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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1940
Page
8
May 6 junior senior banquet at Wayland High School featured a rainbow motif. Sixteen seniors, faculty members Mrs. Githens and Mrs. Filts attended as guests of the junior class. Guests arrived before six, entering a gym decorated to evoke an outdoor rainbow scene with prominent spotlight illumination.
The Wayland senior banquet unfolds in a gymnasium dressed as a garden with a rainbow motif. Richard Sodergren hosts as toastmaster while Mildred Klopfenstein gives the welcome and the pageant features songs by Frances Witting and others.
A chair owned by G. M. Donalson of Attapulgus Georgia stood on the front porch for 75 years leaving deep pits in the floor.
The passage outlines a shoe making process with 174 machine operations on 154 machines and 36 hand operations, totaling 210 processes carried out by a proportional number of workers. It emphasizes the division between machine and manual labor in footwear manufacture.
A list of Masonic lodge regular meeting times and multiple railway timetables shows daily and holiday stops. It includes Westbound Washington Lodge No. 26 meetings the first Friday, officers McBride and Yard, and various California and Kansas City rail departures with local and limited services and exact daily stopping patterns. The notices name agents and train numbers, with specific departure and stop details for intercity routes.
A rural Iowa school history recounts the 1874 demolition of the old frame building in SEVEN TY SIX township and the opening of a modern new two door south facing schoolhouse with six large windows. The piece notes long local memory of teachers pupils and town life with names of early educators and students and details of changing school practices.
Paul V. McNutt Federal Security Administrator and former Indiana governor will speak at the Young Democratic clubs state convention banquet May 20 at Tavern on the Green Electric Park. The speech will be broadcast on NBC from 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. as an administration spokesman on the farm problem. Other prominent Democrats are expected to attend.
At 12 000 feet altitude eggs take four and one half minutes to boil rather than three minutes. The finding notes aviation cooking tips for high altitude egg preparation.
Michigan's oldest paper the Detroit Free Press has been purchased by John S. Knight publisher of Akron Beacon Journal and Miami Herald. The 109 year old morning newspaper changes hands to become part of Knight's media group.
Riverside May 6 Sunday school classmates gathered at the Fox home to celebrate Lyte Fox’s eleventh birthday with games, a wiener roast, ice cream and cake. Guests included Lois Smola Hope Rae Stranksy Dickie Cress LaMoyne Norous Billy Scott Bobby Burich Donnie Cress Shannon Little Duane Latta Hubert Myles Doud. LF E club members later met at Mrs. Tener’s Riverside home.
Standard Oil of Indiana plans a 1940 advertising increase with about 75 percent of the budget allocated to newspapers across 13 midwestern states. The campaign centers on Red Crown gasoline as the 2 to 1 favorite, supported by 1 713 papers and a 14 million circulation, featuring large illustrations and Iso Vis motor as the Western favorite.
Catherine Hope, Mrs. bk. bo La yer, Mrs. Emma McRoberts, kK. W. Meardson, Mrs. Josie Mow, Mrs. T. M. Wagner, Mrs. Jom Yoder, Miss Gladys Emerse, Dr. BK, E. Lawyer of Iowa, and Mrs. Roy Snyder of Ri side were also present at the meeting.
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