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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1946
Page
3
The Emmet County State Bank was the successful bidder on the Estherville school bond issue for Jackson and Lincoln school buildings. The $220,000 bonds run ten years at a 1 percent interest rate.
The House continued action on the OPA measure detailing price controls and potential restorations of subsidies for flour sugar processed vegetables raisins prunes soybeans and dried edible beans. Joint OPA Agriculture review remains within oversight by the office of economic stabilization with some metals still under subsidy.
Mrs. Leo C. Stone presented 75 attendees at a Saturday afternoon piano recital in the Methodist church social rooms. Students displayed musicality and improvement with pieces by Benson, Rossini, Telemann and others, plus a duet and a group number.
Instructions for prepping apricots to can with damp wipe no peeling halving and pitting options heat to boil pack hot process 20 minutes in boiling water bath for packed raw with hot syrup dissolve one cup sugar in one cup water and process 25 minutes in boiling water bath. Then list of musical works and composers appears.
Notices list upcoming meetings and events for multiple groups including the Woman's Missionary Society U P church W F W Post and Auxiliary country club Homemakers club H J club Pansy Hill club Rural Woman's club and Country club. Entries specify times locations hosts and featured activities with notes on reservations and desserts.
Seven or eight members attended the Stout family reunion at Sunset Park with a noon basket dinner. Mrs. Walter Rich led the afternoon meeting in the president’s absence. officers for next year include Mrs. Edgar Stout president and Mrs. Harold Klopfenstein secretary treasurer. The third Sunday in July at Sunset is set for next year. Off-island guests included Gene Snider and son Dale Fairfield. Barl Salterberg Packwood. Cecil Lamb Cedar Rapids. Fred Klopfenstein Winfield. Neal Stout family Wapello.
The United Presbyterian congregation in Crawfordsville held a farewell reception for Rev and Mrs R M McCracken on Friday evening. A program directed by Mrs Marian Waters featured singing recitations piano duets and poems with gifts presented by Frank Gault and thanks given by the honorees. A guessing contest followed and refreshments served. The Methodist Study Club met with Mrs J C Huston with lessons from The Cross Over Africa led by Mrs T H Huston and Mrs Clarence Lowe.
Margaret DeLashmutt hosted Wee Twelve bridge club at 601 West Main last evening. Guests Shirley Dunlap Patty Patterson Margaret Elien Barker and Lois Mace played at three tables with Dunlap high and Patterson low. Refreshments followed. next meeting will be with Virginia Shepherd.
The Dill reunion will be held Sunday, July 28, at Sunset park with a basket dinner at noon. Luncheon follows at 1:45 p.m. at 13818 Baptist Church with Mrs. Al Crone.
Wedding anniversaries for Harry G Simpson 1219 Fred Klein 1931 and Hal Williams 1938 are noted along with birthdays for Daryl Stout Robert Schauenberg Barbara Bouge Richard Booth and others. Community birthdays include Stephen George Josephine Miller and more. A closing reminder asserts bats are mammals and so are whales despite living conditions.
Congregation hosts a cooperative dinner in Mulberry Indiana honoring Dr E E Grice Mrs E E Grice and Kenneth with gifts from the Ladies Aid Society Approximately 150 attend including Margaret Cowden Rev and Mrs Stahmer and Mr and Mrs Paul Grice Dr Grice to work in Egypt following the event A second group hosted a similar evening with Rev C H McKnight speaking and gifts presented to the Grice family
The Nipponese suicide plane used in late World War II will be exhibited at the Iowa centennial fair in Des Moines from August 23 to 30. Captured on Okinawa, the small rocket-propelled bomb carried 1,125 pounds of explosives and flew up to 535 miles an hour, released from a mother aircraft near the target.
During fiscal year 1945, the FBI and cooperating agencies arrested 5,080 selective service fugitives. Of these, 3,093 were convicted on selective service charges and 974 were convicted for illegal wearing of the uniform, a 40 percent rise from 1944.
Advice on preserving woolen items by storing clean gloves scarfs and cashmere sweaters in sealed clean fruit jars or lard tins with added moth crystals to protect against insects during summer.
The Iowa Development Commission reports 5 514 miles of concrete highways placing Iowa in the top five states for concrete road mileage. It notes Iowa exceeds the combined concrete mileage of Alabama Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware North Dakota South Dakota Oregon Rhode Island Idaho Maine Massachusetts Montana Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico Utah and Vermont.
The article explains three common soil fertility methods: using barnyard manure, applying commercial fertilizers, and growing legumes in crop rotations. It notes barnyard manure is produced on most farms and that legumes should be grown where adapted.
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