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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1922
Page
8
Mrs Art Sanders spent the day in Keola. Rebekah bake sale on the south side of the square is noted for Saturday. Avis Baker visited home folks in Harper. Mrs L P Jackson of West Chester spent yesterday in Washington. Varv Busby traveled to Coppock to see Guy Davidson. Mildred Pierce visited Mrs Oscar Lane in Titus.
Local ads tease Lyon stores with Silk shirts at 3.85 while Klein Kilo Ko offers reduced trousers and chautauqua tent orders. Community notices mention bake sales by the Rebekah lodge, visits among residents, and upcoming events across Washington and Brighton with multiple named people and places.
Des Moines dispatch reports Tama will host the annual Indian pow wow August 16 to 21 with participants from four states. The event features war dances and other traditional stunts as well as commercial opportunities. Public health efforts include a diphtheria immunization program with toxin antitoxin injections over three weeks.
W S McClellan a large Aberdeen Angus breeder at Hartwick Poweshiek county lost fourteen head in a single stroke of lightning. The cattle were in a pasture near a wire fence with indications they were lying close to it. Farmers mutual insurance organizations urge grounding wire fences at specified distances to prevent similar losses.
The Drake Observatory at Waveland Park near Des Moines houses a large telescope and shows astronomy classes from Drake University with a meteorite collection and a transit instrument room. Camp Dodge opens a 350 by 150 foot pool for Iowa National Guard with 29 cent swims, lockers, showers, and Rotary Club management assistance.
Ft Madison faces an invasion of buffalo flies near the dam at Keokuk while Dubuque endures Mormon flies. Officials report swarms on streets affecting pedestrians and drivers as the city cleans up. The State Board of Control asks the State Board of Health to inoculate children in institutions with diphtheria toxin antitoxin to prevent diphtheria.
While driving from Colfax toward Des Moines Mrs Vernocom spotted two children in a roadside pond. One disappeared underwater as the other cried for help. She halted a passing street car and, with the help of bystanders, performed artificial respiration until the child was revived.
Des Moines resident F E T Hickman shows the largest apple tree in the state with an eight foot trunk and fifty one foot limb spread, planted in 1850 by G W Hickman. The tree, nicknamed Hickman Beauty at the state fair, bears heavy fruit requiring props to support branches.
Fort Des Moines serves as a site for intensive military maneuvers with 200 reserve officers in training from the 66th Cavalry Division the 88th Infantry and the Air Pursuit Squadron at Fort Riley Kansas Fifteen army airplanes arrive from Fort Leavenworth and West Point graduates train alongside civilians in a program open to men under 26 with exceptions for former service members More than 1 000 youths from middle western states enter August programs on campus while a large cotton wood tree in Hazel Green Township Delaware County earns local claim as the state’s largest by measurements</S>
A statewide mid season athletic meet will be held at the Iowa State fair on Saturday afternoon August 26. Coaches Bresnahan and Kelly will help organize amateurs from across Iowa for sprints distance and hurdle events with plans to use the races as tryouts for Iowa teams to Newark.
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