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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1927
Page
1
Neighboring towns report plans for the Lime and Legume demonstration in Brighton aided by Burlington railroad and Ames College Extension with soil testing and free carload limestone tickets. Also notes on deaths, illnesses, visits, travel and local events across Brighton and Havre areas.
Mary Sherlock reports on Grace Hill happenings as 83 year old B F Beitel celebrates birthday. Family visits, church calls, and social plans include an ice cream social on the church lawn and birthday celebrations for Eugene Engel.
Ida Meeks reports a large Highland community social at Ed Endicott home Tuesday night. Louis Moberly remains ill but improving. Mode Hudnall and wife returned from Oskaloosa after a serious illness. Wash Motley family were dinner guests at Karl Marshall home. Elmer Steele and wife plan Illinois trip to visit sister Mrs Platt. Rachel Johnson helps at Mitchell Spreaker home. Earl Marshall and family shopped in Washington. Murphy and Steele families toured near Mt Pleasant to view country.
Local visitors and travels. Mr and Mrs C C Millson return from Monmouth and a Minnesota Canada camping trip. Harold Ross earned a Master of Arts from Iowa City after summer school. Women’s missionary society meets at the Maxwell home with about 75 attendees to discuss Home Missions Temperance and Reform with talks by Misses McCall Barnes Rhea and others. Social time ends with fruit punch and lingering guests at the Maxwell residence.
Mrs. Daisy Simmering reports a quiet Sunday at the J E Linder home as Hiram Baker and family of Crawfordsville Iowa visited. J E Linder and Kephart and Simmering households hosted visits. The T T T club met with Misses Helen and Hazel Simmering. eleven members attended and shared a luncheon prepared by Mrs Simmering and Mrs George Chalupa. Next meeting set with Miss Mure Stephens. Mrs George Chalupa called on Mrs Ed Simmering and Mrs Chas Kephart. Mrs Everette Beenblossom visited with Mrs Leslie Beenblossom.
Special elections on road bonds will be held in Warren and Decatur counties to fund paving of the Jefferson and Harding highways across the state Clarke county has already maxed out its road funds The combined issues in the three counties aim to finish paving the 2600 mile trans continental route from Canada to the gulf
The social committee lays out a summer schedule including picnics from July to November with committees, chairmen, and host families. A October conference with Engineers Coykendall Hutton and railroad reps discusses retracking west of town to remove a highway No 2 crossing and streamline road improvements. action remains in discussion.
A cloudburst in central Pennsylvania causes widespread flooding in Perry and upper Dauphin counties. Damages exceed a million dollars with rail traffic halted on the Williamsport division as tracks wash out and mud buries sections. Rivers rise rapidly but no lives confirmed lost.
State Attorney Roy C. Martin told the Franklin county jury that Charley Birger, Ray Hyland and Art Newman stand with a rope around their necks and built their own scaffold and trap door in the murder of Mayor Joe Adams. He concluded his closing address before noon and the court adjourned to reconvene at 1 30 p.m. under Judge H C Mil.
Big gathering planned for July 26 as the Burlington lime and lime ume special train visits Brighton with a 9 to 12 hour stop. Two exhibition cars and a conference car showcase Farm Crops Extension Service experts F G Churchill J J Boatman and P C Taff who will speak around 915 near the exhibit cars. Linwood Cement Company donates a 45 ton load of agricultural limestone to each county the train visits through the farm bureau residents of Washington county present may win the limestone worth about 45 dollars. Farmers may bring limestone samples for analysis using the train's facilities.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Sweet and Marshal Oscar Haney arrested a young man who gave the name Lester Raymond on a liquor transport charge. Six gallons were seized in an east town alley, allegedly brought from Davenport to sell locally. Raymond was jailed, then bound over to the grand jury under $1,000 bonds after a preliminary hearing with Justice J. Patton. Miss Hattie Pratt of Ainaworth visited the town for shopping.
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