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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1937
Page
8
George Spaulding of Armour Company leaves today for a two week vacation traveling to Sioux City with plans to spend part of the time in Wisconsin.
James Norton, assistant manager at J. C. Penney here for three months, will leave Monday July 12 for Poplar Bluff Missouri where he is transferred as assistant manager. Mr Norton and his baby daughter will move with him. Peterson of Marshalltown will become the new assistant manager here. Tom Anderson departs tomorrow for a week’s vacation to Benton City Idaho to visit his parents the Andersons. A vacation manager will arrive Tuesday morning to oversee the National Tea Store during the absence. Walter and wife from New Ulm Minnesota visit Ed Harmeyer’s home and recall Mr Walter’s former role as editor and later publisher of the Washington County Press. He notes Washington County shows bright prospects. Dr and Mrs D Berlin of Chicago leave this afternoon for Denver Colorado after visiting A Keith Droz.
July 2 community brief lists visits and plans in Junction Cotumbes and Cotter. Individuals include Lambert Estle family in Galena, Dr. D H Stone of Knoxville visiting his mother Mrs Isaac Stone, Norma Lewis at Ottumwa Academy of Beauty, Dorothy Davis hosting Westminster Guild, tea towels prepared for Oregon mission, Jeannette’s birthday dinner with Ted Lewis family, Mrs Henry Kemp of Muscatine moving to Fairport next year, Harvey Reid newlyweds settling in, James Clark visiting his mother, Clinton Green heading to Fort Des Moines camp, Mrs F C Swan and Mrs Melbourne Frye returning to Cambridge after visits.
The Board of Directors of Crawfordsville Consolidated School District Crawford township Washington county Iowa will meet July 20 1937 at ? p m at school house Taxpayers will be heard for or against the following estimate of expenditures at that time BE Kk FERGUSON District Secretary.
The Boston to St Augustine coast region notes Independence Hall as a beacon of romance adventure and patriotism. It recalls the 1776 Declaration adopted on July 4 with the Liberty Bell in the cupola and echoes the era's enduring loyalty to liberty.
A July 3 1776 letter from John Adams to his wife describes the hoped fourth of July as a great anniversary festival marked by pomp parade games sports guns bells and illuminations. The missive emphasizes national celebration and public spectacle.
Burlington Iowa prepares for an aerial spectacle as a bat man from the Hell Divers performs a glide from a plane with winged fabrications. The show over July 4 and 5 promises dramatic skyrobotics, four stunt planes, and repeat performances plus a hangar dance and carnival activities.
Delegates concluded the fifty sixth annual Iowa Synod Presbyterian meeting voting to return to Ames for the 1938 gathering. The session closed with plans for next year and reaffirmed church commitments in the state.
Washington reports the United States closed its 1937 fiscal year with a deficit of 82.811 million and a gross public debt of 836.4247 billion. The shortfall exceeded Roosevelt’s April budget forecast by about 150 million dollars, per final treasury statistics released Wednesday.
The extract from the flag code adopts reverence to the national emblem from the 1923 1924 Washington conferences. It prescribes facing the flag standing at attention and saluting during hoisting lowering or parades. Uniformed personnel render a right hand salute while civilians remove headgear and place the hand over the heart. Women salute by placing the right hand over the heart.
AmBoy locals report visits and greetings across the area. Elizabeth Dea traveled to Los Angeles to visit an aunt, while Dick Rabenda from Ottumwa spends summer with his grandparents. Numerous relatives from Caledonia, Iowa City, Washington and Cotter join gatherings at Frame, Brucher, and Griffiths homes.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4 1826 the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. They were the only two signers to become President.
Mr and Mrs William Griffin with daughters Margaret Jane and Mary Gertrude return to Riverside after touring New York state and other eastern points. They attended West Point commencement for son Lieutenant Robert W Griffin class of 298 and visited relatives including Criz Lefebure and Bicher families along the route.
The Pilot, Port Arthur Texas school paper, profiles Lawrence McKune in the speech department. Born and raised locally he studied at junior college then Iowa City before joining a St Louis suburb school. He filled a leave of absence to take Texas duties and may return to St Louis next year. The Pilot special edition features actors and McKune in a creditable, artful production.
The Sunset circle held an ice cream supper at Griff Davies home and planned their annual August 11 picnic in Sunset park. Mr and Mrs Farrel Young and sons joined dinner with the L A Cherryholmes family while other local families hosted and visited over the weekend.
Friday for a view at the Clark Wood home. Mrs. Ted Achley of Davenport spent the weekend at Earl White's home.
Rank J Moore, remembered for a Rotary talk, will deliver an illustrated lecture Sunday at 7:30 p m in the Christian church. The talk titled The Institutional Life covers crime transiency unemployment and offers an inside view of the crime situation in middlewestern state prisons.
Mrs Glen Schnapper of Burlington visited friends here on Tuesday. Mrs David Owens and daughters Dorothy and Phyllis from Omaha visited the David R Jones family earlier in the week. Rev John H Gabriel of Davenport was a guest of Mrs Priscilla Gabriel. Miss Clara Lynn attends the University of Wisconsin summer session. Wesley L McKee of Okmulgee Oklahoma visited the C B Shellabarger home. Ferrel Weber and son Kenneth of Detroit returned home after visiting his parents. The Cotter Presbyterian church Christian Endeavor society will hold an ice cream social Friday evening in the basement. Dr and Mrs CC EE Simpson of Cedar Rapids visited their daughter Mrs Wil E Northey and family.
Columbus Junction gains second class status on July 1 due to improved business conditions and strong local printing distribution. The town’s post office, established 1874, serves three rural routes and town delivery, with firms like Smithcraft boosting mail traffic nationwide.
Nelson Boyd, a Negro coal miner in Oskaloosa, received a letter stating his brother J. C. Boyd willed him one fourth of his estate. The estate includes seven houses in Coffeyville, Kansas, and 300 acres of oil land in Oklahoma.
Jefferson Indiana: Clarence Amster president of a New Albany securities firm killed by machine gun fire in a barbecue stand raid. One man and a woman wounded. Sheriff Hal Hughes announced two men arrested at a gambling resort and identified as the killers.
The first of seven victims recovered from a Western Air Express crash in Utah was identified as Mrs. John F. Wolfe of Chicago. Her body was dug from a snowbank near Salt Lake City after nearly seven months, and she appeared to be in good condition despite the entombment.
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