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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 29, 1931

Page

3

The Silver Horde on Screen at the Ox Theatre Friday and Saturday

Rex Beach's adventure tale comes alive in the Radio Pictures production with Joel McCrea and Raymond Hatton battling the frozen north and Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur contending for love. Laurel and Hardy add a longest comedy, Another Vine Mess, as cinematographers capture stark urban and natural backdrops amid big action and romance. Contagions and animal diseases plague counties in Iowa with quarantine discussions in Muscatine.

Ox Theatre Rex Beach Joel McCrea Raymond Hatton North Evelyn Brent Jean Arthur Laurel and Hardy

Infectious Animal Disease Bulletin January 18 1936

Weekly bulletin reports livestock losses from infectious disease last week. Notable items include hog cholera affecting Cedar Rapids Fredericksburg Charlotte Mt. Vernon and Walford in Iowa. swine rabies noted in Muscatine. pulmonary edema of cattle observed with Cedar Rapids as a mentioned location.

Cedar Rapids Macksburg Iowa City Washington Norway Clinton Muscatine Walford Fredericksburg Charlotte Mt. Vernon

Iowa melon grower session draws regional growers

From 765 to 1000 truck growers of Muscatine and Louisa counties attended a two day institute at Conesville and Fruitland led by Iowa State College extension staff. Key speakers included C. L. Fitch and D. V. Layton with Hal Wolford presiding. In the sweet potato judging contest Amos Owen, Roy Jean and Lloyd Babbitt won first, second and third prizes.

Columbus Junction Muscatine Louisa Conesville Fruitland Towa State College Ames C. L. Fitch Towa State Vegetable Growers’ Association D. V. Layton Iowa Melon Growers’ Association A. T. Erwin

Journal Club Entertains Members and Husbands at Elder Home

About forty members of the Journal forces plus spouses enjoyed a dinner at the Elder home on Southtown avenue. The evening featured story telling, games including murder, and unmasked confessions amid playful chaos.

Journal Forces Southtown Avenue Force Clifford Campbell Meredith Chance Clifford Meredith Journal Group Journal Fraternity Lewis Warren Law Frank Macon Mable Livingston Virs D. G. Knottnerus

Protest Meeting Fights Cedar River Diversion Plan

Thirteen men attended at Columbus High School auditorium with F. Davis as chair and Blain Hawkins as secretary to oppose Muscatine business ambitions to divert Cedar river water to the Mississippi via a canal and a Muscatine power plant. A committee led by Roe Hawkins and others will gather information and circulate petitions. Separately, sale notes report corn at 65 cents a bushel and farm prices from hay to hogs at the H. H. House sale six and a half miles southeast of here.

F. Davis Columbus Junction Blain Hawkins Columbus High School Muscatine Cedar River Moscow Mississippi Vail Thompson Wapello Louisa County J. J. Buser Conesville Mauscatine-Louisa Fred Schwob R. G. Hawkins Roe Hawkins H. H. House Schlichting al Sale D. W. Tucker

Pleads for Aid in Drought Area

Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, told the House appropriations committee that disease threatens the drought stricken South unless outside aid arrives. He testified on the Senate relief fund of 25 million dollars and a 3,000,600 expansion for rural sanitation work in the drought area.

Hugh S. Cumming United States Public Health Service House Appropriations Committee South Senate

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