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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1919
Page
8
A mix of social visits and outings from residents of Ainsworth and nearby towns. Miss Mattie Robinson and Miss Ruth Pratt travel, and numerous locals attend visits in Muscatine, Columbus Junction, Wayland, Milan, and Des Moines. Also notes on ads, dinners, and a sale for a Moline Knight vehicle.
Deans hosts Miss Viola Auten of West Chester for a day in Washington while Vern Furnas of Columbus Junction visits the city. G W McChurch proprietor includes Oxford Cafe with 35 cent meals as a note. Mrs Alice Yerkes and son John travel to Muscatine for a day away. Mrs Oscar Schiller of Detroit spends the weekend with Dr Fred Reid. Josephine Beal of Monmouth and John Beal of Alexis Tl return home after visiting uncle I K Beal. Ref: farmland listings in Washington County available by phone.
S J Kellogg reports Reverend Alvin Godfrey and family left for Albia after visiting here. Mrs Charles Anderson and children from Chicago will stay at the J T Anderson home through next week. Mr and Mrs A L Young and others travel to Waterloo for a few days. The Journal laments lost ad revenue after a caller demanded removal of a for sale notice. I Rothschild and daughters plan a buying trip to New York via Chicago Buffalo and car trip with friends, with Corrinne visiting Charlevoix Michigan and Joe Falk joining the Chicago leg.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for their kindness after the loss of wife and mother. Gratitude also for the many beautiful floral offerings from L. B. Babcock & Sons.
G. T. Downa expresses gratitude to the Frisunda for many kind attentions during illness which provided him great comfort and support.
Joann J. Black of Iowa Street Chippewa Falls Wisconsin advertises a wanted notice seeking to bell or exchange property. The terse appeal lists a case code J-19-26-A2 and provides the contact in Chippewa Falls.
An analysis of how some people rest on ancestral glory and misremember past deeds. They boast to sympathetic listeners and unleash a imagined greatness that never fully materializes, leaving them stuck in history while neglecting the present.
Sioux City July 19. The Woodbury county board of supervisors decides to pave twenty-two miles of the primary road system next year. County Engineer Wayne Riedessel proposed 9.6 miles the first year, but District highway engineer FE Dunn urged paving twice that amount. If awarded this fall and weather cooperates, full construction can proceed, with plans to create fourteen districts and pave two to three districts annually.
July 19 Ellis Parker Butler and his wife with four children arrived in Muscatine to spend the summer at Geneva Island above town. Butler, a widely known U S writer born and reared in Muscatine, says the city is his home though he has lived in Flushing New York for years.
He last visited Muscatine early in 1917 appearing in an evening program with Joyce Kilmer the poet who was killed at the battle of Chateau Thierry last July. Mr. Butler expects to secure significant material here for a new series of stories about the middle west and the Mississippi.
Nita Belle McKoon, agent, advertises price lists for clubs and magazine subscriptions. Contact 59 Red or write in care of the Journal for service.
Chicago's three largest construction sites shut down at eight o'clock and the paralysis spreads across the city. The Building Construction Employers' association ordered a total cessation after unions refused arbitration, halting $50,000,000 in ongoing work and stopping all nail driving amid a fight over arbitration terms.
Forest fires burning for over a week sweep western Montana and northern Idaho. The blazes threaten communication with the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula and jump into Mullan Gulch. Fire near St. Regis crosses the Clark Fork River and spreads unchecked over a wide area.
Washington July 19 The Senate passed the $618 000 000 sundry appropriation bill carrying increased funds for rehabilitation of disabled soldiers sailors and marines It now goes to the President who previously vetoed the original bill.
Americus Georgia July 19 Barton E B Gates of Flushing New York died during the last stunt of a flying circus after a record 26 loop the loops in ten minutes and just after receiving his commission as second lieutenant his plane plunged from 2 000 feet as he leaped or fell from the craft thousands watched the fatal mishap
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