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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
5
The Seal Bros circus presents a traveling zoo with educational value for children. It offers an intimate, observable view of wild animals and underscores parents duty to take children to circus day bargains advertised by local stores.
A Siberian discovery reveals mammoths perfectly preserved in ice dating back about 10 000 years. Scientists study the icy bodies to learn about ancient climates and megafauna.
County records list Mrs Harriet Coulter as County Recorder and Harold Putnam as Sheriff. George Marion is Superintendent of Schools with Lester Krabill as County Coroner and Dr W S Kyle among County Supervisors alongside Boyd Foster Harve P Wilson and Fred Bauer.
Classes at St Marys high school ended for summer as students gathered at St Marys hall where the pastor presented final reports and promotion cards. Attendance included Rt Rev Monsignor Bernard Jacobsmeier and a large Riverside audience.
In Xenia on June 8 Mr and Mrs Chester Wesley of Sterling Colorado visited with Mr and Mrs George Baird. Dr Carl Cochlin and daughter Lucille from Yakima Washington are guests of Mrs D D Stephens and brother Cy Cochlin. They attended a class reunion in Town City and plan to travel to New Windsor DL then Chicago.
The Washington County Rural Letter Carriers association met in Riverside Masonic Hall with about fifty attendees from Riverside, Richmond, Washington, Wellman, Ainsworth, Brighton, Crawfordsville, and Kalona. Officers and delegates heard resolutions supporting early retirement after thirty years, wider annuities, stamp-on-delivery mail, and road improvements including a return to road dragging. delegates were elected to the State Convention.
Mr and Mrs James Quinn are parents of a boy born last week named James Louis. Reported by friends the birth took place recently. Mr and Mrs Robert Stephens and daughters of near West Chester visited Sunday at the Gene Stephens home. Bruce Lord is home from Iowa Wesleyan College for summer with his parents Mr and Mrs George Lord. Everette Stewart of Washing-
H J Chody purchase of about 20 acres from Chas Ledman near Kalona includes land on the south side of English River for 750 dollars. Mrs Tom Lahey reports. Also notes return of Goshen visitors Misses Orphal and Lydia Yoder and travels of Fosdick and Hochstettler families to Indiana for church conference and visits.
A Naval Medical Examiner from Des Moines will visit the U S Navy recruiting Station in Burlington Iowa on the morning of June 11, 1937. Applicants making enlistment will receive their medical examination at Burlington instead of Des Moines as in the past.
A man purchased a quantity of soy beans from Richard Stephens on Monday, as recorded in the local transactions.
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