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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1925
Page
8
Ten years ago today Bob Willits of Albia visited his parents Bert and Mrs. Willits at their home. The letter notes a quiet April day with childhood memory references and hints at social activities from the past. It also promotes Nual Digestive tablets claiming quick relief for dyspepsia gas and indigestion with a refund offer.
Mina Carol Jones spends part of her vacation at Ainsworth with friends and relatives. Mrs Ed Bambi and daughter Evelyn head to Buffalo to visit Mr and Mrs Charles King formerly of Washington. Barbara Miller goes to Iowa City to stay with her sister Mrs Ted Gallup. Keith Molesworth enjoys spring vacation from Monmouth College at home. Florence Rohrer visits Fairfield friends. Mr and Mrs M A McDonald set out for Finger Butte Montana to visit friends. Mrs Everett Adams and Mrs C J Foster travel from Moline after the death of WH Cunningham. Mrs N B Moore returns home to West Madison Street improved in health. Carol Forgey goes to Des Moines to visit sister Lucile serving as secretary to Senator J L Brookhart. Letha Ashby of Pilotsburg attends funeral of nephew Eusebius Brindley in Washington. Misses Dowell Phillips Bramer travel to West Chester for Violet Bramer’s teaching assignment. Mrs Will Dupuis and Ruth Lucille visit Centerville friends. Ruth Gibson teaching at Decorah returns home for vacation. The ad for shingles and roofing from MULEHIDE White Yard Co. ends with top hog price note. Dorthea Thompson hosts Esther Lyon of Fairfield as guest, returning home this morning.
Des Moines April 1 report shows House balking at road measures as Senator Venter presses reconsideration of the Shaif bill. Gov Kammill expresses displeasure but won’t call a special highway session. Ames engineer Dean Marston to stay on as ex officio highway commissioner. governor not to appoint all three. Many details of local notices follow including deaths and social notes.
Editor D C Miller of the Ka tona News and his son Roy Miller formerly of the Riverside Leader were business visitors in Washington yesterday. Mrs Esther Condit went to Muscatine to spend a few days. Frank Hamilton of Wellman visited yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Claire Dewey depart by car to Chicago for about a week with plans to attend the Isaac Walton League national convention where Senator Borah is billed as a prominent speaker. Also notices warn Jackson Township dog owners to confine pets due to rabies with enforcement and possible shooting of unconfined animals by order of trustees and clerk C J Wolfe.
Miss Mae McLaughlin of Ainsworth spends several days in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kephart travel from their daughter Mrs. C. A. Reubsam and hope for Mr. Kephart’s improvement. Miss Ora Henderson learns of brother Nelson Henderson’s death in Los Angeles. Mrs. St Claire Lewis returns home after weeks in Chicago Des Moines Centerville Belfoit Wis and nearby. Helena Hinberger and Carmen Hays back from a short visit with Esther Hanley in Wellston.
A bank advertises keeping valuables in safety deposit boxes during trips away from home. It emphasizes avoiding forgotten items and notes a monthly cost of eight and one third cents. Call to arrange a box today.
Waterlo o report says seven members of the Louis Karkosh family of Reinbeck are seriously ill after eating smoked summer sausage not cooked. A 22 year old son James, his mother, and a younger brother were hospitalized in Waterloo as doctors work to classify the illness. A 15 year old son who had mumps and could not eat solid food escaped infection.
The body of a man with two bullet wounds, believed to be Mike Passwell of St. Louis, was found today in the narrow areaway of an upper Park Avenue tenement Lease. A savings bank book showing deposits of $60,000 was found in his pocket.
Columbus Nebraska April 1 police search for Archie Ewing fourteen and Hazel ten who vanished on the way to school lead them to believe their mother spirited them away since her Iowa divorce and remarriage. The children had lived with their father Lee Ewing since the separation three years ago and the mother has not been seen.
Rotarians from Nebraska Iowa and South Dakota arrive in Omaha for the nineteeth district conference set for Thursday and Friday. More than a thousand members expected with Donald A Adams first vice president of Rotary International delivering the main address Rotary in Action. A special Sioux City train brings Burton Saxton as a candidate for next district governor.
Des Moines April 1 Senator Fred C Gilchrist of Pocahontas county has allowed his name to be used as a candidate for attorney general next year friends announced today
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