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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
8
Mrs. Harrett Boyer and Miss Edna Tobin traveled to Mt. Pleasant to attend the fair and visit Mrs. Boyer’s brother Frank Bussart and his family. They mention using the Want Ads and the slogan It Pays.
Local residents and visitors are mentioned as traveling to nearby towns and cities. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Redlinger and children went to Riverside for homecoming. Mrs. W. A. Trent of Spokane visits sister Mrs. Gobble. Geo Teas and family head to Colorado Springs with stops in Framont and at Ed Ellerbrock home. Ed and family travel elsewhere. The Wallace Studio offers 25 percent portrait discount in August.
Miss Claudia Evans attended yesterday's Mt Pleasant fair as residents from Washington flocked to events. The page lists economy store shoe sales and a parade of visitors including Mrs C R Conlee of Denver and Mr and Mrs Hal Nelson with children at the Mt Pleasant fair.
Iowa mines soon to reopen with a September production target as coal demand rises. Trucks may relieve long distance transport where feasible, while rails handle substantial coal in the coming weeks. Northern Iowa may rely on Illinois and Kentucky supplies. western Iowa already imports western coal.
In Osceola on August 17 a mix up of two day old twins born to the Porterfield and Reed families nearly caused a stir. A nurse forgot to mark the babies, leaving mothers and relatives unable to tell which child belonged to which parent until Dr. Sells finally identified them and reunited them with their rightful mothers.
Acadians from across Canada and the United States assembled at Grand Pre Nova Scotia to witness the dedication of a chapel memorializing the 1755 Acadian expulsion. The chapel replicates the original Acadian place of worship.
State Epidemiologist Murl French reports in Mount Ayr rabies traced to a six month old puppy. The dog bit eighteen people over two days, including a mayor and several children, prompting Pasteur treatment for all bitten. Rabies can appear any time of year and may not show classic symptoms.
Gus Hartman a Burlington Iowa striking shopman was found guilty of kidnapping and assaulting strikebreaker Clyde C Hoyle by a federal jury in Judge Martin Wade s court. He received six months in Lee County jail on the first ballot with an appeal bond set at 3000. The case followed by arraignment of W S Jones of Oskaloosa for violating a federal injunction as he called strikebreakers scabs.
Alfred F. Smith, former New York governor, formally enters the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. He will be backed by Charles F. Murphy and Tammany Hall.
The league of Iowa municipalities discussed licensing of motor trucks and buses in its second session and referred the issue to the legislation committee. About one hundred delegates attended as Ottumwa is the sole city contending for the 1923 session and officers will be elected Thursday.
The Forest Products Laboratory reports successive seasons of turpentining do not decrease pine strength or resin content. Crude turpentine arises from wound-stimulated living sapwood cells in the tap bore, while heartwood remains dead and unchanged at the gap.
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