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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1921
Page
7
Correspondents report a week of social visits in New Haven. Families welcome newborn Maurice F Augustine on July 9 and other relatives gather for gatherings with Hesseltine Rathmel Smith and Jaeck kin.
Little Alice Payn welcomed a baby sister born Sabbath morning July 16. Irene Yard visited Esther Booth near Washington. Clarence Logan spent Sunday with Vera Maxwell. Cecil Korf visited old school friend Henry Fredrickson near Olds. Mrs Jno Fredrickson traveled to Chicago after her sister-in-law Rhich died. A threshing meeting at Ode Ferguson's home plans work to start Wednesday. Mrs W C Richards near Ainsworth visited nearby. Mickle's sister Lottie Morton of Galvey Ill and family visited Mrs F M Smith's home last week.
Stringtown notes a trip by P. R. Schantb and son Whibur to Fairfield for repairs on a London hay carrier. Several families including Mr. and Mrs. John Rich Sr and Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Rich with children and Walter Jarrard’s family joined a Saturday evening gathering at J. J Rich’s home. Mr. Rakow, a life insurance agent for Des Moines Life and Annu- (text cuts off)
In Mt Pleasant Sab bath afternoon Mrs Chrissinger and her son Edwin visited. Thomas Stylie of Washington is spending a few days here with relatives. The Methodist Sabbath school class went to Oakland Mills to camp and fish for a few days. Edwin spent the day with them. D H Griffith has been quite ill for several days.
Jesse Pearson ships a load of his own fed hogs to the Chicago market Monday morning. Mr and Mrs Peckham of South Dakota visit daughter Mrs Jas Morrison. Wilcox buys a Muscatine grocery, to take charge at once. Maurice Robinson visits Libertyville weekend. Mrs H H Wickham of Chicago and Mr and Mrs Raymond Baxter of Burlington visit Mrs Ty Wickham. Baxter returns home, Wickham stays longer. Baptist Ladies Aid serves ice cream and cake on Main street vacant lot Tuesday evening.
In Davenport on July 11 the Phoebe Scofield will is noted for extreme brevity. The entire estate is left to niece Mary Lois Hissell and appoints her executrix without bond. Hearing for probate set for August 3.
Theda Bara, famed film siren, is reported to have married C. J. Brabin, director of her pictures, in a secret ceremony last Saturday at Greenwich Connecticut. The bride’s friends confirmed the marriage learned in New York.
Chicago Daily News urges a five year halt to gossip to craft a better world. The editorial champions restraint and civility as a path to harmony.
Fort Snelling Minnesota and Camp Pike Arkansas face over subscription for August military camps. Major Fred L. Lemmon reports 2058 applications by end of June, with about 1200 total capacity. Allocations by county based on population. select by lot if over subscribed and add from other counties if under subscribed. Applications accepted until July 10. each winner may have an alternate. Sixteen veterans applied. two from negro applicants. forty-two rejected. ten of uncertain status.
A woman died after falling from a moving car in Keokuk while another two girls were injured in a collision with a telegraph pole. A local man named John Bland was found dead in an outbuilding of heart trouble.
The Rev. Theo Mayer of Preston township German Lutheran church faced questions from Hosachler American Legion Post after conducting services for a returning soldier in German and using a German funeral address. A delegation escorted him to Akron for an explanation and, with family, sought and received assurances of safe conduct from the soldiers. Mayor Yeaton introduced Mayer who noted twenty years in the U.S. and German education. Mayer spoke English and mentioned his sons and Liberty bonds. The Red Cross chapter had use of his church. The funeral address was in German.
A quip from the Boston Transcript jokes about a single woman who chooses independence over marriage. The discussion shifts to a humorous cookbook style plan while a character vows to “kill” three flies, sparking a coy exchange about gender and domestic life.
Paul M. De Pew, who says he is Chauncey M. Depew’s son, is jailed in Council Bluffs on a bad check charge for 1. He sought Red Cross aid, spun stories of Pueblo flood survival, but Pueblo officials said his claims were false and that he never saw the flood.
De Pew testifies to the Red Cross that his father Chauncey M. Depew of New York was cruel to his mother, prompting his departure from home to seek his fortune. He adds he married a girl named Stringer who lived south of Council Bluffs four years ago.
A man asserts he holds $1,000 in a Pueblo bank and has thousands of dollars in property tied to his alleged father’s estate back in New York. The brief notes Washington County’s daily journal coverage.
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