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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1923
Page
7
Correspondents from Journal relay social visits across Brighton Route One. Mrs Terry Gowey and daughter Myra were Washington callers Saturday. Various locals including Miss Neva Blake and Neva Savage relate arrivals and family news with births noted.
I B Hexworth and family spent Sunday at Frank Scranton’s north of town. Harry Hesseltine moved to the farm vacated by Heeselgeiger. Walter Nicholson lost a big horse this week. S P Finch and George Finch visited Wm Bealer. Donald Woods has a new motor cycle for school. Ed Myall Chas Hoxwort and Tom Schulty rode to Burlington. Earl Birney Perry Davison visited relatives at Wayland. George Hopping is sick with Phlegm and lashed with a limp.
Richmond residents Bert and Mrs Stumpf and families visited Sunday. Joe Kern and family also visited. Te Bockhorst and family joined Chas Marek home guests. W J Grinstead of Wellman visited Welte family. Eliza Chapek visiting Wearinstead in Wellman. Bert Dunn and John Dunn of Riverside were Richmond visitors. Riverside St Marys high school presented The Kleptomaniac at the Casino Auditorium with a two reel movie. Casino now features Gold Fibra Minusa screen and decorative curtains. Richmond Holy Trinity parish hall praised. Lak Ayers' child very ill at this time.
The note urges Richmond to celebrate the Fourth this year, praising the town’s growth and calling for community support. It mentions Will Chapek installing a new gasoline pump and newly opened shops, including two groceries, two barbers, two pool halls, one shoe store, a post office, and a garage, with Mr and Mrs Chas Votruba visiting the Fosdick home in Washington.
Mrs. Margaret Nichols returns home after wintering with daughter in Montivideo Minnesota. Several families visit Trotter home including L J and James Trotter and W H Ross. T D Hading of Burlington spends weekend. Ray Little returns to Fushrell, Tl. after helping repair a tractor. Muscatine visitors include Simpson, Howard Stewart and Vernon Gosling. Betté Shearer’s illness is serious tubercular meningitis. Dale Peterson, five, celebrates birthday with grandparents A J and Mrs Peterson. friends Wilma John Stephens and Stephen Peterson join dinner and cake. Dale returns home Wednesday morning.
Blaine Holmes and wife visited Mrs Milo Patterson Sunday. Everett Youngan at Arnet Mathers home Sunday afternoon. Mrs Tom Sehulty visited Warren Mat thes home last week. Win Durst plowing for Everette Fleming. Will Anderson made a four call Sunday morning. Robert Adams and family visited Ralph Oldfield Sunday. Mrs Everett Youngs and Mrs Warren Matthess called on Mrs Win Evestone. Everett son Warren Matth daughter mated today afternoon. 4d family visited Sunday aft Washington Fleming and wife and Iowa City Sun.
The New Haven church hosted a Saturday night performance titled Mr. Bob and Our Awful Aunt. Governor proceeds exceeded 25 dollars, directed by Hazel Richards with local youths Merle Rankin Frank Pratt Howard Snyder Chas Johnston Myra Pratt Vernalda Johnston Cecile Robertson David Banks Dale Rathmel Alvin Strum Gladys Banks Cloyce Rathmel Gladys Shultz and Florence Shultz.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Combs hosted Sunday evening at their home north of Dublin and welcomed Mrs. Frank Smith. The Ed Guy family from Davenport, en route to Arizona for Mr. Guy’s health, are visiting the John Pratt home for a few days. The group travels by auto and plans camping along their route.
Despite gloomy weather, C. W. members went to Washington with baskets and held a bake sale, disposing of all items. Myral Mewedy and wife visited from Iowa City, while Mr. Young and family joined Mrs. Young's cousin Arnet Mathers for Sunday. J R McCreedy and family drove to Riverside to see his brother Will. Olive Moore left for Williamsburg for a missionary convention. Meridiths and Farringtons were Sunday visitors.
Mrs C M Strain attended the Home Missionary convention in Brighton while news from Fort Madison announced the birth of a daughter Dorene Pearl to Mr and Mrs Cecil Lease. The Oswalt family from Wayland and Yokles of Wapello visited the Robt MacClintie home. Various locals spent Sundays with relatives and neighbors across Fairfield Wellston and Burlington areas.
Mr and Mrs Will McClintie visited Sunday at Wayland. Mrs Belle Spohn heads to Spooner Wisconsin for a two month visit with her sons Henry Del and Clell Miss Winona Crile and friends Marian Gray of Minnesota and Flo Juzeler near Washington joined weekend at the Crile home. Friends here have received word.
The bureau reports 71,301 people employed across 422 firms in March, up 1,114 from February. Farm labor calls stay roughly level, while a large pool of common labor remains available. However 468 jobs were offered to 1,803 applicants, an improvement from 1922 when 249 jobs went to 1,641 applicants. Farm hands call stands at 1,183 with 1,369 men registered.
Iowa’s labor market showed steady gains in March with a 1.6 percent rise in employed persons from February as seasonal production and building activity expanded. Weather favored farming, while shortages in some labor classes were anticipated at peak farm labor demand. rail shops remained largely steady with some declines.
Mr and Mrs Richard Bennett and daughter Mildred returned to Hedrick after several days here. Visitors in Washington included Mrs Pearl McNeill Mrs F J Maxwell Mrs C A St Jacques and Dr S W Huston. Mr John M Rees died Tuesday night after weeks of illness. born in the Welsh settlement east of town seventy four years ago and lived there until moving to town a year ago.
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