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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1948
Page
3
A dated guide offers quick meals using canned meats vegetables and staples. It suggests pantry staples like beans spaghetti and ham to craft dishes such as Grilled Ham and Asparagus and Chicken Loaf plus quick desserts and salads for last minute entertaining with serving tips and simple substitutions.
Practical tips for repurposing leftovers include mixing potatoes with egg and butter then frying, using egg yolks with milk and cheese for a rich dish, and serving on hot toast. Egg yolks can also be beaten with eggs for scrambled eggs, egg nog, or custard.
In Holland milk remains rationed but supplies improve with summer deliveries. Bicycle wagons bring milk to homes and housewives receive fresh milk directly from 40 gallon copper cans.
A Lynn Chambers menu highlights chilled tomato juice, a frankfurter salad with bolting dot bow, carrot strip asparagus salad, finger rolls, cantaloupe a la mode, and a recipe is given ally.
The Mustard family details several greens with Tendergreen delivering edible leaves 21 days after sowing. If roots remain undisturbed, the variety yields eight to nine crops across the growing season.
News from Washington County includes a Pawnee wheat yield of 48 bushels per acre on 16 acres along the Skunk River. Outdoor union church services resumed with a large turnout, following rain that forced a move to the Christian church on July 4. Sheriff Putnam and Deputy Fillmore investigated a Burlington depot burglary with stolen coins, stamps, radios, and cosmetics totaling about $100. Locust trees in Central Park were cut down by Iowa Southern Utilities workers. Tickets for Washington Golf and Country Club events close July 17. Three new teachers, including a junior high principal and a math instructor, signed for the next school year. Summer school at Washington High starts with 176 students enrolled in six weeks. Marriage licenses issued to Custer Robins and Armbruster Lorack.
Alden Bertram Orris 76, longtime Crawfordsville resident, died at Memorial hospital Mt. Pleasant after years of ill health. Washington band and Veterans of Foreign Wars plan a July concert honoring war dead near July 16, marking Leon Beatty’s 1917 action. Grasshopper pest advisories issued by Leo Sturgeon. Condemnation damages appeals filed in district court. YMCA annual meeting held mid July. Engel buys Crawfordsville Farmers Produce market. Nelson family visiting from Huntington. 50th wedding anniversary of Rev J A Cochran and Mary Schee announced with open house. Three-Quarter Century dinner planned Aug 21 at Country Club. VFW Post 2808 supports ten-acre corn yield tests. Three-car collisions reported. no injuries. William Harmon held in county jail for suspected theft. Rock Island rail costs paid to Washington landowners after tracks relocation. Six fluorescent MCA lobby lights donated for redecorating. Richard Anderson bitten by dog at Chorpening home. forehead laceration treated.
Rev W J Stevens announced a youth evangelistic team from Open Bible Institute Des Moines will present a service at Christian Tabernacle Thursday night July 15 at 7 45. Washington county 4 H club boys completed a daily tour aided by Keokuk county youths with Bob Robinson in charge.
Community playground attendance reached 3246 over four weeks. Dora Minick takes a month vacation from J C Penney. Dr O F Boller named first district Democratic chairman of Iowa. Barnum Bailey circus slated for July 17 in Washington. July 13 marks 69 years since town platting in 188. Spanish War news from July 4 commemorates Cervera fleet losses.
The W. A. Co. of Washington will dedicate a memorial tree next Sunday afternoon for Leon Beatty the first Washington County soldier killed in the world war. In golf news Ernest Lemmon Ed Wells Ralph Gibson and Leslie Eicher remain in the handicap tourney at the Country Club while Ed Connor vacations in Wisconsin.
A farewell party was held at the A. M. BE. Church honoring Shimmy Hall, noted as the first colored boy to enlist in the World War. The event celebrated his historic service and welcomed his departure to the military.
