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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1940
Page
4
A devotional note cites Jeremiah 29 13 urging readers to seek God with all their heart and find him. The brief meditation frames serious personal commitment as essential to spiritual discovery.
Broadcasters editors and citizens all discuss what is wrong with the country. The piece argues the core issue is a lack of concern and thinking among the public amid debt, unemployment, and political tension. It notes large crowds for Tom Dewey and Wallace Beery in Marshalltown as signs of public interest.
The author laments American indifference and rising central government power. He cites Hollywood fanfare in Clinton and compares it to forebears fighting tyranny. He notes eleven billion in new spending, sixty billion over seven years, ten million unemployed, rising taxes, and a public apathy toward these strains on democracy.
A collage of humorous quotes and aphorisms from Edgar A. Guest and other voices. Notes on friendship selflessness and the wry observations of daily life appear in short vignettes. The piece blends parenting punchlines mortgage memories and light social commentary.
Dayton Grove reports a series of Sunday dinners and visits among locals including Mrs. Roy Rain and daughter Mrs. Samuel Stange and children, Mrs. Mahoney of Rock Teland, the Stephens family near Ainsworth, and the Petersons in a trailer by Knotts stone quarry. Harold Leet underwent surgery at Washington hospital Tuesday morning. well wishes for quick recovery.
The Babcock family expresses gratitude to friends for flowers kindness and loyaltyshown at the funeral and for cooperation over the years Mrs John A Babcock Hetty Babcock Josephine Babcock Elder
May 20 to 25 period shows shower periods Tuesday or Wednesday and again late in the week. Warmer early week and again Thursday, with cool periods Wednesday and at week end.
In Riverside on May 18 John W Tener received a 50 year Mason certificate at a lodge meeting. Worshipful Master A R Cummings and officers presided with Earl Marshall conductor. Tener brothers William and John honored as 50 year Masons while other officers acknowledged the achievement.
Washington Lodge No 20 presents regular meetings on the first Friday of each month. Worshipful Master H. Ard McBride and Secretary A. W. Yard will preside and record attendance.
Brighton May 2001 two students from Brighton High School reach a national regional event at St Past Mion. Ray Leppert sixteen? fifteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Dale Leppert. He competed in the solo division with forty five entrants and earned a rating of 3. Betty Jeanne Hoskins earned a rating in soprano solo on Friday.
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