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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1939

Page

6

Community Notes From Noble Ohio Churches and Families

Mr and Mrs Noah Wittmer and family visited the O F Frey home. Bieber Sunday school produced a fine program and choir selection. The Frey and Richard families attended a berry and ice cream supper at the C A Rich home near Winfield. Mrs Anna Frey and son Donald of Chicago spend the week with the Frey home. Rev and Mrs Welty left for New Jersey to visit relatives and attend a district conference in Bluffton Ohio. Endeavor society picnic at Sunset Park and a 26 member convention at Frytown. Vernon and Orlan Frey joined the Super Singers meeting at Kilmer Frevenburger home. Ice cream and cake served after. The Richard family and Merrel Frey of Packwood were dinner guests. Miss Francis Allerman helps at Henry Leighty residence.

J. A. Frey Noble Noah Wittmer O. F. Frey Bieber Sunday School Dave Richard Roger Merrel Frey C. A. Rich Winfield Anna Frey Vernon Orlan Frey Super Singers Eicher Church Kilmer Frevenburger Hos Tess Packwood Francis Allerman Henry Leighty

Veo News Notes of Visits and Local Gatherings

Marie Coffin visits her parents in Veo for the summer after studying library work in Denver. Phillip Groves and bride visit Indianapolis relatives, Elmer Coffin family hosts visitors from Boise. Elwood Johnson and daughters tour from Denver to see H C Jones family. Elbert Elmore loses a cow to lightning. Coffin family hosts an ice cream social for Sunday school. Beverly and Wanda Coffin return from Rock Island. Bruce Jones visits Grinnell with Mrs. Jones’s parents. Robert and David return home after a few days with grandparents and aunt. Mrs. Fred Snyder visits Olney Hoskins’s home to pick strawberries.

Veo Marie Coffin Imer Coffin Marie Denver Colo Phillip Groves Bride Indianapolis Ind Jery Elmore Willis Coffin Boise Idaho Elmer Coffin Elwood Johnson H. C. Jones Rubio Elbert Elmore Beverly Wanda Coffin Rock Island Chester Spangler Bruce Jones Grinnel

Crude Oil Cracking Yields Principal Products

The principal products of crude oil are gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, lubricating oils, asphalt and wax, all derived from crude oil by the cracking process.

Jealous star director triggers Hollywood romance shock

Dorothy Adams a rising director at Zenith faces an on set clash with Ralph Ormand a new contract actor as rumors of past romance swirl. Garrison the publicity chief fears trouble and skips to Fiberg to brief him while Adams announces a rehearsal one day later with Ormand absent and the couple allegedly engaged before.

Zenith Leona Farrell Hollywood Joseph Fiberg Divine Right Dorothy Adams la Farrell New York Tyre Farrell Miss Farrell Ralph Ormand Ormand Garrison Pieates Ormacad Louis Garrison Fiberg Mr. Ormand Smith Examiner Louis

Orthodox Japanese Marriage Rite Trades Nine Cups of Rice Wine

The couple participates in a traditional ceremony where the bride and groom toast with nine small cups of rice wine, symbolizing union and harmony in their marriage.

Two Orange Trees Start To California's Wealth

In 1873 Mrs. Eliza C. Tibbetts of Riverside received two navel orange trees from the U S department of agriculture, imported from Bahia Brazil. The article traces the orange’s history from Portugal and China to Europe and notes San Gabriel mission had oranges in 1804. One Tibbetts tree still bears as the claim that these trees brought wealth to California.

Eliza C. Tibbetts Riverside Calif United States Department of Agriculture Washington Bahia Brazil China Europe Levant Seville Indo-China Mediterranean Africa England Vasco da Gama Azores California San Gabriel Mission

Paraguay's Francisco Lopez Death Toll and Tyranny Reported

Collier's Weekly notes Francisco Lopez of Paraguay waged war on Brazil Uruguay and Argentina from 1864 to 1870. It says Paraguay's 300000 men were reduced to 28000, and that Lopez flogged his sisters murdered his brothers and signed his mother's death warrant an hour before his own death.

Francisco Lopez Paraguay Brazil Uruguay Argentina Collier’s Weekly Lopez

Plant That Walks The Andino Cactus

The Andean cactus of northern Chile moves across ground using its roots like a caterpillar and relies mainly on fog for moisture. This curious adaptation highlights how fog zones support the species survival and growth.

Chile

Bomb Plot Ends in Death of Bakery Owner's Son

J Milton Lee aged 28 son of a bakery owner was killed when a dynamite charge fixed to his father's car exploded. Mrs John Knudson co-owner of the bakery received a threatening call warning she would be next. A note in the wreckage read this is your warning Lee to watch your sales or else.

J. Milton Lee John Knudson Lee Bakery Lee

Crawfordsville News Briefs details local visits and travel

Crawfordsville reports numerous social visits and travel notes. Mrs BE EK Vorse and D E Westcott with family returned from Faulkner South Dakota. Richard Kratter of Cedar Falls came home with his grandparents. Various locals visited relatives in Cedar Falls Waterloo New London Martinsburg and Mediapolis. Betty Lowe Mildred Anderson attend Bible school in Pleasant Grove. Anna Mae White returns to Davenport work after days at home. Rose Moorehead travels to Martinsburg for her brother Will Craig's death.

Mary Manners Crawfordsville BE. EK. Vores D. E Westcott Carlinville Ill Faulkner Wescotts Richard Kratter Cedar Falls J. A. Mitchell Waterloo Helen Smylie Bower New London G. Taylor R. C. McCleary Betty Lowe Mildred Anderson M'. Pleasant John Sheets Will Sheets Palma Okla Clarence Hering Illinois Anna Mae White Davenport

Local notes from Tyrone residents and visitors

Tyrone June 14 Mrs Otto Sheetz hosts visit from Jerry Need of Des Moines. Helen Sheetz had a tonsillectomy at Des Moines General Hospital last Tuesday. Omar Crawford and sons visited George Crawford's home. Roy Helferty family spent Sunday evening at Guy Davison’s. Waldo Miller visited his mother in law, Mrs Nick Tines, who had an operation in Washington County Hospital.

Tyrone Jerry Need Des Moines Otto Sheetz Helen Sheetz Des Moines General Hospital Omar Crawford and Sons George Crawford Roy Helferty Guy Davison Waldo Miller

Benjamin Franklin Admonition on Virtue and Utility

A quoted paragraph presents Benjamin Franklin urging studious profession, industrious frugality, sobriety temperance, and general virtue as paths to health wealth and happiness, concluding these traits offer the best chances for favorable outcomes.

Benjamin Franklin

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