Local page features readings and community notes from Maxine Baxter column
Maxine Baxter highlights sources from Mrs. Julia Cavender and recounts local events. The piece notes theatre reviews by Thelma Luther at the V W on Thursday, social connections around the Ida Nicola club, highway patrol memories for Mrs. Alex Miller’s service, and community updates on residents, weddings, and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxine Baxter
Julia Cavender
Maxine
Melvin Gingerich
Hospital and Community News Highlights
The bulletin lists numerous local hospital admissions and discharges for medical and surgical reasons, with patient names and addresses such as Max Shepherd and Mrs. Guy Evans. It notes births, appendectomies, major operations, and daily patient updates, plus a short editorial on a veterans service board and church hymnals presentation.
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Max Shepherd
Iowa Avenue
Althea Montgomery
East Main Street
Grant McKune
East Second Street
Ivan Yoder
Wayland
Donald Tucker
Brighton
Guy Evans
Elton Bauer
Thomas Kerry
West Chester
Paul Evans
West Main Street
Charles Kennedy
Route One
Sadie Davison
Dancing events mark Roosevelt birthday in Knights of Columbus listing
The Knights of Columbus plan two dances on January 30 to honor President Roosevelt's birthday. A local fire left W. G. Robertson’s Crawfordsville home badly damaged, with prior loss in Columbus Junction. Savings and Loan plans seed money matching from government, Dr. E. E. Stutsman named temporary president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Vance
Knights of Columbus
Roosevelt
W. G. Robertson
Crawfordsville
Columbus Junction
Savings and Loan—A Savings and Loan Co
E. E. Stutsman
Harry McCall
J. O. Elger
F. W. Eastwood
Mary Marr
Ainsworth
California
State Theater
JR. HI
Y's Men’s Club
McKay
Robinson Farm
Brighton
Price Boilhieur
Deaths of the Week in Local Area
A list of residents who died including Mrs Mary Belle McCreedy of Haskins aged 1870 born Campbell and Joseph Miller aged 75 in Mt Pleasant from pneumonia. Donald A Wood 37 in Ainsworth from cerebral hemorrhage. Sarah Hodgson Pearce 64, widow of Joshua C Pearce former educator in local schools. H Pickard 90 of Pleasant Plain. Mrs Lloyd Lewis 55 after heart attack following Oklahoma visit. Mrs Herbert Bryson Jessie Gray, sister of Frank Gray. Birth announcement of John Brookhart third birthday celebration Jan 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Lewis
Lloyd Lewis
East Washington St
Miss Metcalf
Fane
Mary Belle McCreedy
Wm. McCreedy
Haskins
Campbell
Joseph Miller
Mt. Pleasant
Donald A. Wood
Ainsworth
Sarah Hodgson Pearce
Joshua C. Pearce
Denver
Washington County
John Adams
Gladys Metcalf Lewis
Oklahoma
Herbert Bryson
Belle Gray Rice
Frank Gray
Lincoln
Neb
Jessie Gray
Capt. Gray
Remembering the Washington high School Class of 1870
Maxine Baxter recounts the Washington high School 1870 graduates led by Superintendent D W Lewis. Dora Conger Mitchell and Jennie Wideman Shantz shine as active community figures. Kate Smith Robinson and Charles W Beard are noted peers. The piece recalls school life, pranks, and the Magnet Literary Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxine Baxter
Cyrus Metcalf
Dora Conger Mitchell
Washington High School
Dora Conger
Mitchell
Jennie Wideman
Shantz
Vira Kilgore
Kate Smith
Robinson
Charles W. Beard
Lincoln School
Washington
Corning
Iowa
Academy
Magnet Literary Society
Society
Wayland
Winfield Smouse
Sade Wilson
Lee Robinson
Washington Street
Joe Maxwell
United Presbyterian
Robison
Review of the Week's News in Washington
A long compact column reports on local affairs in Washington Iowa including court deferrals in the C G Schmoeller and Eldridge cases, weather notes, candidate announcements for county coroner, social visits, 4 H club plans, health board meeting, a stolen car found, church attendance, auto accident injuries, and assorted travel, military, funeral, and civic updates from January with multiple named locals and nearby towns.
Arrow Shots and Working Wisdom in Ragged Reflections
A fragmentary voice critiques self-deception and talk after action. It contrasts gloom with ambition and notes a stingy employer’s stinginess impacts laborers. The speaker laments waning lamps, fears self-pity, and compares attitudes toward autos and horses in social judgment.
