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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
5
An OCR fragment sketches chapters with Sirs Traylor Traylor and Julia era in early America. Characters include Abe Lincoln and Ann Rutledge as youths in a frontier town. Dialogue centers on courtship, ladders, taverns, and social tensions amid immigrant life and horseplay.
Judge Harry Olson of Chicago delivers an Iowa State Teachers College commencement address claiming criminals are mentally defective and that crime can be reduced by early identification and segregation of defective youths. He cites tests and a program sending thousands to custody and farm colonies.
Fritz Geister, a German native who has lived in the United States for about a decade, worked mostly as a farm hand and laborer. He was reported missing in the recent conflict and his status as a prisoner of war or casualty is being investigated by authorities in Hampton on June 7.
Iowa will produce about one third of its apple crop this season with other tree fruits largely nil. June 1 estimates from Secretary Herrick show strawberries at 7 percent of fall crop, grapes 71 percent, black raspberries 72 percent, blackberries 85 percent, red raspberries 66 percent. Summer apples 35 percent, fall apples 33 percent, winter apples 36 percent. cherries 11 percent, plums 12 percent, peaches 15 percent, pears 3 percent. The overall fruit average is 39 percent. Frosts and blossoms damage cut buds. many sections expect little fruit.
The report notes Pisuis thrive most when moved to sea level though some specimens grow modestly on mountain tops. Transplanting to lower elevations shows a marked improvement in growth.
Des Moines May 6 State banking superintendent My V Henderson says northern Iowa business conditions are improving after tours of the region He notes over 100 corn loads moving from north of LeMars toward Des Moines and rising bank reserves as dock and crab shipments grow Two banks will reopen within 30 days Anita and Onawa announce reorganizations and capital changes Most banks have joined the state bankers association and attendance at the state convention is expected to reach about 2000 bankers
Des Moines will host a gathering of Iowa bankers this month as state financial leaders plan sessions on lending rates, regulatory updates, and regional economic outlooks. Attendees include executives from Iowa banks and financial associations.
Cedar Rapids police and Sheriff John Boderhofer with James Risden and Frank Ford arrested William Chadle and Shadle at Shadle's home. Ford and Shadle confessed to five robberies including the May 26 Gildner Brothers store theft at Monticello. Loot valued over 1600 dollars plus butter and sugar from Springville creamery. Shadle led a bootlegging ring before turning to burglary.
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