The grandmother Mrs Frank Haney visits at Mr and Mrs C L Gray’s home as triplets and their sister Susan aged five parade through the street halting all traffic. Mrs Haney formerly served on the Journal staff and this marks her first Washington visit with the children. Trene Nickerson and her mother Letts depart for California for three weeks. Daw son sisters Anna Elizabeth and Itha plan a two week vacation to a Minneapolis start and travel to a lake 250 miles north with friends.
At the hospital yesterday a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Ray mond Miller at 3 38 a m Mrs and Mrs Vernon Rich ardson route 4 welcomed a son at 9 13 p m Mr and Mrs Warren Mar ston had a son at 5 07 p m Dismissed Saturday Mrs James Morrison Sunday Mrs Vernon Rontracer of Kalona and son Mrs John Russell and daughter Kalona
Yesterday three births were recorded in Crawfordsville and Wayland. Mr and Mrs Roger Pepper welcomed a daughter in Keota. Today two more births occurred for Mr and Mrs Raymond Crone and Mr and Mrs Clarence Farrier, with two additional newborns and a 11:36 am birth for Myrle Leavit. Dismissals included Mrs Vernon Richardson and her son, and Mrs Raymond J Miller and daughter.
Yesterday entries include Madison Jones at 12801 HE and medical notes for Mrs. Sam Bowner of West Chester Mrs. Harry Ackles of Mr. Pleasant route 2 and patients John Baker and Patricia Coakley all listed for surgical care. Births report a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Moriarty at 1 35 p m and today Mrs. Warren Marston and son Donald Gardner.
The paper reports the death in Marshalltown of Ross Boyer from a heart attack affecting his family connections in Washington. It also notes the death of Sam Wallace in Stafford Kansas and funeral details. Additionally Kalona records Ray Yoder, 25, electrocuted while pumping water from a flooded basement after a destructive cloudburst bringing 4.5 to 5 inches of rain in under an hour.
Jane Withers, star of The Republic, resumes college plans after completing tour requests. She leads in Affairs of Geraldine, playing at the Fox Theatre for a three day Sunday start, shifting focus to chemistry and philosophy amid camp tour drawdowns.
Dry rot starts in wood beneath a house and creeps through joists and studding, forming whitish fungous threads that spread through the first floor and often to the second. It weakens wood and increases fire hazards. It cannot grow across properly pressure treated lumber.
In a dramatic seven minute resuscitation at a Chicago hospital Doctor Max Thorek restored life to Julia Brittan after her heart stopped during anesthesia for an appendectomy. He made three chest incisions and manually massaged the heart, reviving her within 30 seconds. The patient is reported doing nicely.
Yesterday Mrs. Wester Alli- Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hesseltine route 1 son at 10 10 a m Today Mrs Harold Engl Lockridge and son Mrs Clarence Farrier Brighton and son Mrs Sam Bowser West Chester
Admitted yesterday Mrs Homer Hensley 902 North Fourth Avenue, medical. Yesterday Mr and Mrs Everette Miller, daughter at 11 54 PM. Mr and Mrs Stanley Swartdruber, daughter 4 10 PM. Today Mr and Mrs Myron es route 1, daughter 12 25 AM.
City of Washington Iowa issues a public hearing notice on proposed sanitary sewer extensions, lift station, and pressure line work. Plans and contract forms are on file. hearing set for August 4 1948 at 8 PM in City Hall. Sealed bids due at City Clerk. bids require 10 percent certified cash deposit and surety bond. Work includes 12,482 feet of 8 inch vitrified sewer pipe, 45 standard manholes, one lift station, and 2,156 feet of cast iron pressure line.
The city will pay the Centrac tor 85 percent of completed work monthly based on unit prices or partial lump sum items, with final payment within 30 days after city resolution. Monthly estimates are prepared by the contractor and approved by the engineer to pay by the 10th, not an acceptance of work. Work must start within 60 days and finish within 150 days, with time extensions possible. Iowa produced goods favored. city may reject bids or waive defects. Published July 17 1948 per city resolution July 16.
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