Local News Briefs Highlight Visits and Travels
Mrs. Fred Kolkman visits at daughter’s home on West Third Street and returns to Yarmouth. Mrs. Lee Lease of Crawfordsville travels to Washington for shopping and to visit uncle M D Work. Miss Mae Crone shows improvement after illness. Glenn Knapp returns from Chicago with livestock shipment. Mrs. Herbert Paulson heads to Moline Illinois and then Miami Florida with Mr. Paulson. Mrs. Matte Belier visits Rock Island. Ralph Stewart returns from Chicago with hog shipment. Mrs. Della Neal goes to Davenport for days with relatives. Miss Florence Owen travels to Brighton for weekend from school north of town. Mrs. Eliya Hayden returns to Ainsworth after visit in Washington. Special chicken dinner Sunday at Mrs. Cherry’s. Special Ford battery offer advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Kolkman
Mrs. Wasson
West Third Street
Yarmouth
Lee Lease
Crawfordsville
Washington
M. D. Work
Florence Owen
Town
Brighton
Local social notes and obituaries from Washington Iowa
Community greetings report visitors and travels including Mrs Herbert Paulson and Mrs Clarence Boronning from Webster Iowa. Updates on illnesses medical trips marriages licenses and upcoming funerals involving Mayor A N Alberson and others with several families preparing travel to Arizona and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Paulson
Clarence Boronning
Webster
Iowa
Laura Reed
Will Deal for Farm Will Exchange for Property
Three properties valued at 817,000 with 51,000 debt offer exchange for a 30 to 160 acre Saskatchewan farm near Glidden on the Elrose Branch of the C N I. Ties include a 5 room cottage with two lots in East Washington, a modern residence on three lots near paved street, and a mortgage carrying equity of 11,900 for farm equity. Propositions from real estate agents considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan Prairie
Glidden
Elrose
C. N. Lit
S. E
Washington
Senate to decide on elevating battleship guns
Senate would record its stance on raising guns on American battleships to match British range through an amendment by Senator McKellar. The amendment targets 13 battleships and would be taken up tomorrow. President Coolidge says the move would not breach the treaty but could renew armament competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
McKellar
Tennessee
Coolidge
Bill would create Civil Aeronautics Bureau in Commerce
Washington January 17 The Bureau of Civil Aeronautics to promote commercial aviation would be created in the Department of Commerce under a bill reported by the House Commerce Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeronautics Bureau
Washington
No Use Small Boy In School Hygiene Quip
A fragment narrates a boy's retort to his mother about washing hands before school. The line implies a humorous stance on cleanliness and discipline.
Campaign For Child Labor Amendment Gains Women Support
Women's groups and the State Teachers Association unite to explain the child labor amendment. Led by Ida B. Wise Smith, the effort stresses the measure is an enabling act for Congress to regulate child labor, not Iowa policy, and aims to protect children from overwork while preserving safe employment for older youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Teachers 'Association
General Assembly
Ida B. Wise Smith
Max Mayer
State Parents-Teachers Association
Service Star Legion
Congress
Iowa
lLittle
Haiti’s Nine Years of U.S. Occupation Highlighted
A Haiti report credits nine years of American oversight for broad improvements. It notes debt reduction, a stable currency, hospitals and clinics, expanded roads and communications, a trained native gendarmerie, and safer daily life, while warning more reforms are needed in law and agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
John Russell
United States Marine Corps
Colleges Plan Schools and Model Farms for Native Education
The United States colleges are establishing schools and model farms to teach natives both soil and animal industry, aiming to develop agricultural skills and improve livelihoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Body of Agnes Vaille Recovered After Long's Peak Search
The body of Agnes Vaille, Denver Chamber of Commerce secretary, frozen to death on Long's Peak after her companion left her to seek help. Twelve men led by Roger Toll recovered the body and returned it to Long's Peak Inn. Sortland, lost since Monday night, is still missing and deemed unlikely to be found alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timberline
Herbert Sortland
Sortland
Monmouth Triumphs 37 36 as Molesworth Star Emerges
Monmouth College edged Knox 37 to 36 in Galesburg with Pete Molesworth of Washington scoring two decisive field goals in the closing minute to seal the win. The Monmouth lineup earned late hero status as the comeback completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Molesworth
Galesburg
Monmouth
Pete’ Molesworth
Washington
Argentina Draws Germans Emigrants to South America
German overseas emigration rises to about 6000 monthly with Argentina Brazil and Paraguay as favored destinations. In early 1924 Paraguay admitted 238 immigrants with 224 German nationals. A separate Tacoma feature notes W H Martin’s giant scrap book, 18 feet by 30 inches, 54th page completed after 25 years of collecting from 36 states.
