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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
2
Mrs J O Elder leaves this afternoon for Cedar Rapids to attend a two day state D A R conference. Mrs Frank Kurtz Mrs Julia Cavender and Mrs Elmer Cherry with Richardson and Hazel will go tomorrow morning to the same event.
Mrs. Anna King was admitted yesterday afternoon for treatment of a fractured leg. Mrs. Floyd Ayers was dismissed yesterday.
Local items note Mrs. Anna Harlan of Richland ill at her daughter’s home in Washington. Tax reminders warn Mar 31 is last day to pay first half taxes without penalty. D. F. Macon Auctioneer reports activity in Reda. Families Mr. and Mrs Milan Thompson and Jimmy leave for Harlan after visiting Washington area parents. Bake sale planned March 26 at Washington Cleaners by St. James church ladies. Darlene Kay Jones born to Ernest and near Crawfordsville residents. Ella Wiese visiting Washington while pursuing work at the University of Minnesota. Shoppers C D Cooper Brighton Lyle Duncan Cotter Ethyl Stewart Keota.
Sordens Music Shop announces two new pianos for national release. The Storygrand grand with resonance chamber comes in five finishes white ebony mahogany walnut and blonde maple. The Spinet spans eighty eight notes in a compact fifty five and a half by twenty four by thirty six inches and offers Modern Spanish 18th Century and Louis XIV styles. Both models mark two years of design work by Story & Clark and are on display at Sorden's for inspection.
The division places North Georgia as the area north of the fall line from Augusta through Milledgeville and Macon to Columbus. South Georgia lies south of this geologic boundary.
The Republican party in Jackson Township schedules a caucus for Saturday evening March 26 at Living Lake School starting at 7:30. Local voters are invited to participate and help select delegates.
Dr. Marvin Austin of University Hospitals Iowa City visited last evening at the Crossett home. T. H. Peters will attend a Dexter sales meeting in Fairfield. Rumors claimed Billy Cox joined Walt Disney as a cartoonist. actually he was recommended by the University of Iowa art department for potential work, though hiring is unlikely before graduation.
County Chairman Will Griffin presided over a Riverside meeting of the county Democratic committee with guests at Congressman E. C. Bicher's office. Professor Livingston spoke, and a May 3 county promotion meeting was planned. Committeewoman slots shuffled in Cad ar township and Jackson township, with N. E. West taking Washington township representation.
The Columbus vocation class will visit Cedar Rapids on Friday to tour Coe College factories hospitals the telephone office Cedar Rapids Gazette and the recruiting station. The Columbus Tennis club will sponsor a bridge tournament at the community building Thursday evening. The annual meeting and pot luck supper was held at Cotter Presbyterian Church Tuesday. The Columbus high school orchestra girls glee club and other performers from Kalona will enter the district music contest in Davenport April 9.
Mrs. P. S. Conrad hosted relatives for a dinner in honor of Mr Conrad's birthday in Crawfordsville on Tuesday. Guests included Mrs. Ida Bretscher of Hamilton Ohio and extended family from Keosauqua Mt. Pleasant Wayland and Mediapolis. Inez Marshall baked the cake and others brought gifts.
Washington D C March 24 A democratic republican coalition failed to save the office of comptroller general from abolition in the administration reorganization bill The Senate defeated an amendment to retain the office by 47 to 36
Drama club members met at Elsie Glassburner’s home to view Good Night Please a one act play by James Daggett directed by Dorothy Kammueller. Seven named roles were performed by Meredith Whitehouse Mrs Harold Williams Burton and others with sixteen members and three guests attending. Refreshments were served by three hosts.
Lois Mace and Shirley Dunlap led a lesson titled The Bloodet Community House at the Junior Missionary society gathering yesterday afternoon at the church.
The Methodist church program featured devotionals led by Betty Jean Snakenberg with president Geraldine Bartow presiding. Eighteen girls attended the gathering and refreshments were provided by the Woman's Foreign Missionary society at the end of the evening.
One of the most remarkable prodigies ever known is William Henry West Betty born 1791 died 1874 who appeared in the heaviest Shakespearean roles at age eleven.
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