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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1926
Page
7
In a Colorado frontier scene, Robert Gilson and Buck Hayden witness a stagecoach hold up. Bandits escape with the express box as victims include a young woman identified as Mrs. Deane. Robert comforts the woman during the aftermath while Mrs. Barnaby discusses securing pans, freight, and shelter as they stake a claim and plan settling in.
The narrator recalls the thrill of foraging wild fries, chasing easy gains as each bush promises a branch bent with value. Heavy digging days yield mixed emotions while Buck and the speaker labor beside a polluted stream.
The narrator recounts brutal gold mining at Cottonwood camp with Buck, detailing backbreaking work sifting fine gold in yellow mud and the distant, seductive camp life at night. He reflects on leaving the East, meeting Harry Tilden, and discovering a West that resonates with frontier dreams.
A reflective narrator chronicles youth moved from Harvard toward a secure but unstimulating inheritance. He recalls a cosmopolitan dream of the Far West, a Boston wool wealth background, and a small town summer in Cohasset with a flirtation that ends before he travels West. The piece closes with Sunday notices of visits and a Bible School ending with about 70 attendees.
Mrs Irene Oldfield visited the Carl Oldfield home while a large Lexington social drew a crowd Friday evening. Mr and Mrs C I Ferguson and Mary Catherine visited George Ferguson’s on Sunday. Walter Leet family visited Keota and Oliver Rife family visited Richard Disney’s. Geraldine Anderson of Columbus Junction visited Will Anderson’s. Farmers are plowing corn with many done once and some twice. Will Embree and George Ferguson delivered hogs Saturday.
Mrs Cathryn Sommer observed her hundredth birthday on Saturday June 19 with relatives including C C Sommer Jacob Sommer and families Margaret Elizabeth Mary Peter H Shrag pastor Mary Witting P FE Wittmer of Wayland Josephine Musser of Olds Mr and Mrs J G Witting of Noble. John C Roth and wife Dave Myers and families joined for dinner at the Wm Roth home and John Roths grandson John spent the night with his grandparents. Joseph Conrad and wife were also visitors.
Eastbound services include Golden State Limited No. 4 arriving 3 29 am and No. 30 depart 5 50 pm with freight and local passes listed. Westbound services show No. 3 Golden State Limited 2 38 am No. 11 Express 12 30 am and No. 49 passes 5 30 pm. Daily patterns vary by Sunday exceptions.
Lodges Bethlehem Commandery No. 45 K T holds regular meetings on the third Friday night each month. Secretary P J Wallace and E C Arthur Goodin are listed as contacts.
A Sunday afternoon program featured instructors Miss Edith Wenger Dorothys inner Rev Shrag and Mrs Selma Sommer with pianist Miss Nora Christner. Attendees hoped for a career school next year.
Mr and Mrs Lyman Johnson and daughters Marie and Valma joined Mrs Clever Wittmer and children for shopping and visits. Ernest Seabranch bought a new Ford Sedan from McClintie and Eicher of Wayland. The Philathea group from Wayland Mennonite church held a picnic south of Wayland. many neighbors attended the Weaver picnic in Burlington.
Funeral rites were held for Jacob K B Sigler at the Presbyterian church in Keota conducted by Rev W O Harper. Sigler was 58 and highly esteemed, with a large crowd at the service. Pallbearers were relatives Flave Hagist Walter Stoutner George Stoutner Gerald McDowell Richard Hudson Vire Haglet. Burial in Keota cemetery. Ashes of Mrs Clarissa McCrabb cremated in Rio Linda California were brought for burial. grandson Lloyd McVay of St Paul attended services. Mrs McCrabb had lived in Keota and Scotland area for years. Attendees from here to Epworth League District convention in Knoxville included Lester Smith Marjorie Ocha Dwight Mound Paul Seyndel Harriet Morris. Keota re-elected Dwight Mound 1st department president and Paul Seydel 5th department president. St Marya church held first service at Martins Hall while building is torn down. Mrs Virel Pardon and Dorothy visiting Seaberry home near West Chester.
In Oxted England on June 22, Miss Beatrice Harrison played her cello in a Surrey garden to encourage birds to sing for BBC listeners. The half hour performances occur after eleven p m and the nightingales resist jazz and marches, remaining quiet for sonatas and minuet melodies.
The excerpt notes that whaling was carried on by the Norwegians as early as a distant era and that Whale Ing reached its height around the 1840s, marking a period of active industry.
A compact directory listing shows businesses in Washington Iowa including funeral services, legal offices, real estate, auto painting, hardware, and shops. Notable entries include J. Wilson and Wilson Law, Applegate Real Estate, Dr. Frank Boller Dentist, J. Dayton Real Estate, and Rickey Barber Shop among others with street addresses and phone numbers.
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