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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
8
Ten years ago today Pollock Wallace and Hal Reister plan to leave for San Francisco on June 5 to attend Shrine con clave. The new True Story goes on sale at our store for 15 cents, McKesson's Milk of Magnesia pint bottle 39 cents, hog top price $3.60. Weather partly cloudy with showers tonight.
Local brief items list visitors from Iowa City Monmouth College and Norfolk Nebraska. Milk price cut announced for customers. Memorial day visits by Chicago residents. Caucus set for 7 30 pm at city hall. Local families entertain and travel between Washington and nearby towns through the week. - Numerous residents in town for visits work and school remain noted.
Relatives rush to Cedar Falls as Joan Kyle, recovering from an appendectomy, shows heart complications. Sisters Carrie and Jeannette Kyle and brother J M Kyle depart. Jeannette had visited until Monday and Jeannette seemed to improve.
Classified note lists rooms for rent at 399 red with option for furnished or unfurnished. No further details provided.
Columbus Junction reports Henry Boyd, Civil War veteran and retired farmer, appointed by J C Towne to the Grand Army of the Republic national commander's staff with a badge. Boyd served in 1564 as Company B, 45th Illinois Infantry and is among the last local Civil War veterans. Memorial services were attended locally.
Death of a Conesville native in Chicago is reported with details of surviving relatives. The column lists numerous visits, club events, church activities, and community notes from Conesville, Columbus Junction, and surrounding towns, including area families, upcoming games, and local infrastructure plans.
A Nashville Banner note explains Noah would recognize many jokes from humorists if he listened to the radio, implying familiar comedy lines and a sense of surprise at common gags.
The Rochester Times Union suggests another debunker argues George Washington did not throw a dollar across the Rappahannock and attributes the misstatement to an easy spelling error by a historian.
Local residents report on Memorial Day visits to Huston Missouri. A death is attributed to a corn pop causing a mule to freeze, per Mr. Scott. Ed Thomas of Brighton visits Washington. Miss Ray Fread stays with Mrs. J A Kolesick in Ainsworth. A baby girl born May 25 to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fread. Extensive social and business notes from Keota Cop poc West Chester Hedrick Norway Crawfordsville and Wayland covering visits, weddings, and upcoming nuptials.
Rosella Hotle is recovering at University hospital in Iowa City with gradual improvement. Pratt family visitors and twins Bernice and Betty are staying at his home for the week. Shoppers include Mrs. Kenneth Cherryholmes of Crawfordsville visiting locally. Various residents travel, plan year east with Syracuse as headquarters, and a new grandson James McLaughlin Bogle is born in Long Beach California weighing nine pounds.
Mrs Nellie Sigler planned to leave the Washington county hospital this afternoon for her Keota home after an operation about two weeks earlier.
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