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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
7
Wellston Wellman and Weekend Visits Highlight Local Notes
The community records visits from Cedar Rapids and Marshaltown, hospital news from the S U S hospital Iowa City, and travel by residents to Des Moines Marengo Waterloo Fairbanks. Local scenes include a torn down barn for an oil station and a large M E Church picnic at the park. Two auto injuries near Washington are noted with serious injuries. Prody Borkoski attends rural letter carriers convention in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wherle
Victor
Iowa
Wellman Hospital
Mesdames Adams
Morrow
Wellman
Quincy
Eardley Bell Jr
Marengo
Downing
Alle St
Susie
Janie McArtor
Cedar Rapids
Barker Brewer Home
Chas Zillmer
Our Park
L. D. Miller
Neice
Misses McArtor
Dawson
Messers Disney
Farrier
Washington
Belle Waterhouse and family trip to Colorado
Mrs Belle Waterhouse with son Claude and family planned a month long auto trip to Colorado leaving from Clay. Roy Robinson returned from the hospital slowly improving. Chas T McCampbell of Fairfield visited W O Morgan. L B Reed family visited A J Morgan. Ruth Morgan underwent appendix surgery at the County Hospital Tuesday morning.
Local Social Roundup In Brighton Area
Miss Myra Gowey visited Scott Pickinsons on Sunday. Miss Katherine Buxbaum vacationing at H A Engle home and teaching last year in Mitchell South Dakota. Mr and Mrs Robert Morgan of Mt Union visited J A Pickinsons at the week start. Rev J H Wailey of Farmington attended local events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Route One
Myra Gowey
Scott Pickinson
Katherine Buxbaum
H. A. Engle
Pleasant Hill Social Notes Highlight Caldwell Visits
Howard and Helen Caldwell visited with sister Mrs. Harrison Alliman in Sciota. The Misses Myrtle Saville and Cecil Caldwell stayed at Ed Mayhew’s. No services due to rain. Earl Kephart family visited Cal Reen Blossom. Cattle delivered by Howard and Sam Baker to Luthern Gormly in Crawfordsville. Silas Caldwell family planned a trip to Serota Til to visit Mrs. Harrison Alliman. Eva Caldwell and son Marion visiting Silas Caldwell home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Hill
Helen
Serota
Til
Harrison Alliman
Eva Caldwell
Marion
Silas Caldwell
Rural Route Four Social Visits Listed
Mr and Mrs Wes Meyer and children visited Edgar Meyer. Ed and Fred Chalupa stayed at John Putman home. Ed Mayhew family and Howard Caldwell went to Illinois to visit Harrison Alliman and returned Sunday. Cecile Meyer left for Illinois to visit Mrs Harrison Alliman. Mr and Mrs Harry Bishop and two daughters Edna and Helen and Ralph Linder visited Charlie Kephart home Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Meyer
Edgar Meyer
Fred Chalupa
John Putman
Ed Mayhew
Howard
Helen Caldwell
Ilinois
Harrison Alliman
Silas Caldwell
Cecile
Harry Bishop
Edna
Helen
Ralph Linder
Charlie Kephart
Farmers Support the Chautauqua in Washington Area
The Washington chautauqua draws strong rural backing within ten to fifteen miles, with farmers and families comprising many regular attendees. Season tickets are selling briskly as country residents attend Bible lectures, boys and girls clubs, and the kindergarten, aided by better roads and more farm autos. Prison labor supports farm tasks, with fifty workers on site and additional help as needed, a sign of trust when workers are assigned to outdoor duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chautauqua
Perade
Presbyterians Move Picnic Indoors After Rain
Crawfordsville visitors from Columbus Junction and West Middlesex called at the Henderson McCal home. The Presbyterian picnic was rained out on the R. R. McKee lawn and moved to the church. Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Robertson are visiting Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Aug
Gilkey
Columbus Junction
Wm. Gilkey
Heasley
West Middlesex
Henderson McCal
R. R. McKee
W. G. Robertson
Prohibition Cited As Reason For Fewer Inmates At Anamosa
The Rev. Charles Parsons tour of the Anamosa reformatory notes inmate counts dropping from 785 on February 23 to 533. Warden Baumel heads a 2090 acre farming operation with crops including 521 acres of corn yielding over 50 bushels per acre, 140 acres of oats at about 40 bushels, 100 acres of wheat averaging 26 bushels, and sizable yields of potatoes and hay. The farm supports 66 milk cows, 242 cattle, around 900 hogs, 26 horses, 27 mules, and 950 young pigs, with garden vegetables also produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Charles Parsons
Iowa Society For the Friendless
Reformatory
Parsons
Love Sick Males Fleeced by Girl in Sioux City
Miss Pauline Nelson aged 17 admitted to federal authorities she ran an ad seeking a Swiss husband in Monroe Wisconsin and accepted about 300 dollars from 20 men. She claimed illness earlier and said she is sorry but faces mail fraud charges while jailed in Woodbury County Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Pauline Nelson
United States
Kansas City
Monroe
Wis
Switzerland
Pleasant Chamberlain's Tablets Sold At Lemmon's Drug
A local drug store promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as easy to take mild in effect and highly praised by customers. The product is priced at a quarter and available at Lemmon's Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon
Marriage For Convenience at Graham Theatre starring Catherine Calvert
Catherine Calvert appears in a five reel drama at Graham Theatre titled Marriage For Convenience. The film exposes fashionable society and its hidden immorality while Miss Calvert delivers a noted portrayal of a modern woman. The movie was written by EB Lloyd Sheldon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Calvert
Graham Theatre
Itashams
Miss Calvert
EB. Lloyd Sheldon
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Dark Hair Restores Color
The ad promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready-to-use mix to darken gray hair naturally. It advises dampening a sponge or brush and applying strand by strand, claiming results by morning and deeper color with repeated use. It states no disease treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyeth
Messenger warns bankers against marketable farm mortgages
Des Moines August 6 George Messenger state banking superintendent says Iowa land deals may total around 500 million dollars this year nearly one-sixth of the state's farm land value. He cites banker estimates of fifty million in one county and warns banks to avoid non negotiable farm mortgages despite booming land trading and credit constraints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
George Messenger
Iowa Acres
Messenger
Iowa
Towa
Federal Reserve
Fat merchant hurt in hog pile at regional picnic
Charles A. Beno a leading Council Bluffs merchant is in the hospital after an accident at a joint Council Bluffs and Omaha Rotary picnic on a farm near the city. During the fat men's race two of the largest contestants toppled into the finish tape causing a hog pile with Reno beneath them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Charles A. Beno
Omaha Rotarians
Beno
Reno
No bones broken after Rene’s bruising accident
Rene suffered extensive bruising and shock in the crash that nearly tore apart the pinté before help arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rene
Former Louisa Co. Girl Receives Million Dollar Divorce Settlement
Princess Ola Hassan, wife of the cousin of the deposed khedive of Egypt and former American actress, has been awarded 1 000 000 dollars by the British government as settlement of her divorce suit. Her husband’s family sided with Germany in the late war and their property was confiscated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington,d. C
Ola Hassan
Egypt
Germany
Princess Hassan and Pearl Humphrey a California to London marriage
Pearl Humphrey of Columbus City known as Princess Hassan in Louisa county grew up in Iowa with parents Thomas and Mrs Humphrey. She married an Egyptian in London in 1911, refused to join his harem, and faced divorce before World War I. American officials and California senators helped secure a British settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Hassan
Louisa County
Pearl Humphrey
Columbus City
Thomas Humphrey
Iowa
California
Miss Humphrey
London
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