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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1919
Page
7
Town notes describe day to day events across neighborhoods including local meetings, volunteer efforts, school updates, and community celebrations. Citizens share brief reports on public safety, activities, and upcoming local events.
Local notes report changes in residents including births deaths and notices from Washington County columns. Names and places are listed with brief updates on where people reside and life events.
July 21 notes show Levi Barnes family and Keith from Brighton visiting Edgar Meyer. Rev J A Glendinning called on Sam Siguroose. Mrs Harry Jones’s visiting nephew returns to Louth. Howard Witting family attended Roy Kephart’s after service. Clarence Eicher and Lloyd Kracaw of Keota stayed with Edgar Meyer. Red Chalupa and John Putman hosted guests. Edgar Meyer aided his brother.
Wes Meyer threshes Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Harry Bishop and children Mdna and Helen were callers at Charlie Kephart Sunday evening and attended preaching services at Pleasant Hill church.
Ainsworth reports Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Harding and children visited relatives after traveling from Bennett Iowa. Mrs. Harding and children extended their stay while Mr. Harding returned home. Various local social visits and church services noted. lot sale drew a large crowd with two new purchases. Will Stafford buys the Witting farm for 142 per acre. several residents highlighted for weekend travels and visits.
Havre residents report Mr. and Mrs. Jake Schrader and Mr. and Mrs. John Reeves traveling to Mt Pleasant on Friday. Aaron Stafford returns home Saturday from France.
Keokuk Iowa residents back a $200000 memorial city hall. A 70 member committee will work with the council to draft plans for an auditorium armory library pool offices and courtroom. The 38th General Assembly allows fifty year bonds for memorial buildings and a special election is planned for early fall. Construction is set to begin after further steps.
The article notes that after the bonds are sold, the next step will occur early next spring, signaling the completion of the financing phase and the beginning of subsequent project work.
Sigourney will host a two day homecoming on September 1 and 2 inviting Keokuk county soldier boys and county towns plus country residents to celebrate World War I service. An executive committee led by Judge D W Hamilton and others outlined finance program amusements refreshments decorations music and grounds tasks.
P. J. Kehoe mayor of Cascade Dubuque county must relinquish his post after a district court ruling by Judge J W Kintzinger finding willful neglect misconduct and maladministration in office. Attorneys asked for suspension of enforcement pending appeal to be considered tomorrow. The petition cites serious charges against the mayor.
A Cascade group allegedly placed a rope around a man's neck dubbing him a slack er. The trial revealed the man sent two sons to war and had borrowed money to buy liberty bonds.
John McCaskey was crushed under the bull wheel of a harvester when trying to stop runaway horses. His crippled son Pal, operating the machine, crawled from the field to seek help as the father lay injured and unable to move. Doctors say the father may not survive.
The son, unable to walk, crawled perhaps half a mile to reach the house and telephoned for aid. Meanwhile McCaskey endured extreme pain lying in the field near the McCaskey home in Griswold’s southwest area.
Water in contact with air absorbs carbonic acid to a practical degree. In densely populated districts this effect matters notably. The difference is perceptible after a long drought, the so called refreshing showers illustrating the point.
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