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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1933
Page
8
About 225 attendees enjoyed the Baptist ladies Dutch market last evening with a wide range of donated foods. Organizers hope to clear between $55 and $60 after serving from 5 to 7, as Mrs. M. M. Flynn of Wyman visited on business.
A reader notes hawk owls vacationing near the Rock Island railroad east of town. The birds, native to northern regions, resemble hawk and owl alike and hunt in daylight. Also mentioned: Miss Margaret Sexton completes a bachelor of science at the University of Iowa and plans vacation before nursing work in Chicago. Dr. J O Sexton’s family to Iowa City for her Sunday. Johnson’s Grocery ships a new 1933 Chevrolet delivery truck. Dr. Carl Kunath will join University Hospital in Iowa City starting July 1 for a year. C L Kersey and Joe Falk of Fairfield were in Washington on business.
A group from the local Eastern Star chapter attended a school of instruction for the Ainsworth Eastern Star chapter this afternoon. Attendees included Mrs. Johanna Ream Mrs. Roy Means Mrs. Lawrence Cruli Mrs. Belle Rice Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Meek Leigh Soule Mr. and Mrs Fred Bey Mrs. Ed Squire Miss Nellie Dodder Mrs. Earl Bickford Mrs. Glenn Mace Mrs. Howard McBride Mrs. Will Morland and Miss Gladys Mace.
Friends in the Ainsworth area note a baby girl born January 31 to Rev and Mrs Frank McAllister of Frearicksburg O named Lola Jean Rev McAllister formerly led the United Presbyterian church at Ainsworth The Maquoketa Sentinel reports the death of William Hannahs born 1855 near Johnstown Licking County Ohio He was a Modern Woodmen charter member and respected local citizen Rev BE Sarchett and family plan to move to the Christian parsonage Cedar Rapids will fill the pulpit temporarily with Mrs Sarchett preaching as well They will preach at the Christian church next Sunday Also Vernon White of Crawfordsville visited yesterday with shopping in mind.
Muscatine defeated Washington extending the Demons losing streak to three and leaving key players Kupke and McClure hobbled. Lutz led Muscatine with twelve points as Washington managed only one field basket in the first half. Coach Carlton criticized team confidence and announced a practice to lift morale ahead of next week’s Mt. Pleasant game.
A reflection that natural abilities nearly replace cultivated skill, yet no amount of mental cultivation can compensate for lacking natural gifts. The idea contrasts innate talent with deliberate training, stressing the primacy of nature in personal capacity.
Economy Oil Co announces a new gasoline at 25 North Marion Avenue the Vicker's Gaso line available in Hi-Ratio red and Special Golden Bronze. J W O'Meara says the product is a true gasolene with top cylinder lubrication reducing wear and expense increasing miles per gallon and quicker starts. The company claims it will revolutionize the industry and push better products to market.
Doctor Serthold Laufer of the Field Museum notes the Peking Gazette as an early daily paper appearing in 718 A D until 1911 when the Manchu dynasty fell. The fragment also lists unrelated classified lines about furnished flats for rent and acreage near Washington D. C.
Mr and Mrs Glen Fuhr near Kalona shopped here yesterday. Mr and Mrs Luther Davis of Crawfordsville shopped here yesterday. Mr and Mrs Clarence Fulton have a new baby son born at 5 25 Wednesday morning seven miles NW of Washington. The baby George Homer. Mr and Mrs Walter Humphrey 315 North Fourth avenue are parents of a nine and a half pound daughter born early this morning at their bore. Mr and Mrs Will E B Jones of Cotter shopped here today. Mr and Mrs Jacob Eicher and family of Wayland were in Washington today shopping.
Elmer Graber of Wayland and the Hustons of Crawfordsville visited yesterday. Harvey Davis, Chas. Brown auctioneer, Frank Havel, and A. J. Johnson were here on business. Eben Davis and others from Crawfordsville also shopped yesterday.
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