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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
2
Eldon Flead of Keota admitted for treatment last night. Mrs K R E Brinning of Brighton admitted yesterday afternoon and discharged today. Mrs Adelaine Prymek of Ainsworth discharged yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smart spent yesterday in Davenport on business. A free package of Robb-Ross gelatin dessert comes with each Robb-Ross Pancake Flour at Orcutt's Piggly Wiggly. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Majors moved their furniture from 723 South Fourth Avenue to Chariton. Mr. Majors has been employed there since July. Mrs. Roy Finke Everette Finke Dorothy Humston Martin Westen Henry Witthoft and Rev. Carl W. Klein attended a southeast Iowa synod meeting in Wilton Junction today. The session continues tomorrow. Hazel McCarty returned from Cresco with the Ray Conrad family.
R K E Shannon reports from Chicago at Inland Daily Press association and Audit Bureau of Circulations meeting. Allan T. Preyer notes publishers' cooperation and the Vick Chemical Company's long ad program, tracing growth from small papers to 1400 dailies and international reach. The bureau's audits defend against padded circulation and boost advertiser confidence.
Mr and Mrs Fred Downing Mr and Mrs Harry Simpson Mr and Mrs Maynard Brown Al Balaridge Mrs J W McBurney Mrs George Birney Mrs Ted Crone Mrs Paul Snakenberg Mrs Charles Kennedy Mrs Belle Rice and Mrs Leland Carris attend the first district fall conference in Bonaparte this afternoon and evening.
Mr and Mrs H H McCleery announce construction of a new East Main Street home described as conservatively modernistic called a wee bit of a house for two by its owner. The note reflects local real estate and architectural style in a brief community item.
Nazi Germany attacks target Edinburgh and Orkney as air battles rage over Scotland. Aimed at crippling British sea power, the raids include a strike on the Firth of Forth bridge and damage to the cruiser Southampton, which had escorted King and Queen to Canada this summer.
Seventy eight members attended the Hi Y Club luncheon at the YMCA. Jack Mace presided as president of the uk. Dr. R C Keagy, new Methodist pastor, urged members to sacrifice for Americanism and compared zeal for country to that of communists.
This morning a coffee club session honoring Dr C Barrett’s birthday set attendance records with 36 participants. Officers named include Robert A Nelson of Des Moines as president, George Groves of New Sharon as vice president, Dr R C Keagy of Washington as secretary, and L T Carson of Iowa City as treasurer.
A special Washington county district Boy Scout committee meeting is set for 7 30 this evening in the Y M C A community room. Kansas City deputy regional scout executive Louis Glinkman will attend to aid organize council and district operating committees in Iowa Johnson and Washington counties. Area scout executive Owen B Thiel will also be present. All interested in Boy Scout work are urged to attend.
Rev Marehall Pinkerton of India will address the Women's Missionary Society at the Presbyterian Church Friday afternoon October 20 at 2 o clock. A graduate of Monmouth College and Princeton Seminary in 1925 he served in northwestern India. The society invites all who wish to hear him.
Reuben Herman of Burlington, a shoe repairer and Poland native, asks Red Cross aid to locate his mother and three sisters in Poland. He last heard from them three months ago after they reportedly received a money order he sent to Lwow, where they lived.
Cedar Rapids property owners face a 65 cent per thousand rise in the 1939 general tax levy, announced by Linn county auditor Robert M. Vesely. School district residents will pay about 46.45 dollars per thousand valuation.
The George Smith family saved six months to buy a used car and brought 42 pounds of pennies to a dealer as a down payment. The dealer accepted the box claiming it held 5700 pennies. In Sioux City, Dr William Jepp er advised hunters to remove whisky from snakebite kits, noting a whisky shot is not effective for snakebites.
Mr and Mrs William Butts were hospitalized in serious condition after a shooting at their south Muscatine home. Mrs Butts had a rifle wound in the head and Mr Butts a gunshot to the mouth. A .22 caliber rifle was found in the room.
KEOSAUQUA A major Van Buren county district court case opens as Clair Horn of Washington, D. C., ex-Douds resident sues H. L. Rateliff of Birmingham for 25100 actual damages and 25000 punitive damages over disputed ownership and use of a hav rope on the Horn farm near Douds.
Schoolmasters club formed by 32 teachers meeting at the guest house. George Fields elected chairman and Lester B Kra bil named secretary. A constitution committee was named with Supt Walter Rauscher Lyall Smith and L B McAfee. Robert Smela named as delegate to state teachers meeting November 2 3. Next meeting set for November 8. Typewriter Bond ad noted at end.
Dr D C Barrett of the Washington county health unit was guest speaker to the Washington county dental society last evening in the North Side club dining room. He discussed the Iowa dental and health program and its impact on town and rural schools, followed by a group discussion and survey of schoolchildren.
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