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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1910
Page
4
The past week was hot and bright with cooler nights and well below normal rainfall. Corn and hay crops show mixed conditions with total acreage for 1910 listed. potatoes deteriorate except after heavy showers.
A fragment describes a tourist clinging to a precarious limb halfway down a precipice. A psychical science doctor advised relaxing every muscle during great mental strain.
Several residents report travel and visits including Miss Evaleen Kunath returning from Davenport, Mrs Fannie McDowell attending the W W C T U convention in Keota, Mrs George Askea and children visiting West Chester, Miss Elsie Walton from Brighton, and Mrs T H Stanton arriving from Washington DC to stay with Mrs C J Wilson. Families plan gatherings at Keota, West Chester, and Sigourney with locals hoping for a daughter in law visit and noting special bargains at The Fair.
A collage of local items lists a baseball game Keota versus Washington at Southeast Ball Park and repeated social notices. Residents visit relatives in Iowa towns, travel to Burlington and Colorado Springs, and stock sales advertise discounts on spoons and handbags at The Fair.
Keota Harry Dean from Cedar Rapids and Miss Myrtle Baird of Spokane visit at the James WM. Baird home northeast of town. Clerks and travelers include Rev A L Graham of Burlington and H N Shaw of Winterset visiting relatives. Several residents travel for business, conventions, or camps as Mr Fetters of Brighton completes harvest plans.
Washington and Macomb residents travel for family visits and returns to their homes while others depart for Des Moines Burlington Brighton and Havre. Teachers statewide take July exams under Miss Flo Purvis as community news notes weddings illness and entertainment events.
The article notes several picnics at Sunset park hosted by local groups including the ladies of the Pythian Circle and Bowman dry goods clerks. Families, church youth and members of the Stanford and Gray families held a reunion with games and a dinner. A marriage at the First Baptist parsonage and various social events are also described.
In a Rocky Mountain tale hunter George Nidiver and a lost Indian boy face two hungry grizzlies. Nidiver shoots the bear chasing the boy, then meets the other bear with a fearless gaze that yields its retreat. Community updates follow with local visits and health notes.
Frank McNally an electrician formerly with the Washington Telephone Co visited the city yesterday. Miss Hazel Dawson who had been visiting at the Robert Bennett home returned to Brighton this morning. Robt Bennett of North Washington who has been seriously ill for some time is steadily failing with no improvement in sight.
Base Ball William Tellin of Riverside visited the city with friends yesterday. Rit Maxwell is recovering well after an appendicitis operation and hopes to be downtown again. Miss Bertha Anderson, staying with Miss Stella Meek northeast of town, returned home at Wyman last night.
Mr and Mrs Fr G Witmer of Mason City spent a day in the city and left yesterday evening for Des Moines while looking at farm property and may locate nearby. Mr and Mrs W L Patten of Fairpoint Ohio and H V McNary of Bannock Ohio, who had been visiting, plus Mrs N E Moore, went to Crawfordsville this morning.
I. W. Nairn division superintendent for the International Correspondence schools arrived yesterday evening from Galesburg HK and will meet anyone interested in the work. Mrs. W. A. Wilson and Ruth returned from Olivet Kan where they found weather and crops similar to local conditions and noted extreme heat and a need for rain.
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