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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1930
Page
3
The Iowa state highway commission opened bids Tuesday in Ames for paving and grading on primary roads in one of the year's smallest bid settings. News notes report Des Moines population growth, a fatal auto crash near Columbus Junction, and various civic events across the state.
Maurice Chevalier stars in The Love Parade a witty modern operetta with glamorous costumes and lush sets. The program also features Mack Sennett comedies Night clubs and Broadway style numbers highlight a busy film week with On the Border Rin Tin Tin and Lord Byron of Broadway among others.
In Washington area news from 1920 covers Olds and Olds selling the Oxford cafe to Merle Prowd fit, a thriving cafe remains popular, plus local obituaries, grads, and civic events. Other items note Mrs Ralph Woodard's death, Mae McNamara's Columbia College course finish, church resignations, fuel shortages, a Washington band concert, and election results for Brookhart and Michels.
The passage describes children cutting colored paper into shapes on wrapping paper, assembling seed necklaces and decorated boxes, and constructing a seed jewelry project. It also explains making a toy theater with a mirror, dowels, rollers, and a box stage for performances.
Anticipated rapid ratification of a London treaty urged by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in Denver. Chicago’s Bourse unveils a 44 story skyscraper on La Salle Street as investigations proceed in multiple disasters including a Detroit river tunnel blast that killed six workers. A collision off Massachusetts claimed 47 lives. Bishop Cannon’s Senate inquiry on anti Smith activities is limited. national sparks inquiry moves through states. Stock market ends year weak with few gains. Texas refinery blaze injures twelve, one fatality. Lt. Chappell dies in a Quantico crash. Rainbow trout offered to President Hoover as a fishing sample. Rural parsonage raid yields mash and liquor. Brazil’s President-elect Prestes to visit South America. Bombay editor jailed for seditious writings. Hoover’s son Herbert Hoover Jr named chief engineer at Western Air Express.
Betty and Mother coax Bobby to eat breakfast while a breakfast prank reveals cantaloupe on his plate. Father warns about seeds and Mother suggests washing and drying seeds to make a necklace like in the Haw Islands.
Local religious notices recount meetings of the Associate Presbyterian church and Washington United Presbyterian church with pastors from Scout India Mineola Kas and Pittsburgh. The Burlington district Methodists held a lay Pentecostal rally with area churches. Vacation Bible School enrolls 55 at Presbyterian church, led by Dr F W Eastwood and staff. Community news covers church visits, renovations, and upcoming Masonic temple corner stone, plus civic projects on North Marion avenue.
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