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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1940
Page
4
See ye the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Isaiah 55 6. This daily reflection notes the urgency of turning to faith and seeking divine counsel in times of opportunity.
A local column mourns the sudden deaths of Attorney E. J. Harmeier and his sister, notes fame’s costs as with Lindbergh, and praises public service while urging appreciation for school board work. It critiques union funding, literary buying habits, and civil liberties debates tied to the Dies and Black committees, calling for universal civil rights protection.
A humorous tale from Blaine Holmes recounts a farmer and a WPA worker hunting a ground hog and a rabbit. The farmer quips about the ground hog being a WPA worker and jokes about corn hog checks. The exchange includes lines about proposing to someone's daughter and a brief barbed exchange.
The report lists weekly events including Happy Hour, Rotary, ministers’ meeting, Campfire Girls, Y M A, Chamber of Commerce, Y's Men, gym classes, and swimming team prep. The Maid-Rites beat Zulu Kings and Iowa Power. Bob Marshall seeks officiating gigs. Bob Williams refereed the Zulu game. Burlingon meet upcoming.
The Y facilities see heavy ping pong play this season with tables busy and magazines in the west lobby. Mr. Wolfe visited on Thursday and his daughter assists in the Chamber Commerce office. Badminton and volleyball classes resume next Monday evening and are open to all interested players.
Meadow larks sighted in Franklin Center district signal coming spring users. Mrs. M. D. Atkinson reports her husband saw larks near town on January 3, 19th century notes imply early signs of season.
A city man asks a farmer if a bull is safe and gets a sharp retort about safety. A life insurance pitch and a drunk awaiting a lecture lead to quips. Various lines poke fun at manners, traveling signs, hitchhikers, and modern life with terse exchanges and aphorisms.
A vintage advice column presents questions on moving to town, a ill daughter, work success, marriage timing, land to acquire, starting a shoe repair business, a husband’s job move, and childbearing. The responses urge medical exams, following doctors orders, and indicate marriage timelines and employment prospects based on the inquirer initials and clues.
A stream of visitors and family gatherings unfolds across Brighton area homes. Reports describe widespread illness with flu fears, while neighbors share meals and attend PTA events at St James school and church functions.
In Columbus Junction Iowa on Thursday evening high school night drew a large crowd to the Presbyterian church for Protestant revival services. Evangelist A K Harper spoke on Storing the Steam Chest and M K Long led the chorus and sang. Farmers night is planned Saturday with a sermon Selling Your Soul for a Hog. A 2:30 Sunday men’s meeting will cover Have You Hit Your Gait. The town is divided into five districts with cottage prayer meetings daily from 10 to 10 20 a m as revival continues for several weeks.
The report estimates American women will spend about 200 million dollars on 100 million hats during the year, reflecting consumer fashion trends and retail projections.
Garbo appears in Ninotchka with Melvyn Douglas in a Lubitsch directed romance comedy. She plays a stern Soviet commissar in Paris who falls for a French count while court intrigue and fashion moments color the tale. Ina Claire Bela Lugosi and a trio of new Russian commissars also feature in this stylish tale.
Jimmy Kennedys and Michael Cary, the composers of the hit South of My Border, shaped the Republic Game Autry film opening at Foxy Theatre. Gene Autry heard it abroad, pasted words on his guitar, and helped popularize the tune in his act. The composers have year of hits including Isle of Capri, Red Sails in the Sunset, Harbor Lights, and songs like Oh Perthful and Cinderella Stay in My Arms.
The text notes bicycle introduction in America during Fulton’s Clermont run on the Hudson. Early models lacked pedals and moved by pushing with the feet, earning names such as the Dangly Carriage. A Baltimore-made hardwood and wrought trim model cost $30.
Max Marshall son of Merv Edith Marshall has returned to Bremerton Washington where he is stationed with the U S S Idaho after spending a furlough in Columbus Junction. Mr and Mrs Guy Crull and family plan to move next week from South Hill to a home in the west part of town. Robert Newell reclamation engineer from Boise visited en route home from Washington to join Tri T chapter Friday. Maury Mehkee placed third in the oratorical division and Marian Pugh second in the dramatic division at the district declamatory contest in West Branch.
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