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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1921
Page
8
Miss Martha Chalmers visits Ottumwa for the day as discounts on electric bills end. Members plan ice cream festival at Grace Hills church while Mrs. L. F. Christy returns home from Bloomfield. Community items include visits, graduations, car services, and local business promotions.
Sunday June 12 is observed as Memorial day and firemen are urged to assemble at Pire Hall at 1 30 sharp with car and flowers. John Westphal secretary notes Miss Bernice Green of Iowa City passed through en route to Winfield and visited Miss Ruth Young between trains. Dean’s serves fried spring chicken at six.
A Southeast town burglar attempt near the Chas Blair J S Shearer and Don Mehaffey homes was deterred. Now with fly season here residents are urged to buy Fleck's Fly Chaser and consider a Vampire for houseflies and red ants.
The notice invites a Memorial at Pure Hall at 1 30 PM on Sunday with car and flowers requested. A sermon titled A Friendly Man Without a Pal will be given at the Presbyterian church that evening. Local entries mention visitors and travel plans involving the Capps and Critz families and Will Nelson family visiting in Hastin es Nebr and New Hampton.
Iowa's milk campaigns, begun by Miss Florence Imlay of the extension service, boost daily milk intake among undernourished children. In Oskaloosa a four day drive with Red Cross and local groups reached about 10 000 people, increasing milk sales by 9 to 26 percent. The work, supported by dairies and educators, aims to help malnourished pupils and promote milk as a vital, affordable food.
In Des Moines on June 10, an order transfers the Bercher and Princes theatres back to Elbert and Getchell following a bankruptcy referee’s ruling that their claims are preferred. The Empress transfer remains pending. Adams Theatres Inc filed a detailed schedule in U S District Court showing debts of 158 723.61 and assets of 97 377.92 with equity about 71 000. Creditors seek court review. government may oppose due to $24 000 unpaid war tax on tickets.
Mt Vernon Iowa June 10 The General Education Board has given Cornell College $604 000 of a $1 6 million endowment for the campaign to build and improve grounds and facilities raising the total endowment to $2 26 million. The drive aims to match sixty eight years of growth in five years and will wait for better finances.
A Brono Alcott quotation on quoting wisely and well. The reader benefits from ads that honor the author as fame spreads with circulation.
A historical note discusses Iowa's 1860 1882 immigration boards and commissioners funded to publicize Iowa in the east and Europe. It compares Wisconsin and Minnesota actions and notes Nicholas J. Rusch's 1860 appointment as Iowa's commissioner in New York to boost settlement. Four later laws followed to increase migration.
English traveler Mrs Clementi describes jungle solitude as terrifying and notes the uncanny forest sounds. She recalls baboon howls filling the air with a din that makes direction hard to discern and nerves tingle with the vast sound.
Surgeons report that when a nerve is damaged leaving a gap, a piece of nerve from another body part can bridge the loss and restore function. The technique has filled gaps of at least three inches, achieving restoration of nerve activity.
Clay June 11 residents announce the church will present the cantata God s Plowerland as Sunday morning Children s Day program with a infant baptism ceremony. Ray Woodford and wife welcomed a baby daughter who traveled to Washington Friday evening. Several Woodford family members and neighbors attend events and diplomas were awarded to Sth grade graduates in Washington.
Hotel guests once took match safes salt cellars and pepper boxes as keepsakes now electric light bulbs are the target. In response proprietors burn the hotel name into bulbs to deter theft and souvenir collecting.
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