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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1938
Page
8
Riverside on July 26 held a sale of buildings on the old Wenzel Reha property along Highway No 22 in the east part of the city to clear space for a future park. Estelle Cruz reports the auction proceeded Saturday afternoon with bidders seeking to repurpose the parcels for public use.
The film version of Lloyd C Douglas novel White Banners starring Claude Rains Fay Bainter Kay Johnson Bonita Granville and Jackie Cooper plays at the State Theatre through Thursday. The studio approved the script and production after success of previous Douglas adaptations and critics deem it faithful to the novel. Local buyers purchased property including Harold Cress Sanders and others with plans to convert the Riverside lot into a park.
Iowa Daily Press notes Panora’s absence from a state highway map stirs talk in Panora and Maloy about political alignment. The piece covers Democratic central committee dynamics, the Newton strike’s impact on Kraschel and Wilson, and Roger Warin versus Ben Franklin Jensen in the Seventh District race. It also contrasts farm payments timing before an election and corn export impact on prices.
Fragmentary text discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt and a 1940 third term question. Mention appears to hinge on Iowa Works Progress Administration workers and how they were told or advised to vote.
In First District Iowa political notes Tom Martin Ed Eicher and Will Hart battle for congress with Gaffney the Democratic nominee. Hart remains district Democratic central committee member. Central committee members seen for re election. Federal forest service promotes the Tree Belt plan as 84 million trees already planted across five states with more nurseries to add 6,000 miles of trees next spring to curb dust storms.
Three brief talks at a Rotary Club meeting covered electrical industry growth, safe milk supply under Washington’s new ordinance due in October, and the promise of a refrigerated locker system. Speakers were Frank Miller, R J Schlieckelman, and Charles Speer.
A meeting of people interested in a cashable locker system in massowa towns will be held Saturday at the courthouse. WTM Speer invited the Rotary club to attend and Dr. M. J. Cruise was program chairman.
The Fitz prefix stems from fili us son in Latin and from thilious meaning suckling in Gothic, with this meaning evolving in English through linguistic shifts. In Ireland the prefix adapts to local pronunciations, yielding forms like thilious and linking to dairy as a place of sucklings.
Durum wheat widely recognized in America and Europe for producing semolina. This coarse flour is heavy and mainly used in pasta production with durum as the key grain.
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