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Argentina
Hamburg
Brazil
Paraguay
Tacoma
Wash
W. H. Martin
Martin
Cooperation urged to exterminate fowl pest
In Chicago on January 17 Dr. L. E. Day warned the National Poultry Butter and Egg Association that eradicating the fowl pest requires broad cooperation to lift embargoes. He said early department alert could have reduced trouble and noted a shipment loss from 3000 to 125 surviving birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
L. E. Day
Bureau of Animal Industry
National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association
Department of Agriculture
Deputies Target Civil Service Reform in Iowa Bill
Plans to draft a bill for the legislature to place Iowa deputy sheriffs in the civil service were announced by Rich Anderson Polk county deputy. The measure would provide exams continuity of service and pensions while reducing political patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Rich Anderson
Polk County
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Ben Turpin
Fox Tonite
Ernst Lubitsch
Hone May McAvoy
Marie Prevost
Pauline Frederick
Lew Cody
Malardous Mary Capa
Puerre Gendron
Warner Bros
Bernadine Neville
Tin Richland
IL. K. Stemen
Riverside, Iowa
Schulty Garage
Clark & Ross
Abe Martin
E. S
Nell Sexton
W. M
W. A. Sigler
W. P
Mary Donaldson
A. M
Susie Edgington
Mame Shearer
McCoy
McElhinney Drug Co
Williard
Mae Crone
Glenn Knapp
Ford Battery
Moline
Iliinois
Miami
Florida
Mr. Paulson
Paulson
Clarence Brinning
Matte Belier
Rock Island
Fred Poisson
John R. Maney
Florence Rohrer
Fairfield
Eliya Hayden
Ainsworth
Ralph Stewart
Della Neal
Davenport
Misas Vera Wood
Oskaloosa
J. R. Guthrie
Washington Motor Company
Johanna Drish
St. James Parochial School
Pleasant Plain
O. D. Bolt
Iowa City
David Wallingford
Wilson D. Martin
New Gastle
George Martin
Butler
Youngstown
Ohio
D. F. Macon
H. J. Montgomery
East Jefferson Street
Earl Limerman
Robert Doyle Smith
Almeta Minerva Ralston
West Chester
D. L. Rohrer
Mira Alma Horak
Riverside
Snows College of Dressmaking
Elizabeth Ensign
New York City
Columbia University
Misa Nelle Ryan
Penn College
Miss Ryan
D. H. Coffman
Lady Boston
Miss Tena Simmering
F. M. Smith
John Wittrig
Wayland
Pheenix
Arizona
Henry Wittrig
A. N. Alberson
Newton R. Parvin
Grand Lodge of Iowa Masons
Alberson
Geo. J. Breitenbach
Washington, Ia
Republic
Claily
Algoshe
Washington Cleaners
Wisie Long
South Side Square
Income Tax Service
C. D. Dayton
Temple
Kentucky
John Shields & Sons
Ben
Stewart Hotel
Coal
Wilson
J. W. Hendrickson
Gladwin
Curtis Taxi
Arnold’s
Breese and
Brouth
Washington Steam Laundry
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