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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1924
Page
5
July notes recount visits and family gatherings in Valley and nearby towns. Families such as Belter, Wallace, Feltz, Pfeifer, Sheets, and Ferguson are mentioned with trips to Washington and Keota. Baby born to Mr and Mrs Sheets. Community events include church services, cherry canning, garden planting, and frequent visits of relatives.
The So and Sew Club met with Mrs Martha Walker on Friday June 27. After the business meeting a social gathering followed details not provided in the fragment.
A long list of Brighton residents and visitors recaps summer trips and weekend stays. J. Frazey returns from Alabama. Clark Trafton and family visit Mary Fox before moving to Albuquerque. Elmore and baby travel from Cedar Rapids. Barkhoff and other relatives host in Brighton. Various other locals visit kin in Des Moines, Wellman, Mt. Pleasant, Oskaloosa, Fairfield, and Le Roy while plans surface for future homes and summer stays.
Riverside July 8 news notes frequent visitors and guests at local homes. Mrs Philo mena Scherrer and children return to Iowa City after visiting her sister’s family. Mr and Mrs John Knight of Flint arrive to stay with Fred Moss’s family. C. Critz travels to Cedar Rapids to visit his mother. Hubert Mottet of Van Horn visits relatives. Clare Capps and two children visit en route to Washington to visit her parents. Misses Bernadine Brown and Dorothy Dautremont stay weekend with Riverside families. Mrs Hubert Swift and two children host from Fayette. Ella McLaughlin now in New York City visits Riverside friends before Cedar Rapids. Also, Saratov reports reveal over 5000 secret stills and 3500 gallons of homemade spirits found in three months.
Rev. R W Jamieson from Columbus City will teach Bible history at Burlington High School and serve as pulpit pastor at United Presbyterian Church. The course will be historical in approach and not tied to any creed. enrollment to be optional. Jamieson has pastored in Columbus City and taught Bible there.
The city of London plans to harness its central incinerator to a power station to supply electricity for the lighting system and the running of the tube railway and surface tram network.
A dense radio programming digest lists stations in Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Detroit Davenport Kansas City Los Angeles Louisville Medford Memphis Minneapolis Monteral New York Newark Oakland Omaha Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Francisco Schenectady Springfield Washington Zion and more with times for music orchestras talks concerts bands and special features including educational segments and cultural programs scheduled throughout the day. The compiled entries name station call letters and program blocks such as orchestras, concerts, talks, garden talks, and unique show titles across the network.
Furman University in Greenville hosts an Institute of Political questions from August 6 to 16 aimed at promoting serious study of national and international political problems. Professor James W. Gardner of the University of Illinois will lecture with economics scholars assisting. the final two days address issues affecting South Carolina.
In Rock Island County Illinois a memorial park will be established on part of the Black Hawk war scene east of the Mississippi The project honors the history of the Indian uprising and preserves the battlefield area for public reflection.
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