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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
7
Correspondents report visitors from Muscatine and a Sunday school rally at Rubio drawing many families. A baby boy named Jesse Raymond was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas Harvey on Monday evening Aug 2. Tom Greendyke fell ill with a lung hemorrhage Thursday morning. Mrs. Preston Hoover and daughter visited. Horace Bower and family from Springfield, Illinois, also stayed with relatives.
Community diary from Ainsworth outlines residents’ travels to the northwest and Canada with others planning California trips. Local visits include James Harding from Cairo and Mrs. Pauline McConnell improving from typhoid. Prolonged power outage prompts lamps and candles as Main Street concrete work begins and businesses adapt care.
In Cedar Rapids 2 year old Leigh Allen Jackson climbed into his grandfather’s auto at supper and accidentally released the brake. The car rolled down a hill 75 yards, hit a tree, damaged the rear, but Leigh remained unhurt.
Dayle Frame returns from Ohio visits. B H Harding and family from St Louis are visiting at the Harding home. Martin Neiswanger of Fairfield assists at a restaurant. Charles Halida ill at Hotel Wheeler. wife Gale from Columbus Junction arrives to care for him. Floyd Hoyle visits Washington relatives. Richard and Maxine Stephens suffer a typhoid scare. Mrs J A Marsh travels to Des Moines for granddaughter. Mrs E E Coffman and children visit relatives in Fairfield.
The Cornish tin miners form a distinct class with privileges enforced by stannary courts dating from the 13th century. The miners claim exemption from most jurisdictions, save for matters affecting land life or limb.
County boards of supervisors may remove commercial advertising signs from public highways, per an attorney general opinion to Cerro Gordo county. The highway is public property. signs obstruct passage and may be removed to protect public use of the roads. The opinion notes tourists often hindered by numerous signs while seeking official trail markers.
Miss Ruth Phillips and Miss Edna Genkinger went to Titus to visit Mrs. Ralph Lemley. Mrs. Mae Reisch travels from Harrison Arkansas to visit her mother Mrs. Martha Johnson and will spend a week in Iowa City with relatives. The Edison price has risen about 15 percent since 1914 largely due to war tax. Marie Snyder and her uncle Frank Herman, after visiting Buffalo New York, stayed with Byron Snyder before returning home to Richland.
Matthew Thompson of Ainsworth died at Washington County Hospital this morning after a serious operation. An elderly Ohio-born resident, he had appendicitis that led to complications, returned home, then was readmitted last week for another operation. Funeral plans were not announced.
A lavish photoplay based on Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton drama The Best of Luck opens at the Fox Theatre for two days starting Saturday. Kathryn Adams leads as Leslie Macleod with Jack Holt and Fred Malatesta in key roles amid thrilling sea bed battle, motorcycle chase, and a submarine treasure hunt.
Ferdinand Prien of Mineola Iowa died Saturday night from gas effects suffered in France while serving with the 158th Infantry Company I Glenwood. He married Hulda Glammeier of Shenandoah on January 31, was 24, treated in Council Bluffs, sister in law Caroline Glammeter, an army nurse, cared for him during illness.
The Episcopal church in California follows a custom of giving each Sunday school scholar an egg during Foster’s celebration. During one service the clergyman announced Hymn No. 419, Begin My Soul the Exalted Lay, after which the eggs would be distributed.
In Crawfordsville Aug é Mrs Nettie Strain and granddaughter Oma Strain return home from a visit at L EF Griffiths in Washington. Mrs Henry McCoy and daughters of Ottumwa visit J B McCoy and Clarence Young homes. S P Gordon returns from Alden Iowa. Mina McCleary comes home from Winfield with a little niece. Mrs Pearl McNeill and son Johnny visit relatives in Chicago. Several locals attend the Winfield fair yesterday.
The text notes that noerseshoe is deemed lucky for warding off witches and mentions a wart cure based on pricing pebbles in a bag equal to wart count. The warts are said to vanish when the bag is cast aside, and the finder of the bag is expected to encounter the arts 1&8.
In Roland Arizona on August 22 a Bergen Lutheran church reunion gathers 746 confirmed members from 26 classes dating back to 1895. The event features an 11 o'clock English service at Bergen church, a picnic on the parsonage lawn, Bergen choir and Roland Concert band music, and class speeches.
In Los Angeles on August 6 Mrs Norman Selby announced her intent to sue for divorce from Kid McCoy. She cites non support and desertion as grounds. Selby, 47, married Dagmar Dahlgren, 19, a dancer, on April 19.
The article explains the meaning of Scapa Flow from Scottish Gaelic origins, detailing its location between Pomona and the Pentland Firth, its dimensions of about fifteen miles by eight, and its opening through Hoy Sound linking to Pentland Firth near Swona. It notes possible Gaelic roots for the term seapa and the idea of scattering or spreading.
Lesson outlines David’s impartial reign bringing justice to all and his mercy toward Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son. It links Mephibosheth’s fall and restoration to salvation themes, showing grace from the king and God’s plan of redemption through Christ.
A maxim on finding good in evil and turning disaster into opportunity. It urges patience to master suffering and to learn from sorrow, promoting resilience and sympathy as pathways to growth.
A religious reflection cites Colossians 2 6 through 7 urging believers to walk in Christ Jesus and be rooted and built up in faith, abounding with thanksgiving as taught by tradition.
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