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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1922
Page
7
Bright locals report school preparations as Mise Mayme Lee Evans returns from London. Several residents travel for medical, family, or work reasons including cataract surgery recovery for Leslie Hicks and multiple relatives visiting from Columbus Junction, Wellman, Ottumwa, and Waterloo. A moving of five firms occurs September 1 with Brier, Prizer, Hinson, Dayton, and related businesses reoccupying different buildings.
Local families visit relatives in Galveston Wisconsin and Des Moines. The Chautauqua opened with the Philippine quartet, Edward King the magician, and the Bubble with J May Bennett. Cattle shipments, scout camp on the Iowa river, and school prep in Oregon No. 3 are noted along with farm and community activities.
Clarence Brown and family spent Sunday with relatives at Fairfield. Miss Blanche Nelson of Des Moines is visiting Dr. Taylor and Miss Wilma Elder. Mrs. Grace Borkoski accompanied her. State fair attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamilton, George Marshall and family, Charley Dickinson, Cy Dickinson, Wert Dickinson, and Floyd Jones. Miss Gertrude Reed returned from Deep River. Mrs. E G Stewart of Washington is visiting relatives at E C Statler's. H A Engle and family visiting Bethany Missouri. Wm Gallup spending a few days with his folks at Fairfield.
Eugene Parks visiting town to discuss health and accident insurance. Families including Borman Long Davis and Kongable travel plans to Hudson South Dakota Ohio. Des Moines fair attendance by Twinam Davis Hughes Anwyl McCleary. Supt Harold Ross and Matthews visited town yesterday as part of community news.
Pleasant Hill August 31 report lists the Caldwell family returning from a visit with the Harris Alliman home near Illinois. Roy Kephart loses a horse. Bryan Swift and Will Caldwell host visitors. A. B. Carr and Howard Baker travel to Kansas City on business. Earl Kephart and family visit T. J. Lewis in Washington. Heinrich Medicine agent visited the area. Earl Kephart sells a cow to A Ju Swift. Mrs Etieine Keating visits Bryan Swift. Ladies Aid Society plans to meet at Mrs Will Saville's. County home picnic attendance noted.
Mr and Mrs Willard Glaze return to their Houston Texas home after spending most of the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs J M Stone Mrs Myrtle Welliver of Muscatine visited last Tuesday with her sister Mrs Loren Hazen Mr and Mrs M Campbell and children returned home Friday
Mr and Mrs Aaron Stafford visited the Des Moines fair this week. Havre school plans to start Monday September 4 with Miss Hattle Trey of Noble as teacher. Mrs Bruce Stewart has been ill. Mrs Amanda Ferguson of Ft Madison visits Cave and Ode Ferguson homes. Will MacBride shelled corn for Zeiglowsky and West. Will and Mrs McBride visited A B McBride on Sunday.
Local residents report several social updates in Crawfordsville Iowa with A B Orris and Myrtle moving from Olds into their east town house. Will Neal of Burlington visits his mother Mrs Bell C Neal. Visitors include Mrs John Huston Sr of Olds and Mrs Clara Hamrick plus Bickles from Staunton Virginia at the Fishburn home. Howard Hesseltine, six, injured eye while forking with brothers. aim to lose sight in that eye. Hagie family returns from Cary Station Indiana after a two week stay with Harowl Lamb.
Great plans are laid for the Grand Army of the Republic national encampment to be held in Des Moines September 24 to 28. Iowa boasts of wealth, education and farming prowess while nominating candidates for national offices and preparing veterans’ participation. In Illinois, Gov Len Small proposes a new road bond issue and a gasoline tax to expand highways across 3,500 to 10,000 miles, arguing roads boost traffic, markets and land values.
In Springfield on August 31 a tent revival ended with a $10 envelope and a note from the Abraham Lincoln tribe of the Ku Klux Klan approving the meetings. The incident followed prayers for the Klan and excited the crowd with a burst of praise.
A Louisville Courier Journal item recalls a juror’s line about a “beautiful defendant” and a compromise verdict. The judge requested calm, while the crowd awaited a verdict that ended with not guilty phrasing and a wry remark about vaudeville.
A humorous exchange features a girl questioning why babies talk and recalling Job cursing the day he was born. The piece includes a wry gloss from a grocer praising a 30-cent butter as a bargain and a boarding house comment about scarce butter use.
In Grenoble France Aug 31 professor Alejandro Alvarez presented a plan for a world association to coordinate states worldwide. The body would supersede neither the League of Nations nor the Pan American Union but would act by recommendations and seek to eliminate war causes, with a two thirds acceptance for non member entries.
A passenger asks a porter about killing frequency on the line and the porter replies he has killed once. The exchange appears in Legion Weekly, reflecting a stark fictional or reported tone.
Catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube lining. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to rid the body of catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh, with over forty years of treatment success. Sold by druggists, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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