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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1947
Page
4
A special Mother's Day offering at United Presbyterian Church raised over 5000 in cash and pledges for a new United Presbyterian home for the aged to be established locally. The list of attendees included many Des Moines and local residents visiting families and attending services.
Tish, the high school senior class play, was presented over two nights. The cast was directed by Mrs. Ben Robbins Jr.
Y's Men donate clothing and shots to Boys club of Bremen Germany chaired by John Owen. Several community members including Lt. Col. W. G. Eldridge speak at dinners while Soap Box derby signups and sponsor interest unfold. City police pressure drives and local church sermons mark a busy period in Washington.
Farrell is set to return home from Japan next month and will be discharged from the army at that time.
Marie Blattner named valedictorian and Bob Bell salutatorian for the 1947 class. Scholastic honors go to seniors with 90 percent or better grades, listed alphabetically. Ruth Miner is honored with the high school annual dedication. several local residents are noted in travel and family visits.
Mrs Ralph Sevett and Mrs Richard Myers return home from Phoenix with Mrs Dan Cordova visiting for three weeks. Rev and Mrs T E White Mr and Mrs Arie Huisman attend Tulip festival and Centennial pageant in Pella. Captain Archer Speidel on terminal leave from Honolulu visits grandmother Mrs N M Speidel. Dr George Kerr heads to Chicago for Northwestern University Episilon Xi installation and will lead Sunday worship at Lutkin Hall.
Dismissals Saturday include John Godwin and Mrs Ernest White with son Richard Lee. Mrs John Gabriel and Roger Fulton of Columbus Junction. Dwight Moody of Keota. Admissions Saturday list Edward Prebyl Evelyn Finke Edwin Bailey Hugh Ollinger. births record a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Romine Wellman at 4 11 Saturday. a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wheatley at 8 Sunday. a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Merle Ballard at 9 01 yesterday.
Yesterday two families welcomed daughters and sons including the Acord Zieglowsky and Minick households. Today Raymond Schultz announces a son from Ainsworth, while admissions list J. J. Korf and Gerald Ephraim as medical patients. Surgical cases include Charles Crone Keith Orris and John Kartsock. Mrs Leonard Wheatley and her son reside at 502 Iowa avenue.
Mrs. Lawrence Trotter and Mr. and Mrs. Trotter announce the birth of their daughter Mary Margaret, six pounds eleven ounces, at 6:28 this morning. Names listed include several local residents and addresses, with medical notes indicating appendectomy and medical cases.
Today entries list Graig Waddell of 308 N Harrison St and Dwayne Samuelson of Keota recovering from tonsillectomies. Yesterday Mrs. A R Glider of 302 Kk Fifth St underwent an appendectomy. Discharges include Vernon Tucker Route Four, Carl Stites of Keota, Jerry Ephraim of 802 N Marion Ave, Mr and Mrs Ruben Miller of Kalona and an eight pound eight and a quarter ounce son born at 11 06.
Sam R Weeks of 603 KE Madison Street and Mrs Carl Zieglowsky with her son on Route One are listed in a brief community notice.
Ten years ago the Evening Journal won a silver cup for best Iowa special edition from the Iowa Daily Press association. The piece mentions a near fire at the John Tucker house, travels of Bergie Larson and others, Tulip festival visitors, a May wedding announced by William Shannon and Elizabeth Rees, and a bicycle invention patent by Frank Brinton among various social and local notes.
Burglars hit two local shops taking a raincoat and five dollars. Mr and Mrs George McDaniel moved to a new home at 903 East Main Street purchased from John Swisher. Hardley Bell trip took 24 hours driving from Des Moines to Wellman with mud delays between Sigourney and Washington. Ramseyer Hatchery placed tenth in Ames poultry show. L A Jones becomes embalmer at Willis Crosby parlors. wife and two children to move here. Local merchants form an ad club with I Rothschild president promising Truth as slogan. Bailey family settles Barhydt estate. Edie Bovee staying with them. Robert Patterson joins Fox and Dewey shoe sales. A U K O society formed by south town girls. meaning all uninvited keep out.
Eleanor Bailey's bicycle mishap at Kleins corner prompts Char les Davis to assist. Isabel le Ayers notes differing bike prices while J W Morton vows to wear a stove pipe hat for a year in exchange for a Democrat subscription. Col C J Wilson circulates a Timothy Brown monument fund to raise 250 dollars beyond state 500. The bronze minute man bust is expected soon. James Work is reelected supreme president of the Home Guards of the World.
Frank Sege travels to Mt Pleasant for the Mt Pleasant Fair field game. He will start at first base for Fairfield. Mrs. Floyd Blankenhorn of Crawfordsville and Robert Stirling of 714 W Monroe are noted guests, with Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sharp of Richmond and Hine Pound present. A birth at 4 14 this morning is reported.
Mr. Quackenbush died Monday afternoon at his daughter Mrs Ban Waters home after ten days care. Funeral services were at his former home Richland. Mrs Christner widow of Jacob Christner of Wayland died at her daughter Mrs Ben Neff home near Coppock after months care. She is survived by fourteen.
Frank Swartzendruber 51 of Kalona died Wednesday morning at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after a week as a patient. Death was due to a heart attack. Funeral services were FTri.
The comedy musical Ladies Man opens Sunday at the State Theatre. Spike Jones and His City Slickers contribute music, with Eddie Bracken Cass Daley Virginia Welles Johnny Coy and Virginia Field starring. New songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn headline plus Spike Jones specials and a Cass Daley medley.
Mrs Emma Maxwell died Friday afternoon in Iowa City where she had been since January after a fall. She is survived by a daughter Mrs Roy Tripp of Sioux City.
Walter Owen Bunk Ralston of West Chester died Friday morning at Mercy hospital Iowa City after a period of illness. He had been ill since late March and seriously ill since Wednesday. He had an operation several weeks ago. Survived by his wife Emma Hays, a daughter and a son.
The first storm signal flown in the United States was at Oswego New York in October 1871 from a meteorological tower built by the army signal corps. Congress authorized a system of stations in 1870 and the signal corps set up a national weather reporting service in 1871.
A United Nations FAO projection warns that a 100 percent rise in global milk production is required to meet initial nutrition targets. The report highlights substantial gaps in access to dairy and urges investments in livestock, feed, and infrastructure to boost output.
The nation saw farmers receive twenty one and a half billion dollars of last year’s national income, setting a new record for farm earnings amid broad agricultural gains.
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