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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1932
Page
3
A ready mix of local color sketches from a small town: church visits at a Methodist church, welfare efforts at the YWCA, new babies and health nurses, social visits by Dr and Mrs Bowers, and reflections on changing times. The column notes shopping, weather, optimism, a high school class of 1893, and a cheeky remark about a Boston barber as the Pathfinder notes a rocking chair hobby.
A miscellany column notes cheeky quips about aging and social behavior. It also reports Minnie M. Fiske’s death and funeral, Ben Badenoch selling a River Forest home, and local oddities from Oregon to California including a 13 pound turnip and a Japanese fraud case.
A Democrat and Jew, Benjamin Nathan Cardoza, named to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes on the U S Supreme Court. Cardoza, 61, former chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals, bachelor, regarded as a leading legal figure of his era. The report contrasts with Alfred E Smith's prior presidential bid and notes other contemporaneous items.
The Washington High School 1893 graduating class numbered thirty six, ages seventeen to twenty one, with thirty one girls and five boys. Ruth Miller led with 96.9 percent scholarship while D. W. Lewis served as principal for over two decades. The Everson Opera House hosted the February ceremony amid cold temperatures and a large crowd, featuring a lengthy program of declamations essays and music led by Miss Martha Emery and students including Nellie Ferguson Nellie Essley Maud Morton May Anderson and Ruth Miller.
Two Northwestern University seniors publish an open letter saying they will allow the co eds to date up the boys, provide entertainment, and pay for it. The plan is described as a leap year proposition in the student newspaper.
The grain committee on national affairs urged passage of the Norris resolution to investigate the federal farm board. It cited Farmers' Elevator associations in Illinois Iowa and North Dakota calling for an immediate and searching investigation. Grain dealers oppose short selling restrictions on commodity exchanges as harmful to farmers and trade.
Mrs R J Stephens reports on Sunday visits by Otto Eden and Fern Cook from Muscatine, Elizabeth Herr from Illinois, Ted Herr recovering from surgery, Lee Nicholson from east of Haskins, Ethel Henderson from Oakdale, Doyle Frame and Billy Frame from Letts, and John Krause visiting Mrs Richard Stephens. Children Sammy and Edna Joan Sands recover from chickenpox.
The State Board of Education reduces teacher salaries at S U J and Iowa State Teachers College and Iowa State College by five percent, effective July 1, 1932. A new Iowa University treasurer, L M Hambourg of Des Moines, succeeds W J McChesney. He is 30, formerly with State Building and Loan and Iowa National Bank, and may move to Iowa City. Iowa artist Aton Cumming, dean of Iowa classical artists, dies at Iowa Methodist Hospital aged 73 or 74 after a stroke.
Mary Karr Huston, wife of Cedar Rapids mayor, died in a local hospital on Tuesday at age 69. The town of Wesley, Iowa, voted to take out accident insurance for men serving in the Wesley Volunteer Fire Department.
Michael Weidenback dies in San Pedro California after long residence here and in California. William Blair, 89, pioneer merchant, dies after a long illness. Blair store on the square timeline with 63 years of service. Sara Grimes hosts a Valentine dinner with Harold Faris crafting price cards. Te G Mason travels to Madrid Iowa for his father’s 88th birthday and 60th wedding anniversary plans.
A column urges public support for building and occupying an opera house, arguing it brings lasting comfort and pride. It contrasts charity with selfish hoarding and warns against deferring civic enterprise, invoking Charon and Styx to imply consequences for inaction.
A mass meeting in Grinnell Monday night demanded the ouster of state auditor J. W. Longe and Poweshiek board of Supervisors and county steward over alleged tampering with sworn reports of state checkers. About 200 farmers and Grinnell businessmen attended.
Omer Jones and Jiggs Jones supervise a group of girls hiking to Ainsworth this afternoon. Readily listed are Dorothea Thompson Barba Miller Evelyn Gibson Sevilla Boice and Clarice Wenzel among the party.
Clendenning and phage at berry were married in Muscatine Iowa on February fifteenth. They reside locally.
Milo Reno addresses courthouse gathering as Washington Week opens with merchant sales. bi centennial events surround the community. Deaths include Mrs. Nel Altenhofen and Mrs. John Lynn. legal suits test automobile collision aftermaths. several local readings, plays and nursing appointments mark a busy period in Washington Iowa.
An aphoristic line contrasts life’s refinement with its mire noting that greater polish may require a price though the exact cost is framed as a nickel reference.
Mildred Kurtz reports a card party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Novy with guests including Lena Novy Nic Jardon and Elsie Soukup. Later gatherings feature goose supper and piano music, along with visits and supper plans at several local homes and Kalona ball games.
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