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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1918
Page
7
Doings in neighborhoods are summarized in community notes from Washington County. The Coming and Going highlights what is happening in various local communities through short news letters.
Mrs. Lloyd Shaw visited Winfield last week. Jim Zeck and Anita Hora visited relatives. Kallaus drove to Chicago with hogs. Henry Moody of Mill Grove works for Ernest Carlson. Anita Hora visited Mrs. Vincent Marek. lb Freise moved to the Freshwaters farm last week.
Lester Neff sawed wood for Roy Davison. Gleede Cold paints D C Davison’s Overland. Ben Davison and family at Arnie Shively home. Bible meeting attended at Hiram Weaver home. Florence Lute returned to Wayland after visiting sister Mrs Chas Davison. Emerson Nichols very sick with grippe. Myron Merchant arrived from Washington on the Q for a brief business visit and measles. Mrs Edwin Leeper and daughter Wilma visiting Fred Cold home. J L Davison and family moved into L C McKenzie property. Chas Stone has measles. Manuel McKeone hosted a rock party. Davison passenger for Fairfield Friday. Elmer Reichley visited Ben Davison Friday evening.
Dublin area residents recount visits and family interactions. Mrs Jacob Mayer entertains sister Mrs Sarah Wolfe from Shannon City Iowa and niece Mrs Della Van Dine from Des Moines. Neighbors bid farewell as Will Stiles moves to Fairfield, while Art Conrad relocates to the Peterson farm. Incubators at Mrs Augustine’s and egg sales highlight farm life amid improving roads.
Brighton notes a return from New Sharon for Mrs Reba Meenech Koons and baby, clergy movements including Rev Vernon Pike aiding an endowment drive in Alliance Ohio and Rev Tuttle filling in Brighton, Capt R A McGuire's safe return from abroad, a resignation by Rev F C Barrow, a new daughter for Mr and Mrs George Anderson, visits by Miss Mary Wycoff and Mrs Lee Morris, Carleton Jones heading to South Carolina naval training, and Neal Whistler new clerk at Tracy’s grocery with visits from Fairfield residents and William Garrett of Fairfield.
Crawfordsville March 8 Miss Jessie Long of Washington is visiting relatives Mrs F P Haytey and others. A list of visitors from Washington yesterday includes Mrs PF Youns Mrs W G Robertson RC McCleery and more. Mr and Mrs Lewis Herring welcomed a daughter born yesterday. The Presbyterian missionary society met with Mrs N J Lease yesterday afternoon and served refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Caleb Lemley visited Derwood Lewash on Monday. Marvin Andrews returned from a weeks visit in Oklahoma with uncle Milt Andrews. Mona Lemley stayed with sister Mrs Tom Carris. McFarlane Co of Titus unloaded a coal car Tuesday. Davis family moved to former Brush farm last Friday. Will Dea couple moved into the area last week occupying Clarence Rathmel’s former farm now owned by Mike Hollinger.
Maple Grove report notes J B Crail, a veteran Washington businessman, failed prophecy on peace by harvest of golden grain. It lists past war end dates, discusses road conditions, coal deliveries, and reflects on conservation in bartering hogs, seed corn demand, and upcoming Farmers Union sale with farm stock and machinery.
An Iowa exchange mocks reports that a Cole eighth passenger car carrying five hundred bottles of whiskey was seized at Muscatine and the booze destroyed. The paper complains the tale smeared Washington and notes the culprits did not deliver the whiskey. Local items mention Mintier family illness and a move to Washington by Pauly Brown and associates.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine claiming a one hundred dollar reward for cured catarrh that the medicine cannot treat. It asserts thirty five years of use, explains blood cleansing action on mucous surfaces, and promises visible health improvements after short use. Sample testimonials offered with free information from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A fragment from the Columbus Safeguard and Keota Eagle mentions a car loaded with liquor and a sheriff denying it headed toward Washington. It notes high school taxes in Brich ton and the Keota area with estimated funds for general and schoolhouse purposes and remarks on local sellers Bevo and Milo.
Father E Rickey and his son Ellis nurture a ewe that recently gave birth to four lambs. Though twins and triplets are common, quarters rare for sheep. The lively brood prompts efforts to raise them to maturity, with Ellis capturing mother and four lambs in photographs.
The Wellman Advance notes H G Moore attended the funeral of Bernard Murphy in Vinton last Sunday. It mentions long standing friendship between Mesers M and M as pastor and chancellors of Krishna of Mythias in Iowa and refers to a captured German trench postcard revealing military intelligence.
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