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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
7
Brighten town and nearby areas report gatherings including family dinners and church events. Families travel from Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Richland, and Red Oak for visits, with multiple deaths prompting attendance at funerals in Russell, Mediapolis, and Marshalltown. Accidents mark a tense week as several residents suffer injuries from falls and a mule incident.
Ainsworth Iowa residents attended a showing of Moving pictures of Mission Work in Egypt at United Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. News notes include visits by Mr. and Mrs. Chas McCreedy and daughter Helen, Miles Stearns visiting from Washington DC, Passion Week services at the M E church, and a new baby boy for Mr. and Mrs. Glen Sands. Emma Hazen is ill with mumps and local families are hosting or returning from visits from Des Moines and Iowa Wesleyan University.
West Liberty residents visited Sunday with parents Mr and Mrs W T Trotter. Robert West and two boys returned to Davenport Monday after attending their grandmother Mrs Freeland funeral. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Chas Marsh in Burlington. A Washington quartet of Miller Hedges Brown and Griffith sang Tuesday at the M E E meeting. The W A C will hold its regular meeting Thursday afternoon.
Wayne County news reports visitors including Alfred Erickson and family at John Krautz, Mr and Mrs Pete Rodgers from Muscatine visiting daughter Mrs Roy Johnston, and Harold Unkrichs at Schoonover’s. Farm Bureau ladies held a 27 attendee meeting with Rugs display and the lesson Pictures in the Home. Next meeting set for May 7 at Mrs Clarence Moorhead’s home.
Indian Creek community activities include visits between Titus Cedar Falls and Wellston. Alma Corpman returns from Cedar Falls and joins a trip to Iowa City with Mr. and Mrs. Corpman and Carl. Teachers attend Muscatine convention. About 75 neighbors share a social at the Indian Creek schoolhouse with sandwiches pickles and coffee. The next social is April 30. The Indian Creek club meets with Mrs. Grace Frazey.
The Columbus Junction column covers a week of school events and social activity. A junior class trip to Muscatine included a theater outing to see Yolanda with Marian Davies. The Presbyterian Sunday school collected for hospitality at a rear home, and many residents hosted relatives visiting Muscatine and Conesville. A new Columbus school superintendent, Rev. W. G. Robertson, was elected from Ainsworth, while seniors prepared for the May commencement and a Passion Play screening. The report notes community meetings, charity circles, farm events, and a marriage announcement for Miss Elizabeth McCormick and Everette Orris.
The bridal party included Miss Mildred Brockway, cousin of the bride, from Conesville, and Otto Cline from Columbus Junction. Mrs. Orris, a Columbus High School graduate, taught at Baker school near Conesville for two years. The couple will reside on the Robert Smylie farm west of town.
In Washington on April an effort by the Smithsonian Institution is underway to classify a fossilized lizard believed to be 16,000,000 years old. The specimen, measuring eight inches from tail to head, is covered with scale armor and was forwarded by Carnegie.
Corrine Feeley aged three the daughter of Mr and Mrs J M Feeley died hours after a car driven by W S Manchester struck her in Council Bluffs The child reportedly ran into the street in front of the automobile authorities said
Kath leen McCabe seven died at home in Lincoln township after a gas lamp she carried upstairs ignited her clothing, burning her Sunday night. Her parents Mr and Mrs Christ McCabe were present when the accident occurred.
An astronomers description notes a ring of matter circling the sun, resembling Saturn's rings, extending into space beyond 100 million miles and identified as the zodiacal light.
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