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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1938
Page
8
Children enjoyed a Y sponsored Christmas program with toys candy and fruit while Santa visited. Ping-pong champs pursue the week’s title as youngsters gathered for the event and a later project involves assembling Christmas boxes. A. M. E. Church thanks merchants and farmers for support of their third annual game dinner led by Pastor Albert L. Preston.
In Wellston on December 22 Mrs. Walter Wilson notes visitors at the Allen Schaeffer home were Frank Pratt and family John Pratt and Walter Wilson and family. Harry Banks shared a Christmas dinner with others. Several families gathered at the Wilson home Tuesday evening. Ira Miksch family and Robert Miksch visited Grace Bruning in Washington. The Wilsons also visited Roy Page near Harper and Walter sawed wood for Ray and a neighbor.
Burlington Iowa readers urged extra care at highway grade crossings after rising school bus fatalities. The author asks school boards to designate a walking observer in snow or fog to verify no trains before crossing and calls safety an essential school value. Motorists are urged to exercise extra caution on all crossings, especially during holidays, to prevent losses.
A meeting at the Clarence Lynn home focused on applying oil to the pavement from the road to Dublin. The report lists numerous community members attending various social events and family visits during the holiday season, including Christmas gatherings, dinners, and travel plans across Wellman, Des Moines, and nearby towns.
Frank Glover of Keota is invited to Christmas dinner at the Jim my Bowen home. The article notes Life of City and Country Dogs with a claim that country dogs live about nine years while city dogs average one year.
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