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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1925
Page
8
Washington Iowa community page lists visitors and residents traveling to and from Hamburg Richland Ainsworth Crawfordville Burlington and Davenport. Notables include Ralph Pratt family Bernardine Neville W. G. Robertson and D. F. Macon auctioneer. Several local events service plans and new baby Grace Rosalie noted.
Twenty two town posts with about three hundred delegates gather for two day program. Election of 24 delegates to the national convention at Birmingham, Alabama, is a key agenda item.
Horace G. McMillan and his son G. W. McMillan, magazine publishers from Sioux City, have been adjudged bankrupts in a federal court in Sioux Falls South Dakota. H. G. McMillan once chaired Iowa GOP and later served as U S attorney for the northern district of Iowa.
Dr and Mrs M E McEwen learned from the navy department that their foster son George died aboard the U S S New Mexico after an accident on board. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the navy he adds a somber wartime civilian family sorrow.
Iowa appoints Adin F. Nugent of Cedar Rapids as a special agent in the state department of criminal investigation. In Estherville the Upper Des Moines Valley track meet crowned Estherville champions with Rock Rapids second and Milford and Sheldon tied for third. Fort Dodge Mrs Alvert Heppler was acquitted of aiding her brother Frank Clayton's jail escape. Creston L F Hendrix confessed to forging $80 in checks and was released from Anamosa weeks ago. Des Moines approved the sale of Iowa Lawn Packing to Swift and Company for $405,000 and expansion to include cattle slaughter with sheep likely soon.
Illinois defeated Notre Dame 12 to 1 and Michigan beat Minnesota 9 to 4. Kansas won 2 to 1 over Missouri while Columbia topped Valparaiso 11 to 10. Indiana crushed Purdue 15 to 11 in a high scoring day.
Rainy weather and lingering semi drought reduce wheat growth prospects while cooler conditions help crop hopes. Liverpool prices dip, Chicago wheat opens 4 to 14 cents lower before partial rally. Corn remains firm as hog values rise, with July corn up and oats near initial levels. Provisions track corn and hogs as markets react.
In New Orleans on May 16 a professor of philosophy at Newcomb College killed his wife Eleanor and two children, then died by suicide. The bodies of George W. Peckham 40 and family were found in the professor's apartment across from the college, each shot in the left temple. The coroner ruled triple murder and death by own action for the professor.
A federal state inquiry shows nearly 16 percent of Iowa farm homes have radio receivers, totaling 33 597 sets May 1 1925. WOC Davenport leads with 1 494 sets, 971 crystal, while WHO Bankers Life Des Moines ranks top for listeners across districts.
The May 1 issue reports Dr. Bowers addressing the West Chester school commencement in the Methodist church. He argues that systems require brains, cites Ford assembly, and contrasts factory labor with planning. The piece notes community talk, local travel, market prices, and memories of Native American events and early settlers.
Mrs Wellston writes locals about the May 16 school year closing with a picnic on the lawn and a program of songs. Robert Miksch graduates from West Chester. Children find an old Civil War era lock. An antique atlas recalls 50 year old Washington County history and the first settler Adam Ritchey in 1835. The Sacs and Foxes once lived near Washington with a village of about six hundred.
Dubuque John V. Daley of Maquoketa was bound over to the federal grand jury under $5,000 bonds for sending obscene matter through the mails.
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