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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1935
Page
8
Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel plays on Sunday through Tuesday in state venues. The kid star headlines an ongoing classic screening run with public showings and possible matinee options.
Fruit growers in the county may attend a free fruit school at Mt Pleasant on February 25 and 26 announced today by Co Agent W J Roudabush. All interested growers are welcome. The meeting will be led by Iowa State College extension horticulturist V Honsinger.
Braden residents share weekend visits and small town happenings. Homer Hunt and Clyde Mason planned a Washington shopping trip, delaying until after a 30 hour 3 mile pavement detour. Frank Sickles sold his farm to Taylor Stout and will rent back for a year as Everett Weston made a business visit. A. R. Smith hosts horses on his farm, with 20 horses present indicating diverse stock interests.
Wardrobe Cleaners promote cleaning and reshaping old hats to new styles with repaired and refined clothing including tables coats. Contact phone 300 for services.
R E Brown, out of his home three weeks due to injury and illness, was downtown yesterday. Auctioneer D F Macon Washington Iowa Phone 251 Red 27 cents. K C Dance Friday February 20 21 22 28 March 1. A M E church chicken dinner Saturday noon. Y M C A 25 cents.
London endured 25 air raids during the Great War with 922 bombs dropped. S24 people were killed and 1 264 injured across the raids, outlining the scale of disruption and casualties.
Mr and Mrs Pete Koehler and Peggy visited the Albert Zieglowsky home for Sunday afternoon calls in Keosauga.
An old fashioned ad for Kurtz Market shows prices for bacon squares 19th century cents, table salt 24 oz at 5 cents, Good Nut Oleo 21 cents, pork steak 20 cents per pound, boiling beef 12 cents, dill pickles a quart 19 cents, and family soap 10 bars for 28 cents.
Gov. Clyde L. Her ring hopes committees finish work before the assembly reopens. Dem leaders Geske and Irwin gave non committal timelines. A salary reduction act faces final floor vote with an amendment to exclude county and township officers defeated.
Ames Times Tribune reports Prof. R. M. Vifanain president of the Ames board of education and Dr R. L. Feldman, both on three year terms, filed to run again. Clerk Frenk Ro Unwell says no other candidates have appeared. filings close Friday. The annual school election is Monday March 11. Vifanain is a longtime Washington High School teacher and athletic coach.
A big crowd enjoyed marionette acts featuring a balloon throw, a flying trapeze scene, a roller skater act, and a Dutch windmill scene with Little Dutch Boy and Girl. A puppet introduced scenes from backstage friendly to children while an audience member watched the puppets and marionette staging, 10 by 10 feet, 36 inches high. Visitors backstage spoke with local youths who helped set up the show, and a prelude by Yattle Sam Milburn McKay pleased the audience along with the phony orchestra.
Des Moines state Senate passed a bill to ban political campaigning on election day. The measure, approved 27 to 19, targets distribution of campaign literature and vote soliciting. Final passage saw 15 Republicans and 12 Democrats in favor, with 6 Republicans and 13 Democrats opposed.
Thirty one prisoners escaped after shooting and killing the tower guard at Granite Oklahoma reformatory. Thirteen were recaptured. eighteen hunted in western Oklahoma. Deputy Warden M R Galli on shot wounded eight capture.
Mr and Mrs H L Baumeister visit Arkansas while Latimer Davis C E K Richards Jay Evans and Lynne Van Horn attend an Eastern Star school of instruction in Muscatine. John Stephens places second in oratorical at the County Declamatory contest in Wellman and S A Stephens plus daughter Wilma attend a Loyalty Crusade meeting in Washington. Juveniles of the RN A hold a practice meeting at the hall with Mrs Smith and Mrs Haight plus a pot luck supper hosted by Mrs Harvey Reece in Winfield. Daryl Mathers has been in Des Moines recently.
Reno dispatch notes Nevada's gold and silver mines employ about 23 500 men now. The peak wartime workforce reached roughly 7 000 miners in the state’s mining regions.
In Lander Wyoming unknown dogs raided the William Robertson ranch corrals and killed 156 head of choice feeder sheep. A year earlier Robertson lost about 1000 head during a heavy snow storm.
Investigation into the mysterious shooting death of Louis K Straub at the Chicago Saddle and Cycle club leads to a search for Ellen Edlin, friend of Mrs Helen Straub, after a taxicab driver identifies Edlin as the night’s passenger and she vanishes from her Chicago apartment.
Carolyn Hamilton will organize a singing class for juniors under thirteen with group instruction on Saturday. Contact by phone at 6890. Also notes upcoming church dinners and egg prices. A. M. E. church chicken dinner at noon Saturday. Y M C A 25 cents. Men’s club pancake supper next Tuesday evening February 26 in church basement. Fresh eggs 20 cents per dozen. W S Reister & Sons, 72.
The Seychelles form a group of islands in the Indian Ocean about a thousand miles from Africa. Marked on early charts by 1502, the first recorded ship visit occurred more than a hundred years later. In the early East India trade era, Seychelles hosted Arab pirates roaming between Africa and Ceylon.
The Duncan Sandwich Shop advertises the new vacuum Silex process as a novel method in coffee making. Washington business offers a glass coffee maker and invites patrons to visit and see the system in action, following their French Drip innovation.
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