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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1919
Page
5
The Washington County social page notes arrivals and departures. Births and deaths are listed along with gatherings and personal milestones among local residents. This brief column highlights community connections and notable life events.
Brighten townfolk and guests are noted as Mrs. Lon Funston and daughter Louise arrive from Colorado Springs, Graham Picken and family visit St Charles Iowa, plus several others travel for family visits work or discharge from service. Clarence Dayton begins duties as Clarksville superintendent. Alex Clark returns with Mrs Clark from Iowa City hospital.
Riverside notes list visitors and travelers from Aug 15 including Mrs Bert Flynn and Esther visiting Missouri family, Miss Mary Lee from Iowa City staying with cousins, and many locals visiting kin in Curlew Geneseo Humboldt La Crosse and Kinross. It mentions property sale to FE W Ford and other short trips by residents and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ford and friends gathered at their southwest town home for a farewell party before they move to Riverside after thirty two years in the area. Mr. Ford received a porch chair and Mrs. Ford a porch rocker as tokens of respect from neighbors and friends. Mrs. Floyd Steele spent Thursday in Muscatine with friends while Bert Vignn and family returned from overseas service with the 11th regiment Marines in France.
Riverside Aug 16 memorializes the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Thomas Sims and Elizabeth Tener. The couple married Aug 10 1869 in Yatton and lived near Riverside. Civil War veteran Sims, a longtime local blacksmith, celebrated with children grandchildren and three fellow veterans. A noon dinner and gifts from the W R C and L E Grout accompanied their family.
F. L. Warder seeks 56000 in damages from Miss Hannah J H Ives owner of a Cadillac after 17 year old Mary J Calhoun could not control the car at Main and Green streets injuring Warder. He alleges permanent injuries and medical costs.
Webster City ta August 15 The new county board organized with E. F. Snow as president and Murray McMurray as secretary both from Webster City unanimously adopt a resolution endorsing standardization of rural schools rural school consolidation and opposing parochial schools of all kinds as unnecessary and not in accord with the spirit of the times
From Our Exchanges notes how readers vilify newspapers while editors accept it in obituaries. The Washington chautauqua opens Tuesday with speakers including aviator James Norman Hall, drawing local interest despite no advertising by organizers.
If every place were as peaceful as Crawfords ville the world would be happy. The town remains calm as crooks and thieves stay away. Our two banks install electric burglar alarms to deter visitors.
Captain James Norman Hall will visit this weekend arriving Friday morning on No 12 and staying through Saturday afternoon. The Friday evening lecture is expected to draw a large crowd at the chautauqua grounds, per Columbus Safeguard.
Crawfordsville Imprint notes a September eleventh celebration will be the largest event in the county and urges purchase of a commemorative button. Mr and Mrs O B Mouser and son Stanley of Pilotburg begin a vacation trip visiting Indiana relatives and Niagara Falls then New York friends.
Senator J L Brookhart and Attorney J O Boyd will debate the league of nations tomorrow evening at the Washington hhautauqua. The event has drawn county interest as views shift from confusion to understanding with Brookhart urging changes and Boyd backing Wilson’s proposal.
The Fairfield diggers started a prospect hole on the town lot but after boring 50 feet with 22 feet water they struck a boulder and exploded the well with dynamite. They doubled their price, and no progress was made. The issue to be discussed at Monday night’s council meeting. Lieut Geo W Oakes returned from overseas and visited his parents this week after serving on the Mexican border and in France with the 168th. He spent weeks in front line trenches and was commissioned Fleet Lieutenant. He visited Grace Willits in Washington Saturday night.
In Crawfordsville and Washington a lively horseshoe contest drew interest as Hayley, McCall, and Amos White faced off. White, labeled the best, was soundly defeated by Hayley, then Washington’s team claimed five ringers in a game Crawfordsville won, going 3 of 4 on their home grounds.
Keota organizes under three managers Allee Gillies Harry Henderson and Claire Levien with Levien as business manager The team schedules four Sundays and two weekday games including a Wednesday August 20 date at Montezuma Montezuma plays Grinnell and Keota faces the winner The treasury shows about 75 dollars under treasurer George McDaniel from a former baseball group A subscription drive is planned this week to build a real base ball fund The club has been winning against strong opponents and seeks public support.
Constance Talmadge appears in The Veiled Adventure at the Fox Theatre on Monday. The actress blends romance and comedy, evoking moonlit serenades and canoe rides while delivering sparkling humor that pleases patrons of all ages.
Posters in Coblenz and nearby Rhine towns warn German girls not to associate with American soldiers and threaten public exposure. Intelligence officers report names of involved girls read aloud in church services, with blacklists kept for future action after the Americans leave.
An advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims the medicine has 35 years of use and works through the blood to heal mucous surfaces, promising quick improvement and urging readers to start now and send testimonials.
Des Moines Aug 16 Governor Harding continues the price probe against profiteering with a state marketing bureau and cold storage review. Investigators will survey every storage house for hoarding while county agents and home demonstration units prepare to boost production and enforce wartime conservation measures.
The commission will mail questionnaires to about 500 county newspapers and major city dailies to publicize food pricing and availability. A weekly marketing newsletter will report data collected by food investigators on kinds and prices of goods.
O D Sprague of Ottumwa is named in a breach of promise suit for 10000 filed by a local woman claiming they agreed to marry before he left for France in 1918. She says he promised to wed on his return and wrote letters asking her to wait, but he returned with a wife from France. Sprague denies the allegations.
A plaintiff seeks $10,000 in damages for breach of marriage promise by a returned soldier. The petition claims injury to the plaintiff and an August term district court appearance is anticipated, beginning August 25.
Washington Aug. 16. The War Department offered its surplus wool cotton and mixed fabric blankets for sale to the public. About 2,000,000 are available with flexible buying, one blanket up to the limit, rather than fixed lots. Bulk sales extend to municipalities and communities with prices from six dollars for new wool blankets to one to two and a half dollars for cotton blankets.
Salinger Jr of Sioux City was elected chancellor of the Knights of Iowa at Sioux City with Justice Salinger of the supreme court leading the event. Other officers listed include grand vice chancellor Waterloo grand root and grand master Wa Rolfe, with trustees J Hoffman and D H Bowen among others.
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