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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1942
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Florence White hosted seven guests in Crawfordsville on Thursday night honoring Mr and Mrs S J Stites of Keota. Women played bridge and enjoyed refreshments. men fished. The Stites are visiting and formerly lived in the area.
A paper made from the pith of a small tree named Aralia papyrifera is highlighted for its easy pronunciation and origins.
A Michigan State College soil science study tracked eight years of crop rotation, fertilizer, and green manure. Fertilizer boosted oats by 4.9 bu/acre and wheat by 8.1 bu/acre, with alfalfa hay up 1 ton, and overall returns averaged $3.60 per dollar. Fertilized grain showed higher quality and fewer shrunken kernels.
A series on how farm products reach industry shows how crops and livestock enter use beyond farming. The feature outlines markets for agricultural goods and questions pricing, supply chains, and processing plants.
The National Farm Chemurgic Council distributed test seeds to evaluate oilseed viability in the United States. Farmers from Maine to California report favorable results as domestic oil could offset reduced imports. Sunflower seed serves birdseed and poultry feeds, with about 7,000,000 pounds grown in Illinois Missouri and California. Safflower, rapeseed, and perilla are explored for oils in paints lubricants and dyes, with regional growing notes and processing challenges.
C. B. Baldwin of the Farm Security Administration tells farmers that an economically sound life rests on people, not credit or land, in a speech before a farmers' meeting.
About 150 million pounds of fresh water fish are caught in the United States each year and nearly two thirds come from the Great Lakes region. The statement highlights the lakes as the dominant source of fresh water fish in U.S. fisheries.
Homer Martin returns home from the Poultry Health school in Omaha Nebraska. Mrs Gilbert Widmer and daughter Karen Kay of Moline Illinois visit Mr and Mrs Wilburt Rose. Mr and Mrs Ralph Schuessler and son Roger of Mitchellville visit Mrs Grant Edwards. Guy Mitchell from the Burlington Ordnance plant on a two week vacation. Alice Holmes sells Sells Beauty Shoppe to Kathleen Drinkall of New London who will take charge Monday.
Westbound Washington Lodge No 26 holds regular meetings on the first Friday monthly. Travel notes list multiple rail and bus schedules with arrival and departure times at Washington, including Golden State Limited, Californian, and mixed trains, plus Burlington Trailways and Sullivan Lines routes.
Holmes has not decided yet what she will do. Wayne Davis Dale Jones John Harold Jones and Ernest Baker left from Washington Friday evening for Jefferson Barracks Missouri. John Atkinson left earlier in the week for San Diego Cal. Enter Navy Marines A card from Mrs E R Meeks of Towa City informed us that her two sons Kenneth and Wayne have insisted in the military forces of the United States Kenneth 18 was sworn into the navy July 8 Wayne 20 is to take the oath July 14 for induction into the Marine Corps. The older boy Daryl is serving in the army in Alaska. The Meeks family were formerly residents of Crawfords ville. Joseph Jones underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis at Muscatine hospital Friday. Goldsmith second vice president Mrs Sam Elder secretary Mrs Karl Stutzman treasurer Mrs Roy MecClintie chaplain Mrs Charles Zear historian Sylvia Meft sergeant-at-arms Studio Henss The Merry Eight club which now has ten members met with Mrs Josephine Spiedel on Monday evening. One of the group Mrs Frederick Clark was given a stork shower. Three guests present were Mrs Velma Boudwyn Mrs Leona Schlatter and Mrs Helen Crandall.
Isolated U.S. Marines at a Nicaragua outpost subsisted for weeks mainly on ripe bananas. They ate them as fruit, boiled them as a potato substitute, and used them to replace other vegetables.
The document asserts limitless hydrocarbons in space as a petroleum basis and vast supplies of iron and carbon nitrogen compounds for explosives or poison gases, while noting the census bureau reports a figure near 190 million punch.
In a tense scene at the Welman estate, Elinor Carlisle fears murder amid a plot over Aunt Laura’s money. Mary Gerrard’s arrival and a gravely ill Mrs. Welman push Elinor to confront loyalty, love, and a doctor’s stark warning about hidden motives.
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