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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1919
Page
8
Six o clock dinner at Deans announced. Mrs Carlton Wilson traveled to Davenport. Miss Loretta Walker visits Mrs C Jones of Colter. Prompt taxi calls to city bus line. Lydia Hellam chiropractor listed. Miss Augusta Altenhofen, working here, visits at Harper today.
Read of chautauqua activities and village notices. Residents travel to Des Moines and Chicago for education and relatives while local merchants advertise sales and real estate. Community updates include visits, marriages in progress, and missing chairs at the grounds.
About two hundred Carris relatives gathered at the original thirteen settlers homestead near West Chester to share a picnic dinner and celebrate three birthdays. The event marked the third family reunion with plans for an annual gathering during the 1920 Des Moines State Fair. Distinct attendees included S. D. Carris Sr. and D. Campbell of Des Moines, with guests from Dallas County, Kansas, and Wayland.
The annual Maxwell reunion gathered at J. W. Rickey's in Winfield with sixty cousins in attendance. Invocation by J. Carson Duncan preceded a large meal under the trees. The gathering reflected recent losses, noting Mrs. J.P. McCulley and Mary Maxwell as last surviving offspring of the original family. The next reunion will be hosted by Clyde Maxwell near Crawfordsville.
J. F. R. Leonard visits Ainsworth while Carrol Klein of Davenport conducts business in the city. Deans offers regular meals and hot and cold lunches. Ralph and John T. Robertson of West Chester and the Grosscup Brothers of Brighton own new Hart-Parry tractors bought this week through the Mason Transfer & Storage Co.
The piece lists Hazel and Edna McCarty visiting Brighton with Harry Ragan from the west, F M McCurdy of Cupertino visiting Keota and friends, Mrs L C Bennett returning from a visit, Clifford Hemmings and niece Helen Bookout moving to Boone then Denver, Lieut J B Edgington home on leave awaiting discharge, and numerous family visits in the area including Geyer Crozier Walker Gillespie Orr Mace and others planning trips to Waterloo Richland McLaughlin North Dakota and Winterset with relatives and hosts named.
An old lady fondly recalls visits to the Theo logical Gardens after returning from a trip to the zoo. A servant describes her master’s illness as having doctors who held a consola tion and found it eternal. A lady recalls Italy with a remark about people in the garbage of monks with tonsils on the heads.
On his first trip to the country Richard climbed a fence into a field where a Jersey cow grazed. The cow greeted him with a loud moo and he fled in a disorderly retreat citing the animal’s persistent urging to move as the cause.
A moral monition on prudent behavior says perfect men doubt every claim and guard against human frailty. It urges patience, steadfast conviction, and not to spread unverified rumors but to verify before sharing what is heard or believed.
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