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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1925
Page
7
Brighton notes list visitors and trips from Iowa City Chicago Winfield Washington and Anamosa. Local events include a barn fire near Robt McClintic farm and family visits to Des Moines Fairfield and Milwaukee. A remark about sober heads underscores community humor.
NIRA NIRA-Chas. Green visits Keota due to his father's illness. Mrs Ayers and Dorothy Carr of Omaha visit Irwin Curls. Henry North's daughter Mrs Henry Hostetter is ill. Miss Edna Rowe is in Cedar Falls Hospital with tonsillitis. Carl Linsay sells spices via Carl Retsecker's wagon while on vacation. LeRoy Rowe visits East Pleasant Plain guest of Geo Cave. Vera Longwell studies music with Mr Dayton of West Chester.
The threshing season begins at L. C. Zook's and progresses quickly with good weather. Farmers expect completion by Saturday or the next Monday as oats thresh well averaging forty to fifty five bushels per acre. The period brings social gathering and shared work among neighbors and families.
Rain boosts corn and gardens in Sandy Hook as crews finish road work on the hill. A young worker named Kelly impresses with hard work and resolve while farmers thresh and plant. The note ends with a moral about perseverance amid difficult times.
Clara and Clyde Garrett faithful attendees at Indian Creek Sunday School. Clyde kept home by boils. WT Dunbar and Fred Garrett families drove to Sunset Park for dinner then downtown and met many locals for a pleasant outing. Women talk too much, but what about the men farewell.
West Chester notes visiting James Nelson of Keota and relatives in Cam bridge and Bedford Iowa. The letter praises Iowa land, crop gains, and rising prices for corn eggs and machines while joking about roads and monkey evolution. Local farmers Will Munro and Wilber Watson are mentioned with farming improvements and a new boy.
A lively program featured the Flickinger trio with Mr Flickinger and Mrs Flickinger plus Mr Phil Lips, blending classic and popular pieces to crowd praise. Avalon Players perform Cross Words while Mrs Atchison lectures after a Broadway Hits Prelude by Avalon V Players. Community notices report a Cedar Rapids born marriage, local band concert, Zion Congregational Missionary Society events, travel, a Shellbark club meeting, births, deaths, and church vacation plans.
Miss Mary Jevle visits friend Miss Vivian Cain in Pleasant Ridge. Mrs Arthur Conrad helped cook for thrashers Friday and Saturday at Jim Thompson's. Bill Conrad returned to work Tuesday after spending Monday night at home. Mrs Elbert Shaffer and daughter Dorothy visited home in Illinois last week. Her sister Miss Anna Wilson joined them for a visit. Henry Underwood spent Monday evening at Arthur Conrads. J W Thompson entertained relatives from Cone on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Henry Underwood went to Riverside to see her parents who reside there.
Crawfordsville July 23 Mr and Mrs Sylvester Peck of Oakdale Iowa are visitors at the 5 K Orris home The Misses Bina and Effie Porter of Ainsworth were visitors Tuesday at the Rev W C Porter home Chautauqua opened last night with
Local item notes Mrs. John Elgar and her daughter Virginia visiting Dick Cain’s home from Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon. Bill Burtons visiting old friends in the neighborhood.
Des Moines Iowa July 24 Louis Fo Arensburg Commander in chief of the G A R has named Iowa men appointed as Aides de Camp for the national encampment at Grand Rapids Michigan in August. The aides are W P Alred Corydon Oley Nelson Slater John McGrath Creston A B Bamford Creston W A Ross Marshalltown and Isaac W Myers Hampton.
In the District Court of Iowa for Wallington County original notice issued. Plaintiffs include W. J. Boyd and defendants or respondents include William Alexander and related parties Lan cetta J. Alexander Ainsworth Savings Bank of Ainsworth Iowa James Boyd Mary Jane Boyd Henry Boyd Mary Boyd Hugh Henry.
Public notice to defendants unknown claimants including Boyd, Deborah Boyd, Levi Clark, Margaret Clark, Mary Anne Dean, Jennie Dean among many others that a petition to quiet title in real estate in Section One Township 75 North Range 6 West is filed. The court requires appearance before Sept 2 1925 else default and decree in favor of the plaintiff will be entered. attorney W M Keeley.
Compact ad sheet listing several businesses in Iowa. Includes a lunch room open daily, real estate and insurance services, a property gale note for Gale, an electric shop offering wiring fixtures and radios, and a city phone listing. Contains names Hugh Dougal Harvey Tucker Broadgate and others. Opportunities for bargains in Washington County Iowa.
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