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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1934
Page
6
Mr. Moore, brother of Mrs. Marshall Shaw, returned to his home in Marston Missouri Saturday after spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore, at Mrs. Shaw's home.
Mr and Mrs H H Payne and family thank the Washington fire department for prompt service that saved the home from fire. They praise water and chemical handling that protected furniture and commend neighbors for assistance.
The legislature returns for a ninth week as debate focuses on a retail state liquor store proposal and tax reform bills. House leaders anticipate quick passage of the liquor measure while the Senate weighs a combined gross income tax substitution and interim tax revisions. The outcome hinges on member attendance and pending amendments.
Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore headline the film Her Sweetheart with a Thursday through Saturday screening window.
West Chester observes New Year with a basket dinner and afternoon meetings. Residents note moves into Dusenberry house and J. H. Miller selling his garage to a Gordon family. Local social events include dances in Washington and Oskaboss. School reopens Jan 2 and the first basketball game is at Keota. A district court notification concerns the will of S. Therenaun.
The report describes waves overcoming obstacles by bending around and through physical barriers using microwaves a foot to a foot and a half long, enabling communication over distances beyond direct line of sight.
A tuned bell can emit a chord of five distinct notes when struck. In some bells trained ears detect as many as thirteen tones.
Report from Winnie F Belter's Enterprise School lists perfect attendance, new safety club activities, a Junior Red Cross membership, and a new picture titled Hunters Moon. It notes prize winners Gale Robertson and Phyllis Crayne, a Hallowe en party, travel story work in geography, and a long student program with songs, dialogues, and dances.
Agnes Kepler and Bernece Yoder earned six and five perfect spelling papers respectively, with Walt er Hershberger and Leela Yoder close behind. The district added basketball boards as basketball begins. a cafeteria supper funded school records and phonograph equipment. The sixth grade wrote poems, nine new reading books were added, and health charts track pupil chores. Miss Hilkea Jaros visited and found six pupils with no teeth defects. Daily memory gems and quotes are memorized, choir songs learned, and early grades create home booklets. Sixteen pupils were absent or tardy. the class size is thirty.
Iowa TWA notes include attendance awards for Velma Rotenburger Lyle Gerot Bernard O Conner Ted Gero Harold Rath and others. It details Thanksgiving readings, pumpkin decorations, exam results with multiple subjects led by Rotenburger and Gerot, plus a box social fundraiser netting 23.55 dollars and gifts to Ted Gerot Jesse Havel Lloyd Thompson as top prize recipients.
A school report from Maple Grove School lists tests, corrections, and attendance for the second six weeks. Dismissals for being not absent or tardy included six students. Loren Boone was absent with a foot injury but returned to take tests. Visitors, substitutions, and classroom activities are noted along with a Halloween party and a porch of apples gifts.
Edna Pattison teaches at Marion Township Pleasant Ridge. In this period Arlene Houseal Edward Kauffman Raymond Kephart Loyal Hull Stutler and Bernard Kephart attended daily. visitors included L B Krabill county superintendent Miss Jacobs county nurse and Dean Stewart. Plans for a Christmas program and a new United States map puzzle are under way. Reporter Edward Kauffman notes Friday activities include girls sewing and manual training for boys.
The Cedar Township honor pupils for the second six weeks include Harold Strum with top marks in history reading agriculture and geography, Evelyn Byers scoring high in history and agriculture, and several Turnipseeds, Kennards, and Jones children earning high marks across subjects. Visitors Letha Turnipseed Mildred Oldfield Nellie Jones Ilene Kennard were noted as ill but recovering. The school distributed picture books to Tene Kennard amid a Thanksgiving program and a camedly social at the school.
In English River Township Lydia Hershberger reports a school poster contest during book week with students designing posters about books read. Lydia Ropp and Mary Zook won upper grade prizes while Ella Ropp and Raymond Yetty took lower grade prizes. The sixth and seventh graders are compiling a geography notebook on Europe and plan to add folk songs maps and light humor. The school newspaper is in preparation with eagerness for new issues.
A Friday evening gathering at the Cedar Township Bethel School was led by Mrs. Merle Eek els with Ruth Griggs guiding the next meeting on December 12. Pupils built a four room doll house for manual training while lower grades made Thanksgiving story books.
A notice requests full attendance at the meeting in the women’s room of the Y tonight at 7 30. Please be prompt and clip the coupon in the State Theatre ad.
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