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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
4
The Journal urges turning three empty open lots near the square into public playgrounds with smooth surfaces and debris removal. It argues for low cost, community effort, and makes a case that parks and play spaces aid citizenship while business remains uncertain this year.
Elmer Moots and his wife were divorced yesterday. Mrs Moots will use the car three times a month and the county gets the children. The note praises evangelists as eroteral not afraid of their duties.
The speaker, a relentless orator, invades every town and even the home with loud declamations. He yaps on soapboxes, prophesies ruin, and cares little for sages or saving thoughts, thrashing chestnuts by the ton as his words never end.
The Journal receives daily tips from locals urging playgrounds and small improvements near a very visible area to enhance the city’s polished image. The note frames the idea as a cooperative effort with visitor-friendly aims.
Des Moines notes the death of Al G. Field linking Iowa to national amusement history. It recalls Miles Orton circus lineage, Ringling roots in Allamakee county, Buffalo Bill born in Davenport, Wallace shows founder in Lee county, Yankee Robinson origin in Des Moines, and tributes at Jefferson Green county gravesites.
A hospital board appointment dispute involves Gov. Kendall and Senator McColl as a Clarinda hospital inmate volunteers for a position, detailing law limits and the woman on the board. Henry Rubiman’s banquet food rule and Ida county visiting nurses report illustrate rural civic life and resource use.
The Iowa Supreme Court rules Evan Jones domicile remained in Wales until he established a new home, awarding Margaret Jones the entire estate under British illegitimacy law. The case stemmed from Jones’s Lusitania death voyage and prior naturalization. property included multiple farms and a $20,000 balance.
Florida is described as the Everglade State for its vast southern swamp lands and as the Peninsula State as the southernmost U.S. state. The area is noted as 58 660 square miles per the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
Mrs John Kennedy hosted the Independent club with ten members enjoying progressive rock and refreshments. Mrs Kennedy voted a splendid hostess and the next meeting is planned with Mrs Oscar Hughes. Charles H Wilson marks his 87th birthday April 25 at his son Frank’s home. relatives from Chicago Marshalltown Knoxville and area invited for calls 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p m. White Way club entertained by Mrs Frank Miles last Tuesday afternoon featured social hour and a varied program. Mrs Howard Fisher showed steady nerve or sharp eyesight during the entertainment.
William Blair, aged eighty eight, celebrated his birthday Thursday with a noonday dinner and friends in attendance. Mrs. Edith Munroe and Miss Olive Munroe helped host a luncheon. Sixteen members of the Presbyterian church women’s Bible class elected officers for the coming year and planned sewing for the orphans’ home in Council Bluffs.
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