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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1941
Page
8
Pleasant Hill updates from Mrs. Ear Kephart recount visits and calls across Iowa with numerous families, dinners, and weekend gatherings. Notable mentions include hospital news, birthday parties, and threshing season prep as residents share visits to Fairfield, Washington, Sigourney, Ainsworth, and Iowa City.
Riverside reports Mrs. Lamoreaux, Ella Tracy by birth, died at 81 after a serious illness. Earl Walton and wife attended the bedside at Parnell where Mrs Lamoreaux had been staying with Ed Lamoreaux and family. She was sister of the late Mrs. Mary Walton of Riverside. Her husband survives along with many nieces and nephews. Weekend guests included Bernard Kleopfer Ann Teller Gretchen Kleopfer and others visiting Riverside relatives.
Law Mrs May Alcorn called to Washington D C by husband illness. Mr Golden recovered. Oswald Schnoebel en of Des Moines visited Kleopfer Home with sister Mrs John Kleopfer. Roy Green of Chicago spent weekend with Anna Griffin. Mildred OConner of Iowa City visited William and Mildred OConner family south of Riverside.
Mrs Melo Lasek reports neighbors in South Highland busy with threshing and harvest. Carl Havel family drives a new Pontiac four door sedan while Yaro Lasek and the Knottnerus and Bruegge households visit. Dorothy Lasek visits Elma and Mary Horak as Nellie Horak helps at home.
Belleville police say 16 year old Richard Wesolic, a state reformatory parolee, confessed to the murder of Mrs. Joseph M. Jung at Woodstock Illinois. Police report he was reprimanded by Mrs. Jung for staying out late and attacked her with a monkey wrench after his parole on April 21.
Two girls missing since July 17 were found slain within ten miles of each other. Con stance Shipp, 15, Reading, was found in a Baptist church parsonage near her home. Raymond Woodward, 16, a parsonage caretaker, is charged with her murder. Frances Cochran, 19, Lynn, was found beaten to death in woods near Swampscott. Police label both killings the work of sex maniacs.
Report on Mrs. Joe Te Bockhorst and family running a meals for 30 threshers. She plans every detail from pies in the morning to serving times, with menus set the night before. Men prefer fried chicken, lemonade, and a salad of orange jello with carrots and pineapple.
Powerful drama centers on a woman scorned after a beauty loss. Joan Crawford stars opposite Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt as the tense thriller unfolds on the State screen starting Thursday.
George Cukor directs a tale of Anna Holm a disfigured woman who leads a blackmail ring but is helped by a surgeon who restores her beauty Melvyn Douglas Conrad Veidt and a strong supporting cast star in a suspenseful story with dramatic twists and perilous stunts.
Mrs Catherine Pease and family and several Illinois relatives joined mourners in Havre for the funeral of Mrs Sophia Westen at the Martha Westen home. Other local families visited Graber and Zieglowsky homes on Sunday afternoon and evening.
The passage notes Malay as a major southern Orient language with simple grammar. It claims few verbs no participles no prepositions and no tenses, presenting Malay as easy to learn for learners.
A terse kitchen tip notes that bad soups become greasy when a damp cheesecloth is dropped into the pot. The cloth attracts the fat quickly, leaving a clearer broth behind.
Milk has long been a beauty aid and now serves as a health based beauty beverage. Hollywood stars favor milk for health and beauty, with calcium and phosphorus supporting teeth and bones, and proteins aiding growth and repair.
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