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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
7
Brighton notices a stream of local visitors and departures. Fairfield is visited by W W Jamison and Mrs Celesta Bierce while Corresidents record trips to Downing Mo Des Moines and the state fair. Families including the Morgans and Savages are mentioned along with medical recoveries and travel plans.
Brighton and route one community pages recount visits to Washington for Wm J Bryan speech, Mt Pleasant fair attendance, chautauqua in Ashington, and a Clay picnic. Local families including Woodford, Waterhouse, Reed, and Gerharts share greetings, dinners, and church events. The article notes election of W O Morgan as chairman and praises Rev W W Bowers speech to farmers.
Local residents attend Washington Chautauqua and visits unfold around Lincoln Nebraska State Fair plans for Henry Fredrickson. Mrs. Lee Craig visits her mother in county hospital while Clyde Maxwell brings Ver to Havre Store. Families join U. S. picnic at Sunset Park and J. B. Orris home. Muriel Wittingta is ill. The Orris and Grim families visit with J. B. Orris as others travel between Crawfordsville and nearby homes.
Keota context reports Embroidery Club met at Mrs L R Hindsdill with Mrs S S Wright assisting. sixteen members attended. Card Club hostess Mrs George Lyle. fourteen attended. prizes were jam jars. Baptist address by W Brung on missions in Guru Assam inspired renewed interest. United Presbyterian picnic at Sunset Park. many toured Washington chautauqua. Coffman family returns from Brainerd Minn automobile trip to visit daughter Mrs Wray Hiller.
Stopped at Cedar Rapids on the way home and visited the Roy Coffman family and brought grandchildren home for a visit. Mr and Mrs Motts Fitzgerald are visiting relatives in Tiskilwa Illinois. The Baptist Missionary Circle will meet in the church parlors Friday. Vera Young went to Sigourney Wednesday to visit her sister Miss Nina and other relatives.
Miss Maud Simmerman of Washington was an overnight visitor with friends. S. R. Harper returned from a month in Colorado Springs. T. M. Holmes went to Washington and brought Mrs. Holmes and Aletha home. Aletha is recovering well after tonsil removal.
Muscatine and Louisa county residents will pay about $10,000 to extend Port Louisa pumping station outlets to ninety feet into the Mississippi River. A $60,000 levee appropriation from the river commission is at risk of cancellation unless the three large outlet pipes are lengthened and rebuilt with heavy concrete bases.
In Columbia, a veteran groundskeeper Coleman, aged beyond draft age, jokes that Washington executive Mark Griffith tried to draft him after purchasing Goslin and Turk. Coleman stays to tend the grounds, feigning compliance while friends confirm he outsmarted the offer.
Iowa officials report at a Washington interstate commerce hearing on proposed lower grain and hay rates. J. L. Larson testifies that current freight costs are 26 to 29 percent of corn value, while alfalfa meal makers warn rates threaten mill operations and lost business. Iowa attendees include H. C. Wallace and J. L. Larson. the commission will decide after reviewing the evidence.
Des Moines Iowa August 25 The world championship bout between Stanislaus Zbyszko and Earl Caddock was postponed two weeks to Monday evening October 17. Promoted by the Argonne post of the American Legion the move comes at the request of manager Jack Herman. Zbyszko to leave for Europe with his brother Wladek and return to New York on October 2 after his sister reports their mother is partially paralyzed.
A light note recalls a woman who has honored her birthday with the same candies for six years. The speaker smiles at frugal practice and steady tradition. The quip highlights economy as a defining trait in a playful, domestic moment.
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