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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1935
Page
4
Daily Bible Thought for Wednesday July 10 1985 presents a meditation on casting burdens on the Lord Psalm 66 22 and cites Washingtons farewell address linking national morality to religious principles. Kerrish argues religious trust and ethical work standards guide capital and labor against communism.
Discussion contrasts Eugene Lyons critique of U.S. reporting from Russia with a 1934 plea on accident prevention. It cites Lyons underreporting Bolshevik brutality and urges scrutiny of dispatches. The piece urges public vigilance about news and emphasizes the toll of automobile and other accidents, calling for national action in the war on accidents.
A regional editorial reflects on Soviet policy and global governance, arguing that perfection in government is unattainable and drastic upheaval disrupts progress. It favors gradual change, citing the five year plan and the New Deal as imperfect but notable efforts, and echoes the maxims go slow and haste makes waste.
Gray July 10 The H. H. Club and families postponed the 4th of July picnic due to rain. Miss Myra Harvey and Miss Evelyn Hoxworth visited Haze and Ruth Longer. Louys Rath received a Short Horn male from Rude Tanner of Washington.
In Fostoria Iowa organizers start a new chain quilting idea during July. The plan uses a patchwork theme to connect neighbors through shared sewing and cooperative crafts, replacing single donations with a growing, collaborative effort.
Housewives convert fashion trend into charity effort as they request fabric scraps for patch-work quilts. Community reports favor the drive and small bits of cloth are commonly exchanged, following a simple money changing formula used to value quilt pieces.
High water recently hampered work on the new government locks project north of Clinton. Engineers continued their preliminary survey today amid ongoing work and assessment of the site conditions.
A lighthearted note reports oversized mosquitoes around the country club golf course upsetting players as they bite balls in the fairways. Tracy Phillips jokes about growing one to full size for a strange collection and a hypothetical use of a proboscis as a flag pole.
Four men fishing in a Muscatine area stream bare handed caught a flood of big carp. A landowner appeared, claimed most of the fish, and sold them.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century column blends advice on a long life with humorous verses about Tommy and a rural school. It extols kindness, coping with adversity, and remaining hopeful, then transitions to light verse about a cat and a mischievous boy in a country setting.
July 10 Riverside board of education elected Miss Ariel Romick of Traer Iowa as the new seventh and eighth grade teacher replacing Miss Velma Tobin who moves to Thurman Iowa. Home economics and manual training will resume. Supt Holt can teach manual training.
Farmers from across Iowa visit the state hospital farm at Mount Pleasant for a pasture improvement field day sponsored by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. The morning inspection begins at 10 45 with reports showing improved pastures yielding more animal days and pounds of beef per acre than unimproved fields. The afternoon program at 1 15 features a discussion of the pasture investigations and results.
The lineup for the program includes Professor Hughes H C White and E H Felton of the state board of control W T Bonner Gainesville Tex C C Culbert son from the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station C Y Cannon from the Dairy Husbandry Department at Iowa State College and J B Hannah from West Point.
Iowa announces that residents with 1935 old age assistance tax receipts may credit that tax against poll taxes if paid before penalty. The old provision allowing offset was removed, but tax receipts without penalties may still be credited against poll taxes.
Miss Marjorie Robertson returned Monday evening from a week in St. Louis with her uncle Geo Guy. A girl friend Miss Tleta Smith accompanied her for a short visit. Miss Winifred Garris also returned.
Monday evening reports from Moberly Missouri note Wolf hauling cattle and hogs for H T Carris. John Robertson and family spent Sunday with daughter Mary Louise in Iowa City. John Wehr family visited Waterloo last Friday to see daughter Alice and sister Marguerite Sexton. Johnny stayed in Waterloo to work for Chamberlain Corporation. N B West and children with Kermit Jones and M Bowen enjoyed a woods picnic at Happy Hollow. Curtis Snyder hosted Sunday dinner with Gracehill visitors David Bans family.
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