Cold Weather Records and Community News
A historical brief notes temperatures 24 degrees below zero and 13 below Jan 20. It lists 74 honor students at the high school led by Isabelle Minick Barbara Miller and Ellen Morrison. Twin babies born to Mr and Mrs Charles Beeson, plus five siblings. Washington Improvement League met for a spring planning luncheon. officers named and dues set at 25 cents. Minnie Lehrer went to California due to her sister Claud Webb’s illness. A barn fire at Seaberry farm near West Chester destroyed the barn thirteen cattle and two horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Patton
Isabelle Minick
Barbara Miller
Ellen Morrison
Charles Beeson
Washington Improvement League
Orville Elder
W. M. Keeley
Carl Roberts
Howard McCleery
Chal Ford Treas
Minnie Lehrer
Calif
Claud Webb
Nebb
Seaberry Farm
West Chester
Quips on Aging and Town Life from Old Letters
A reflective piece notes caution about lying, aging, and ambition. It muses on men dyed whiskers, failures from constant experimentation, and the risk of assuming superiority. The author recalls boys leaving town for work becoming managers and remarks on circus day drawing flashy vests to town.
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Alway
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V. W
Thelma Luther
Health Unit
Bellamy Patridge
Eas
Nicola
Harmon
Col Nicola
Harmons
Nicolas
Fisher
West
Alex Miller
Osceola
Adolph Hallgren
Marengo
Donald Danforth
Council Bluffs
P. O. Braden
Leonard Sims
Des Moines
J. F. Goetsch
Cedar Falls
Kenneth Rhodes
Ottumwa
W. T. Donahue
R. L. Halleck
Mr. Donahue
Nicola House
Mildred
Chas. Kennedy
John Gardner
Wade Gardner
Helen Morton
Phyllis Brown
Glendale
Corpus Christi
Texas
J. W. Morton
Nellie DeWitt
Chevrolet
Chicago
Garfield Park Methodist Parsonage
Harold C. Dunham
U. S. Navy
Norfolk
Hitel
Old Heidelberg
People’s Motor Sales
Nellie
W. F. Bickel
Methodist Church
Robert Shannon
Byron Min
William Gippie
Joseph Dougall Jr
South Avenue C
David Jones
East van Buren Street
Don Tucker
Kirkpatrick
South Marton Avenue
Virginia Zieglowsky
Route Three
Esther Goodlander
William Bush
Route Four
Margaret Berend
Stanley Foster
Patricia Patterson
Mr. Bickel
John Timmerman
Presbyterian Church
Texas Caller and Herald
William James Shannon
Ralph Shannon
Lisle Morehous
Pasadena
Havre
George Breitenbach
Lemmon
Dan Rohrer
Hulse
Mr. Hulse
A. H. Wallace
Albert Henry Wallace
Elizabeth
Winter) Wallace
Pratt
Fox Theatre
H. A. Baxter
Roy Stewart
Baird Grocery
Williamson
W. C. Williamson
Keokuk
Burlington
U. P
N. L. Babcock
Mrs. Oran Lee
H. Pickard
Henry Pickard
Last Pleasant Plain
John Brookhart
S. W. Brookhart
C. G. Schmoeller
The
Commercial Savings Bank
Co. O. Davis
Eldridge
Earl Eldridge
Kyle
Journal
Marion Timmins
Edgartown
Mass
J. W. Chandler
Clarence Timmins
4-H Club
Y.M.C. A
County Health Board
Wellman
North 2Nd Ave
Arkansas
Ivan Norton
Muscatine
James Fiderlin
Fred L. Moore
St. Louis
Ann Schlereth
Moore
Everett and
Kay Ball
Dave Elder
Cedar Rapids
Edmund Wilson
Jewel Tea Co
Steve Brock
Rock Island
Gene Knight
C. L. Eyestone
4-H
Hugh Chance
G. W. Manassier, Jr
Helen Coffey Arnold
Miami Inspiration Hospital
Miami
Arizona
Cora Teeter Dunsmore
Mrs. Arnold
Helen
E. S. Coffey
John
Naval Air Training Station
Corpus Christi Air Training Center
Ensign Gardner
Mrs
Richard Johnston
Littl
Julie
Mrs. Johnston
Frank Shelangoski
Harold Putnam
Richard Hopp
Sevilla Boice
Atlantic City
N. J
Clyde L
New York City
Ruth Thorne
Elizabeth Thorne
Myrtle
T. D. Anderson
Ida Hopp
Darlene Ross
Farm Bureau
George Glockler
State University
Rotary Club
Y's
Japan
Kaneshaho Camp
George Dowell
Iowa State Guard
Alex Miler
County Legion
Legion Rooms
Justice of the Peace
Ben Cop Pack
Warren Schaeffer
al Boyd
Ralph Erlenbush
Lewis Clark Baker
Dennis Lynch
Margaret Ann
Joe Simmering
Dougal Bros
Wilbur Schantz
Thurs
Jacob Dekkoning
Iowa City
John Beenblossom
Rogers, Ark
I. M. Creech
Orville Kemp
Long Beach
Ed Mayhew