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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1940
Page
2
Local families from Keola Washington Shenandoah and Wayland shared Thanksgiving meals at the Isador House and with relatives. Notices include a PTA rummage sale set for Saturday November 30 at City Hall 24602 and various local entertaining guests. Prices and items from Moore’s Bootery advertised.
Clark Nelson of Keota was discharged from the hospital yesterday. Mrs Edna Land and daughter Lola of Chicago were discharged this morning after treatment for injuries from Tuesday’s auto accident. Henrietta Whittaker of Washington was discharged this morning. Mrs Lee Colton of Columbus Junction was admitted last night for medical care.
Exactly 679 high school football players in Iowa were considered from ballots submitted by coaches and officials. The Journal and 27 other Iowa Daily Press association newspapers announced the three all state teams of 13 players each, including two utility players.
An extensive Honorable Mention list names Iowa boys from the region. Ends include Arington and Berdo, Faulkner. tackles Burger and Garrett. guards Blieu, Flynn, Gallagher, Gates, Sheets. centers Adams, Johnson, McClure. backs Cammon, Anderson, Kistler, Moothart, Steinbecks, Wade. Includes Wellman and Richland connected players.
The 39 boys named to the all state team will receive certificates and a picture of the team they were chosen for. Awards approved by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Coaches of the all staters will receive pictures of the teams featuring their players.
About 600 ballots reveal a shortage of linemen and a surplus of backs. A three team all state squad is chosen averaging 6.97 feet and 176.1 pounds with players like Bob Hendren and Basil Smalley highlighted. several notable backs miss spots due to limited backfield slots. The selection emphasizes strength and leadership across the backfield and line players.
On a snow swept field at Wellman, the Wildcats and the Keota Eagles fought to a 0-0 tie. Wellman dominated the first half with repeated red zone drives but failed to score. Keota’s defense stiffened late, and the game ended with Keota earning second place in the Ke-Wash Conference.
Riverside high school's boys team triumphed 36 to 22, with Kenneth Kos and Darwin Allen each scoring 11. The Riverside reserves edged West Chester reserves 17 to 16 in a tense fourth quarter. Bauer led West Chester with 11 points.
Mrs. Geraldine Cennedy of Tucson Arizona traveled to Columbus Junction to attend the funeral of her father Walter Kemp who died in a train automobile crash near the town. The notice also mentions other local events and visits including the Business Men's club December 8 meeting and attendance at Cedar Falls for a relative's funeral.
Butter-Nut customers raise funds by sending in coffee can strips and jar labels. Since inception three years ago the effort funds gifts for more than 10000 orphans in the middle west. Collect strips mailed to Butter-Nut Christmas Secretary Omaha Nebr by December 7.
A Mississippi River area house at 217 Valentine Street built in 1841 by lumber dealer Matthew Pippey was marked for temporary preservation. Workmen partly wrecked the roof before the mistake was found and later repaired. The house, featured in an exhibit at the old Federal Building, had fine interior cabinet work.
The passage defines rough cowhand terms such as grabbin the apple meaning bronce rider gripping the horn to avoid a throw and salty as a good hand or a balky horse. It also lists buzzard head a mean-tempered range horse and dogies meaning calves while denying unrelated dog breeds.
A humorous critique of how people eagerly spread anecdotes about aging drinkers and smokers. The piece notes how repeated claims acquire embellishments such as coffee and wild women, arguing that facts come from real research, not hearsay from dubious sources.
The Riverside reserves opened strong and held the lead throughout the game. Late in the match the Visitors almost overtook them after a 12 4 first half start. Riverside and Conesville teams show improvement as they prepare for a December 10 visit to Cone with Riverside girls facing Conesville girls in the curtain raiser.
The Handcraft Fair committee for the four Fortnightly Club departments announces an expanded display including a table of tails and other items not previously listed. The event runs Tuesday 2 to 4 30 p m at the G A R hall as a get together with no business meeting or refreshments.
Mrs. Margaret Embree and Mrs Merle Beckels co host a one o clock luncheon for the C C C class of the West Chester Methodist church at F M Lindenmeyer home on Tuesday Dec 3 A Christmas exchange with gifts under twenty five cents will be held Members should bring sandwiches table service and a dish to pass Ment will be furnished Meetings usually on Thursday but this one is moved to Tuesday with about 80 members notified.
In Wellman on Tuesday, Mrs Elmer Yoder and co-hostesses hosted a Thanksgiving party at the Yoder home with guessing games and refreshments. A separate Wellman chapter No 211 Order of the Eastern Star meeting at the Masonic hall featured initiation, gifts to the Worthy Grand Patron, and a program led by Harriette Jane Huffman with soloist Lorraine Kos.
A survey estimates ten million heliophobes in the United States, defined as people who burn and blister but do not tan due to sun exposure. The figure highlights a sizable minority with skin sensitivity to sunlight.
The social calendar lists meetings and events at Mountey Db of W in West Washington and nearby halls. Groups include Rainbow Girls, D A R, Pythian Sisters, Masonic Temple, and Presbyterian ladies with potlucks, book reviews, and a handcraft fair from 2 to 4 30 p m.
A food sale sponsored by the Eastern Star is set for Saturday November 30 at the Washington cleaners. The City Council PLTSA will hold a rummage sale at City Hall. Contributors are asked to bring items Friday from 2 to 5 PM and 7 to 9 PM.
Mrs. Ella Hout turns eighty three and enters the Journal's Three Quarter Century club. Anniversaries include Albert and Mrs Redeker two years, W Hotle forty seven years, John Kurtz Hetty Anne Robeson family note. Teens and other birthdays listed for Cotter Decatur Clay region residents.
Switzerland's government controls liquor sales since 1885 and uses part of the profits to support an abolitionist campaign. The arrangement creates a paradox as revenue from alcohol supports efforts to curb its use.
Family and friends gathered at Mrs. James Knotek's home to honor her 80th birthday with a basket dinner. Attendees included numerous Knotek relatives and neighbors sharing gifts and well wishes at the Sunday celebration.
Engagement news notes Miss NeVada Montgomery daughter of James Montgomery Muscatine and Dean Wolford son of Mr and Mrs Charles Wolford Columbus Junction will wed December 15. In Davenport, James McMillan son of Fr A McMillan Lone Tree and Gladys Pederson Crookston Nebraska were married at St John’s Methodist. The couple will reside in Rock Island.
Mr and Mrs Ed Davis served as hostesses to the Friendship club at a cooperative turkey dinner on Tuesday evening. About twenty members and guests attended, seated at two long tables, then played progressive rock at four tables.
Kas Wootey famed for height during the war walked stairs with ease and died in Loughborough England at 39. He served through the conflict and attended territorial camps yearly until 1995. At burial Leicestershire Yeomanry mourned. He was buried with the Mons Star General Service Medal Victory Medal and two Territorial long service medals.
A year before World War II began mountaineers hid a whisky bottle worth $3 on Ben Dorain in Argyll Scotland. After war started the price rose to $3.80 and the discoverers found the bottle empty with a note saying it had been opened on the day they left it.
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