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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1933
Page
6
The Rural Women’s club met with Mrs. Lincoln Barthelow for a light afternoon with fifteen members and a guest. Mrs. Will Mat ie led the business session as games and jig saw puzzles entertained. Next meeting set for Thursday June 8.
Ruth Cunningham and Irma Tucker, two Rainbow Girls previously serving as officers, have been honored with the Grand Cross of Colors. Millrea Brown also named a member of the Cross. The group awaits grand assembly in Davenport in June for formal conferment.
A hickory tree grows over the grave of James Sayre in Canton Baptist cemetery. Sayre, a devotee of Andrew Jackson, wore a hickory sprig in his buttonhole in life as a tribute to Old Hickory.
A fashion feature highlights a versatile summer frock combining comfort and chic style with a deep cape collar, wide belt, and inverted pleats. The pattern No 5237 fits sizes 14 to 42 bust, price 15 cents, part of United Feature Syndicate Summer Fashion Book offer. The page promotes pattern orders via The Evening Journal Pattern Department in Washington Iowa.
The column continues a long roster of fallen soldiers with names such as Thorne Clifford Waters Solomon Wilson Walter Wright Martin Arnold Wade Brown Chrissinger Copeland Curran Sam Curran Jas Dodd Evan Fleming Gilson Helwieck Hoxworth Humm Keller Kennedy Kilgore Lamb B F Lamb W H Lutta Miller Myers Norris Oldfield Payne Ray Robertson Shaw Stone Tucker Warnock Waters Samuel Weston and others, listing units like Iowa Inft Pa Cav and O Inft. The passage ends with a note on Vitamin A found in olives, linking health to diet.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrives at the District Supreme Court after a West Coast flight to testify in the Evalyn Walsh Means suit over the alleged ransom hoax. He describes the tragedy that shocked the nation a year ago.
Martha Butler reports at Columbus Junction that Harry Wenger directed a band picnic by Lily Lake with many pupils from local schools. Open air concert begins downtown next Wednesday evening. Mrs. Henrietta Salmon and Mr and Mrs J D Darrow traveled to Wapello after a serious illness in the Salmon family. Mr and Mrs Paul Bere of Ottumwa visit the Deans in Columbus City. The United Presbyterian Young Ladies Missionary Society meets Thursday evening at Mrs J S Ramadale’s home. An announcement lists the marriage of Miss Alice Remley of Raton New Mexico, daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo Remley.
Remley and William 8S Stallings of El Paso Texas wed on May 14 at the bride’s home. The couple’s future residence will be Santa Fe No M. The bride had visited here with grandmother Mrs H M Letts and Miss Carol Adams. Ross Woods of Columbus Junction attended.
The Bureau of Entomology of the U S Department of Agriculture reports experiments to raise silkworms have failed mainly due to labor costs and no commercial attempts are now being made. Read The Journal Want-ads.
Walter J. Cummings of Chicago is named by Secretary Woodin as Executive Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of bank conservation and restructuring. He was drafted for the job to rebuild the nation’s banking system.
The G A R hall at the courthouse will open Friday and Saturday as the W R C calls patriotic women to help make 400 memorial day wreaths. Miss Hesse Conger, chairwoman, asks all to bring plenty of flowers to the courthouse Tuesday by 8 30 a m for decorating veterans graves.
The A and T club will entertain their families at Charles Sloat's home in Cleb. Supper is at 6 50. The Nineteenth Century club meets at Mrs Man ton Hebner's home at 2 30 Saturday afternoon.
Danville Kentucky served as the first seat of civil government west of the Allegheny Mountains, marking an early center of governance in the region.
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