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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1907
Page
6
The Happening in the county pages detail community events and daily activities. Correspondents report on gatherings, gatherings, and various days in the life of residents with a focus on local color and timely notes.
Wm. Billingsley departed Thursday evening for California to make his future home. After forty years in Kalona, locals wish him success. Mrs. A. Koloske of Riverside visited Jim Horak's, and Kalona’s kid team did not play due to an unsettled nine. Richmond is said to visit again. Wilber Miller of Washington visited and Kalona’s team was shut out when crossing bats with Richmond. Frank Frieze was at Richmond Sunday.
June notes report Mrs B Mathews visiting in the week. Erection of cattle barn by C K Schantz crew for Ed Eicher. Newt Crawford family visiting Memphis Mo. Joe Mast laying concrete under store. Will Noble and son sold lightning rods in Cedar Falls area. Mrs Clara Riley Edith Ida Noble returned to Washington. Graber Bros building barn for J A Frey. Rev Gruff of Pittsburg Pa preached at Mennonite church. Effie Leeper attends county institute at Washington Stella Rinner at Mt Pleasant. Joseph Alliman bought Neiswanger farm at 100 dollars per acre. John C Conrad sold farm to John Boshart at 100 dollars per acre. Mrs Harve Leeper and Mrs Wm Leeper visited Packwood.
George Roberts and Clarence Moore visited Coppock on Sunday for a local outing. They were seen enjoying the town and returning home late in the day.
June 24 report notes Saturday night rain easing drought for corn. Fred Mauthe and daughter Mil dred visited Mauthe’s sister Mrs. Wess Engle in Muscatine over Sunday. Mrs Anna Rehmel and Miss Emma Buxbaum attend normal. Harry Taylor visited Foster home in Haskins. Wess Meyers celebrate birth of a son Sunday morning. Bethel S S held the Children's day program yesterday.
June events and travels connect residents around Washington with visits to relatives in Kalona and Keokuk. Socials such as the Verdi club ice cream and strawberry social raised about eight dollars for hitching racks. A train brakeman, Geo. Myers, was treated after a head injury but returned to work. Funeral attendance honors Alpha Thompson.
Mrs Maud Bronson returned from Galesburg Illinois where she spent the millinery season The Misses Gladys and Flossie Fitzgerald and Minnie Pehler returned to their normal work at Washington Dr Karl W Cocklin recently graduated from the State University at Iowa City and will begin work July first at Foster Monroe county Stephen Ross of Indiana is the
Mrs Ada Hollingsworth returns to Washington to attend normal for several days. A runaway near Valley injures Dave McNeal Archie Miller and Liv Hollingsworth as their team hits a culvert west of town. The buggy shatters, horses return to the livery. Maggie Brownhousen sails to Rock Island then Wyoming for two to three weeks. The infant Coffman funeral set for tomorrow at 11 AM.
June gatherings include Mr and Mrs Eric Genk and Mr and Mrs Jesse August ine at the Wolfe home. Kate Lemley and family passed Dublin en route north to Wm Stephenson's. A dance hosted by Mr and Mrs Tom Carris drew many friends. Rev Coffman preached at New Haven replacing Mr Catlin who moved to Chicago. Washington visits by J H Hanna and I Robertson. Dr H E Marr and daughter Velma in Washington. Geo Frain and wife visited Geo Mangold’s Sunday.
Crawfordsville residents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crooks and daughter Mabel traveled to Washington, joined by Nellie Hull and Jeannette Wooley. Mrs. Anna Rehmel of Grace Hill also went to Washington after visiting relatives. J. B. McCoy and wife attended Miss Thompson’s funeral at Ainsworth yesterday. The Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Cotton and sons Paul and Harry left for a month long visit near New Castle Pennsylvania.
Mr and Mrs Horning and family along with Frank Prebyl and Bush visited Clarence Rathmel's home on Sunday. Rev W G Thorn preached and held communion at Pleasant Plains. Harry Welch and family visited KK Helwick. Utterback and Thompson of Ainsworth moved the Indian medicine man to Lexington for Myra Gibson Iva Winifred Durst and Mrs M Eyestone attend normal. Rev W R Stryker and wife were entertained at James Zeck's after Plains services.
Tomorrow evening the Methodist church hosts a Looking Both Ways lecture. Saturday evening a social with ice cream cake and strawberries will be held on the church lawn. Mr and Mrs I A Boyer arrive from Colfax and will visit W S Boyer for a few days.
A New York Globe account quotes a bank cashier claiming expert forgers evade arrest and that many fraudulent checks pass weekly. The piece notes financiers hush up cases to protect principals and avoid public alarm.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat describes how Indian faces painted with scarlet cheeks and a yellow forehead square signal love, black zigzags on ocher show drinking, red circles with blue foreheads hint at horse theft, and white eye rings mark a political candidate or medicine man, reflecting cultural symbolism.
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