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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1939
Page
8
Maurita Darnel, a two time winner in the high school safety essay contest, won the Gruen Watch Contest sponsored by Mr Westphal, a jeweler, and the Gruen Watch Company. The Bach contestant finished fifty winners of Washington High School, each writing fifty words about being American.
Dr Sam Higginbottom president of Allahabad Christian College India was chosen moderator marking the third time a lay member has held the post. He is an elder at a Cleveland church and appeared at the General Assembly in Cleveland. A Jewel Gruen wrist watch is shown with a patriotic message praising American democratic principles.
Final announcements were made at the JR College assembly about the college dinner and exams. Graduates and freshmen held routine business meetings. The college women met after and adopted a tentative constitution forming a women’s league. Officers elected were Maxine Marshall president, Mary Atchison vice president, and Ruth Turner secretary treasurer. Mary Westphal and Evalyn Eystone are in line for succession if vacancies occur.
Evelyn Turner Brandt, a Washington High School 1934 graduate and Iowa State College student at Ames, was set to be recognized at Thursday convocation on May 25 for a noteworthy honor.
Washington will observe Memorial Day with a parade at 10 and a series of ceremonies at Woodlawn Cemetery and local sites. The program includes a firing squad from Troop F, 113th Cavalry, buglers, school children and bands, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, and a municipal band. Speakers include Rev. William M Nichol and John Owen. Mrs. Brandt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner, ranked in the top three percent of her class.
Home room 105 and a wether roast at the Boy Scout Cabin Thursday evening preceded games for the rest of the night. Miss Anderson's class held a paper sack picnic on Pansy Hill with an enjoyable time reported by all.
Professor Forest C. Ensign of the University of Iowa addressed 325 Iowa State Teachers College graduates in the baccalaureate, warning of power lust and the pursuit of personal mastery. He contrasted Jesus virtues with Western world aims under Hitler, urging meekness mercy purity of heart righteousness and justice.
President Roosevelt rests at his family estate in Hyde Park with a slight head cold described as a recurrence of chronic sinus trouble. No other symptoms noted as of today.
Mrs. Meyer Shenkman the 13th widow questioned by Philadelphia police in connection with a poison murder for insurance ring. Her husband, owner of an army and navy store, died under mysterious circumstances and his body was to be exhumed for an autopsy.
Mrs. W. A. Shaffey of Wayland died at her home about 10:15 this morning after a paralytic stroke during the night. Funeral plans are undecided, with service anticipated at the Methodist church Wednesday. Interment will be in Fairfield where her husband is buried. She was born Margaret Lang Shaffer on January 18, 1855 in Rhine Falls Bavaria and came to America in 1867. She married William A. Shaffer on July 3, 1881 at Kahoka Missouri. he died about a year and a half ago.
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago displays a botany department with economic grains in their natural state. It features over 100 wheat varieties from the United States and related wild grasses. Also shown are grains about 5,500 years old from Jemdet Nasr in Iraq, charred in the destruction of Babylonian SuMerian city.
DES MOINES Iowa a smiling sixteen year old mother Mrs George Miller rests with her six day old son Joseph Edward who weighed 13 4 pounds at birth he is the fifth generation in the family and one of Iowa s heaviest babies born in medical history with grandparents Mr and Mrs Lester Hite aged 37 and 32 respectively reading about the event.
Bananas, cultivated in large quantities for about six decades, have become a staple for millions of natives across the globe. Previously they contained many seeds and tasted somewhat disagreeable.
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