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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1939
Page
6
The article notes 3000 bales of cotton are required for Ward Week sheets. If laid end to end, the 2,700,000 feet of sheets would stretch from Chicago to St. Paul or from Denver toward Salt Lake City. One year’s use would create a banner 2.5 miles long.
Two year old Bobby Yoder suffered paralysis in both legs after falling or being thrown from a wagon Friday evening near Wayland while accompanying his father to feed the turkeys.
Beth treats a hand infection while families join visits and travel. Supt J C Ellis area property changes hands as Miller purchases Ross Severt property. An 8 lb daughter born to Mr and Mrs Shroil on Oct 16. Wengers return from Reading Minn and Hurley visits with Peter Preheim. Mennonite Board meeting attended by Wyse and Boshart in Mountain Lake. Mrs. Stanley Beck comes for an indefinite stay with her mother Mrs. Neff. New Farmers and Merchants Telephone Co reports profits, wage increases, six percent dividend with no rate hike. Appendectomy for Mrs. Lloyd Kempf is critical. Mrs. Sam Beese recovering. Florence Bergh vacation in Creston. Hensleys visit Des Moines. Geisel family travels with relatives. Legion Auxiliary county meeting attendees listed. Willis Rich and Ellen Rich visit relatives in Newton en route to New York. C B G Rhum visits with Mere Sauerteig. Queen Esthera night hosted by Mrs Everett Monson with three guests. Use the Want-Ads.
A silo of hollow tile with redwood gaskets and asphalt joints, holding 5 000 bushels of corn sealed in 1938, was completed four miles northeast of Columbus Junction and will be resealed. Howard Oak paid 9 000 for the Martin Shaum farm near Columbus Junction. Local notices include funeral attendance and a reception at Fredonia Methodist church for the Rev M F Campbell and teachers Lola Lewis Alden Bebb. American legation secretary J Huston hosted Roumanian guests during a dinner in Columbus Junction.
Near Silverton a cottonwood called the Riding Whip Tree marks the grave of Mrs. Timothy Davenport mother of Homer Davenport Oregon's famed cartoonist. The tree grew from a branch used as a riding whip in 1853 and planted by her. On July 12 1936 a marker was dedicated.
Harvesting corn remains labor intensive as it is largely done by hand, requiring more worker effort than most other grain crops. This traditional method increases costs and slows collection compared to mechanized grains.
At Kansas State College in Manhattan, fifteen girls at a time receive six weeks of hands on experience in real home operations. Five in each of three houses work with budgets for families of five based on incomes of 1800, 2400 and 3600 dollars a year. A shared washer and sometimes an ironer are used, and the program aims to give about 100 girls yearly exposure to domestic fundamentals.
Riverside Methodist Sunday school members choose and install officers led by Mrs. John W. Tener replacing Robert Smola. An October 19 plan features a St Mary’s School box supper to aid basketball, plus a St Mary’s home talent play titled Father Goes Domestic with local participants and a charity music quartet.
In 1937 the 48 state legislatures with 24 660 senators and representatives passed 194 new laws, averaging about 2 percent of laws per legislator.
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