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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1922
Page
6
Arch Best Oxfords and Wilsons footwear listed beside farm and cookery notes. Miss Hazel Siberts becomes Marengo teacher. Howard Cunningham arrives from Chicago to tend his ailing mother. Seeds, muskmelons, and lambs wanted. Cash buyers seek Timothy seeds and balcony cars. Washington Seed Co and City Feed Yard advertise services as locals visit relatives and travel to nearby towns.
Stenographer Miss Dorothy Nelson works at H D Smith's while Clifford Thorne spoke at a farm bureau meeting in Carrollton HL. Gerald Edwards visits Brighthon to see his aunt Mrs Griffin. Marian Cedric and Merle Vastine arrive from Davenport after school and planned to visit their mother Teresa Vastine. Frederick Keith Young and Mary Barnett obtained a marriage license here yesterday. The Wallace Studio offers 25 percent off portrait work in August. Mr and Mrs J E Moyall and Mr and Mrs Scott Craig and Viktor Craig returned from Davenport where they attended the fair. Mr and Mrs T B Evans of Lucas IA visited J W Hutchins family at Kalona and left by train. Hutchins drove them there. No grinding at Washington Cereal Mill until Thursday as new mill stones are installed. Mrs C C Cunningham, previously seriously ill, is now in extremely critical condition. Miss Mabel Hazen takes Miss McCarty's place at Keeley's office during vacation. Sheriff Charles M Denison, Supervisor Al Morgan, County Treasurer Harry McCall and Supt F C Beatty returned from Dubuque where they attended the Iowa county officers convention. Mrs B A Benn and daughter Inez Hamiston of Portersville CA left after visiting the Been blossom home, with Knoxville stop en route. Mrs R A Reed of Winston MO, visiting her husband employed on the Rock Island, departed this morning. Mr and Mrs Arthur W Doane and three children drove from Marshalltown to visit Mrs D A Boyer in New London MO for a few days. Miss Jean Hay arrived home from Cedar Falls after graduating and will teach next year at the Junior High school.
Fresh nuts and chocolates at Deans draw Washington visitors and shoppers. Ezra Eckerman Kinross visits J T Moore home. Mr and Mrs Fred Sipe Crawfordsville visit. Ray Albertson family from Chicago due to D L Carbaugh home. McGugin and Esther spent in Fairfield. Shibley ill in county hospital. Dean's hosts six o clock dinner Sunday evening.
Mr and Mrs Carl Roberts hosted Camp Fire girls last evening at a four course dinner served by the hosts. Fifteen guests plus Helen Wylie and Carol Forgey attended. Out of town guest Marian Anderson of Chicago joined the group before returning to the grounds for the evening program. Mr and Mrs Blaine Holmes hosted the Ward Waters Company during their visit yesterday. Waters and Holmes are cousins. Mahaska county ties were noted with Mrs Waters. The trio also includes Miss Jackson of Chicago.
Hibbing Minnesota nears completion of a record setting high school costing 3 5 million dollars designed for 3500 students. The ten acre site hosts eighty classrooms an auditorium for 2500 with two gyms a swimming pool a library and multiple shops and departments. A junior college course is included and dedication events are planned with notable speakers.
The Bubonic plague, typically rising in China in June, surfaced in April this year. Thousands in interior districts have died.
Correspondents report visitors and local activity in Crawfordsville with residents from Washington and Bethany stopping by. Mrs C A Sprague and Mrs W Huston attended chautauqua in Washington. Several families visited the L E Griffith and Wooley homes. Preaching is planned at the Presbyterian church on Sunday morning and evening.
The Ollie town fire Sunday night caused sixty thousand nine hundred dollars in damage with about a quarter covered by insurance. Local residents noted community gatherings and visits including the Wagner reunion at Letts and various local movements such as Mr. and Mrs. Bert Atwood returning from Fort Dodge and Cedric Williams visiting from Marshalltown.
Des Moines August 19. The Iowa State Fair moves toward a broader exposition showcasing achievements in industry agriculture science education and art. Livestock entries are up and the junior fair for boys and girls grows with clubs prizes and demonstrations. Highlights include Mystic China nightly grand opera concert national horseshoe tournament August 26 to 28 and a rail collision spectacle with a 2700 foot track plus auto races and horse racing schedule August 25 to September 1.
Miss Ollie Beardsley visited Muscatine relatives from Friday to Monday evening. Mrs. Sarah FE Warner of Washington and granddaughter Darlene Tillotson of Clinton joined Sunday visits with Mrs. Jno Godlove’s family. Various locals hosted gatherings and shipments. Fay Cherwinker’s birthday celebration included relatives and a tandem motor bicycle gift. An airplane muffler development from Europe promises quieter flights after 18 years of work.
Wallingford Riegger a Drake university music professor arrested last week on charges of making improper advances to women in the street has been sent to a private sanitarium. Doctors say he is mentally unbalanced but overwork and strain from composing may be temporary. Preliminary hearing in Municipal court now set for Aug 25 after resignation from Drake.
Gust Bramer comments that men admire attractive clothes as much as women and praises new fall fabrics. He claims the pieces are elegant, of the finest cloth, and offered at surprisingly low prices, urging customers to measure costs against ready-made options.
Pedro the alligator, four years a fire department pet in Ottumwa Iowa, began his journey home to Florida despite a railroad strike. He escaped his kennel and slid toward the Des Moines River, sighted near a bridge and believed to be heading toward the Mississippi to reach Florida.
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