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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
4
This meditation cites 2 Corinthians 7 1 urging cleansing from flesh and spirit to perfect holiness in God s fear. It discusses the go giver as one who seeks to serve prospects with genuine willingness to provide excellent service and secure lasting business. Arthur Sheldon.
A Kansas City contest collected safety slogans to promote Life Insurance Week and general safety. Samples urge careful driving, responsibility, and caution on the road while noting life insurance as a savings and protection plan.
The piece extols thrift and saving through life insurance or alternative methods, urging readers to prepare for tomorrow while living in the present. It notes the value of the "borrow" privilege and advises laying up treasures, ending with a humorous reminder that it is illegal to shoot an insurance agent.
The State theater presents Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for four days. The colored film adapts Mark Twain’s tale of Tom, Becky, Huck and Aunt Polly with landmarks like the graveyard and cave. Hannibal monuments to Samuel Clemens remind readers of Twain’s memory.
Scientists report a bee can pull 300 times its body weight yet public fascination fixates on the bee’s push rather than its pull. The observation blends biology with a curious twist of perception, highlighting surprising insect power.
A Washington man on a summer trip is escorted through an Indian reservation by friends. He delivers a boastful remark to a red man who responds with laughter. The piece ends with a joke about wooden soldiers and a sharp insult to a group described as rolling pins.
In a high school library a couple was found entwined at a stop sign and faced a jokey warning from a passing patrolman. The story highlights how minor improprieties have become routine and provoke little gossip today.
A librarian announces desk closure and asks what to check out. A freshman replies with a joking request about a "short, little blonde in the blue dress," illustrating a light moment in the library.
A school teacher uses water and whiskey to illustrate a point about worms. A student replies with a witty line about whiskey causing worms, while other bits note anecdotes about Man o War turning 21 and a patrolman question about an accident.
May 11 notes from South Highland recount visits by the Havel, Green, Knowttnerus, Prymek, and Morgan families to Melo Lasek and Kolosick households. Activities include house cleaning help, Mother's Day gatherings, and local farm work. The Hazel Dell school year ends Friday May 33.
Graveside services were held at Mt. Olivet cemetery in Riverside for Eldon C. Kleopfer who died Sunday in Iowa City from pneumonia. He was born in Riverside in 1915, attended St. Marys High School, and worked at Burkett Updegraff Motor Co. for two years. He is survived by his parents, a sister and a brother, with several relatives noted among attendees and mourners.
Newton Marjorie Wormsley, a local high school junior, won the second annual European tour award from Maytag Co. Fred Martag II presented the prize. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Wormsley and competed with five others in five minute speaking periods and a round table with judges. John Cumming Jr was named the alternate.
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