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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1940
Page
2
Mrs Catherine Null returns home after five weeks in Hobart Indiana with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Woodrow Wagoner The Evening Journal notes the sender and context of the visit and arrival.
Francis Haney releases fifty amateur entries for the Golden Gloves tourney at the new armory with bouts set Thursday and Friday nights. Notable entries include Joe McElhinney of Iowa City in 126 pounds and multiple boxers from Washington Fairfield Ottumwa and Solon. University football players will not compete due to examen week.
Maid-Rites meet Wilton Junction at the Y in a basketball clash. Wiltonites come in undefeated and strong, with Maid-Rites promising their best lineup and a notable performance at eight o'clock.
Mr and Mrs J Rothschild returned yesterday morning from Kansas City where they were houseguests of Mr and Mrs Ira Gastman and daughter Nancy Sue. They spent the past days with the Harry Margolin family at Yankton and traveled via Yankton to Kansas City.
Mrs M W Bailey departs for Burlington to visit daughter and then Chicago before an extended southern winter trip. Henry Bailey assists mother. Don Howard shows an unusually large eye laid egg by a White Plymouth Rock pullet. Riverside girl Carol Tellin recovers from tonsillectomy at Washington county hospital. Lawrence Wilsons plan a three week Gulf Coast trip including St Louis Memphis New Orleans St Petersburg and Tampa. Ida Bateman discharged from hospital returns home to East Washington Street. Lilah Mangold travels to Harper to care for ill mother Bert Denison. Helen Heilman ill at Spurgeon store. Mrs W F Flynn shops in Washington. Mrs William Finke improving from pneumonia. Vernon Witting ill. W E Bond back to Montgomery Ward. Dale Carstensen attends Montgomery Ward shoe buyer convention in Des Moines. Grae Hoveeal returns to work at Montgomery Ward after illness. J P Reed of Hutchinson KS severely ill. husband of former Rae McElhinney Wylie resident of Washington. Merle Simpson absent from J C Penney store due to flu.
Gilbert H. Baker of Penn Yan N Y dies after serving as county judge for 82 years and retiring recently. Washington friends note his widow Ethel Montgomery daughter of the late W G and Mrs Montgomery once of East Washington Street now in Cleveland. Helen Little starts second week at Iowa Southern Utility. formerly with Burlington investment firm. J Penney store enlarges basement stock room. work to preserve layout. W P Aldrich of Wayland was a business caller yesterday afternoon.
Cold weather reduced attendance at the Pythian Sisters regular meeting in the K P hall. Chief Mrs BE Ward named Mrs Clayton Bear and Elsie Bratten to organize the next sandwich night on February 6. Routine business was discussed before adjournment.
Carl Crossett is ill at home and missed work at Klein Klothing Ko yesterday and today. Mrs Crossett, also ill, is improving yet.
Mrs. Leon Coy and her daughter Barbara Ellen of Wellman were released from the hospital yesterday. Mrs. Robert Genkinger and her baby Linda Belle Ainsworth were discharged this morning. Mrs. Richard McDole of Washington underwent an appendectomy yesterday afternoon.
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