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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1949
Page
3
Esther Squire and Lena Davidson take time off from County hospital duties and beauty salon work respectively. Many locals including Mr. and Mrs. McFarlane, Fred Burger, Crossett, and Lane plan trips or return from travels as extended families gather for visits, churches services, and holiday weekends across Muscatine and surrounding towns.
Carol Brewer sails to Milwaukee to join a missionary colleague returning to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She attends a Pontiac wedding and visits relatives in New Kensington while taking a planeties course in New Wilmington. Return date is unresolved with possible home visit before Khartoum.
Washington sees widespread remodeling of shops and services in 1449 with notable updates at Lemmon's Jewelry Chamberlin's Sport Shop Spurgeon's Mercantile Pioneer Drive Tait's Radio and Appliance Duke's Coffee Shop and Washington Cleaners. Residents can visit the veterans hospital in Knoxville on Thursday July 28 tied to the monthly birthday party for veterans hosted by District 7 American Legion auxiliary units.
Mr and Mrs Willis Jones travel with son Louie and Mrs Jones sisters Mable and Marie Landau from Cedar Rapids to Balsam Lake Wisconsin for a two week vacation. Adelle Palmer returns to Davenport after visiting her father A C Palmer. Mr and Mrs C W Owens and Wayne go to Knoxville to visit Fern Owens daughter of the Mendenhalls.
Richard Maxwell a noted radio singer and philosopher will headline a program at the First Methodist church sponsored by the Ministerial Association on Tuesday evening July 26. The event aims to draw a large local audience and features Maxwell’s anticipated solo performance.
Washington County week brings no traffic fatalities. Projects loom as Washington street widens and a large artificial lake with Youth Center is planned. Local quirks include a garish green car, a crash near Vernon Roth farm, and small town happenings from softball standings to Legion posts.
Reports from Washington Iowa cover centennial preparations, boy scouts activities, health exams for 4 H members, a birthday party, a prenuptial event, a pet show with multiple winners, a booster trip, and local business changes. Also noted are a runaway accident, construction projects, and civic planning efforts for paving and housing near the Negro church parsonage.
Charley Ragan John Lowash Lloyd Maxwell and Ray Boyer went fishing on the Skunk river and brought home 34 pounds of catfish. Harry Bell was asked for weights but the matter remains unresolved. A Kalona man Frey bought the Al Dar Byshire place for 21000 dollars. The Cavender barn fire during an electrical storm killed two horses and injured others. Bert Donaldson on the farm lost 10 tons of clover hay 50 bushels of oats and tools. insurance partly covered the loss. Peter Berdo sold his new West Washington Boulevard home to Frank Mathew for 10000. Antho Van Sickle was hit by a car while moving a barn for Ida Cavender and bruised.
Mrs Mary Spevacek 73 died Saturday in Chicago Illinois where she had been cared for since September 1947 She was born in Richmond October 28 1875 and had lived in Kalona for many years.
Mrs. Ora Lora Bell aged 1, a native of Washington and lifelong resident, died Monday night in a Des Moines hospital where she had been confined since July 6. Her home was 191 East Second Street, where she lived until October 1947 before moving to Des Moines to live with her twin sister, Mrs. Lora Gibson.
The hospital lists admissions on Saturday of George Zeck Washington surgical and Barrett Johnson Fairfield medical. Dismissals include Wayne Pratt Washington Phillip Crawford Winfield and Everett Griffith Crawfordsville. Today Mrs Wilbur Schauf son Wellman Ray Freeman Crawfordsville. Births recorded Saturday Mr and Mrs Everette Davis Crawfordsville a son at 4 20 p m and today Mr and Mrs Sam McCleery Washington a daughter at 10 10 a m.
Today and yesterday several families welcomed new members. George Zeck and Mrs. R L Quinn of Washington share announcements, as do Mrs. Robert Miller and daughter of Crawfordsville. Clfford Baker and Helfrich families in Winfield and Washington add newborns, with other births noted in Wellman and Keota.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Bain of Wayland announce the arrival of a daughter at aresa hospital. The birth marks a joyful addition to the Bain family with no further details provided.
Yesterday and today notices list Mrs. Irvin Whit ham and Mrs. J Martin White among Washington medical cases and transfers to University hospital Iowa City. Also reported are Mr and Mrs Verla Davisson Wellman with a son at 2 15 pm and Mr and Mrs Bernard Thoman Riverside with a daughter at 4 50 pm.
Friday admissions include Norman Merz in surgical care at Florence Spenner Kalona and Mrs. Lloyd Hayes in medical care with Dayle Swartz in Washington. Earlier births include Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pence of Kalona with a son at 11 49 p m and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Widmer of Brighton with a son at 10 47 a m.
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