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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1922
Page
8
Mrs. J. E. Coffey of West Chester spends today in Washington. Mrs. Charles Hays visits relatives in Haskins last evening.
Citizens visit kin in Muscatine and Keota while others travel to Richmond, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines. A Rebekah bake sale on the south side of the square is promoted for Saturday and chautauqua tent orders must be placed by next Tuesday. Also listed are auctioneer services, camping gear deals, and local shop announcements.
Washington shoppers see Crail's offer bleached and unbleached muslin and sheeting, Brussels rugs, 9x12 and 11.3x12 sizes, carpeting deals, and tire promotions. Local personalities visit, travel, and attend sales events while the store promotes new stock and price cuts.
Iowa railroads conference with Adjutant General Lasher outlines troop movement to the Iowa National Guard encampment at Camp Dodge starting August 14. Troops will travel via the principal routes into Des Moines.
The geophone, a wartime instrument for detecting earth sounds, is shown to aid rescues of entombed miners and locate water leaks. Tests in Pittsburgh prove its ability to hear sledge blows at 650 feet and detect leaks 10 to 15 feet below ground. It promises quick mine surveying and blast danger warnings.
Burlington reports a surge in workmen for town lines and West Burlington shops. Hale Holden says Burlington added 126 to 250 mechanics daily July 10 22 with a 450 peak yesterday. A new West Burlington dining room serves 300 meals per serving period as 26 more men arrive.
Worth Nelson 4, son of Mr and Mrs Shaterick Nelson of Olmitz, died at the mines hospital after a rattlesnake bite. He stepped on the snake while picking blackberries with his father. fangs penetrated deeply, poisoning spread rapidly. Other bites treated at the miners hospital this week as rattlers reappear in the area.
Bedford July 27 Mrs Emmett Lafely was burned to death when she poured kerosene on a stove fire to speed it up. The blaze flared and her clothing caught fire.
J. W. Wright of the Western Union Telegraph Company returns from a Des Moines conference attended by over forty district managers from Nebraska and Iowa. Optimism centered on crop prospects and plans to speed telegrams, with new cables to Europe Germany and the West Indies and updated ad reinforcing business.
A house burned to the ground with no one at home. The woman is survived by her husband.
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