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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1946
Page
6
Do You Love Me a Technicolor musical starring Maureen O Hara Dick Haymes and Harry James opens Sunday at the State Theatre. The film follows a small town girl to New York where a trio of lovers and a bandleader tempt her with romance and song.
Yesterday and today admissions include Raymond Walton as medical patient and a series of tonsillectomies for Jack Pauls Barbara Stout Karen Stout Lacey Riley Jerome Greiner and Richard Thoma. Newborns arrive to Knepp Curtis Jungbluth families while Mildred Watson is discharged and William Hechstetler is released.
Death notices list Frank Rummelhart 90 of Iowa City Mercy Hospital died Monday after a heart ailment. Lisle Moreheus 70s formerly Washington resident died at her Palentia California home after heart illness. Clyde Griggs 25 and David Hotle 26 died Sunday afternoon in an airplane crash near West Chester. Ollie Flenner 65 died in Kansas Illinois after nursing home stay. J L O Loughlin 60 died in Kalona after heart attack. William Allbaugh 59 died of heart attack in Muscatine. Funeral for Ollie Flenner held in Kansas Illinois yesterday.
The term biscuit is a French word meaning twice cooked. The bread was baked a second time, expelling all moisture and increasing its keeping quality.
The text lauds veterans and families, pledges care and sympathy, and endorses Clair Williams for Congress and Frank Miles for governor. It highlights Democratic achievements since 1933, calls for continued Democratic control of Des Moines, notes homestead credit, and endorses Forrest D. Walker and Ralph H. Smith for state offices. It also supports William R. Hart for re election to the State Central Committee.
The report notes hog prices at 14.85 with weather trouble ahead as considerable cloudiness brings thunder showers tonight and tomorrow across the area.
Mrs Beulah Coward of Charleston SC and Mrs Ruth Coffman of Des Moines host guests from across the region. A luncheon featured pink and blue colors, hollyhocks, and corsage favors. PFC James Young, home on leave, arrived at Camp Polk Louisiana and met fellow inductee William Jones from Crawfordsville. Mrs Co M Strain of San Pedro CA celebrates fiftieth wedding anniversary with KS cards from many old friends. Mr and Mrs Mervin Jones of Williamsburg announce a son Lorn born last week. Emma Lou Bullers, formerly of Crawfordsville, is now Mrs Jones. Mr and Mrs Lewis Thomas visited with Mr and Mrs Lee Lease.
In Manson over Sunday Bishop Simon Gingerich ordained John David Zehr into the ministry at the Mennonite church. John David is the son of Mr and Mrs Silas Zehr and Mrs Zehr, his mother is Eliza Roth of near Noble. The ordination took place in Wayland parish and ties to the Zehr family are noted.
Several families share updates from Lincoln to Denver with Doris Graber’s wedding and a large park picnic. Dan Eicher joins the Marines in Des Moines while Dan, Charles, and Frank Eicher visit from Iowa City. Lt. Richard Sodergren returns home on terminal leave after service in Japan. A Toledo family visits Hamburg cousins as 150 residents attend a park picnic with Anna Conrad and the Otis Bontrager family from St Johns Michigan.
The Ainsworth Methodist Church schedules Sunday school at 10 A M with Herbert Campbell, morning worship at 11 A M featuring a sermon by the pastor, and Youth Fellowship at 7 A M. The official board meets July 7 after services. 48 ladies attended the Womans Society of Christian Service last Thursday, the first meeting of the year, in warm weather. Pastor O J Fix.
A standard cord of wood is defined as a pile 4 feet high, 4 feet deep and 8 feet long, totaling 128 cubic feet.
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