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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1923
Page
7
The Richland community reports a Wednesday commencement in the opera house with 14 graduates and strong alumni activity. Local travelers recount a near-accident when a car overturned near Iowa City. Florence survived with others injured. Decoration Day ceremonies drew a crowd with Rev. A. S. Smith as speaker, and many residents recount visits, illnesses, hospital stays, and everyday town life.
Mr and Mrs J A Moorhead of Crawfordsville visited son Clarence Moorhead. Farmers near Wayne are nearly finished planting corn for the second time. W A Carson and wife returned to Washington after a week with son Wallace. Mulhern delivered hogs to Miller Bros Olds. John Krantz returned from visits in Galesburg and Aledo Illinois. Mrs Frank Adams and daughters Naomi and Vernelda of Olds visited C C Moorhead. Decoration Day services and baseball in Crawfordsville drew many locals. Bert Crosby, employed by Finest Zickefoose, spent the weekend with his Winfield home.
Stringtown Threshing Co held a meeting Tuesday to hire engineer separator man and water man. Jon Roth, E. E. Eicher and J. G. Alliman were named to those posts, with eight years of successful machine operation. Local livestock trades and Memorial observances are also noted among residents activities.
Rural Route Four items record Mrs. Tressa Vastine aiding with a newborn at the John Wheelan home. Multiple family visits occur among Simmering and Kephart households including Ed Simmering Sr. and Chas Kephart. Other activity mentions Elmer and Fred Kephart and Iva Kolesick assisting at homes.
Brighten notes record visitors and travel in the Brighton area for Decoration Day. Families from Moline Fairfield Oklahoma Iowa and Indiana gather for visits while locals like Miss Lemley Van Zante Galbry and Jamisons engage in travel for weddings and summer plans. The piece ties in graduates and school moves with several trips to Cedar Rapids Ottumwa and Columbia University.
In June Miss Flo Watson of Oskaloosa visits West Chester with friends. M E B Crayne and family visit from Oskaloosa, returning home with all but Miss Melda Crayne visiting locally for a few weeks. Local reflections praise a sunny spring and a comparatively good corn planting season on Decoration Day amid chatter of corn prices and farming plans.
Mr and Mrs Richard Bennett and daughters Ruth and Mildred visited Hedrick yesterday and last night at Miss Essa Harper s home Will Nes from Burlington stayed with his mother Mrs Bell C Real Mrs Klugh of Washington observed Memorial Day here at the HL Fishburn home Mr and Mrs M C C De Long and daughter Irene of Washington were guests of relatives here yesterday
Mr M L Olds hosts a visit from his daughter Mrs Lillian Simpson of Centerville. Mrs J A Marsh leaves for Des Moines for Des Moines College commencement where her son Maynard is a member. Rev W G Robertson and family go to Illinois for relatives. Washington honored at memorial exercises here. Rev Karl Megchelso’s family in Janesville Wisconsin welcomed a baby boy named Robert. Mrs R C McKiernan returns from Oregon where her brother Edward Ware was ill. Edward Ware travels with her and rests at the McKiernan home until health improves.
M and E Ebner and daughters Eva and Milde drove to What Cheer last Friday to bring 8 KE Wallin home. On the return trip they broke down at Delta and had to stop for assistance.
In Kalona and Crawfordsville reports June 1 to June 2 reference visits and travel. Mrs A A Warner and Mrs Elmer Bush with daughter traveled to Illinois and Iowa City while Rev Hutchins Family moved toward Corydon. Decoration day guests and Memorial afternoon gatherings are listed with several families visiting relatives in Washington Mason City and Gillespie.
In June 2 events Mr and Mrs H L Dusefiberry and Billy drove to Moringo Colorado returning Sunday. Louisa Wombacker visited Geo Ferguson home Thursday. G R Hartman and Edna Mae visited Geo Ferguson Saturday. Mr and Mrs Will Embree were Keota visitors Wednesday. So and Sew Club met with Mrs Danl Gass Thursday. Tom Knotts was a Washington visitor Thursday.
Mrs Dewey Conrad and families visited in Washington yesterday as did Mr and Mrs H Barnes and children. Six carloads of Boy Scouts from West Liberty led by Rev Lloyd Tennant stopped en route to Burlington Ft Madison and Keokuk and toured the new school building. Visitors from Washington Des Moines and local households spent yesterday afternoon in town.
In Maple Grove observers fill every seat and sill as the Iowa City Leeper murder trial draws a wide audience from the city and nearby areas. The piece notes self defense pleas likely, a physician's poor prognosis in a local case, and local scenery from Washington to New Boston along the Mississippi. Prepared by a correspondent, it also jokes about a large pumping plant job, groundhogs at the levee, and a Sunday rat incident on Homestead Farm.
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