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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1938
Page
6
Municipal Judge George Sager ordered the forfeiture of 8 percent slot machines and 145 punch boards seized in raids by state county and police officers on April 7. The judge also ordered 48 pinball machines a chuck a luck machine and a merchandise board returned to owner C O Fouts.
Mrs. J. A. Koeller and family express gratitude through the Journal for the sympathy shown by friends after the death of Mr. Koehler.
Mrs L A Meredith reports a weekend of visits with guests including the Simpsons of Centerville and Iloane Simpson of Ottumwa at the William Beggs home. Several families, travelers, and students are mentioned visiting or spending time with local residents and relatives.
The Journal printed a typo that changed Walter Schroeder’s county total from 264 to 364 in yesterday’s official primary results, robbing him of 100 votes in the race for supervisor.
At Miles City Montana on June 21 the coroner’s office estimated 48 dead from the Olympian Milwaukee passenger train crash at Custer Creek. Thirty bodies were in the morgue with 23 identified. two recovered in the Yellowstone river and 16 missing. Over 80 injured. rescuers wrestled with bodies trapped in cars mired in the creek bottom.
School board officers listed include President Glenn Mace Secretary Ralph W Thompson and directors Dr P L Etter Dr T J Pease A E B Atchison and C W Tucker with no further context provided.
In 1848 Abe Lincoln and Cincinnati attorney T D Lincoln teamed on a damages case in Ohio. The Superior court of Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court ruled for their clients. Eight years later the same two lined up opposite each other in a U S court in Chicago where Abe Lincoln won.
Miles City Montana June 21. Ed Edwards recounts a dining car chef’s harrowing escape from the Olympian wreck near Custer Creek. He describes a bridge collapse, passengers trapped, eight to nine people washed away, and efforts to pull survivors from windows before the floodwaters.
A continued listing of candidates for township offices including trustees clerks assessors and other roles across Democrats and Republicans in multiple townships such as Dutch Creek English River Highland Marion Seventy-Six and Washington. Names include J B E Deal W C Sheets A W Kern D S Hardy Vitals cover 1939 1940 1949 term candidates and party affiliations.
Joe Duea an adult leader at the Iowa Legion sponsored boys state camp at Camp Dodge says the eight day event was outstanding. He reports 569 of 579 invited attendees from across the state with about 30 junior counselors and a half dozen senior counselors guiding activities. The camp formed two political parties and divided boys into cities named Halligan and others after Legion commanders. The event aims to become an annual program with 19 similar camps planned in other states.
A federal state crop reporting service summary shows Iowa farms increasing in size from 159.4 acres in 1930 to 163.8 acres in 1937 while total farms drop to 209,737. Tractors rise by 19.3 percent to 99,893 in 1937, a ratio of 45.6 percent of farms with tractors. 5,000 farmers left their farms between 1929 and 1937.
Daniel Denton, a planter, wrote A Brief Description of New York in 1670 as the first English language book describing the Province of New York. The work surveys geography people and settlement for readers in England.
Longtime residents recalled that a washout indirectly caused the death of 55 people in a Rock Island train wreck near Green Mountain on March 21, 1910. The passenger train rerouted over Great Western tracks derailed, killing two Washington residents Fred Colton and Miss Bessie Purvis.
Ottumwa Alva Carder, a mine operator, was found shot to death at the mine entrance and the wooded hills west of the city. A suspect is jailed while officials pursue the theory of a mine feud. Mrs. Earl Saner, who lives nearby, discovered the body in the afternoon when she went to pay $4 rent on her home.
The record notes that in 1937 Washington county farms operated 1,166 tractors. Earlier figures show 58,475 for 1930, indicating growth in mechanization across the decade.
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