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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1950
Page
4
The column blends religious quotes with social commentary noting local committee value, inflation impact, and Dawes on simplicity. It laments military excess, cites Time Magazine costs, and critiques defense spending while praising local business and sales tax readings across Iowa towns.
Havre reports Sunday evening visitors at the Jesse Stout home include Elbert Elmore and family, Carl Zieglowsky and family, and others. Additional calls involve the Richards and Westen households with assorted relatives and friends visiting or dining.
Overindulgence and overprotection hinder a child's normal development. Wise parenting guides foster self reliance by encouraging decisions and teaching children to evaluate their choices.
September warm spells aided corn maturity while August and September were unusually dry. Frosts by early October threaten late-planted or thin-soil fields, cutting potential corn yield to about 75 bushels per acre from 100, and leaving many ears underfilled. Drying moist grain prompts late husking as farmers push to feed wet corn to cattle and hogs ahead of storage, with soybeans beginning harvest and trucks moving beans to Cargill.
Farmers report soybeans with two beans per pod and overall a short crop while corn should remain steady due to large government stocks. Dry weather delays fall plowing and many will wait until spring. Weevils in oats prompt fumigation but losses may be contained. More than a million bushels of stored corn exist in Washington county.
A local communication denounces desecration of the Sunday Holy Day amid the Lake Darling dedication and critiques Sunday golf, movies, and ball games as contrary to religious obligation. The note cites biblical verses from Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Matthew and is signed H. C. Finney.
Britain's Edward VII kept a white wire-haired fox terrier that walked in his funeral procession. Bismarck favored a Great Dane and Kaiser Wilhelm II preferred the dachshund.
The first free Korean election, initially set for May 9 1948, was postponed a day due to a solar eclipse. A National Geographic Society team observed the eclipse from a site near Chonan between Seoul and Taejon, a region cited after a period of bitter fighting.
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