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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1940
Page
6
The eighth annual Adams family reunion gathered sixty-one relatives and four visitors at the I C O F Hall Wellman on June 6. A noon picnic followed a business meeting led by president Mrs Al LeFever with new officers elected: president Mrs Alta Stead vice president Mrs Jessie Bright second vice president Elmer McArtor secretary treasurer Mrs Ollie Schachner.
Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M schedules a regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. Worshipful Master Howard McBride presides and A W Yard serves as secretary with meeting details provided.
The notice lists multiple routes and times for trains including Nos. 1 Local 2 Local 4 Golden State 43 Californian 44 Californian 2 Local and 8 25 Southwest Limited with departures and stops at Washington and Davenport Kansas City. It also details Burlington Routes local buses Nos. 2 3 6 7 9 10 with each line noting departure times and final destinations Chicago and nationwide travel. Agents L Goodlander OM C Anderson and W C Bell sign for stations.
Sunday guests of Mrs. Anna Nicholson at Haskins included her sons Art and wife from Muscatine, Ralph and wife, Lee and wife, Donald and their son Arnold and wife, Jack, Nina and Dolly.
Chicago residents White and partner join Dawn Gordon’s family for Lois Godlove’s birthday. Iowa City and Washington guests Lola Godlove and Helen Embree visit. Olive Moore, Crawfordsville, and Ethel Booth travel to Albia. Alice McArlin stays overnight. Davenport’s Christine Watts visits friends. Fourth of July mostly quiet aside from a McCreedy family reunion. Clara Peters and May Cavin travel from Lewis to visit Phil Peters. John and Jennie Keating assist with orchard work. Anna Nicholson visits Ralph Keating. Howard Keating helps Guy Koeh with plowing and hay harvest.
Prairie Center July 6 Mrs Anna McGinnis of Union Grove Wisconsin and Mrs Ruth Longmore and daughter Joan Summers Wisconsin spent several days with sister Mrs Malcolm Montgomery. Local families hosted and joined gatherings for Fourth of July celebrations and a Y PCOA conference attendee headed to Tarkio Missouri.
Collier's notes a birthday greeting to President Franklin D Roosevelt from Birmingham Alabama dated January 30 1934. The night letter took 19 hours 8 minutes to transmit over high speed automatic telegraph instruments and carried 41 000 signatures stretching a quarter mile.
New Hampshire remains the sole New England state to observe Fast Day on the last Thursday in April. Proclaimed in 1681 by a dying provincial governor who ordered public fasting and prayer in response to perceived tokens of divine displeasure.
The Wayland board of education met to study local budget requirements and levy plans. General fund is estimated at 19000 dollars and school house fund at 6000 dollars. Cora Mae Hotle joins staff filling last vacancy. Warren Allen elected secretary as board buys a music room fire escape.
Columbus Junction high school joins 23 Iowa schools approved for vocational agriculture under 1917 Acts. Marvin Jedele of Denison elected by Columbus schools board to teach. will reside in Columbus Junction after completing work at Iowa State College.
Wellman residents recount a busy weekend with trips to Des Moines Sigourney Cedar Rapids and Washington D C. Families visiting relatives include Fleming Moothart Griggs Snyder Foster Jadrnicek Crossett Gardner and Miller circles. A Baur party member attended the Republican convention in Pittsburgh with follow up in Philadelphia New York City and a parade in Washington.
Miss Joyce Butterworth travels to Ithaca New York to stay six weeks with her uncle Julian Butterworth and may attend summer school at Cornell College. Also noted are several local visits and travels involving families in Ainsworth during the week.
Report notes iron reaches a bright white heat near 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. The measurement illustrates the extreme temperature conditions in metalworking or furnace testing referenced in the snippet.
Riverside July 5 Dale Burich returns home from Landis North Carolina where he had been playing baseball. Funeral services held at St Marys church for Frank Droll who died in Iowa City hospital after weeks ill. Burial in Mt Olivet cemetery. Fred Halley named high school instructor at Marion. Mary Mottet in Iowa City hospital for treatment. Huldah Hahn returns to Iowa City with daughter Mrs Charles Carson after visit here.
Riverside resident Mrs Mary Rice traveled to Des Moines where she plans to spend several weeks. The report notes visitors to Wellman and Orville, with the Yoder family hosting Ora Yoder and Mr and Mrs Breckenridge.
The report itemizes receipts and expenditures for the General Fund through June 30, 1940, including payments to contractors for new buildings, equipment purchases, bond principal and interest, and balances on hand. R. W. Thompson, secretary, certifies the accuracy and swears to the report before Notary Alfred Be Baldrige on July 6, 1944.
Melvin and Esther Booth purchase the sixty seven acre farm now occupied by Ralph Palmer and family in West Chester. The Home Art Club met with Mrs. Lou Bauer and the May brides prompted stories of how members met their husbands. The Westervelts of Batesburg South Carolina visited and a chicken dinner was served at the Methodist church. The mission program at UPRP church featured slides of rural life and farm scenes, drawing a large crowd including visitors from Washington. The group plans to visit Marto and continue travels toward Minnesota and Illinois, reaching home Aug. 6 with the large Ferguson family nearby.
Conduct Bible School leader Rev George Pennington organizes a daily vacation Bible school in Lexington with 18 attending and more expected after the Fourth of July. Seven mothers of 4-H members joined Virginia Eckels for a meeting at her home Tuesday afternoon, enjoying talks demonstrations and a luncheon prepared by Virginia and her mother.
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Pert Parks at the Presbyterian church in Brighton were led by Dr H C Whiting and Rev Mr Young. The 78 year old died Sunday evening at her son Ralph Parks Marion Iowa. She was born November 6 187? on a farm north of Brighton to Captain and Mrs Lemuel Flitner who came from Maine. She survived by son Ralph two grandchildren Ellen Faye and Lowe Parks a brother Arthus Flitner of Greybull Wyoming and several nieces and nephews.
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