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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
8
Epworth League of West Chester announces a bake sale on July 3 at Formash Meat Market. Donations are encouraged and appreciated.
Baptist Ladies set July 4 dinner at Mrs Ellen Daytons home. Local residents plan a special Aug 1 1925 election in Oregon Township to decide on a 2.5 mill tax for paving Ainsworth Cemetery driveway. Alice Pearson township clerk announces polling 1 to 8 PM. Several residents travel and visit relatives in nearby towns and return home today.
Community notices list July Fourth events at West Chester with music, bank hours and holiday closings, plus visits from relatives from Des Moines and St. Louis. Local residents, illnesses, and hospitalities are noted along with savings deposit interest changes and loan offerings in Washington Iowa.
A string of society notes and errands lists visits and travels in Crawfordsville and nearby areas. People such as Mrs Lloyd Vanderham and family, Mrs Aura Jarvis of Spencer, and Mr O P Hicks are mentioned visiting relatives with various errands and store mentions from Graham's and Hartman ice cream. A Civil War tent naming is noted, and local business updates include bank closures on July 4th and store hours.
Edith Reed returns from Excelsior Minnesota where she attended the national conclave of the Phi Omega Pi sorority at Radisson Inc on Christmas Lake. Weather delays slow travel for Orie Turner and family en route from Los Angeles to Washington amid recent southwest cloudbursts. Local notes mention visits, automobiling plans, battery sales, and bank notices.
A brief observation notes that sensational literature fails to illuminate minds and offers no real enlightenment despite its sensational appeal. The line laments the value of lurid fiction in shaping understanding.
Prof Harold Montgomery will take a two week vacation this month. He and Mrs Montgomery will spend one week in Ames and visit his parents near Cherokee. They will move from Washington to Maquoketa where he begins work as agriculture inspector at the high school conducting pioneer work.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin says about 100 communists including five servants of the Soviet consulate at Tien Tsin have been arrested. No charges or details are provided in the report.
James Em. Crane of Nora Springs, 58, was served with a court order prohibiting him from interfering with or calling on Eleanor Cloroye, 17, who recently arrived from Canada. The girl signed a statement saying she had been annoyed and feared Crane, with the Ku Klux Klan said to have brought the case to the court’s attention.
In time of trouble children and maids are often at a loss in emergencies. A directory listing the family physician and substitute, the nearest fire box, police station, family pastor, and workplaces of all employed members may help prevent tragedy.
Electrical engineers are using new devices to reduce heat lost through chimneys. They have already converted about 9 percent of the fuel’s heat units into usable energy, marking a notable efficiency improvement in older and newer furnace designs.
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