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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1948
Page
2
A Washington man spent forty minutes crafting a speech then drove 140 miles to deliver it as the final speaker of the evening. He condensed his remarks to just over ten minutes as the audience grew restless. The piece concludes with a note on giving flowers to comfort friends in bereavement and celebrate joy and sickness alike.
A group of neighbors surprised Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jarrard Monday evening in anticipation of their anniversary. They enjoyed music, visiting, and refreshments served from baskets by hosts and guests.
A series of birth notices lists families in Iowa communities including Edmund Morrison Jr, Emil Peiffer, Don Whitlatch, Clifford Baker, and William Rarick with newborn daughters and sons. Additional entries mention medical notes and names like Gwyneth Aan Jopem, Onita Smith, and Dennis Colton among others.
Lee Holland topped individual scorers with a high game of 210 pins. Mike Flenner was second with 203 as Ed ward Wolfe rolled 557 pins in three games to win series honors, with Holland close at 554. Sitler team led all with a 2341 match total.
Secretary Artemas Brown leads a Washington Y M C A volleyball team to Cedar Rapids to face a Y M C A squad from the same city. The contest marks a regional intercity clash between YMCA squads.
Tonight's doubleheader basketball program at the high school starts at 6:25 with the Washington junior cagers facing Mt. Pleasant's Little Panthers. The main event follows, pitting the junior college Cardinals against the Bloomfield quintet.
East Highland notes a Kalona doctor visit for Aunt Annie Lear with Mrs. Mary Kron assisting. Local families including the Premeks Lears and Coles visited Anna Lear’s family, while Cerny Skubal Kenny Lukavsky members gathered at Henry Prymek’s home. Crescent school now uses electric lights.
Swailes did the wiring last Satur Marie Hayes visits her aunt Mrs Fred Lear the last few days Alva Bell Linwood Heck and Bill Lear sawed wood Friday Mr and Mrs Roy Deffenbacher and Miss Jacqueline Schroeder visited Friday with Mr and Mrs Frank Dvorak They start back home in Chiloquin Oregon Sunday
Three Oklahoma ex convicts who shot their way out of a Little Rock junior high last night were captured in Port Smith. Sheriff Prentice Maddux said officers arrested Leon ard Blair 42 Carl Bradberry 26 both of Shawnee Okla and Everett Pate 30 of Fort Smith after watching their house for two days. All three had been released from the Oklahoma state prison at McAlester last year.
Plans are under way for a table tennis tournament at the Washington Y M C A on Monday evening March 1. William Hatcher chairs a committee including Bill Shannon Bob Brewer and Gerald Humble. Five divisions exist boys under 16 men open girls open men doubles and mixed doubles with an entry fee of 25 cents per event.
Nancy Winters cleans and forgives, but the ragman collects old magazines bottles and a pair of pants containing fifty dollars. Ted discovers the pants are gone and the watch he saved for may be unrecoverable after asking Tony Rozalle’s neighbor about a sale on Clark Street. The Rozalles had rushed away to visit their son after an air corps accident.
A three ton slab of steel 30 inches by 150 inches by 5 inches can be rolled into a 750 foot length of sheet steel 30 inches wide and 0.080 inch thick in 90 seconds at a newly built continuous hot strip mill.
Betty Jean Hancock daughter of Keota residents married Richard Flynn in a Keota St Marys church ceremony. Rev C S Kempker officiated as music came from St Marys school pupils. The couple will reside on the groom’s farm after a short southern wedding trip. Out of town guests came from Cedar Rapids and Davenport.
Winifred Gerdes daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas J Gerdes and Floyd W Polis were married at the First Presbyterian church Saturday at 10 30 by Reverend Robert Spencer. The bride wore a white gabardine street length dress with pink carnation corsage. The groom works at the American Pearl Button Company and Polis will continue as a stenographer in the department of social welfare.
The Fortnightly Drama department at Mrs. Ruth Simpson's home held its group choral reading with eleven members. Mrs. Bordwell led the business session naming nominating and program committees for the year.
Mr and Mrs John Robertson hosted a potluck for 36 Enterprise Community club members. Gifts were exchanged for Mr and Mrs William Moorhouse from Chicago, formerly Neva Jean Robertson. Next meeting will be at Mr and Mrs Ernest Crawford’s in March.
The Farmerettes 4 H Club met Saturday afternoon at LuElla Sojka's home with seven members two guests and the assistant leader present Lovila Sojka directed the program LuElla demonstrated how to make a butter cake A Valentine exchange and games followed during the social hour Refreshments were served by LuElla and her mother Mrs Rose Sojka
Relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Schmitter to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. An angel food cake by Mrs. Orville Morgan and a chocolate cake by Mrs. Benny Rusk hid tiny scrolls announcing Letha Schmitter’s engagement to G Armand Ludin of Lander Wyoming with a future wedding planned.
Mason City Feb 17 Final arguments in the trial of Charles Ver Helst were cut short today when the defense waived the right to make a final plea to the jury. The case was to be submitted to the jury after Judge William Butler read the final instructions.
Riverside Iowa February 16 Milo G Stransky Route No 1 Riverside will receive the Bronze Star in a special Legion post ceremony for World War II heroism with the American division in the Pacific He is cited for bravery on February 25 1945 during an enemy counter attack against his platoon.
The nap of hand woven Oriental rugs tied with the Ghiades knot tends to run toward one end, causing more high lights when viewed from that direction than from the opposite side.
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