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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1932
Page
4
A devotional note for February 25 1932 highlights Psalm 71 verse inviting readers to seek God as a steadfast refuge. The meditation presents a plea for divine protection and continual shelter in times of trouble.
The piece discusses Congress passing a reconstruction bill and a $2 billion emergency appropriation to unlock frozen assets, release hoarded money, and revive bank liquidity. It notes slower gradual improvement, bank reopenings, and new banks releasing funds to depositors to restore credit and economic activity.
The report notes deposits and daily contributions to the hoarding aggregate, a figure that is believed to have neared the billion dollar point.
A collection of brief, humorous vignettes about a man knocked down and held up a neighbor who lies down when laid up a couple who married and settled then tried to settle up a boy who pulled a fast one on his girl and faced rejection later.
A reflective piece contemplates fame and posthumous credit, urging modest living and kindness. It jokes about busy people, public reform, and the folly of self-importance, ending with Cap Kellogg's anecdote about a man too poor to buy an air gun charge.
A compact note trains readers in word choice with mispronunciations spellings and usage tips. Today highlights pleonasm the use of more words than needed. His letter contained a great amount of pleonasm.
About seventy five people attended a rural declamatory contest at Franklin Center school. Winners across Primary, Intermediate and Advanced divisions include Harold Fink and Daryle Hoyle with multiple entries, plus remarks on mock court fun and civic lessons.
Esther Perry teaches in Our Schoolroom No. 3 describing a revived, cozy classroom with a circulating heater. The room was replastered and painted, new window shades, a wash bench, a reading table, and plans to paint a reading corner apple green with orange accents. The class enjoyed holidays and a Christmas scavenger gift event. A mock court trial was held integrating Civics, Language and Reading with Glen Dill playing a man arrested for selling liquor.
The school plans George Washington activities for all grades. Students collect pictures and write essays, with a new flag to be dedicated and a large Washington portrait displayed. Fourth to seventh graders are writing increasingly lengthy essays, up to nine hundred words for sixth grade.
In New Greene this semester Mildred Davison is the sole Greenie, with Ruth Davison and Mary Davison noted for the calendar and weather planning. The rural choir works on new records while younger girls sew and assemble animal figures, including elephants and cats, on display in the window.
The class describes daily ten minute exercises using phonograph music and timed movements. Lucille used a new camera to photograph the entire school group and individual students, producing several good portraits. Outdoors, students enjoy snow play, hill sliding, and skating in the timber with a minor accident to the teacher.
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