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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1931
Page
8
Mrs Nordy Duke, Mrs Lola Hughes, and Mrs Ben traveled to Cedar Rapids for a brief visit. All are former students of Iowa State Teachers College.
Eureka Ladies Aid schedules a bake sale for Saturday August 22 in the Dougherty room 15913. Proceeds support their community projects and charitable efforts.
Mrs Homer Stephen and daughter Betty alongside Mary Jean Guthie of Moline head to Nederland Colorado for a month with a mountain cottage near Boulder. Mrs Richard Elliott visits before moving to Omaha. Miss Mildred Edmondson takes vacation from T A Michels law office and stays near Ainsworth. Mrs Dow Mehaffey and daughters Lauretta Metta and Marie of Grinnell visit. Ralph Peiffer of Keota here on business. Dance at Moose hall Thursday night. Fred L Moore travels to Davenport. Harry Whittaker heads to Toulon Illinois for an old settlers meeting, joining his brother A G Whittaker on the Muscatine leg.
Announcement notes the WCTU on record favoring bobbed hair as sanitary and that rolled socks are immodest only for adults. Also mentions Mr Morrison's ice cream on sale in several flavors and Kodak guidance at no charge. Weather forecast: fair to unsettled tonight and Thursday.
Community notices report G E Frey a masseur visiting the Cy Bush residence at 427 South 4th Ave on Saturday August 22. The column also lists births at Washington county hospital including Howard Fisher's son and G C Franklin's daughter, with various visits and travel notes among local residents and a Boston bull pups sale at 320 South Iowa.
A Collier’s Weekly correspondent reports that Austrian peasant women habitually ingest arsenic in small doses. The practice, once used in America during personal crises, is said to aid digestion respiration complexion and perceived magnetism.
Masons are urged to meet at the Mason Hall Saturday at 1 o clock to attend services for the late brother Amos Alberson. Ward W M and Emmett Frane of Ainsworth were in Washington on business. Bake sale this afternoon at Aug 28 in Dougherty room by Eureka Ladies Aid. Dale Duncan left today for a week in Davenport on business. Frank Wilson also traveled to Davenport today.
Five more Iowa cities have enacted ordinances banning fireworks sales, joining eight others already prohibiting them. Albia Shenandoah Ottumwa Grundy Center Anamosa are cited in the notice announced by Al W. Barrett secretary of the Iowa state fire prevention association.
James Knotek of 521 N Marion is confined at home with a fractured hip after a fall yesterday. Miss Gladys Hamstreet, former friend of the Paul Gorham family, joined the Chautauqua troupe as accompanist after the regular accompanist fell ill. Mrs Robert Lowe and her children depart at dawn for Kenosha Wisconsin to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs O M Swisher.
Mr and Mrs Franklin Bostwick and their young son Bobby return from a northeast vacation with a stop in Quebec. An automobile accident injured Mr Bostwick’s parents near Jefferson Wisconsin, sending them to Ft Atkinson hospitals for slow but satisfactory recovery. Mrs Don Newell will host a Majestic Refrigerator school at Scott Furniture Co Friday at 2 30 pm. Margaret Greaser visits Davenport from Muscatine and Mr Wood returns home. Widmer's announces a suit sale Thursday through Saturday.
Dr. Fred Reid had been bedridden with lumbago for three days and was reported to be much better today.
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