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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1936
Page
9
The Snowball community faces delayed mail service as the route four carrier has not run since Christmas. Residents, including the John Shebeck family, travel two miles for the mail due to unplowed roads and persistent snow. The local snowplow has been working but the road remains blocked by drifts.
Harold Lloyd learned duck punches as a youth in a Denver gym, a skill that fuels a comedic sequence in his Paramount film The Milky Way. He plays a milkman who wins a middleweight title by dodging every punch, directed by Led McCarey with a supporting cast including Adolphe Menjou and Helen Mack.
Mr and Mrs Glen Fuhr visited Washington on business and dined with Val Fuhr. The Fuhr family has moved to Washington, and the Glen Fuhr family moved to the Val Fuhr farm. Russell Griggs toured Sioux City last week and visited Dwight Booth in Logan. The Kupka family moved to Glen Fuhr’s former home. Dr. Peterson tended a sick mule on the Fuhr farm. Snowball had no school due to a spelling contest at Straw College. Helen Genkinger visits with George Genkinger family this week.
In Ainsworth RR 2 on March 6 Mrs. C H Beenblossom notes families relocating nearby and five men sent by Mr Coon to shovel snow from the road from Claude Kilgers corner to R A Acheson. Despite some relief, mud and impassable conditions keep cars out and mail relayed. six foot snow drifts loom and field softness hinders road opening.
In Masai land East Africa a spit in the palm is a token of respect before shaking hands or meeting a superior. The native is said to spit before any important event or the arrival of a friend or superior.
The Ainsworth school paper Newslites posts its editorial staff for the second semester. Editor in chief Modelle Harbison. Assistant editor Hazel Harbison. Assistant editors Betty Burt Dorothy Pearson Victoria Canott Wanda Jones. Pressmen Mexine Simons Thelma Peterson Norbert Norris Dewey Stephens. Business manager Bruce Lord Cover Artist Dixie Simons Cartoonist Wanda Jones. W H Keiper staying with son Clyde in uncertain health and confined to bed.
Harmony March 6 Chas Longer thrashed soybeans for Carl Vorhees last week Jean Kelsey returned home from work. She had stayed with Mrs Roberts while Mr Roberts was in hospital. Mr and Mrs Glen Anderson and girls spent Sunday at Ralph Kelcey home. We are sorry to lose the Sutherland family from our neighborhood. We welcome Mr and Mrs Ed Heek and family to Op neighborhood.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Schwab move to a farm near Wellman. Charles Brown relocates to the Sherm White farm near Crawfordsville. Vince Tellin and children move to his father's farm south of Riverside. Lloyd Anders move from near Washington to the Tellin farm. Mrs Prymek visits Cedar Rapids. Knottnerus families and Melo Lasek household host and visit.
A playful Evening Journal ad copy extols how an ad-fon helps women become good homemakers, contrasting traditional views of wives with a modern promotional angle. The line emphasizes advertising tools as enhancer of domestic roles.
Verdi reports on Charles Crandall of Brighton visiting his sister Mrs. Stanley Baird. Leslie Gates and partner travel to Little York Illinois for a Chester White sale. William Randall stays overnight with William Longer. John and Irene Coffman begin Cedar school with Irene in sixth grade and John in second. James Baird and wife visit Peoria Illinois to see George Van Gundy at Monmouth College amid Professor Van Gundy's passing after appendicitis surgery. Donald Longer's Tuesday activity noted.
Night with Donald Bealer and the Miller family ended with Sunday dinner at the William Bates home in Washington. Edd Miller purchased a team from Dutch Witterman.
An old chronicle portrays King Cole as a legendary figure reigning in Britain in the third century AD. One version ties him to St. Helena, who died about 328, mother of Constantine the Great, the emperor who set Byzantium as his capital and is linked to the later name Constantinople.
Historical note cites that at Pompeii’s complete destruction in A D 79 about 90 000 residents lived nearby and around 50 000 to 90 000 perished in the eruption, with estimates suggesting the total death toll reached tens of thousands.
The Vergamene marbles are Greek sculptures mainly friezes from the altar of Zeus at Vergamos dating to the early second century B C. Ex cavated by the Germans between 187? and 1886 and now housed in Berlin.
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