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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1930
Page
6
Friends of the Butler family of Bremerton Washington hosted a picnic Tuesday at the Lloyd Humston home. A bountiful supper followed with children playing games and wading in the pool.
An old advertisement touts MELLO GLO face powder as invaluable to society women. It claims the French process reduces pores, prevents flakiness, offers long wear, and gives a youthful bloom with smooth, pure application. Sherman Bros. dramatists credited.
Fifteen members and six guests attended the Just Us Girls meeting at Mrs Arthur Yard's home on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Howard Kerr led the business session with picnic plans, followed by a program including a piano solo by Iola Dittmer and violin solos by Edna Mayo. Mrs Yard and her sister Mrs Herman Twinam served a luncheon late in the afternoon.
A late afternoon showing of Metro Pictures Caught Short at Fox Theatre stars Marie Dressler and Polly Moran under director Chuck Riesner. Anita Page and Charles Morton provide love interest, with T Roy Barnes Herbert Prior and Edward Dillon as boarding house characters.
An osteopathic treatment revived Mar guerita Padula’s voice restoring her soprano to a contralto range after years of illness and failed therapy. Her comeback in Radio Pictures Hit the Deck includes a 160 member gospel chorus and major cast with Jack Oakie Polly Walker and others.
Special notices note flour sacks at 75 cents per dozen from H and A Bakery. Miss Peter tuber of Fordsville visits, Miss Docela Wi from Des Moines arrives for two weeks with the George Wheelan family. Anna Marie Anderson receives a letter from London. Billie Carray of West Branch visits the Mc Connaughey home. J D Dayton reports in Washington. Rev and Mrs lead Baptist church vacation production with 68 children. Harold Johnson of In Washington assists with a sale and Klein Kloth news from Fairfield referenced.
Mrs Mary Andrews and two daughters of Oklahoma City visit at the home of her sister Mrs C C Owen. They plan visits in Chicago and Milwaukee before returning home. Ralph McCready employed at Arnold Barber Shop Sadds is noted. Local items mention Piper Taxi and various notes about travel, shopping, and a radio program starting July 10.
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