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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
7
Wellman March 11 Correspondents report a busy period with visits from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Wedding anniversaries, moves, store openings, revival meetings, and school programs fill the town as residents travel, host relatives, and prepare for spring.
Mrs Melnico reports clover seed at 36 dollars per bushel for spring use. Mr and Mrs Frank Hicks with their daughter toured Iowa City visiting friends Mr and Mrs Harry Whet attended the fishersmen's convention in Des Moines.
In Riverside on March 11 46 ballots were cast for school board directors R H Heitzman two year term and W G McCreedy three year term. A wedding surprise to Miss Berniece Craig and Mr R F Kelly was celebrated in Iowa City with plans to live in Pendleton Oregon.
Edgar Porter and family visited the Dittmer home east of Chester. Funeral attendees included Ben Briley and John Cherry for Frank Bishop at Woodford chapel. Reports mention community members sick, improving, or busy with school and family updates.
Mrs D A Sprague attended Ezra Houseal funeral in Washington on Thursday and the New World Movement conference in the Second U P church in the afternoon. Miss Estella Dickson returned to her Wapello home. Grace Hesseltine taught in her room in the afternoon. Miss Marie Jacoby visited Washington for the weekend with Mrs Ella Proudfit.
The remains of Mrs Ida Jones wife of Dr G M Jones were brought from Des Moines to her sister Mrs Ella Faris home in Brighton. Funeral services were held at the Faris residence and burial followed at Green Mound cemetery near Merrimac. The Jennes family were noted in attendance.
Well known Wayland physician Dr. Jones recently moved to Des Moines with his wife who has suffered failing health the past year due to Brights disease. Norton family from Darlington Wis visit Win Norton. A club house lecture event featured the Southern Musicale Co as a substitute act. Lola Bmry and Ray Brinton travel to Des Moines to visit relatives. Cook moves to Parke cottage while the Brier family plans to relocate to the Ralph Tracy house.
Mrs. Edwin T. Meredith wife of the new secretary of agriculture shifts cabinet reception from Wednesday to Thursday causing a Washington society stir. The change echoes past White House adjustments as society eyes Mrs Meredith's debut at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue as a rising hostess.
Petra Alvin Housel was born April 18 1856 near Farmington Ohio and died March 6 1920 after a life on a farm in Washington County Iowa. He left three sisters Mrs Laura A Green Mrs Olive C Perry and Mrs Alice A Andrews and two brothers J V Housel and Rev L O Honsel D D, with his parents Rev A Housel and Margaret predeceased him.
Iowa entries highlight The Green Tree Hotel at Le Claire and The Great Tree on Boston Common as nominees for the Hall of Fame for Trees. The Green Tree Hotel is linked to river lore and a Le Claire birthplace, while the Boston Common landmark traces to colonial times and the 1918 storm that felled it.
A census of Iowa State College’s four thousand students shows 42 distinct sects represented. The list spans Hinduism Judaism Catholicism and many others including Armenian Gregorian and Mormonism while 66 percent of the student body is affiliated with leading denominations.
The report shows 64 percent of men students are church members with 23 percent not members but preferring a church and 13 percent with no preference. Women students are 73 percent church members, 18 percent not members but with a preference, and 9 percent with neither. Denominational totals list Methodists 986 and others down to Episcopal 60.
Missionary William E. Vanderbilt's visit to Santa Cruz Mexico uses a World Map as a teaching tool. Indigenous children and elders study the map and ask questions about distant lands while Vanderbilt notes alarmingly high illiteracy among local Indians and urges church action.
Mrs Eva E Sway of Garnett Kansas credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a severe postnatal nervous breakdown after a difficult birth. She followed the regimen for five bottles and later had two more healthy children with no further issues and recommends the medicine to others.
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