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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1919
Page
7
The Journal’s Washington County correspondence highlights community comings and goings including births, deaths, and social gatherings. Local residents are listed with reported events and status updates in society notes.
John Putman Jr sold steers to Martin of Crawfordsville last week. Caldwell sick. Mrs Wittrig and Vern visiting Illinois. Howard Wittrig Lloyd Easter at Des Moines fair. Neighbors at chautauqua. Will Aaron Stafford Lee Hesseltine at Burlington fair. Pratt family visit from Washington. Meyers and Pratt at Des Moines fair. Riter of Chicago visited. Glenn Pratt hosts weekend guests. Putman and family in Richmond. Walter Terral visiting Eddyville. Campmates Shrader brothers with Verdi visit. Wayland garage fire draws local relief.
Aug 26 report notes Will Schelly painting the Prairie Flower school house interior and exterior. Mrs Rickey and family, including Harry and Lloyd Ritten, spend several days in Des Moines and expect to return home Sunday morning.
L O Morrey bought a fine piano from Homer Stephens. Mrs May Jay tends Mrs Henry Horning who is ill. Frank Prebyl and family plus Crone siblings spent Friday in Iowa City. Stump family reunion at Sunset Park. Ed Swords and family from Eldon visiting the Scott and Teets families. Duwnn brothers hull clover for Hines and Carris. Farmers Union met at Pleasant Plains schoolhouse. Harold Grant returns from Ottumwa. Walter Smith and the Jay and Augustine families head to Des Moines. J W Bishop shells corn for art in Whittaker and others, attends state fair with Brindley. Roy Teets and relatives plan Minnesota fishing trip. visits with Kephart and Cephart kin. Looney visits. Caldwell and Telford heads to Des Moines for state fair.
Rural Route No. Four notes weekend visits from Harry Bishop family Edna and Helen to Chas Kephart. Bessie Baker with John May parents. Arlo Cordell of Rock Island stayed Thursday night and Friday. Emil Kellerhais Ed Wyse of Noble area and Frank Kephart also mentioned as visiting.
Community updates from Stringtown include visits and trips by residents to Galesburg and Wayland, farm sales and land deals around 88 acres at 165 per acre, and a major garage fire at CN Schiatter's in Wayland destroying a large building and vehicles. Local families attend reunions, Chautauqua, and fairs while road work and business trips continue.
Mrs Harold Lamb and children returned to Winfield with Mr Lamb after a visit. Local residents joined others from here to attend the State Pair in Des Moines. The Chautauqua opened with a large crowd and the Metropolitan Glee Club performed a varied program including bells and trombones.
A Chautauqua gathering featured Mrs Mae Guthrie Forgier speaking on Shasta Daisies and folk virtue with a lesson on patient environment. A male quartet provided a postlude as various locals, visitors, and relatives were listed as spending time in Washington and surrounding towns.
In Iowa City an eleven year old boy Leon Lekin died in a local hospital from a fractured skull suffered nine days earlier when a Ford driven by his older brother rolled over near Parnell. Death followed brain hemorrhage. He was the son of Mr and Mrs James Lekin living between Parnell and Holbrook.
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