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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1944
Page
4
A weekly column recalls deaths and funerals including Alfred Fulton aged 35 and Gerald Neff in a highway crash, alongside births, weddings, and community events. It notes Mrs. Alex Miller’s highway safety drive, the Fortnightly Club program with Miss Edna Means, and club activity in Washington with hundreds of attendees.
A writer recalls meeting Ralph Smith who notes a coat and old linen duster, and reflecting on Oliver Todd nearing eighty and his long, active life. The piece describes Todd’s yard work, outdoorsman hobbies, affection for animals and children, and trips to St. Louis, while mourning his passing and the loss of his wife mom.
The report lists numerous local patients at area hospitals with admissions and discharges. Betty Lou Despain underwent an emergency appendectomy in Crawfordsville while others like Dan Holcomb and Paul McElroy faced major operations or pneumonia treatment in Iowa City and nearby towns.
A county hospital operating room supervisor Katherine T Glantz resigns to become superintendent in Aledo. Marriage announced for Jeannette Karel and Norman Sage on April 14. Frank L Wilson resigns as executor. Frank Crabbe appointed. D A R hosts first open house with 225 visitors. Old age pension tax underpayments noted. Three Quarters of a Century party set for June 28, 1934 with ~150 members. Rooster Day observed May 24 with prizes. Cherie McElhinney inducted into Mortar Board at University of Iowa. Anniversaries noted at East End grocery. multiple local updates on events, stores, and community activities.
Fortnightly party attendees Mrs Kerr and her mother enjoyed a lively evening. Eighty juniors graduated, evenly split by gender. Sergeant George Paul MacDonald is listed as Missing In Action since May 6. Nell Cowden Sloan visited from Monmouth. 4 H rally praised. new president Joan Maxwell and vice president Ruthe Duvall elected. Flower boxes brighten the square under the Improvement League. North of town a farmer died in a highway crash near Riverside. Ruth Smith, 17, injured. the man left a wife and two sons.
Eight pound son James Jarrard born Sunday May 21 at Iowa Lutheran hospital in Des Moines to Mr and Mrs Lloyd H Thompson of Des Moines. News covers births visits funerals marriages travel, a court action over jurisdiction, local accidents, and gi in g a nam e d highlights of Washington residents and affiliates.
Soldiers records and visitors fill the week as Lt. William Brown, a Fort Sumner graduate, plans wedding to Marjorie Walker in the local Methodist church. Families travel for weddings, anniversaries, and reunions while courts, circuses, and Bible schools mark community life amid wartime, with weather flooding roads and transport adjusted.
Freyenberger daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Freyenber of No tle Ta and Dennis Graber son of Mr and Mrs Peter Graber of Crawfordsville wed May 14 in a ceremony by Rev Simon Gingerich. Kron and Dautremont tied in Riverside with Leona Kron and C Dautremont as witnesses. Phyllis Clark of Lincoln and Theodore Schwartz of Lincoln married May 19. Dr Schwartz former Methodist pastor here. Engagement announced for Hettie Hallowell Edentown New Jersey and enton Kurtz OM3c son of Boice Kurtz.
Mary Aletha Guy daughter of Mr and Mrs Laurel Guy of Brighton married Robert Kientz son of Mr and Mrs Lester Kientz southeast of town on March 17 1944. Also noted is a social query about quieting boys at an entertainment and a forthcoming union of Shannon and Bud Jones of Lees Summit Missouri.
A reflective line questions communication honesty and appetite. It contrasts common overindulgence with the rarity of under eating and probes whether prompting falsehoods serves truth.
The rural eighth grade graduation program was given on Thursday night May 25. One hundred twenty two students, boys and girls, participated. Rev. Fred Miller delivered the address. Don Lone, age nineteen, was seriously hurt after falling from a tree while trimming it on Monday afternoon. He reportedly fell twenty to thirty feet.
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