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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1933
Page
5
Alberta Boese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Boese, recovered from a blood infection caused by a splinter left in her toe. Doctors feared lockjaw but located the splinter fragment and she improved. The column also notes various local gatherings, visits, and minor injuries across the community with names of families and towns.
Local rail notes show mixed trains daily except Sunday with morning and evening arrivals and several stops for California passengers. Specific trains stop at county seats and towns including El Paso Brighton Fairfield Eldon Belknap Centerville Seymour Allerton Princeton Spickards Excelsior Springs Liberty.
Lorene Taylor reports in Olds that Mr and Mrs Roger Sherman visited relatives in Isnington while Blaine Gorham left for Fairfield for summer work. Mr and Mrs Lewis Eveland and Paul hosted Fairfield visitors. Eveland health noted as poor. Fay Linder from Winfield stayed with Vesta Halliwell. Myrtle Abrahamson arrived from Long Beach for summer with John Abrahamson family. Mrs Grover Deyarman back from Mt Pleasant hospital improved. Edwin Saltsmen returned from Chicago after a pleasant trip. Carl Johnson family and Forest Lance family also mentioned.
Grace Hill reports Mrs Mary Sherlock Correspond at A J Robertson and TD Turnipseed cutting oats for several farmers. Jack Deweese overcome by heat at the stone quarry Wednesday, returned home in improvement. Ladies Aid met with good attendance. Mrs Beltel visited Mrs Strohm. Carrie Lemley and son Lawrence called. Mrs Dunbar visited her daughter Mrs Hotle.
Pleasant Hill residents share a week of visiting relatives and church events. Neatrice and Velma Kephart visit Barbara Brooks at Washington county hospital while A E Kephart hosts guests. The Mt Beulah singers from Edwards Mississippi perform a solid program at the church, with a silver offering raised for the Christian Institute.
Riverside activity notes the Senior Needle club meeting at Mrs. Helen Shradel's home with sixteen members and two guests Mrs. Albert Hahn of Cedar Rapids and Miss Zelda Shebek. The afternoon offered enjoyable social time and closes with remarks.
The Riverside Garden Club hosted a July 27 meeting at Mrs Ernest Salladay’s home with refreshments and a roll call of members. Another session at Mrs C W Walsh’s home included a talk on Glad iola Button Bush and Cherr Tree and a July 27 gathering at Mrs Ka Ford. Iowa City Knights of Columbus defeated Riverside 21 to 11 on a lighted field with a late surge and a Smith grand slam moment.
Curtis, Jo an, Ruth, and Bill move through a tense plot of love and jealousy as Curtis battles indecision about marriage to Jo an while Ruth schemes for Will um. A roadside hot dog stop and a country drive deepen the tensions before a dramatic confrontation and a door that won’t open.
Vasser and Maher drove for Iowa City while Myron Salladay and Arnold Shradel led Riverside. A pilenie was enjoyed at Sunset Park on Wednesday by Sisters of St Marys convent of Riverside with Miss Eleanor Kloepfer Rose Mannion and Mary Gertrude Griffin as car drivers. A picnic lunch followed for all attendees.
A group of young people spent a Thursday afternoon along the Iowa river east of Riverside enjoying various sports. Names include Mildred Kinney Viola Petsel Mildred Schneider Miriam Heitzman Margaret Welte Dorothy Kinney Dorothy Knebel Robert Petsel Bud Kinney and Junior Petsel. Fred Gerot of Eugene Oregon visited this week at the home of his father Joseph Gerot and brother Charles Gerot and wife He is proprietor of the Imperial Cafe in Eugene Mrs A H Pogge and child ren returned home from West Point after several weeks with relatives.
Jean Sehetrhpoek joined friends for a visit at the Pogge home. Mr and Mrs Clement Schnoebelen of Cedar Rapids spent several days in Riverside visiting friends and relatives. Miss Anna Schnoebelen joined them Thursday and will stay a few days.
Mr and Mrs A M Smith marked their 59th anniversary in Coats Kansas. He is a Civil War veteran and buffalo hunter who hunted on the plains where the town now stands before Coats was laid out.
Oregon cities counties and groups sought federal loans for public works totaling 118 million. Raymond Wilcox, head of the relief committee, admitted it was unlikely the state would receive the full amount.
In Markle Indiana a resident, Orve Davis, reports a baby fox being reared with a litter of kittens by a domestic cat. The unusual animal caretaker notes the fox behaves like a pet and interacts with the cats within the home setting.
The University of Iowa grants total 26 511 degrees since Dexter BK Smith received the first in August 1858. Over 75 years the average is 352 degrees per year. Mrs. Kersey Holmes of Pasadena California is the oldest living graduate, having earned a bachelor of didactics in 1865.
Humboldt Iowa reports Mrs Missoula Atkins 85 finally attends a cinema due to a neighbor’s urge after five decades living near a theater. She found it interesting but doubts she will attend regularly. The story contrasts early nickel slots with talkies and notes her long record of non attendance.
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