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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1923
Page
7
In Keota Iowa and nearby Fairfield scenes include the August 22 wedding of Gail Heflin and Leland Page and the August 21 ceremony of Louila Baker and Bernard Redlinger. Harold Page returns from New York for the weddings while others plan moves, visits, and farm rituals.
The Loyal Temperance Legion outlines a Sabbath program at United Presbyterian Church with invocations, songs, readings, dialogues and a benediction. Community updates follow on visits, chautauqua events, a Warden Woodward lecture, a wedding, and local comings and goings in Crawfordsville Iowa with many named residents and nearby towns.
Miss Mary Wikoff visits Wellman at nephew L E Bidwell’s. Birth announced of Edwin Russell, 8 12 pounds, to Mr and Mrs C L Armstrong Olewien Tiwa at Iowa City hospital Aug 22 1923. Supt Lyon and family return to Brighton after six weeks with relatives at Unionsville. Ivar Nord family of Alta IA visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Charlie Arnold. Mayor and Mrs L M Shryock leave for Chicago for a week. On Aug 22 at the bride’s father Chas Bennett’s home Grayce Marie Bennett married Leonard L Woodruff of Sperry Iowa in a double ring ceremony performed by Rev L R Burdock.
Braden Braden Iowa August 27 reports Mr and Mrs Herman Twinam Mr and Mrs Henry Witting with others spending Friday with campers at Cone Lake. Doris Maxwell returns from Washington after chautauqua. The threshing gang from the community hosted a Cone Lake picnic with boating swimming and a big supper. They plan to go again next year.
Aug 27 update lists traveler returns including W. G. Robertson and daughter Margaret from an eastern trip. Nora Dryden and Jessie of Chicago visit her father Jess Marr as well as C. M. Spessard heading to Pairfield. Columbus Junction visits by John Houseal and by Bentley Thompson and Willard McCaleb. Ed Carter back from Illinois trip. Miss Viola Rodemaker hosts 25 young ladies for Alma Wallace's honor at her country home.
Growth of US population has absorbed domestic beef output, reducing Britain’s imports. Charles J. Brand of the Agriculture Department notes high US beef costs, Argentina and Australia expanding beyond. Pork exports remain dominant, with postwar adjustments expected. earlier wartime shipments surged in 1919.
Aug 27 locals report visits from D W Dayton and sister Beasie of Davenport and Margaret and Helen, Mrs Brumback and Hazel return from Illinois, Oral Walters returns from Penn College, and others from Des Moines, Des Moines to Washington, and Chicago trips. County fairs, college plans, and weather concerns accompany reflections on crops, wages, and general rural activity.
A man in a kraal boasted during a severe South African thunderstorm that two horn blasts would protect him. He blew the horn in a doorway and was struck dead by lightning as the echo faded. Other natives escaped unharmed in the event.
Abe Martin notes Joe Moots at Melodeon hall declaring himself a farmer-bricklayer candidate for sheriff. Moots criticizes urban twisters of state policy and outlines farm concerns from wheat prices to rural prosperity, while lampooning national leaders and calling for stabilized agricultural goods and social reform.
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