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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1935
Page
5
Registration for the city golf tournament promoted by the Washington Country Club opens with about 80 entries expected. Tom G. Lee and Tracy R. Phillips urge prompt signup. entry fee is fifty cents. Pairings by flight will follow once entries close. prizes include wood and iron clubs.
Ft Madison edged Washington 6 to 4 in ten innings at Troup with Beelman pitching for the visitors and Beil holding the Fort Madison bats in check through regulation. Box scores show a tight game with key hits from Bartlett and Kiesey and a late Fort Madison surge to force extras. DeMolays top North Side Case 11 to 5 in preceding city league play as Wells and Smith work the mound and DeMolays erupt in a large fifth inning.
In Columbus Junction on July 9 several kittyball games were played. Conesville defeated Columbus City 4 to 2 while East Sid beat Conesville 4 to 0. Conesville leads the community league. Page Ellen Phillips returned from a trip to Minneapolis and Chicago.
In the city tennis tournament first round Boyer seeded No. 1 defeated Gene Trask 6-2 6-4. Misel looms next for Boyer as the event aims to finish this week barring rain.
Frei Spangler and Jon Harold of near Crawfordsville shopped here yesterday. Gene Gorham works at the Benteco store and Dale Futir, previously clerking here, is acting manager at the Keota Benteco due to the prior manager's resignation. Martha White returned from a four week visit with relatives in Moline. Mr. and Mrs. John Corde spent Saturday night and Sunday in Fairfield, their former home. Mary Ellen Lytle has returned from Cedar Falls. Miss Isabelle Minick, who taught in Menominee Wisconsin this year, will teach in Detroit next year and returned home for the rest of the summer with her sister Mary Minick. Rev. Alfred of Wayland will preach this evening at the Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle. Mr. and Mrs. T A Flenner and daughter Margaret Ann, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Hemmings were at Cedar Rapids Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A J Muhi of Oskaloosa spent Sunday here with friends. Stan Kiesey and Mary Ellen Lytle will play against Lille and Loretta Cantoni, second seeded team.
Today’s standings show Minneapolis leading with 40 wins and 40 losses while Kansas City trails at 40 38 and Indianapolis at 41 34. Yesterday’s results list two nights of games including Kansas City at Toledo and Milwaukee at Columbus with other scheduled matchups. Charlie Miller returned to Chitees Sunday night after visiting his mother, Mrs. Wilbur Miller.
Fort Dodge Iowa announces Mike Parrob a former Iowa backfield star and longtime coach at Independence High School and Junior College has been appointed assistant football basketball and track coach at Fort Dodge High School He succeeds Walter Weiss who resigned to join the U S Department of Agriculture Parrob led both his teams to state basketball tournaments last season
In Davenport Iowa on July 6 a marriage license was issued to Margaret Ann Johnson and Mervil Coon after a license had been torn up by the bride for her baby sister. The clerk promptly issued a new document.
The Dubuque Bank and Trust Company will open in the city within weeks. R. R. Blair of Waterloo, long connected with the state banking department, named president of the new bank.
Fort Dodge July 9 1935 A wrestler and 1935 high school graduate Jack Larson earned a trip to California by hitchhiking with a $2 50 fare and a good thumb He saved his thumb twice to catch the first ride then rode to Fremont Nebraska and continued with a second driver who now hosts him in Florida
The Midwest national horseshoe tournament sanctioned by the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association will run with the Iowa state fair. Champions from across the United States and Canada are expected to compete for $500 in cash prizes during the event to be held in August.
William S. Harper filed for divorce in Sulteon claiming his wife’s nagging harassing and fault finding caused weight loss and threatened his health. The Davenport Iowa docket notes the separation request as of July 6.
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