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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
3
The Nineteenth Century Club will hold a Saturday afternoon meeting at Mrs Homer Darbyshire home. The W R C will hold its regular meeting on Saturday at 2 30 p m with ballot on candidates and other business.
Local groups schedule meetings and services across Monday and Friday. Lodge 3912 AF and AM and Cyrus Chapter 13 AM plan regular and called sessions with petitions and Royal Arch. A Baptist choir concert and Sunrise Communion service are listed with Easter observances. Parsons College Glee Club performs tonight at the Presbyterian church with free admission and a collection.
The evening literature department of the Fortnightly Club will not meet until Monday April 12, the date listed in the yearbook. 4012 Leon Beatty Post will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening in the rooms under the Farmers and Merchants' Bank building. 4014
The School of Citizenship will run Monday to Wednesday next week at the high school auditorium with six sessions. The Fortnightly club will provide entertainment from its members and Miss Alice Curtis will lecture each session. Attendees are asked to bring notebooks and pencils for note taking and a blackboard is requested for Miss Curtis.
A county committee that handled the sale of Christmas seals to fight tuberculosis will meet at the Commercial club tomorrow at 2 30 in the afternoon. Twenty five members from various precincts compose the committee. Miss Anna Drake, head of nursing for the state anti tuberculosis society, will address the meeting.
A 144 acre corn farm located 2 miles from town on the main auto route and 1 mile from the station. The land is level, well tiled and finely improved with electricity in all buildings. A first rate home farm priced at 450 dollars per acre with favorable terms from the owner.
Judge D W Hamilton completed Washington county March term and Dewey to open Newton term next week. Orders include guardianships estates hearings and final reports with numerous executors administrators and guardians appointed or discharged. Several motions in the Cherry insurance case await vacation decision and several real estate sales and probate actions are approved or set for hearing with notices posted on court house bulletin boards.
On the first day of April a mix of rain sun and hail moved through the area with a late afternoon deluge and evening hail. Temperatures fell to 20 degrees and a morning snow covered the ground while hail caused minor damage to greenhouses theater lights and glass. Weather Bureau reports total precipitation reached 1.11 inches.
Martha Pyke formerly of Washington has the highest honor points among Illinois University freshmen women at Champaign Urbana. She earned 78 points, besting a 70 point rival, and has joined several campus publications. Pyke is an Alpha Chi Omega member with noted artistic talent.
In Seventh Inghington county default of all other defendants leads to decree for plaintiff quieting titles. Cases include John H Gray v Horatio B McDowell and others, Joseph L Bell v Sally Whetstine, W E Hole v Allen M Benton, Earl F Eamondsen v Jesse Ashby and others, A E Ross v A G Hopkins. Sets and costs paid, bonds released. Fry & Kauffman v L L Ayers decree for plaintiff with J D Glasgow appointed to execute deed. Mary Margaret Rickey v David C Griffith et al default of defendants, judgment on promissory note with interest costs and attorney fees, foreclosure deed issued.
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