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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
7
Brighton residents share weekend visits from Keosaqua Ottumwa Cedar Rapids and Chicago. Local births deaths and travel notes accompany weather or crop updates as readers follow community happenings in July.
In Brade Ja threshing continues with J A Thomson as engineer and Ole Ferguson on separator. Schlatter of Wayland begins east run at Jno Fredrickson's. Mrs Raymond Duncan and Martha of Washington visit Aunt Mrs James Long. Orlin Witting had tonsillectomy at Iowa City hospital.
The Friday ice cream social drew a good crowd though treasury gains were modest. Local residents, including the Birney and Embree families, visited relatives in Washington Davenport Clinton and Fairfield. The C. W. girls planned a July breakfast and a youthful woods outing inspired a memoir poem about remembering those days.
Wellsot on July 27 social rounds include C. H. Lrinning and family visiting Dave Wentworth. Mrs. Charlie Harvey and children visited Mrs. Belter. Jesse Hervey and family stayed with Carl Dunbar and later with Charles Rowe near Keota. Various neighbors including Blanche Jenkins and Vera Bond were seen, with several calls at the Allie Bond and Rubio households.
Mr and Mrs J R Campbell are spending several days at the Ellis Walton home. Clifford Savage of Ottumwa spent Sunday at the parental Mrs C E Savage home.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marshall of Fairfield spent a few days last week with the family. Homer Hesselgesser was badly hurt Friday evening after falling from a hay wagon. Alma Corpman visits Aunt Pearl Lowash in Moline Illinois. Clyde and Ernest Simpson head to Kansas for wheat field work. The community is busy threshing with five machines operating on the route.
Will Benson of Murray Iowa visits relatives including the Benson and Reeves families and Mrs Charles Bear. May Grant Skinner and two children from Rockford Ill stay with Harold Grant. James McClelland of Iowa City and Gertrude Noecker of Washington spend Sunday with Lloyd Turnipseed. A week with Rev A J Unthank. family reunion of McLear party after thirteen years. The Willing Workers class party postponed. Amana waterlily ponds attract large crowds. Ben Jarrard and daughter visit Homer Jarrard. Mildred Benson and Margery Teets visit Gary Indiana relatives.
Pleasant Hill July 27 Mrs Lewis Baker and family visited Sunday at Howard Bakers while Mr and Mrs Edgar Myers also visited with local residents noting social activity in town records.
Sunday after church at Earl Kep harts. T. L. Dodds shipped hogs through the Farmers Union from Washington Monday. Mrs. Homer Kephart and Children spent Tuesday at A. B. Carrs. Miss Florence Carr is quite sick. Dr. A. J. Droz is caring for her. Theeshing began on Wednesday afternoon at Fred Telfords. Miss Cathryn Caldwell spends this week at Bryan Swifts.
New Haven reporter notes threshing activity near Glen Cuddeback and round trips by Davenport residents. Families visit Marion Smith and Mele Stattler. Rathmel and Wells families thresh and travel to Ottumwa. Della Neal tours Minnesota lakes and Itasca Park. Mourning for Robert Hood Shaffer near Brighton after his sudden death. local relatives recall past residence here.
Derwood Lo wash started his threshing machine in the Franklin Center run Tuesday morning. Art Dawson shipped a car of hogs to Chicago Tuesday morning. Miss Isabell Combs is visiting her aunt Mrs. Walter Sheetz and helping cook for threshers. Nellie Kleese returned home last week from a trip to various points in the east.
Mr and Mrs Jim Marsh visit daughter Mrs Dale Atkinson and family. Miss Winnifred Carris stays with aunt Mrs Joe Schlatter near Wayland. Elmer Horning delivers hogs to Joe Link at seven dollars per hundred. Melvin Booth hauls water for Derwood Sowash this year. Mr Le Mott of Brighton sharpens scissors and lawn mowers in the neighborhood this week.
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