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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1919
Page
7
Short notices from Washington County report births deaths marriages and personal news. Local letters and notices summarize ongoing community changes and life events across multiple neighborhoods.
Maple Grove reports on Mrs. Elder’s illness, Edna Hiasty and Richard Plaister’s Des Moines wedding, and the Plaister future Dubuque home. Local fish feats include Earl and Glenn Hasty’s 320 pound blue catfish. Auto accidents, dust glare, and highway wear mix with farm work and town chatter in this village update.
Corn and oats fields at Maple Grove are in peak labor as Horek brothers report oats at 40 bushels per acre. Threshing keeps farmers busy while housewives prepare plentiful, hearty meals from the harvest, with threshing gangs noted for their appetite for oats.
Ainsworth July 23 Rosecos Alcorn and wife of Oskaloosa visited Dr Alcorn and family while Mr Alcorn recently returned from France. A telegram announced the accidental death of Jesse Duel at St Joseph Missouri. Frank Hendersen and Mr White flew to St Joe. The new consolidated school board met and organized electing E W Spessard president. Several locals prepared trips and visits to Lincoln Keota Rock Island Spokane and Washington while Loretta Walker cared for sick grandfather S A Walker.
Dr H M Gilkey and Neal Anwy of Columbus Junction were visitors yesterday. Mrs Will Van Sant of Wayland spending days with the Fletchers. Rankin Walker, formerly an oiler on the U S New Mexico, visited and expects to return for Sabbath. Invites to Moody Bible Institute commencement on August 7 were received. Miss Emma Wonderly among graduates. Mr and Mrs Arthur Stiles of Trenton Missouri visiting Clyde Maxwell home. W K Wooley, John Wooley, F E Young and John Lease returned from Colchester Illinois. Mr and Mrs Ralph Smith and Mrs Sam Donahey of Washington visited yesterday.
Neva is scarce as neighbors thresh daily. Will Saville bought 48 acres on the bottom from Bert Booth at 150 dollars an acre. Mr and Mrs Louis Baker and family. Mr and Mrs Howard Baker and daughter Lucile. Mr and Mrs Sam Baker and baby Bessie visit Earl Kephart. Mrs Clark Caldwell and son Marion stay with Silas Caldwell. Mrs Sam Baker and baby spend Monday at John May's.
Kalona July 22 notes show Miss Sylvia Enfield riding to Iowa City on Monday. Mr and Mrs J M Vankirk of South English visited Mr and Mrs O H Dunlap. Mrs Schenefelt of Washington visited the G F Howard home. Edith Anderson of Pap0 Nebraska vacationing with brother BE Anderson. Mrs McDonald and daughter of Chicago and Mrs Dr J F Wells of Wellman visited Ira Wells. Clarence Bush working on local projects.
Safe dependable treatment promises almost instant relief from itching and irritation with Zemo. Ask any druggist for a 35c or $1 bottle and apply as directed. It supposedly clears irritations pimples eczema ringworm blotches and similar skin troubles, leaving skin soft and healthy. The E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland, O.
Friday visitors from Britt brought news as John Brown and Lee Howard planned a Washington trip where they would board a train to Malvern for work. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hershberger returned from Cedar Rapids Tuesday. Lucile Douglas of Maxwell came home Monday after weeks with aunt Mrs. Hoch stetler. Jennie Britton and Myrtle Kepler visited Emmett Loach and Wesley Boehme families in Washington. Gertrude Yoder of Iowa City stayed with Maude Howard this week.
The Iowa State Fair kitchen and pantry departments return to prewar exhibits after wartime wheat flour sugar rules. War bread sugarless preserves and molasses cakes dominated last year, but this year features broader classifications with 39 prize varieties plus cookies doughnuts candies jellies jams butters and more. All restrictions are removed.
Rising meat prices spur a Belgian Hare revival with an unusual display at the Iowa State Fair. Breeders show enthusiasm as the liberal premium in the pet stock department draws attention. The exhibition runs with the poultry show in the Poultry Building on the hill east of the Agricultural Building.
For the week ending July 22 1919 Des Moines Iowa reports corn in tasseling and silking phase with variable development yet promising if normal temperatures and rainfall continue. Wheat yields range from 10 to 35 bushels per acre with spring wheat poor in western counties, averaging well below normal.
The Royal Kealakai Hawaiian Orchestra will perform each day at the Iowa State Fair. They return after last year’s hit and will entertain in the Agricultural Building the Stock Pavilion and the Women and Children's Building.
A Spokane bank issues fifty thousand dollars in antiseptic notes signed with ink rich in carbolic acid. The bills are saturated with an agent claimed to kill germs, marking the first sanitary money on record ahead of other federal experiments in laundering worn currency.
The piece discusses a sensitive child dominated by fears beyond mere cowardice. It argues for building life confidence and self-belief to help the child face anxieties and develop courage.
Oats show light yield and quality well below the ten year average of 37 bushels. Haying prospers with excellent quality and second crop alfalfa is being cut, superior to the first crop due to curing weather. Timothy acreage exceeds usual, with a large seed crop anticipated. Potatoes and garden truck suffer from lack of rain.
Eminent scientists state no microbes exist in fir forests above 2000 feet. The assertion highlights extreme altitude limits for microbial life in arboreal ecosystems.
The Norways maelstrom off the coast between the Leffoden islands is a dangerous whirlpool caused by rushing currents and contrary winds. Stories describe small craft wrecked in its eddies and even whales failing to pass through.
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