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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1937
Page
8
DFS MOVIES opening dates for new liquor stores announced by the local liquor commission. Laporte City store 139 will open July 10 and Rock Valley store 141 will open two days later.
Weather briefly notes gradual improvement with hog prices listed at 12.40 per head. Tonight and Saturday look gradually fair with improving conditions.
Brighton notes list Mrs G W Taylor of Meeteetse Wyoming visiting sisters Mrs Carrie Lemley and Miss Nelle Engl. Other locals host or visit relatives across towns including Chicago Des Moines Colorado and Davenport. A recent appendectomy patient Dorie Robison returns home and several families plan Fourth of July visits.
Frank Look has kept night watch in Iowa City for forty years. He started long before streets were paved and will receive an extra breakfast after returning home next week. He recalls walking a 13 mile nightly beat and has logged about 189280 miles on the job.
A Iowa State News item notes 212376 farms in the state last year, down 1215 from 1935, with total acreage 34,323,578 and average farm size 161.6 acres. Cultivated acreage fell 181,867 from 1935, while tractors and radio sets rose 20 percent. livestock and vehicles declined. In Council Bluffs, Mrs. Sarah Jett of Des Moines led the Iowa federation of colored women's clubs after their convention.
Keokuk molders at the steel casting company demand wage increases to 50 to 90 cents per hour as they strike. The dispute centers on pay rates for skilled labor and union negotiations continue.
Edward E Sheakley 24 former counsel for the sales tax division of the Florida tax board is at large after commitment to a state alane hospital in April. Heakley was reported missing from Independence.
The Iowa City light and power company will begin bringing natural gas to the city after the St. Louis circuit court of appeals upheld their right to do so. Mayor Tay says the project will start immediately and the gas is cheaper and nearly as efficient as manufactured gas. The move follows a ruling that favored the utility over the city administration which argued natural gas was inferior and costly to consumers.
Amelia Earhart Putnam resumes world flight from Lae New Guinea after fuel line repair. Her path heads to Howland Island about 2,570 miles away, the longest single leg of the journey.
A fleet of box cars was trucked to Riverside for local farmers near South English to use as grain cribs. The cars, transported by a Downey wrecking company, cost $125 each and were delivered to the farmers. Maurice Klein, US Navy, has returned to Long Beach after visiting Riverside with his father Albert Klein and family. He serves aboard the USS Portland.
Masked gunmen robbed a Fiji Islands bank at Loutaka and escaped with about 20000 dollars. It was the first bank robbery on record in the Fiji Islands.
A man jailed today yelled I ve killed before and I ll kill again during an incident at the detention facility. Authorities report no injuries but officer safety concerns prompted immediate containment.
Harmony notes report Ed Heck and family visiting relatives in Dubuque including Frank and Emma Heck. Local routine visits mention Gerald Dickinson assisting on a farm and several guest appearances among families in Harmony, Richland, Lone Tree, Omaha, and Keota.
Edith Richards and June Sass returned from Amberg Wisconsin after a week with relatives Mrs Mary Woodside and Roy. Arthur Hagen of Houston Texas visited Burilngton and New London relatives for a few days. Jane Mahin visited friends in Iowa City. Willard Gexking and family of Wapelle visit EB. Ginkens visit Mrs Fred Barber and family while in Des Moines for the week.
In Omaha on July 2 an unnamed Mexican boy, four years old, died after a 256 day hospital fight with bone disease. Doctors had fought to save him and one leg had been amputated during his illness.
A weather observer notes the afternoon high near a local thermometer reading and gives yesterday's high around 5 82 and a low from the prior night, though the text is garbled with symbols.
New York July 2. Outbursts by Harold Irwin, confessed killer of three, will lead to his placement in a straight jacket as announced at the Tombs.
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