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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1923
Page
3
City officials warn the water works plant, installed from 1891 to 1993, faces nearing failure with boilers, pumps, and the Laidlaw compressor near worn out and a new well needed within years. The system lacks duplicate equipment and risks losing water and light if not upgraded.
The Leon Beatty American Legion post will hold a member picnic next Tuesday evening at Sunset Park. A committee led by Adjutant Maynard Brown plans the event with a meal supplied by post members. Five official and five unofficial delegates to the state convention at Mason City August 16 17 will be chosen. The post total stands around 140 members, making it one of Iowa’s larger posts.
Start for Osakis Minnesota reports a caravan of three autos and one trailer leaving Washington for a two week vacation in Osakis. The party includes W W C Harding and family with Mabel Stimson, Lawrence Wilson and family, and Homer Stephen and family. The K E Hamner family is there and will stay about a week longer. Dr H C Hull and family plan to join next week, while the Harding group intends a longer stay visiting relatives in Minnesota and Iowa before returning home.
Deputy Fred Sweet reports Ray Ramsey arrested in Spokane Washington after a tip from Sheriff Charles Denison. Extradition papers are needed and will be sent immediately. Ramsey previously lived in Great Falls Montana and faces a prior wire desertion charge with a $15 monthly child support order.
Rev Reade McCrory president of the local Lions club returns from a two week trip that included attendance at the National Lions convention in Atlantic City and visits to relatives in Pittsburgh. A caravan of Lions in automobiles greeted him and his family as they arrived in the southwest part of town.
Funeral services for Albert Lovelett were held Tuesday at 3 pm at the Christian church conducted by Rev. S P Telford of Fort Madison. A quartet from the Christian choir sang and pallbearers included Wil Fleming Melo Kalla Orville Dayton Will Crozier and Fr Everette Palmer. Interment followed at Woodlawn cemetery with many friends in attendance.
A sermon quotes a preacher questioning a deacon about collection plate losses and improper donations, noting plugged nickels and trash that fail to fund the pastor's salary. The dialogue contrasts pride with generosity and calls for wiser giving.
The American Legion plans a community pageant similar to the 1922 Lincoln spectacle. Commander Appleby will name the pageant committee soon and recruitment of several hundred volunteers is expected. Business leaders funded $2,350 previously, with any net surplus slated for the Legion building fund.
The Keokuk presbytery women held an evening convention at Second United Presbyterian with a Kate Hill division playlet Tired of Missions and an address by Miss Mary Eli Baird from Allerton, recently home from Egypt, detailing missionary work and changing lives. She spoke of native church growth, a seminary, and Christian influence in Egypt, while the session opened with devotions led by Mrs. Willard Wylie and greetings from Miss Mike Lewis.
John Grecian of Irving south of Ka lona is charged again with intoxicant manufacture after a January 1922 bootlegging fine. Deputy Sweet and Officer Maney seized a distilling contrivance at his home during a thorough search conducted yesterday.
Carpenters at the Milwaukee stock yards uncovered a theft scene this morning. About twenty pairs of cheap work shoes, all the same type, were found hidden under the scales. Deputy Sheriff Sweet took charge of the shoes, which were in good condition, and they are at the sheriff's office.
The fragment lists residents for Le Claire Prairie De Witt and Winfield with names such as Mrs Willeard Leet Mrs Ruth Leet Mrs J H Benson Mrs R A Brown Mrs W J Speer Mrs John Rossick Mrs R O Cranston and Grace Dew in Winfield and others including Fred Sharp.
Gravel is to be shipped from Muscatine for the Kalona road project. T C Kyle will begin hauling early tomorrow, delivering five car loads daily to the road north of town. The gravel matches the prior grade and will be spread by county road workers. Weather and a prior grade dispute delayed work, now resolved. Between three hundred and four hundred car loads will be used.
County Auditor A L Griffith reports 1382 hunting licenses issued in the year ending June 39, higher than the previous year’s 1056. Forty eight licenses have been issued for the new year starting July 1. The first license went to S D Miller of Lime Creek township. peak demand will come with cooler fall weather.
Early this morning a still alarm from Jennings Flat reported a gasoline stove fire in the residence of Mrs Minnie Jennings and family above the Democrat office. Firemen extinguished it with chemicals before substantial damage occurred.
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