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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1931
Page
1
Three men held up Lemoyne State Bank at lunch hour today and escaped with an estimated 1900 dollars. Officials began counting losses as the robbers fled in a waiting car toward the east on a principal highway.
Rome July. Italian government ready to permit continued existence of Azione Cattolica on a parochial basis under bishop supervision. Vatican circles say Holy See may accept solution excluding former Catholic Populist leaders. Papal request for regret over fascist anti Catholic acts is viewed as challenging. Hope remains for a workable settlement.
Local produce men announce a one day premium on roosters for Washington's fourth annual rooster day. Birds will be bought on the square from 8:00 to 6:15 with no grading, paying 9e per pound, a 40 to 50 percent rise. Thousands of pounds expected. Gibson's Peterson's and Reister's Washington merchants offer bargains and cash prizes.
Wayland community updates list visitors from Burlington Colorado Washington and Geneseo Ill while Goshen College events are noted. Several Wyse and Sommer family members plan commencement attendance and summer study with Olive Wyse expected to return. Local residents Dr J R McKirahan and Eugene Hoover visit relatives. Bible school enrollment reaches eighty two pupils as Relendes Wood and Lena Miller visit.
Tuesday evening concerts open the mite week band series in Central Park with the Washington band performing tomorrow night. The program includes March Troupers Triumphal Overture Zampa Herald Novelty Clownette and other works. Concert starts at eight with encore numbers. schedule repeats every other Tuesday through summer.
The Washington county Flower and Garden show sponsored by the Fortnightly club Garden department will be held tomorrow at the United Presbyterian church. Open to all amateur gardeners without entry fees, the event features gardens for the first time with at least twelve entries. Formal professionally planned gardens replace informal classifications with hours from 8 to 11 for reception and 1 to 9 p.m. for public viewing.
Mr and Mrs Buddy Freese and son Richard of Muscatine visited Washington at the W L Smith home. Mr and Mrs Harry Miller of St Louis visited Mr and Mrs Ralph Pratt. Gale Fisher attends Coe College summer school in Cedar Rapids. George H Brinton and A B Rankin party head to Los Angeles from Hampton Iowa. Donald Davis departs for six weeks in Iowa City for all state orchestra music course.
Dozens of date palm trees were planted in Phoenix this summer as part of a chamber of commerce plant a tree campaign. The date palms will provide fruit as well as ornament, with Southern Arizona noted as a rare region where the palm thrives.
Sixteen shot in a gun battle and many injured as seven bandits rob the Sukha rev branch of the Soviet State Bank in central Moscow on May 18. The bandits fled with 7 500 rubles while crowds were attacked at Sukharev market the next day and other districts reported similar robberies leaving 12 to 18 dead.
The Ainsworth community flower show, postponed last week due to rain, will be held June 11 at the United Presbyterian church.
Crawfordsville Indiana June 8 The seventh annual Crawfordsville High School Alumni Banquet was held Saturday night June 6. Attendees from the home community and former graduates greeted old friends and discussed meeting frequency. The group voted to continue annual reunions with officers Raymond Rich president and Hazel Davidson treasurer among others.
Miss Isabelle Davis led Volunteers of America tag day on Saturday raising 87.66 with children working all day. Margaret Snider won 7.06, Max Cuddy 5.73, Ruth Dupuis 5.72, June Gorham 5.28. others received movie passes.
Moorhead historian leads a successful meet with 70 diners and a festive Ideal Circus toast. Reception by Helen Huston Mary Manners Lisle Anwyl Lyle Lowe. dining in red and white, decor by the class of 1931.
Walter Burgin of Poplar Bluff Missouri and Carl Christofferson of Clifton Texas were bound over to the grand jury on liquor related charges. Burgin faced illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor after a Friday night arrest. Hines received thirty days for intoxication. Christofferson faced a second time DUI charges following a prior incident with a Muscatine taxi driver.
An Ardmore deputy sheriff shot and killed two armed Mexican youths, Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Gomez, amid an investigation with Consul Valdez. The victims, traveling to Mexico City with Salvador Cortes Rubio, were students at St Benedicts college and Rolla school. Governor Murray expressed regret and ordered a careful inquiry to prevent international complications.
Brundage shows are to open Tuesday evening on the Berdo lot at South Iowa avenue under American Legion Leon Beatty post sponsorship. The five night engagement follows a routing change from Davenport to Washington, with proceeds partly benefiting the post. The Brundage carnival, in its 33rd year and touted as the oldest on the road, features novel rides like the big wheel and the leaping Lena, with a show train due from Davenport this afternoon.
Henrietta Hull and Vera Stutsman traveled to Iowa City this morning to join University summer school work for All State High School orchestra students. Mrs. H. C. Hull and Josephine drove with Henrietta, and Mrs. Stutsman accompanied Vera.
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