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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1945
Page
4
A long profile paints Nena Badenoch of Monmouth balancing family life with activism. It details her radio copy work for crippled children and epilepsy research, her interview with editors, and her outreach with spastic children, plus community notices and local memories of notable residents.
The Methodist church hosted a full capacity baccalaureate and commencement with Rev. George Kerr and Dr. Will Orr of Des Moines delivering addresses. Eighty four graduates received diplomas. A memorial marker honors Dan Moriarty who died after being struck by a car near Sunset Park. Several scholars and local stories fill the column including poppy day, a Fern bakery closure for tonsil surgery, and a silver star award to Staff Sergeant Richard B. Dowis followed by Lt. Earl Richardson’s POW liberation.
A collection of brief notices reports Ab Hiall of Indianapolis death at 74 and links to family. California visitor George Lemon discusses Jimmie Lemon’s blindness, memory of the Golden State Limited. NRA ruling tops week’s news with Supreme Court decision. Jeanette Rothschild hosts parties before Ira Gastman wedding. Rooster Day on May 29 with parade and many roosters sold. Irene De Long and Roy Caviness announce June 6 wedding in 1935.
Briefs record local life events including Monmouth graduates John Atcheson and John Simpson, Nellie Wilson at home for vacation, census drop in Washington county, families moving to California, a birthday party for Jeannette Rothschild, Wisconsin fishing trip, farewell for Frances Skipton, a move by Arlene Milligan, a Cedar Rapids birth for Norman and spouse May 28.
A collage of local items shows Washington community life with a 1905 high school graduation of 95 graduates led by Dorothea Thompson as valedictorian. Other notes cover a Philipp ine dress sent by Mrs John Springer, encampment attendance, a quiet wedding, obituaries, a pioneer-era firm Nicola and Harmon, a Clark Dewey health update from California, and sewer proposal defeat with future plans.
The passage critiques perfumed clerks, salesmen, and debt collection etiquette while stressing honesty, humor in church, and moral behavior. It questions norms about appearance and behavior, noting people slip into wrong actions as others do right, and ends with a farmer's odd shaving habit as a humorous local example.
A series of hospital notices from Iowa City and nearby towns lists admissions including Mrs. Homer Martin and Ralph E. Dougherty as medical patients, several appendectomies and tonsillectomies, births such as a seven pound eleven and a half ounce son to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Meek, and a seven pound eight ounce daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harolderr. Dismissals and transfers include multiple patients at various addresses in Iowa, Wayland, Columbus Junction, and Keota, with routine surgical recoveries noted.
An 81 year old man died from injuries after being struck by a car on VI-day May 18 in Iowa City. He lived here most of his life and is survived by a son W. P. and a Muscatine daughter, plus 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Rodney Sage aged 39, son of Mrs. Sam Sage, died suddenly early Tuesday. his mother wife two sisters and two brothers survive. A 70 year old man, despondent, died by suicide via wrist slashing. his wife four daughters and a son survive, along with two brothers and two sisters.
Lt. Robert Marner Wellman and his death are noted after being declared dead this week following a long illness. The 53 year old man died Wednesday night at the County Home where he and his wife worked. Surviving are his wife three sons in service two sisters Stella of Washington and Ethyl Butterbach of Stuart Iowa and three brothers.
A digest of wartime letters and local notices features Chaplain Richard Risser in Germany awarded the bronze star, family updates from Badger and Rees relatives, travel visits of Smothers and Wenger parties, community events at the Country Club, and local business and social milestones including graduations, marriages, and new births.
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