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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1919
Page
7
Local notes from Wellman Iowa dated December recount visits by Jesse dher and his wife to Sioux City and relatives, marriages including Durain to Edna, Hazel Rosenberger wed to Powell, and ongoing town goings on. Agricultural moves, moving plans, business changes, and social events fill the column with community snapshots and road conditions.
English moved into the house bought from M E Crossett in September. Mrs W H McCarter of Champion Hill visited Thursday on business. Mrs Albert Langaree spent Thursday in Town City on business. George Kanott arrived from Chicago after a ten day visit. A program at Pilottsburg MBE church on Christmas Eve features John Susie and Jane. Wellman Rebekah lodge to hold a bazaar and bake sale December 24 at the hall. Darwin Hicks injured coasting on a hill and was bedfast for three days. Large boys described as too rough for smaller ones. Mrs James Weir visited Town City for two days.
Earl Salterberg returns home from northern harvest work last Saturday. George Hopping sold the Chris Horning place to Linnas Woods for 360.00 per acre last fall. W D Hesseltine sawed wood for Joe Snider and Lester Been blossom today. Chris Earnest was a business visitor Wednesday. Farmers Union to meet at Pureka school house Tuesday evening the 23rd. all members and interested parties urged to attend.
A list of residents and relatives visiting in Washington is released. Names include R. F. Davis, Mrs. Alva Cooper and daughter Ercil, Mrs. S. W. Huston, Luther Gormley, 8. R. Harper, Mary Mahners, and many others with Ada, Lou ise, Ada Grace Leace, and Hazel Orris among those mentioned. locals travel home from Iowa City for holidays. Mrs. Harold Lamb and daughters visit from Winfield. W. H. Stull returns from Yarmouth after a brief stay. A large crowd attended a grade program at school and the United Presbyterian church program by the Brightonian society drew applause.
Mrs Mack Gordon and her daughter Dorothy were injured when a yoke broke on their bob sled on the hill north of Ainsworth while returning from church. Dorothy, twelve, was unconscious for hours and feared to have internal injuries. Mr Gordon and another daughter escaped harm. team later recaptured.
In a quiet city paper, an odd ads section features lines such as Two sisters want washing and Wanted a boy to sandpaper. The quirky copy sparks community chatter about unusual job requests and playful classifieds.
The Iowa Farmer stresses the need for a good ice supply for extended summer table luxuries. It calls on farmers to begin ice harvesting before Boreas ends his work, linking cold storage to economic and household welfare.
A reflective excerpt argues that time is an immense motionless present where past and future blur, and tomorrow remains indistinguishable from yesterday and today except in human perception. It reflects on how memory and anticipation shape our sense of time.
The piece of eight was the Spanish piastre or peso later called a dollar. It circulated through the Spanish Main in piracy days and was worth one US dollar, being divisible into eight reales.
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