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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1925
Page
5
Wellman April notes report the Park Hotel being repaired with a new roof and second floor replastering after a devastating fire. Other items mention local visits, travel, hospital stays, farm sales, and social events around Wellman and nearby areas.
Mrs. Fred Spangler visited Washington at the Walk Allen home. Several families attended a Father and Son banquet at Pleasant Hill. Updates on illness, home repairs, and weekend visits across the area are reported, including the McCall, Shrader, Shebeck, Bailey, and Sommers households.
Brighton residents attended a long Easter program at the Methodist church including a girls chorus, scripture readings, recitations by many children, solos, and a general benediction. afterwards families and students from State University and nearby towns enjoyed Easter visits and dinners.
Local events include Ainsworth visitor R J Reaney and a Columbus Parent Teachers Association meeting at the high school auditorium led by Mrs Ida Howell. A quartet performed with solos by Norma Giffey and J Don Darrow. The column lists teachers visiting, home updates, baptisms, hospital stays, and practice teaching at Shellbark Indian Creek Washington Swamp College and Sandy Grove with student participants.
Fred Grosacup unloaded a car of calves at Verdi on Wednesday. James and Reuben Cherpening with families visited the Al Logan home Tuesday night of last week. Hy Minert and family spent Sunday evening at the Donald Tucker home. Mrs J Gosset and children Gail and...
Max’ne and Jeanett spent Wednesday afternoon in Washing ton. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chorpening and Miss Bertha Grady dined at the Donald Tucker home Sunday. Reba Garrett, recently in Washington, helped in the garden and spring housework. Al Logen family spent Saturday with sister Mrs Reuben Chorpenine. Donald Tucker hauling oats from Stouts. Verslities and Speer loading shelled corn. Harry Anderson and wife and Nelville Cheerpening visited Tom Porter. Russel and Earl Chorpening with Bertha Grady and Geneva Libe spent Sunday with Reuben Chorpening. Chorpening hosted ice cream and cake. Willard Stone, Tom Porter, Ralph Chorpening and Al Logan planted potatoes Saturday. Fred Garretts have three or four rooms papered and painted.
March 28 report that pigs in England will be tattooed for identification. Several inks have been tried, aiming to mark each pig with a unique owner or farm code.
The Scientific Research Committee of the Large Black Pig Society offers a reward for a satisfactory tattooing method. Ear notches and ribbons are unsatisfactory for registering pigs, and the society urges ink manufacturers to create a product usable on black pigs Belts shire and blonde types, as well as other cattle.
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