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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1919
Page
5
A roundup of notices from Washington County includes personnel changes, births, deaths, and personal events. Names of residents and local institutions appear in short items reflecting community life and milestones.
John Sieren moves his family to Sigourney on Thursday. Miss Freda Vanerus hosts the Queen Esthers. Miss Margaret O Conner and Gilbert Mumpher wed in Davenport with Miss Mary O Conner present. O Conner daughter is Fairfield stenographer at Turney Wagon Works. Mumpher to work in Davenport barber trade. Co C Thomas moves into new cottage. Royal Reedy travels to Burlington with the McNeeses to order furniture for the Commercial hotel. Chas Hoover resigns as State bank cashier. H F Tracy elected as cashier at Savings Bank. W Berry promoted to Savings Bank cashier. assistant cashier position vacant. L B White family return from Chicago wedding trip. Roy Decker leaves Saturday for Quantico to report for two years war service. will visit St Louis en route. The Jolly Ten host a six oclock dinner for new bride Mrs L E White. Born March 4 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Ira Messer.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church hosted a March 5 dinner in the church parlors for returning soldiers. About 250 dinners were served with potatoes coffee butter and other items provided. A program followed including readings and remarks by local residents and Chaplain Austin Lord.
The text notes D. H. and wife leaving for Mc Laughlin Washington to begin a new home, the dissolution of Presley and McConnell's drag line partnership with McConnell keeping the dray line and Pressley the ice business, and Pressley ordering five cars of ice from Clear Lake for the upcoming season. Mrs W H Ross and children left after visiting the parental home of Mr and Mrs W T Trotter.
Mrs W G Robertson and Mrs 2 S Dix with Robert Shaffer visited in Washington. J C Huston returned from Missouri. Mrs J F Buxbaum spent the day in Burlington. Ollie Blake and family attended a funeral in Mediapolis. Round of visitors included Robert Mitchell and Miss Leota Adams. Circle A Ladies Aid staged a musical with Miranda's Minstrels and Mrs Black's Pink Tea. Elwyn Davidson and others chosen for Davenport conference.
Haskins notes report Mrs Cherwinker welcomed her new grandson last Sunday with mother and child doing well. Rev Wallin traveled to West Liberty for Home Missionary committee meetings and a visit, returning Wednesday. Mrs Shroefer moved two cars of goods to What Cheer for a new home. son Fred stays to occupy the former Shroeder property. Cecil Cole begins high school at Washington living with grandmother during the week due to bad roads. L A S met with Miss Olive Beardsley Thursday. Mr and Mrs Chas Mullen and others transacted business in Washington. Lola Welliver visited Mary Hopengardner in Washington Thursday and Friday. Leona Bidwell, new primary teacher, spent time with her cousin Mrs Albert Wehr in the country.
An advertisement urges seniors not to fear aging and promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to cleanse the kidneys and drive toxins from the system. It claims benefits to spirits, muscles, and mind, and guarantees satisfaction with a money-back offer, sold in sealed packages by druggists.
Funeral services for Mrs. Will Helscher were held at her Keota home with Rev. T. F. Barker presiding. Burial followed in Keota cemetery. She died Wednesday after pneumonia, aged 32, leaving husband W. S. Helscher, her parents A. A. and Mrs. Hulse, three brothers, one sister, and an extended family.
Keota case ends with Jesse Junkins pleading guilty to second degree murder. Judge Seneca Cornell shelves mitigating factors and sentences Junkins to fifteen years at Ft. Madison. He was escorted to prison after sentencing for killing Fred Cummings of Keota during a gambling dispute in Bloomfield.
The world's largest pedestal clock rises in the center of a new 10 million dollar wholesale terminal in Los Angeles. Standing 35 feet high, it lights at sundown and goes off at daylight and winds and sets itself for automatic operation.
Major Guy S. Brewer commander of the Third Battalion One Hundred Sixty eighth Regiment is cited for heroism in action. Washington boys served with Company K as his unit took a machine gun nest at the Ourcq river and defended positions after heavy fighting. Brewer was wounded at St Mihiel with machine gun fire and gas mask hits.
The citation praises Major Brewer for extraordinary heroism near St Mihiel France on September 12 1918. He personally led the assaulting wave despite being wounded by a shell fragment and a machine gun bullet his right arm shattered he remained on the field over an hour directing his forces and guiding the next commander.
Fairfield considers taking over Chautauqua park as a state park under a two year old act. The act sets aside 50000 from the fish and game fund yearly for forest and park areas, with Devil's Back Bone already established in Delaware county. A delegate will go to Ames March 7 and 8 to Iowa Conservation Association meetings to gauge chances, with Dr. Frank Fourt chosen to represent the association.
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