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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1922
Page
7
Local notes recount visits among area families including Kephart Simmering Coffman and Warnock households. Families such as Swift Caldwell and Moore are mentioned visiting relatives, with Pettit staying at Chalupa and Simmering homes.
Local notes from New Haven cover farm work and family visits. Marion Smith helps Merl Stattler with clover hay while crops beg rain, and Mrs Strum’s father improves after illness. Attendees gather for a dance near Keota and many residents visit friends in Washington and Brighton. A park cleanup by the Commercial club and rail traffic updates mark the rest of this bustling week.
JH Crooks and daughter Miss Mabel visited in Iowa City yesterday. Charles Randall and daughter Miss Mary of Colorado Springs are staying at the P. L. Huber home. S. R. Tansey returned from a visit with his brother in Hunnewell Missouri. Mrs C M Strain spent the day in Washington. R C McCleary returned from Adelta where he visited his son Charles. Albert and Rove Lanoue went to Chicago to visit their sister.
June 27 Bright on Iowa reports a weekend visit as Mr. and Mrs. C A Foster and Mr George Wanerus went to Iowa City returning Sunday Pearl Foster and Marjorie Wanerus stayed with the Ben Weldner family in Washington Gladys Vera and Edith Koch returned from Mt Pleasant Epworth League Institute A Robison reunion at A E Horton home drew fifty two relatives nine Robison siblings represented by families Agnes McClelland and Californian kin joined others from Selma and Batavia Fairfield and local towns
Reverend B W Peuit and Howard Baker family visited Ed Chalupa and Forl Kephart homes over Sunday. Eva Moothart of Des Moines and Miss Grace Batterson of Washington stayed with local families. John Putman Silas Caldwell and families visited Ed Chalupa. Eva Foss stayed with Fred Telford last week. Bryan Swift and children spent Tuesday with Will Caldwell.
Mr Norris of Riverside visits his son Lee and family. Mrs Clarence Work has been seriously ill the past week. Her mother Mrs Palmer near Dublin helps care for her. Helen Alcorn returns home after two weeks at Allerton. The Trotters and Alcorns plan Iowa City trip. Trotter and Jack Lester visit Des Moines en route to Davenport. Mrs Schellhausch brings Heith cote and Boller children home from Iowa City after tonsil removal.
Keota area notes a sequence of Sunday visits and family gatherings across Kalona Talleyrand Harper and Washington. Alvin Engle is mentioned with the Barnie Meek home, and Lucille Hotle hosts Florence Brookhart. Verlie Deal stays with Dr. H P Deal while Gilbert and Ethel Hotfe visit relatives.
Miss Mabel Thomas visits near Crawfordsville then returns via W R C convention in Iowa City. Several residents visit relatives in Ottumwa Washington Ainsworth Wayland and Olds Iowa. gatherings include Richards reunion and fruit care duties at John Fredrickson home.
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and deafness linked to catarrh. It describes an ointment for inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to restore normal conditions. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
The article describes a pantomime style Lincoln pageant blending fact with fiction to create dramatic scenes. It follows Lincoln’s rise to lawyerhood, the Armstrong friendship, a dramatic moonless defense, a Douglas debate, John Brown, Grant, war drills, and the surrender at Appomattox with a hopeful postwar vision and an assassination dramatized on stage.
Beautiful maidens led by Ceres appeared to symbolize harvest while youths carried sheaves and wheat. Grain and hay figures followed, boats on the water signified commerce, and the full cast returned for a final tableau.
Sewell Ford's wit shines in Money to Burn adapted as a Fox film. William Fox produces with William Russell, Sylvia Breamer co stars, Royland V. Lee directs. A Wall Street tale of luck and romance centers on Lucky Garrity and a surprise Long Island estate acquisition.
A large wheel-shaped fan at the top of a mine air shaft may be used to blow air into the mine or to draw it out, serving two ventilation purposes in one device.
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