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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1945
Page
4
Certificates no longer required to buy recapped tires for farm implements and passenger cars. Certificates still needed for new tires and used truck tires. An inspection is required to obtain certificates. Regular Commercial Vehicle status described.
Inspection notes seize six month or five thousand mile intervals. Various coupons for gas and heating fuel show validity through August 31, 1945. Book and stamp numbers specify values for foods, meats, fats, cheese and shoes with instructions to remove stamps at purchase.
Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M holds a regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. Victor Blattner is the Worshipful Master and A W Yard serves as secretary.
Railroad timetable notes showing westbound No. 3 Golden State Limited arriving at 1:19 a.m. and No. 11 Southwest Express at 8:55 p.m. with a daily regular stop for No. 43 Californian.
A dense timetable lists mixed trains, local and express routes with departure times from Davenport and Washington, plus bus schedules to Omaha, Chicago and Cedar Rapids. It notes ticket purchases at the depot and local cafes, and lists routes to Mt. Pleasant Ft. Madison Sigourney Oskaloosa and Winfield Burtington with service hours and stations.
Public notice states The McCleery Cumming Company is formed in Washington Iowa with principal office there. It will design manufacture and sell calendars lithographs ecards valentines and advertising specialties and will engage in related printing and publishing ventures. Capital stock $150 09900 authorized, initial officers named, perpetual existence from December 20 1944, stockholders exempt private property from corporate debts. Jan 30 Feb 6 13 20.
Earl Shet ler held a closing out sale including the east Wellman residence and household goods as the Shetler family plans a move to Kansas due to Earl's employment. The Washington Basketball tournament is set for Wellman high gym Jan 31 Feb 1 and 2 at 7 pm. Welman squad members listed include Bill Topping Stanley Goodwin Gene Long Duane Miller Lynn Brennemen Emery Whetstine Marlyn Small Leroy McArtor Leon Miller Donald Busch Max Lewis Roy Taylor and Howard Durian, all enlisting in the Navy and in Kansas City for medicals. Set Harlan Geyer of the U S Marines visits after two years in the South Pacific.
Edwin Knupp died of a heart attack at 7:45 p.m. at his Riverside home after living with the John M. Acheson family since 1932. He was born in Washington County Iowa and spent years owning a lumber business in Iowa, later moving to Los Angeles and then Riverside. Funeral services were held in Hollywood Cemetery chapel with Rev. Francis Ellis officiating. He was born to Maria Louisa Norton and married in 1883. He kept ties with Iowa and Hollywood real estate circles, and was active in local parks and recreation centers. The obituary also notes retirements and community notes from Wellman and surrounding areas.
A new vinyl resin development yields a water dispersed colloid described as latex. The material forms a thin tough film and can be applied by all coating methods to paper, fabric, and similar substrates.
Iowa legislators suspend business as they debate governor salary hike, income tax, and liquor questions. The house rejected a plan to form a committee to study buying the governor a residence while border-area opposition renews calls against a state income tax. Senate support signals tension ahead for liquor bills and school control remains in flux.
Mrs Frank Chez underwent an operation at Mercy hospital Iowa City. Dorthea Shalla of Davenport visited the family. Mr and Mrs Fred Shalla and Mrs John Blum Jr and son of Brighton called on relatives. Bans of matrimony were read for Velma Duwn and Ralph Waldschmidt of Riverside.
Pvt. Richard Sharp formerly of this community is in Camp Walters Texas for treatment of an infection in his arm.
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