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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
5
Ottumwa residents and guests travel for visits, games, and camping from Des Moines to Rubio. The long list notes numerous trips to Keota, West Chester, Fairfield, Ainsworth, and Riverside with gatherings at ball games, family homes, and summer resorts, plus diary-style social calls and clerical- and shop-related errands.
Washington Elrod Dayton traveled to North English yesterday morning. His Tennessee Minstrels company performed there last night. C. H. Sandros of Muscatine arrived for property matters and was a westbound Milwaukee passenger. Mrs. Mary Moriarty returned home from Haskins where she visited daughter Mrs. T. M. O Connor. Miss Mary Funk of Fremont Iowa left Rock Island yesterday morning after visiting Miss Anna Nahy.
Maud Ahrens and Mr and Mrs A K Thoma with daughters and Harry Taylor came home yesterday to Fre mont Iowa after a visit in Cedar Rapids. They traveled in Mr Thoma’s E M F car.
Tomorrow Mrs Bridge McCready and her daughter Helen with Miss Grace Benn visited Rubio yesterday to meet Raymond eBun, Milwaukee operator. Miss Nora White arrived from Prestay morning, visited the Martin White home, and returned home at Brighton yesterday.
Miss Ma rtop departed Tuesday evening from S.JE. Ball Park Mt. Vernon to Colfax for the Epworth League convention and Institute starting today. Wayne visitors joined by Lizvie Davison and Mrs. Ed Harris from Ontario accompanied by Joel Zingg and family. Harris family heads home to Canada Tuesday. Nearby youths enjoyed a band concert in Almsworth, praising the music and city as a pleasant evening venue with convenient train service for excursions to Washington.
A bedtime tale recalls a Wales giant angered at Shrewsbury and his plan to flood the Severn. A cobbler with worn shoes diverts him by showing the load is impractical, causing the giant to abandon the plan and return home. The river valley is left with the earth he dropped.
patrons flocked to the Opera House barber shop with Frank Walker proprietor. Relatives from Muscatine and Kilbourn visit Maryville and West Chester families while Misses Shearer and Miss Miller travel from Wisconsin and Muscatine. Town reports unusually brisk business in dry goods stores amid warm weather and farm harvest lull allowing farmers to shop.
A Scientific American writer describes deathwatch beetles and kin that bore rot holes in wood and drum on surfaces as part of a courtship ritual. The tapping, once feared as a death omen, results from the beetles tapping in regular intervals on wood.
Social News notices report Miss Hazel Webb of Des Moines and Ray Crittenden of Topeka became engaged during a News Luncheon hosted by Edna Webb at the Frank Webb residence in Des Moines. Crittenden, a Drake University music alumnus and soloist, will wed in August at the Webb home.
A quoted maxim from Passy states that today’s ideal becomes tomorrow’s real. The remark frames a progressive view on social and technological change.
Mrs. Sadie Babcock and Miss Mollie McElroy host a six o'clock dinner tonight for friends in honor of the Rev and Mrs L D Young of Beatrice Nebraska. Mr and Mrs F L Stewart plan a dinner tomorrow night for friends in honor of Mr and Mrs A T Stewart of London England visiting the city.
The Woman's Mission Circle of Capital church will meet Friday afternoon in the church lecture room at 2 30. Mrs Charles Mc Cleary a returned missionary from Africa will address the society. An offering will help defray her expenses.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian church will meet Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the church.
The Presbyterian church will hold a special Saturday meeting at 2 30 in the church parlors honoring Mrs Myrtie K McCleary of Flat West Africa on her second furlough. Mrs McCleary will speak informally about her work in Africa and all women of the church and congregation are invited to attend.
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