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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
5
In a dim lobby the night clerk and two drummers play poker as a weary party seeks a room. Up a vast stairs a second lobby looms with a skylight, dusted fireplace, and shadowed galleries. A guest endures a cramped stay as the building reveals its skeleton of corridors and musty rooms in a lengthy night of travel.
The timetable lists morning duties and Bible study followed by tests and wood craft. It includes swimming, dinner, rest periods, letters, leaders conference, athletics, camping activities, a camp fire, tattoo, taps, and lights out, with note that boys will share details after returning home.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Hanft and two children of Louisville Ky visit Hanft's mother Mrs George Gardner. Edward Pretz ships a carload of hogs to Chicago. Randle Gentzler returns to Moline after small pox quarantine. Epworth league at Columbus Junction Methodist to stage All on Account of Polly July 25 coached by Mrs Norman Brook and G W Weber. Mrs William Blender of Peoria returns home after visiting ill mother Mrs T J Klotz. Grammar classes titled Correct Grammar Takes Spotlight.
A catalog of various books with brief descriptions. Topics include model airplanes and the craft of flying, submarine warfare accounts, microbe biology, Henry Ford’s industrial philosophy, home gardening guides to irises gladiolus and ecology based plant guides, period furniture classification, Chinese rugs, modern art primers, and notes on notable authors E L Allen Edward Elsberg Edward Ford W H Park Anna Williams F F Rockwell Elsa Rehmann G G Gould G B Leitch Sheldon Cheney Miss Roberts Mrs Gould G Cheney.
The county treasurer will receive bids by 2 PM July 24 1929 at the Court House Washington Iowa for 240 000 in Primary Road Bonds dated August 1 1929 with 1000 denomination interest paid annually optional after five years and 24000 annually from 1935 to 1944. Bid security required. Right to reject any bid reserved. Chapman and Cutler opinion to be supplied. Dated July 1 1929. Marion S George Treasurer of Washington County July 10 17
A Lafayette Lyre quip depicts an English professor replying to a senior asking what to read after graduation. The joke frames the Help Wanted column as the suggested next volume for graduates entering life beyond college.
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