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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1933
Page
3
Addressed to Mrs. C. A. Speer, Washington Iowa, with instructions for compiling and publishing genealogical notices. Includes a long list of marriage entries from 1855 and 1856 with dates, spouses, and officiants.
The issue recalls Mrs. Thomas Simpson and Mr. J. F. Simpson deaths, the Sunset Park legacy, and the Pageant of Brides at the Presbyterian church. It highlights community memories, local figures, a traffic wreck tale, golf wardrobe mishaps, charity ice cream sales, and wedding fashion notes across Washington with multiple families named.
Arrow Shots From Alex Miller's Pen reports a Monday recital by Mrs. Harve Carter with Miss Tra s, Lou Jean Stewart on cello, and an audience from town and out of town. The event featured natural singing, fine accompaniments, and a formal, dressy evening atmosphere.
Allen Green of St Paul revisits the former New York store clerk John Brown in Kirkland near Seattle. Brown, now hairless, runs a ladies joggery shop, has no family, and plans a summer visit.
Alpheus, son of the late Prof. Grumbling and once a lively figure in town, followed his father’s old academy links west to Tacoma where he runs a ladies clothing shop. He has grown heavier but appears hale and busy with work.
Nena Wilson and relatives relocate to West Newton Massachusetts near Boston. The Badenochs remodel a long owned New England farm house, with children Harriet Bruce and Benjy guiding plans while Bruce attends a Maine camp.
A handwritten recipe note lists ingredients for apple dumplings. It instructs to roll dough, fill with chopped apples, dust with sugar and cinnamon, bake with butter on each dumpling, and pour a sugar syrup made from sugar and water. The tone suggests a family kitchen tip accompanying apple availability.
A personal history recounts the Coppock mill on the Skunk River near the Henry and Washington county line. Built in the late 1840s or early 1850s, the 40 by 50 foot, six and a half story structure used walnut timber and produced flour and buckwheat flour from native grain. The mill ran continuously when active, with a sawmill on the south bank sharing the same dam power, and was a social center where patrons could sleep in the mill office area or stay in the millyard bunkhouse while their grain was ground.
Long Beach visitors Mrs. Cloyce Bogle and two sons travel to Iona to visit relatives. June hospital activity marked the biggest month since 1930. Local society notes include weddings, farewells, and neighborhood incidents with many names and places across Washington County.
J F Simpson, a well known Washington contractor and builder, died suddenly at his home on Sunday July 23 at age 75. He had lived in the county 51 years. Mrs Thomas Simpson, age 80 and a long time resident, died Monday July 24 from heart trouble.
Frank-Jacob Frank of Riverside, a long time community resident for sixty-five years, died Tuesday afternoon, July 26.
Prominent Dutch Creek farmer Dyarman Lott Dyarnain, aged 74, was found dead in his pasture on Wednesday afternoon. Officials have not released a cause, and neighbors recall his long years of farming in the area.
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