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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1923
Page
7
Local column compiles short items from Jackson Center and Riverside area with community updates. Notables include residents’ health, schooling, housing moves, farm markets, hunting reports, and social events across Wellman Riverside and surrounding towns.
Entertaining couples at a rock party, Dr and Mrs Braden and Mr and Mrs Wes Hunter hosted about twenty couples with supper before dawn. A sick boy at Iowa City hospital is expected to recover. Locals include attorneys Marsh Bailey and Uperaift visiting, and Ed Marquam dying at home with funeral in Pilotsburg. Miller jewelry move noted. Stump farm rented by Marty McMahon with March 1 possession. Jim Ryan to Chicago for book work at Iowa Clay Co. funeral in Iowa City attended by James Sanders.
W S Boyer drove Andy Augustine and wife to Iowa City in his sedan. Mrs Augustine is not getting along as well as she might. Mr Org drove to Iowa City to spend weekend with friends George Breitenbach and John Skipton on business. D E Brumback troubled by back pain. Will Plummer improving and plans to stay active. Telephone companies meet and vote to consolidate into one company for better service. We miss the colonel and hope for improvement. We have had a mild winter and welcome more snow before April.
Mrs Eliza Butler and Mrs John Butler with two Hithe daughters Mary Louies and Janette of Burlington return home by car from the Loyd Humston residence. Edgar Porter undergoes dental work in Washington and installs a radio set. Neighbors share social visits and attend a home talent show titled Turn to the Right noting it was fine.
The So and Sew Club met for an all day session with thirteen members including Minta Leet Emma Johnson and Ethel Sprague and three visitors. Betty Leet made her first appearance. A noon dinner prepared by Mrs. Moore and others featured bread and butter sandwiches meat loaf mashed potatoes pickled peaches and more. Officers for the year were elected Libby Leet president Ola Knotts vice president Frankie Moore secretary and Jennie Strum treasurer.
Medina New York housewife says two years of nerve trouble eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and now praises it to friends Rochester New York mother recovering after childbirth reports gaining weight and feeling like a girl of sixteen both endorse the remedy as effective for female ailments
Mrs Emma Johnson spent Wednesday in Washington and Willis Ferguson spent Saturday and Sunday in Washington.
Havre residents recall a social club gathering at the Grover Booth home with oyster stew and music by Ruth and Alta Meyers. Local families note Grover Booth renting Port Yard farm and Mack Richards purchasing a new Ford coupe. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Prannen visited the Ferguson home and others spent weekends with relatives in Havre and nearby Pleasant Plain.
Friday's snow and rain hampered travel on the district roads. Local residents made visits between Green Vale, Burlington, Flores, and Fairfield. A car crank mishap left Matt Stone with a dislocated arm later found not broken.
Mrs Bert Smith visited Wednesday at the Frank Parcel home in Parrfield. Mr and Mrs Floyd Book visited Saturday and Sunday at the Will McAvoy home.
County Agent H Ellis presented Farm Bureau motion picture map at Clay church with Mr alter Brown chief local officer. Weather kept many away but organizers hope to reschedule and advertise date. Local residents Eliza Wheelock Hattie Meacham George Woodford and others attended various local activities and chores.
Mrs J K Dunn broke her right arm near the wrist after a sleet slicked walk in Wyman. The Wyman school plans an operetta in Cotter soon. Theodore Allen, confined to a Phoenix sanitarium, is slowly recovering.
A reflective essay ponders how people would adjust daily routines when faced with a rumored deadline. It questions whether duties like washing, club meetings, or chores would be postponed or continued as if nothing changed.
The Sun Flood a new Goldwyn picture shown at the Fox theater Thursday and Friday features Henning Herger’s dramatic handling of end times and Berger's play adapted by J. G. Hawks. Characters confront their vices and seek redemption with hymn singing and brotherly love amid a screen world ending scenario.
A brief note describes South Australia approaching a vast scale in space measures with four thes as large as France, highlighting extraordinary land area comparisons and regional implications.
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