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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1938
Page
2
Alvin Walker of Tucker and Eicher garage is hospitalized at Mercy in Iowa City after a steel wire brush particle caused a corneal laceration. He is resting comfortably and progressing well.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pressly and daughter Mil dred Emma Walker Helen Pearson and Mrs. Ruth Norris were Des Moines visitors Monday. Fred Barber and family of Ainsworth visited relatives in Lockridge Sunday. A Phillips Hebner item notes a YWCA cookbook makes a good Xmas gift. A typographical error misreported a Rotary talk on milk pasteurization.
Dismissed yesterday were Mrs. Henry Bailey and son John Crone of Washington R. 3 and Earl Baker of Keota. Mrs. Emil Peiffer and baby son were discharged this morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Flanagan welcomed a baby daughter born at 38:15 weighing six pounds ten ounces. Margaret Fread of Ainsworth was discharged this morning.
Iowa women in 141 communities form National Consumers Tax Commission units led by Centerville’s Mrs. Charles Stephen Hickman. They aim to expose taxes that raise living costs and fight those that overburden communities, with Iowa seeking units in every town and city.
Pleasant Hill residents share visits and meals this week. Families including the Gaults Blicks Beenblossoms Lewis and Adams welcomed guests from Gibson New London New London and other nearby homes. Local gatherings feature dinners and weekend calls among neighbors.
Mr and Mrs L B Ward moved from 412 Fast Third Street to 614 South Eighth Avenue. Elwin Lewis Retha and Una hosted Sunday dinner for Herman Keller Leona Antoine Norton Keller Donald Keller daughters Donna May Dorothy Arnall and Everett Lewis from Muscatine and southeast of Washington. Charles Chabal of Willow Springs Mo visits Riverside with brother Emil Chabel.
Illi nois waxed coal offered at 5 50 per ton delivered with orders to day. Residents and shoppers from Brighton Spencer and Sigourney visited Washington shops and communities around Keota Biggsville and Crawfordsville for Christmas events and social calls.
Mr and Mrs Clark Bell of Lockridge hosted a Sunday event with their son Paul Bell and family. Archie Neff and Willard Haunstein families attended. Charles Nicola and Jesse Moore visited John McKine and Louis Fetes homes. Paul Rell and Clark Bell visited Charlie Davison. Marek, Dale, and Robert joined Fa Conner and Floyd Farrier households.
Will C. Bardo, about 77, died yesterday morning in Arkansas City Kansas after living in Oklahoma and Arkansas City with connections to Washington county. He was married to Emma Wright then to a Schilling, ran a grocery with W M Terry, and visited Riverside and Lone Tree families. The obituary notes his first wife died in 1925 and that he spent Sundays with relatives including Delbert McDowell and the Lukavskys.
Mr and Mrs Homer Coppock and son were summoned to Hildridge Nebraska over the weekend due to Mrs Coppock s ill relatives Mrs J B Pressly and daughter Mildred visited with Erma and Mary Ruth Presaly in Burlington on Saturday Mrs Chas Dryden plans a few weeks in Des Moines Mr and Mrs Clarence McCreedy and their son in law from Ft Madison called on Effie McCreedy Friday Kilcore, once ill, is improving.
In Brighton R I on December 7 relatives threw a surprise party for Clarence and Lawrence Grosscup in honor of their birthday. An oyster stew was served to a large crowd at Mrs Charles Dickinsons sale the previous Thursday. Lola Ramage visiting Davenport attended the weekend at home.
McCleery calendar factory employees signed hospital insurance applications with Washington county hospital today becoming the first group to take the plan. The contract covers 21 days hospital care per year, meals, nursing care, operating room use, dressings, medicines, lab work, and an anaesthetic fee up to 10 dollars.
Beverly Coffin spent a weekend in Muscatine with her teacher Ber nice Lindle and former teacher Ethel May Northey. Neighbors' activity includes children selling Christmas seats and families visiting across Pleasant Plain and Wayland.
Iceland uses water heated by hot springs to power houses that grow flowers and fruit. The system lifts production by providing warm, efficient climate-controlled environments for crops. Local growers report steady yields and new market opportunities in these geothermal greenhouses.
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