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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1941
Page
8
Community notes recount hospital visits and personal tales from Iowa City Madrid and Washington. Ralph Livingston remains in recovery after a second operation while Bob Livingston and the school orchestra entertain with a mishap involving a muffled horn. The Nineteenth Century Club hosts a luncheon at North Side Cafe with flowers and a Quaker girl program.
Judy Canova stars in the musical comedy Sis Hopkins opening Wednesday at the State Theatre. The cast includes Charles Butterworth as Uncle Horace, Bob Crosby as Jeff Harnsworth, Susan Hayward as Carol, and Jerry Colonna as a goofy college professor. The film follows Sis leaving her farm home to live with Uncle Horace and his family.
Memorial Day exercises in Ainsworth appointed a chair, day marshal O R Thoma, and committees for vocal instrumental music flowers finance place flags and firing squad. Tay Day results report a cancer research fundraiser held Saturday in Washington and Ainsworth with volunteers from both towns and sponsors in Washington.
Des Moines reports state net income tax totals surpass five million dollars for the first time, with final figures showing collections of 5,153,588,738. Personal income tax drove the rise. There were 128,729 individual and fiduciary returns totaling 4,472,496.96, up from 108,870 and 3,748,490.06 in 1940, indicating growth from many small taxpayers as the average payment dropped from 36.09 to 24.75.
A light film plot follows harmless snakes kept to catch mice in Mexico, and a tangled romance where Carol uses Sis to win Jeff Farnsworth. Sis enrolls at a college to embarrass her, but she shines in a campus play. Carol plots to thwart her, leading to a fast and funny finale.
Washington workers collected about 16.50 for a theater fund with Beverly Butterworth Betty Olinger Ruth Telford Lavon Buenneke Tracy Norris and Max White among contributors. Visitors include T C Davis and Grant Davis of Dubuque and Carl Peterson of Burlington as well as Emerson Joly from Alameda visiting his family. A bake sale is planned for May 24 at the Washington Cleaners.
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