial transport.
Bethel reports busy pre Christmas activities with a church program and Santa visits. Rosemary club host Rosemary club. Flen-De-Lis club meets. Jackson Township Farm Bureau holds meeting at Jackson Center schoolhouse. Officers elected, talks on marketing, and three picture reels shown. refreshments served.
Elmer Zellers a farmer parked his car with Christmas presents at a curb while he bought meat at a butcher shop. On returning the first theft stole the gifts then the meat. He reported the loss at the police station and found the meat gone when he returned.
Mr Wilbur Chalipa reports a Sunday gathering at Walter Marting's as Mr and Mrs Carl Steele and their children attended. The men hunted wolves and captured two. Four wolves were seen eating in a cornfield. Prior weeks saw other family guests including Roy and Krotz families and Malichky relatives. Donald Steele returned from work in Washyeelan.
A fragment from Louisville mentions a sore foot from a walnut and horseshoe nail, with Greta Ramsey and Jean Walker both ill. Living Lake district ladies meet at Mrs. Everett Stewart’s for a Farm Bureau lesson on home management led by Mrs. Cloyce Stewart, focusing on making fireless cookets.
Jefferson City Mo December 17 Chief of Police Harry L Parker was exonerated of charges of conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws. He was dismissed after a preliminary hearing failing to link him to an alleged liquor transport plot to the Negro Democrat rally on November 3. Three of the five charged with Parker were held for February federal court term. two others, including a woman, were dismissed but bonded as witnesses in another case.
Mrs. J. D. Darrow travels to Peoria to visit sister with spinal injury after last month’s auto accident. Priscilla club elects officers with KR Shearer president and C J Doncan vice president. Ladies Socialetree plans a Christmas party at Mrs Hallie Manst Pri’s home. Mrs J F B Gray heads to Oakland for winter with Cearl Gray. Mrs C P Rambo returns from St Paul visit with S M Van Vliet. Todays club hosts a Christmas party at Mrs B P Shellabarger’s home.
In a Washington Star column Hi Ho of Chinatown argues history now follows patterns closer to ancestral records than to a mere airship, challenging the saying that history repeats itself.
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