Wayland School News Highlights Local Events and Scores
Wayland reports eighth grade exams, basketball results, and a planned doubleheader. News covers local coaching, junior teams’ wins, a New London game in the county tournament, a Pennant hope, a college choir visit, and a death notice for Mike Mary Il. Drake’s father in Brooklyn Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayland
Geiger
Iowa City
Henry
New London
Olds Raiders
Charlee Brooks
Charles
Western State Teachers College
Maccomb
Illinois
McElhinney
Parsons College Chapel
Wayland High School
Aft
Pether
Strooklyn
Mike Mary Il. Drake
Miss Drake
D. W. Githene
Sandra
Mr. Pritchard
Fairfield
Local visitors and gatherings around Ottumwa and Fairfield
Martha Crone of Ottumwa spent the weekend at the H M Crone home in Ottumwa. Kenneth Miller and daughter Sue of Fairfield visited the Maurice Kelley home. L A Meredith visited Walter H Johnson and Duane Hazen near Aireworth with several others. A birthday dinner honored Mrs Reister. August Klett of Harper could not attend due to Mrs Klett’s illness.
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L. A. Meredith
Martha Crone
Ottumwa
H. M. Crone
Kenneth Miller
Sue
Fairfield
Maurice Kelley
Walter H. Johnson
Duane Hazen
Aireworth
Clarence Lee
Robert Lowe
Besse
Moore
Muscatine
Dave Miller
Miller
Benj Miller
Olds
Jennie Bruty
Harper
Eb, Gevock
Albert Benda
Raymond Minick
Mary Ruth
Art Swift
Donald
Richard Minick
Claude Reister
Eva Ballard services held at Stacy funeral home
Funeral services for Eva Ballard were conducted Saturday afternoon at Stacy funeral home with Rev. David Thompson and two other pastors officiating. Mrs Allen Wenger sang. Pioneers, church and school groups sent floral tributes as former pupils carried the casket. A pupil praised Miss Ballard as the best teacher he ever had in a moving classroom tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Pritchard
Richard Sodergren
Tom Wenger
Joseph Suter
Daniel
Charles Eicher
Surprising Mixup Links Iowa Family to Omaha Call
A Washington Iowa family received a phone call meant for a wife in Omaha Nebraska about a husband who wandered from the fold. The caller had dialed the Johnson Packing Company in Washington Nebraska by mistake. The tale includes six year old Jim Haygreen’s worries about school as he starts kindergarten.
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Mike Logen
Richard Johnson
Omaha
Nebraska
Jimmy J Haygreen
Glenn Haygreen
Jim
Young Jim
Jimmy
Glenn
Drive-By Dinnertime: Farm Memories and Misadventures
A reader recalls childhood on a farm with a pony and haystacks, while a comic page mixes snippets of moral lectures and odd exchanges. The piece touches on small-town life, a prank gone awry, and a fortune found after a long wait, framed in humorous vignettes.
Way Down Upon De Swanee River Origin Disputed
In 1851 Stephen Foster sought a river name for a poem brought by his brother Morrison to Pittsburgh. He rejected Pedee for inaccuracy and Yazoo as unsuitable, per an atlas. after twenty minutes he exclaimed with relief at a fitting choice.
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de Swanee River
Fister
Morrison
Pittsburgh
de Pedee River
Stephen
Jelieht Broushe
Fragmentary Historic Calendar of February Entries
A jumble of February dates lists various businesses and notable figures such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The text appears as an OCR fragment noting multiple firms, a theater, a veterinary, a service shop, and a few year marks without coherent context.
WIN DOLLARS IN FEBRUARY FOR FIRST YEAR PARAGRAPHS
The Journal invites submissions of 50 word paragraphs on a firm’s first year. Write one or more entries, each about a single business, and submit by February 29 1940. The three best will win one dollar each. Eligibility applies to all except owners of listed firms.
Walnut Social Notes Highlight Local Gatherings
Walnut report lists neighbors visiting each other across multiple homes including the Nelson, Darnell, Wilson, Vorhees, Bauer and Chorpening families. Notable items mention Chas Propst shipping a car load of cattle to Chicago last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Nelson
Walnut
Joe Nelson
Howard Darnell
Ed Nelson
Lyle Wilson
Stalph Chorpening
Howard Miller
Carl Vorhees
Bauer
Lois
Loyd Nelson
Stanley Baird
Wayne Propst
Bonaparte
Chas
Martin Wilson
Jim Baird
Chas. Propst
Chicago
Swanee river lyric reshapes fame as Bottles measure success
In a northern Florida Swanee river setting the twist of a line reshapes a tale of fame. The Pedee loses a chance as immortality shifts to the Swanee and a future note hints at a composer tied to bottles.
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Florida
Swanee
Shadowing My Wife Ends Public Jealousy Scheme
Irene Rand confronts Reynold P. Rand after he hires a bodyguard to guard her. Drake, the actor, confronts rival Maurice and punches him, exposing the ruse. Rand vows to shadow his wife from now on, ending the breakfast farce and scandal at the Capitol club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eynold Rand
Irene Rand
Reynold
Irene
Reynold P. Rand
Mr. Drake
Rey
Drake
Maurice
Sue
AEF Members Still Reside in France Report
Figures from the Paris Post of the American Legion show more than 1500 members of the AEF continue to live in France.
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Paris
Viola Barnes Hosts Insurance Lesson for Farm Women
Viola Barnes hosted an insurance lesson at her Brighton home on February 1. A lunch followed with bonehouts coffee fudge and mints. The event included social visits from neighbors and reports of local horse sales and visits to Washington and Columbus Junction. Billis Walton’s death in Washington was noted.
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Viola Barnes
A. Borkoski
Brighton
Bo Nehouts
Seth Carris
Keith Allan
Clarence Tbrown
Jen Mullkin
Long
Columbus Junction
Everett Garrett Spnt
Violet
Billis Walton
Washington
Walton
Moon Surface Described as Rocky Pitted Sphere
The moon appears as a sphere of rock 2,160 miles in diameter with a pitted surface of small and large craters. Lofty peaks and mountain ranges are visible, along with other markings on the lunar terrain.
Taxes Total About Ten Percent of Car Price, Commission Says
The National Consumers Tax Commission reports that about 203 taxes are involved in the manufacture and sale of an automobile. These taxes account for nearly ten percent of the selling price.
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National Consumers Tax Commission
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Ellsworth Junior College
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Her Majesty
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Iowa State College
WOL Music Shop
Bebess
Lemley & Yard Insurance Agency
Phillips & Hebner Drug Store
Ross
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Abraham Lincoln
K. M. Bridges & Co
the State Theatre
Pop Lytle
George Washington
Henry Wadsworth Lonefellow
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Toge Wolfe Hatchery
Fred Reid
Farmer's Cooperative Exchange
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