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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1932
Page
3
A nostalgic reminiscence places St Patrick at 106 years, then offers a green themed supper menu with recipes for St Pat’s Fruit Cocktail Mushrooms and Eggs a la King Emerald Isle Parfait and more. Dishes include Killarney Salad Green Seed Cakes and mint garnishes designed for eight guests.
Pythian Sisters Washington Temple 1338 meet Tuesday evening. Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church hosts a pot luck supper Tuesday at 6 30 with Mrs F W Eastwood. Royal Neighbors set a regular meeting March 1 at oclock at Woodman hall.
The Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Harry Bishop to exchange quilt pieces thimble and needles. The H. H. Bridge club will meet Wednesday evening at 7 30 with Mrs. Phil Vanerus.
The article promotes ice cream as a health food that boosts energy vitality and complexion. It urges mothers and young women to include ice cream daily to retain youthfulness and buoyant appearance.
The U and I club hosts an all day meeting at Mrs Amos Weaver home. Regular B and P dinner March 2 at 6 15 at the Y with guest or excusal notice to Mary Briley by Monday 7 PM. Just Us club meets with Mrs Chris Wittmer to sew. Harmony club meets with Mrs Tom Harvey instead of Mrs Lauder Kennedy. Childs Study Department Fortnightly on Wednesday 2 30 at Mrs T R Gillespie home. O E S Washington Chapter 98 School of instruction March 2 1 30 PM under Mrs Enola Holgate with inspection at 8 PM Mrs Edna Junkin grand matron will be here.
Local clubs schedule Thursday gatherings across Harmony and Pilotburg. Mrs. Austin Sutherland and Ella Warren host various chapters with reminders to bring thimbles and scissors, noting Geo Washington program and Irish jokes as roll call prompts.
Mrs John Zieglowsky notes the C C C club of West Chester will meet at Mrs Rosamond Sherman's home Thursday afternoon March 3. The Christian Ladies Aid will hold their regular social at Mrs Caude Tucker's home Thursday afternoon. Attendance is expected to be good.
The Methodist church Women’s Foreign Missionary Society will meet Friday at Mrs J D Dayton’s home 918 East Main instead of with Mrs Sexton. The leader will be Mrs
The senior Methodist choir will meet Wednesday at 7 45 PM due to the program at the high school. The session reflects a time change to accommodate the school event.
Rubio and nearby residents share weekend visits in Richland and surrounding towns. Floyd Smith family and others visit Moorer home. Clayton Morgan spent time with friends in Albert City. Eugene Morgan and family visited Rev. Allan Jay’s home near Searshoro. several locals attended a class play in Richland. The shipping association sent hogs to Chicago. Oscar Mourer family moved to Benieter place. Ridénour family moved to Brighton. O W Schmittett and Dean dined with Hanan family.
The acanthus plant has long been used in decorative and sculptured art from ancient Corinthian and Greek styles through Roman Byzantine and Renaissance periods. The period is often identified by how the acanthus is used.
West Chester W R C No 300 met Thursday for installation of officers and reports. Relief committee reported food and clothing valued at 45.15. Officers named include President Emma Ralston and secretary Lucille Kleese with Eva Robertson as installing officer.
A spring Iowa gathering on April 14 and 15 at the Fort Des Moines Hotel will focus on child health and protection. Governor Turner chairs the event with state health commissioner Dr D C Steelsmith active. The meeting, rooted in the 1930 National White House Conference, will feature speakers from New York, Washington, and Iowa experts, with extensive floor discussions on maternal and child health, immunization, school health, and services for vulnerable children.
Mrs Thomas Gerdes reports that on Friday February 19 teachers and pupils from Spread Wagle and Glendale schools visited No. 11.
Mrs. Frank Podaril hosted an all day event for Our Gang to celebrate the first wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Podaril on Tuesday February 26. Attendees included multiple local families, with quilting, visiting, a noon dinner, and a farewell potluck for the Lauderman family moving near West Chester.
