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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1919
Page
7
Reports detail social updates and personal items from Wash ington County. Residents travel to Hellenap for visits while others host relatives. Local business visits, church mentions, hospital stays, and farm work mark the brief column of community happenings.
Wellman News item recounts residents traveling to Muscatine for business and insurance, appointments with doctors, and social events. It mentions Salvation Army band visits, school staffing changes, public sales, and local visitors from Davenport Iowa City Kalona and Davenport. Also notes military arrivals and homecomings from France.
D N Phillips was called to town Sabbath night by his father Jesse Phillips illness. Nellie and May Vincent of Keola visited the Pringle home. Charles Rhodebeck Sam McKee and John Cherry helped Ben Briley butcher Tuesday. It is late but when fried down and kept for use.
Mrs. Clara Engel returns home from the Lee Craig residence near West Chester. Local families visit various homes as the Ladies Aid plans a one day meeting at the community hall to finish a quilt and finalize plans for a chicken pie supper on Thursday March 27 to aid a French orphan. Supper serves 6:20pm with 35c and 20c items. sale includes fancy work and sewn goods. The crowd anticipates the event amid bumpy roads and lingering travel warnings.
Ed Stoumner travels to Kansas City Sun DE on business while Charlie Johnson visits Minnesota. Locals note more cars on Sunday traffic than any prior. The school bell was installed Saturday. Prof Pearson Miss Lilja and Miss Savage visited Washington. Donn delivered a Sunday sermon. The Luers hosted a six o clock dinner Friday. Ray Parker visited from Illinois to see friends and return a car. Several locals traveled to Washington. D K Bruimbach visited Kinross and South English. Belle Jay visited Kamer home. The community urges new residents to move here and boost the town with homes and commerce.
Miss Nina Wooley and Miss Huldah Fellmer visited in Washington on Saturday. The White sisters and their niece Mary White spent Saturday in Burlington. Mrs. Kate Wilson of Washington stayed with Mrs. W S Gardner on Saturday. Gib Bailey of Washington came on business Saturday. Today marks Mrs. Kings birthday.
Seven friends staged a Saturday night surprise for Mrs. King at the Matmers home. Mrs. Hayley spoke briefly as she presented a set of silver teaspoons and a liberty bond from Mrs. King’s mother. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jones and children Helen Willis and Betty of Washington.
Federal Judge Martin J. Wade of Iowa City decided five rate cases involving Iowa municipalities and gas and electric companies. He held that franchise fixed rates are not subject to judicial restraint, though public policy opinions favor contract enforcement and staged rate modifyability, stressing the need for public confidence in law and allowing some contract regulation for smaller towns.
Funeral services were held here Friday for Mrs. Adolph Thoman, a former Riverside resident, who died at her home in Waverly. The obituary notes her local prominence and ties to the Riverside community.
Mrs. Thoman died following an influenza illness. She leaves her husband four daughters and one son. She was well known in the countryside with many acquaintances near Washington and Ainsworth.
Ottumwa reports the state board of health ban on public church funerals remains in effect. Undertakers note that since October 25, 1918, no public funerals should occur with caskets inside a church. The ban applies to all services where the casket enters the church or residence.
A 60-year-old Fort Smith woman heads to Montana in a covered wagon drawn by mules and two horses to establish a farm. She has long operated a dray line and travels with her 14 year old granddaughter who sells bouquets of paper flowers made by the woman.
Farmington March 24 George Sprankle foreman of the National Pickle and Canning Co. at Farmington reports four carloads of pickles sent to Henry List and Sons Baltimore Md Pacific Vinegar and Pickle Co Hayward Calif Stokner s Keystone Pickle Co Philadelphia Pa and H P Fritz Nashville Tenn Pickles contracted at 1 dollar per bushel.
Donald Maule, a 98 year old Scotsman who died northeast of Mondamin, Iowa, spent 68 years on his farm and served 42 years as secretary of Raglan township school board. His life is linked to plain living after touring Europe and sailing for 15 years before settling in the United States 69 years ago.
The paper brims with activity from front to back as local ads urge immediate action and national ads capitalize on the sense of urgency. The result is a thriving advertising scene and commercial success for the publication.
A summary of a sizable estate notes a large realty owner who left behind two daughters and six sons, twenty-two grandchildren, twenty-two great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren as heirs.
Messrs Rowland and Clifford present the 1919 edition of September Morn at the Graham Theatre on Thursday night March 27. The revival is fast paced with a new cast songs dances costumes and scenery and is billed as the smartest show of its kind. The chorus is noted for beauty grace and agility and the production is aimed to outshine previous editions with renewed popularity and zest.
The Masonic grand lodge of Iowa plans a statewide survey of Masonic conditions over the next month. Special deputies will visit each lodge to report findings and consider creating permanent districts with a deputy grand master for each area.
A poetic portrait depicts an Emerson figure whose vivid presence awakens the region like sunshine on flora. Recurring references to Hawthornes Whittlers Holmeses and Lowells-Newell Dwicht Hillis hint at a circle of literary or cultural peers surrounding him.
Brig. Gen. Edward A. Kreger head of the Jude advocate general’s office in the A E F has been made to act as judge advocate general in General Crowder’s absence.
Alfred K. Hunt a Dallas lawyer woke in a St. Louis hotel room to find his wallet missing after a headache increased when he touched his coat. He reported nine hundred dollars in hundred bills ten fifty dollar bills and a $3200 cashier's check stolen and said he met a sweet young woman near the depot and visited several restaurants before reporting the loss.
The quote by Woodrow Wilson emphasizes that enthusiasm arises from discovering true objects of devotion. Enthusiasm unlocks energy and liberates abilities when one commits to worthy aims.
An advertisement touts Miller's Antiseptic Oil for rheumatism neuralgia lumbago and joint pain plus internal and external use for coughs colds diphtheria and sore throat. It claims rapid relief and deep penetration, with a demonstration on leather, and lists price 30c 60c and $1.00 at Sherman Bros.
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