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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1923
Page
6
Local items note a dance tonight at Lyons with sporadic notes about shops and errands. Mrs I B Rabenold and Carrie Haney travel to nearby towns while Letha Wasson recovers from recent surgery. Ad sections promote Parisian Sage and local services as readers plan social activity and errands.
The column lists residents and guests: Mrs. Rachel Adkins turns 100 on Nov 11. L. F. Henderson visits Washington. Nora Thompson visits J. A. Porter home. Dale Holland returns from Chicago. Mrs. J. O. Beatty, Mrs. Lee Ebner and baby visit Don Beatty. families travel to Excelsior Springs. Milton Weherle performs cornet in Washington Central Park. Miss Murry McCreedy visits from Monmouth. Mrs. Fred Kolkman and J. C. Bankee travel. Ruth's graduation noted. strawberries and raspberries offered for sale. Tom Brookhart reports on law suits. film “The Little Church Around the Corner” shown. Mrs. Jay Boyer and husband Dr. Ray Boyer visiting relatives. Kalona Hershbergers return from Kansas. wheat damage noted. local car wash ad by Mangoli Garage.
Ward Johnson traveled to Des Moines this morning. Elizabeth Sherbeck underwent tonsil and adenoid surgery yesterday and is recovering well. Ed Myal underwent appendicitis surgery and is recuperating. Town folks travel to Ames for a State Bankers Convention. Pat Tobin and son Louis oversee 170 acres of corn. A new taxi service to Mt. Pleasant operates daily at 1 15. Mrs. Harry Rabenold and grandmother Mrs. Adams pass through Keota. Corsican strawberries attract attention at the Journal office, with one berry measuring 5 1 2 inches. Local fines for profanity prompt caution among Burlington and Washington women. Nellie Keister visits Des Moines relatives with her sister Evelyn.
Mr and Mrs Leo Hoover were passengers for Brighton this morning visiting there. Miss Katheryn Gibson left for Trenton Missouri to spend two to three weeks home. Florence Hall and Dora Black went to Des Moines for a Sunday school convention. Miss Ethel Walker and Mrs Ida Perkins left Des Moines after visiting sister Mrs J A Wehr. D C Birney visits sister in Kansas married to Ike Custer. Grace Hill church hosts home made ice cream and cake plus a few spring and children's clothing items for sale. Dr Dantel Yates of Philadelphia is summering with Drs P L Etter after Osteopathy studies in Kirksville Missouri.
The forenoon service from the McCreedy residence in north Washington honored John H. McCreedy. Rev. J Reade McCrory conducted the rites with pallbearers Chas McCreedy, Wm McCreedy, Alex McCreedy, Case Steel, Charles Eckles, and Robert Eckles. burial followed at Elm Grove.
The McCreedy family expresses gratitude for sympathy and flowers shown during illness and the funeral of husband and father John H. McCreedy. Signed by Mrs. J. H. McCreedy and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McCreedy and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller.
The text notes Trolland second to Belgium for settlement density, Great Britain third with S88 per square mile, Australia as the least populated with under two persons per square mile and 5,424,000 inhabitants coastal, Canada at 242 per square mile.
In remote parts of Faghned, cottages with sloping walls remain visible. They were built slightly crooked due to a superstition that a house exactly square would surely collapse.
A saleslady extols a soap as lasting and recommends it to a customer. She claims to have owned a piece for three years and asserts the product’s longevity.
Fred Cannon, a farmer north of town, has harvested about 90 acres of corn and plans to cultivate most of it himself with his two row plow. His daughter assisted with a tractor plowing recently.
Samuel Conrad and his brother Isaac traveled from Graham's Store at 331 Green to Washington to visit their cousin Joseph Roth in the hospital with tetanus. The note clarifies he is the son of Johnny Roth who lived near the Jacob Schaad farm at the time of his death. Joe Roth has resided on Crooked Creek bottom near the old Norris Dean forty.
Miss Edith Peterson arrived from Ainsworth with her young niece Catherine to spend a day with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peterson, the local florists.
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