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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1936
Page
8
The 1936 Ayers Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals reports a net drop of 164 papers from 1934 to 1935 in the United States and Canada. Weekly papers fell by 150 with eight fewer dailies, while trade papers declined and general publications rose due to collegiate titles.
Two drivers, John Grecian and Dr J 38 Michum, collided on the west Barnes Street bridge near noon Tuesday. Neither was hurt, both cars damaged. Local movement updates include property transfers and visits by relatives as Kalona residents adjust homes and schedule engagements.
Bethel young people gathered at the Gideon home Tuesday evening for a pot luck supper and watch party to ring in the new year. Ruth Gideon reports the community event drew attendees who counted down the old year and welcomed the new one.
A Paramount musical features Joe Penner and Jack Oakie with Betty Jane Cooper leading sixty dancers in a glass top desk routine. The dancers perform atop glass desks, two per desk, with lighting from beneath creating dramatic effects. No tops cracked despite the glass’s risk during filming.
Paramounts latest film Bar 20 Rides Again features cowboy minstrels Chill Wills and Avalon Boys providing incidental music. William Boyd and Jimmy Ellison star as Bar 20 ranch hands in a Hopalong Cassidy tale opening at the Fox theater. Also on the Fox bill is Too Tough to Kill featuring Sally ONeal and Victor Jory. Funeral services for Mrs Flora Yeoman were held at L A Jones funeral home with burial in Woodlawn cemetery.
Christmas and New Year scenes unfold as the Green, Letts, Birka, Gideon, and Hoerak households host relatives. Visitors include Walter Lancer and family, Clive Gray, and Wes Ramsey helpers. Chicago trips mark travel home, and wedding anniversary celebrations are noted for Wilbur McCelland and Grace Brainine families.
Fire late Tuesday night destroyed the Olson Construction tool shed and tools at the new east bridge over the Iowa river on highway No 2. Oil on the floor ignited from a flare.
T. D. Adams of Wellman is in critical condition at home. Dr and Mrs A L Braden and Cordelle Braden visited. Patricia Ann Rickey left with grandparents for an open visit. BK W G girls aided Dorothy Jean Curl in Banc, Martha Godlove sent Christmas fare west. Charles Eckhardt to Ames for winter term. he and Joy will reside with sister. Oyster stew at Braden home. several readers tied to Braden/Heardt families. Ethiopian flora section lists date palm, myrrh, gum trees and others.
Local readers record a week of family visits and gatherings in Franklin District. Mr and Mrs David Kleese and family visited John Gerdes and Walter Kleese parents, with other couples joining at various homes for Christmas and potluck suppers. Neighbors met at the school house Tuesday for food and fellowship.
West Sunset reports a quiet holiday week with weddings anniversaries birthdays and family visits. Attendees include Sewell Jones Pratt Horton and Mullen families along with Ruth Baker Catherine and Carl Stites and Frank Bailey. A New Year’s coasting party was held at the Baker home and several neighbors shared meals and greetings.
The word knitting derives from the Old Saxon term Cynttan meaning to wake material from threads by honing. This linguistic note links a craft term to its ancient roots in Saxon language and technique.
Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century named the Solomon Islands the Solomon Ishieds as they searched for the lands King Solomon used for his wealth and timber to build the temple. The archipelago lies east of New Guinea and became associated with biblical gold and timber legends.
The citadel of a vast fortress guarding Cairo began in 177% A D under Sultan Saladin who beat the Crusaders and died in battle. Arab historians claim its stones came from the smaller pyramids of Giza. The Mohammed Algrentwrandtar mosque atop the citadel was started in 1824 by Mohammed Algrentwrandtar of Wing Pound of Bevpt and complete about 20 years later.
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