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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
5
Brighton parses a忙 jumble of births visits and church events. Mr and Mrs Nelson Acheney celebrate a newborn. families and friends gather for meals and greetings as Rev. Daniel Wheer and Dr Whit ing swap pulpits. Local movers include Lee Lechner taking over railside duties and various residents attending funerals and club meetings.
Mrs. Ida Patterson has returned home from a visit with friends in Washington but is now confined to her bed by sickness. Mr. Hethcote is at Savannah for medical treatment, accompanied by his son Wayne and son in law George Crate. Mrs. Laura Chambers remains in Des Moines for the winter.
Walter Sheet attended the Valley Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs. Joe Hartnell's home near Robio on Wednesday. Several neighbors horned cattle at the Waste Sheets home Wednesday. Mike L. Griener sponsored a shingling frolic Tuesday. Nearby residents including the Crawford and Kiefer families visited and traded calls in Sigourney and at homes around Iowa City and West Chester region.
The column notes widespread colds in the community and details church events. It lists M E church Ladies Aid preparations for the ninth Wednesday sale at the Clegg property and records ES chapter officers elected including Edith Richards as worthy matron and Lattimer Davis as worthy patron. It also mentions housing vacancies on Rush estate and a winter stay for Tina and Effie Porter sisters near Washington. Mrs Gosling visits Washington to help with a newborn granddaughter. Jericho, a Muscatine deaconess, spoke at the Methodist Church to honor the home missionary society, accompanied by two friends.
Tinned hauled corn to Johnnie Goeld ner's last week June. Kenneth and Hubert Sheetz spent Tuesday evening at the Lee Henery home. Miss Virginia Kiefer spent Tuesday afternoon with her friend, Mildred Times Mrs. Robert Roey. Fred and
An old advertisement claiming liver bile flow as the cure for low mood and bad digestion. It promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as gentle vegetable extracts that "make the bile flow" and improve health, urging readers to look for the red label and note at stores.
Announcement from Mr and Mrs Lee Dawson of New Holm Minnesota reports the birth of their fourth daughter. The Baptist Ladies Aid held an all day meeting at the home of Mrs Nellie Edmondson last Thursday focusing on tying comforts and sewing. Local Rock Island line freight carries mail after passenger service between Montezuma and Muscatine was discontinued.
Mrs. Katie Ties of Washington visits Kalona. Ezra and Willis Guengerieh open repair shop in J W Cupp garage. Mrs. Gerald Teets visits parental Teets in Wellman. Adams property moves by Hitz Bourgeois families. Four children survive Mrs. Wells. son George died in World War. Funeral held at Baptist church Kalona with Rev Willmore. Burial in Sharon Hill Cemetery. Arthur Slagel of Iowa City visits Ray Niffenegeer home.
The Richland M. E. ladies will host a Christmas supper and annual favor in the church parlors on Saturday evening December 10. Loren Hinshaw and wife welcomed a 10 pound son on November 25. Ed Hiatt suffered a broken ankle in a woodcutting accident and will stay home. Rod Swank and Ralph Nordyke visited Hal Fregin. Georgia V. Posworth hosted Barbara Ellen class for a Christmas program. Stores show Christmas spirit with decorations as schools and churches prepare programs.
Massachusetts, whose board was formed in TSG at Samuel Gridley Howe's suggestion, became the first state to establish a state board of charities.
A writ of special execution directs a public sale in front of the Washington County Court House Iowa to auction the real estate of W M Sutherland on December 29 1922 from 2 00 pm to 4 00 pm The sale covers specific portions of Section 26 in township 75 north range 8 west near the railroad and a public highway The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States pursues the levy with terms cash and the sheriff notes the sale in Washington Iowa
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