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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1945
Page
6
Obituary notes Joe Link’s sudden passing after a day of seeming health. The piece recalls his kindness, family losses, and neighbors including Minnie Lehrer and Dr. Eugene Owen. Local color covers household issues, a mouse poison incident, and community anecdotes from South Iowa Ave to East Main Street.
Coppock Iowa town will hold a budget hearing August 6 1945 at 5 p m in the Clerk's Office. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for the year starting April 1 1946. A detailed receipts and disbursements statement will be available at the hearing.
Louisa county selectees listed for induction at Jefferson Barracks Missouri include Thomas Evans Ronald Moore William Hawley Columbus Junction Donald Westbrook Dean Schneider Morning Sun and Harry Barnum Woodbine. Nearby visitors from Brooklyn Martha and Grace Butler also tour relatives in the area along with Major Donald Nelder and Mrs Nelder returning from Hawaii. Local families host guests including Mr and Mrs Louis Rose Mr and Mrs Elmer Meeks and children.
Iowa State College garden note urges gardeners to plant Chinese cabbage kohlrabi endive turnips and winter radishes to mature before frost. Southern Iowa gardeners have until August 1 to plant with earlier sowing preferred for best results.
RKO Radio comedy mystery drama Having Wonderful Crime stars Pat O’Brien George Murphy and Carole Landis as amateur sleuths whose detection clashes with police. Murphy and Landis wed. O’Brien joins them as they chase clues from a magician’s trunk through a sequence of capers with Lenore Aubert George Zucco and others in the cast. Opens Thursday and runs through Saturday.
A levy will be built at the east edge of Columbus Junction to control flood waters from the Iowa River. The project is led by the town, the Louisa County Fair association, and Vern Doudna and sons with M. L. Hostue constructing a dirt and sand barrier 90 rods long, eight to ten feet high and 30 feet base width. It will protect water supply, fairgrounds buildings, and Doudna stock yards. The line runs from highway 92 to the Rock Island Railroad, about 50 rods south of the highway, east of the fair grounds and west of the river.
Mrs Lulu Moore hosted the Tuesday bridge club with Mrs Edith Richards taking high score. The hostess with Mrs Rathel Trotter served a one course luncheon. Mrs Mildred Stephens entertained the D A P club with all members present. Mrs Ralph Miller and three children returned to Ames after visiting sister Mrs Milo Arthur.
Riverside July 23. Mrs. Leo B Walsh and her mother Mrs. Amelia Backer return to Wyoming after weeks in Riverside visiting Cornelius W Walsh and relatives. A family dinner honored the visitors with Mr and Mrs Walsh, Joseph Hurt Jr and Iowa City family, Ralph Meade Mount Pleasant family, Thomas Walsh Lone Tree, George Mueller Lone Tree, Paul Knebel family. Lt Louis Walsh Machinist Mate 1st Class and Mrs Walsh with daughter Patricia are from New London Conn on 15 day leave. Upon return Lt Walsh reports Mare Island Calif. Mrs Walsh and daughter stay with her parents Lyle Fesler southwest of Riverside. Entertained this week is Mr and Mrs C J Karey home.
Two groups of the Methodist Youth Fellowship held a hay rack party in Crawfordsville last week. The ride carried 44 youths and sponsors drawn by a tractor piloted from Washington by Elsie Stout. Ice cream strawberries and games followed at the Hedger home with adults Walter and Jean Rich Mildred Sands and Doris Cherryholmes present.
Charles Whiting returns home on furlough from a Florida training camp as Robert Whiting is expected soon. Cards announce the pending marriage of Margaret O De an to Dale Swan of Winfield with a Trinity Lutheran church ceremony in Lockridge on Saturday evening July 28. Elizabeth Davis attended a wedding shower for the bride. Miss O De an taught at Crawfordsville consolidated school. Leah Anderson works at AA A office in Washington and was home over the weekend. Mr and Mrs J W Chandler and their son Stanley of Boone visited Howard Anderson's home recently.
A simple tool is described for catching small pigs under 30 pounds. Form a hoop from three-eighths inch round stock about three feet long, heat and bend into a hoop with four inches of each end to insert into a shovel handle ferrule.
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