The Girl Scouts met at the Y after school Monday for a hard time party and supper. Twenty two members attended with 100 percent turnout. Elizabeth Thorne was voted the worst looking character for two weeks growth whiskers and a red nose. Maxine Allen was the second worst. Mrs BR Stutsman and Mrs J W Cox were present. Each patrol performed a stunt and the group helped prepare and serve supper.
Thirty Glendale neighbors gathered Saturday evening to share a social sendoff for Mr and Mrs Albert Weir as they prepare to relocate to a new residence north of Haskins. The gathering celebrated their time in the community with well wishes and friendship.
Members enjoyed three tables of bridge with Mrs. Will Hemmings winning high score. Refreshments were served by Mrs. A. H. Twinam and Mrs. J. E. Ream. At Fortnightly Club, Mrs. H. I. Ward reviewed Nobel and Pulitzer prize history to about fourteen attendees at Mrs. J. E. Wright’s home.
In the afternoon Spread Eagle school held a bicentennial celebration with songs recitations and a reading of The Red White and Blue. Students Margaret Lemley June Lemley Joan Gerdes Robert Custer Junior Wallace Donald Jackson and Winifred Gerdes performed as guardians and performers. The Hearthside club hosted an oyster supper at Henry Millers home and Glendale youths practiced a play for a future school benefit while Mr and Mrs Ray Redlingen move today.
In Davenport Iowa March 1 arguments in Norman Baker’s $500000 libel suit against the American Medical Association were expected to begin after Baker testified for an hour as a rebuttal witness. He spoke on furnishings and sanitary conditions at his cancer treatment institute in Muscatine. Dorothea Rice Nemetz a nurse formerly of Atlantic Iowa testified about nursing staff efficiency and institute cleanliness.
Chicago's 14 000 school teachers received a payday today marking the first since last Christmas. Four thousand extra board of education workers shared in the delayed outlay from a depleted treasury as 18 000 educational workers received two weeks' overdue salaries in cash and four weeks' pay in redeemable checks. Seven months' pay totaling 25 million dollars remains overdue with no immediate prospects of payment.
Theodore Smith a 22 year old fur salesman and amateur boxer was blinded by a shot while defending his female companion Mildred Kleinman in Forest Park near Lovers Lane. A robber preying on couples fled after the incident. Two others injured in a separate car crash during a running gun fight with police were hospitalized as their vehicle burned.
Davenport Iowa March 1 Home Savings bank resumed business as usual as staff checked records after four masked robbers looted the bank yesterday. Initial loss estimates ranged around thirty thousand dollars but later indicated about twenty thousand. The thieves entered through a basement window and forced cashier Harold Hansen to unlock the timelocked vault. Authorities offered no suspects.
Imbedded footprints of a giant imperial mammoth along with three toed sloth and prehistoric birds unearthed in a prison yard near Carson City Nevada. Some finds housed at the Smithsonian Institute.
The Legion Auxiliary promotes a program for women detailing seven directives to support domestic welfare and national recovery. It urges maintaining living standards, buying now at current prices, buying a home, modernizing a home, joining the prosperity parade, overcoming fear, and keeping money safe while trusting the banking system and US economy.
Honolulu police and naval patrols pursued a masked attacker who beat Mrs. Kathleen Hope, wife of a Navy machinist, as her husband was away. Twelve suspicions were arrested, two held as suspects, all described as Orientals, with few details to identify the assailant. Mrs. Hope has moved to a neighbor’s home for recovery.
Des Moines March 1 IN S cigarette tax collections for February totaled 77 761 77, announced by State Treasurer Ray E K Johnson. The figure falls short of January’s 383 653 33 and February 1931’s 98 328 38.
Chicago jurors found Margaret Summers guilty of killing her 17 year old nephew Thomas Meyer by arsenic poisoning to collect life insurance. She faces 14 years in state prison as jurors split on the verdict and a motion for a new trial is pending.
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