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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1944
Page
4
A religious admonition condemns evil associations and graphic literature likening them to wading in a sewer. It urges seekers to avoid temptations, seek deliverance, and pray to enter not into temptation citing Luke 22 40.
A column argues Roosevelt's postwar policies failed to reduce deficits and left a lasting debt, urging a return to traditional business rules. It highlights Paul Fern's bakery move blocked by OPA rules and Procures local efforts to urge Washington to grant permission for a pastry shop in Tripoli, Iowa.
A string of light anecdotes unfolds on a crowded street car and in town. A doctor offers to pay a fare for a cloaked woman while she fends him off, a buyer heckles a horse deal, and a husband and wife exchange quips about divorce and attractiveness as a doctor comments on a patient.
The Rocking Chair Brigade met Monday at the Y with Mrs Beggs presiding. Ruth Michelsen performed marimba, Beverly Brown piano. Mrs Rukgaber spoke on a home bakery and CPA consent concerns for Ferns shop. Mrs Hickman urged women to vote and support party candidates amid bakery discussions.
Ice and ice water immersion aids shockless surgery by cooling the limb. Heat speeds reactions while cold slows them, and this method uses a vessel filled with ice to numb arms and legs during procedures.
Columbus Junction resident Max Mise, 58, died at 1:45 yesterday afternoon at the Des Moines Veterans Hospital after a four week stay. Born Sept 22 1886 in Ainsworth he was the son of Perry and Mrs Mize. Funeral arrangements are held by Stephens Funeral Home and are incomplete.
Auto mechanic at Junction and World War I sergeant married Maud Wilson of Columbus Junction on Sept. 24, 1928. Surviving are his wife, a brother Lenny Mize of Los Angeles, Calif., a sister Mrs Helen Hoffman of Lake Como? Cresta Calif., and an aunt Frane Sigafoos who lived in the Mize home.
Richard Stephens president of the Washington County Farm Bureau and a livestock committee member attended a two day meeting in Des Moines. The committee aims to devise a long range plan to solve problems facing livestock producers with Howard Hill Iowa Farm Bureau vice president acting as chairman. Several producers commission members from firm and Iowa State College participated in the program. Thursday afternoon the meeting continued.
The opening to the public exposed important issues and concerns, bringing several critical problems to light for discussion and action.
Vitus Bering, the explorer, lends his name to Beringsea as a toponym honoring his 18th century voyages.
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