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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1922
Page
8
Local items list residents visiting friends in Washington and nearby towns, including Mrs. Lee Norris, Mrs. J F Thomas, Mrs. W S Reister, and Miss Katheryne Gibson. Mentions meals at Dean's, a birth at the county hospital, Legion auxiliary plans, a visiting performer advance agent, and multiple social engagements and licenses in the Washington area.
Local shoppers from Wayland Crawfordsville West Chester and Keota visited Washington on Saturday. Milk tea cream and a fine line of chocolates advertised at Dean's while 40¢ dinners with two desserts drew crowds. Notables include Mrs. Sam Perch Mrs. W H Brinning Lewis Hering Carl Voorhees Myrtle Ros and others. Attendees also included families visiting relatives and keeping up with regional shops and errands.
Live Bo Goffman and children Marion and Cedric of Ainsworth were in Washington Saturday. KE Wy Pletcher and little of Frauds returned home this morning from Sfp to Muscatine.
Delegates begin registering for the forty-ninth annual Home and Foreign Missionary Society of Iowa City presbytery at the Presbyterian church. The three day event starts with a young peoples banquet at 6 30 followed by a program. Speakers include Mrs F B Pettit and Miss Mary Barry and a playlet An Unexpected Caller. About fifty delegates expected.
May 1 at the tabernacle in Wellman featured Dr. J. R. Hanley delivering sermons on The Spirit of Adoption and Eternity The large morning service stressed family unity and divine gifts The afternoon drew a record men’s meeting and the choir under Mr Fisher performed Mrs Hanley and Mr Fisher sang in the evening crowd filled the tabernacle The article notes Mrs Hanley attended all day and sang in the evening
Various residents and visitors mingle in Washington shopping on Saturday. Dean's offers home made angel food cake and ice cream for 20 cents and bulk ice cream at 40 cents a quart. Names include Smylie O'Conner Brinton Koehler and many others from Ainsworth Crawfordsville Brighton Wellman Wayland. Mrs Conger Jenkins visit and cycles owned by McClosky and Dewey noted.
A longtime customer notes fifty years of patronage at the Washington National. A younger businessman recalls starting his relationship with the bank at age fourteen, illustrating enduring ties and early banking experiences.
Mrs. Quince Pearson of Ainsworth visited on Saturday while Washington residents enjoyed a pleasant weekend with good roads and busy autos. Mr. and Mrs. Will Brenan of Merrimack shopped in Washington on Saturday and called on Charlie Thompson. The Keeley family returned from Muscatine on Saturday evening. Walter Little and wife welcome two new twin girls at the county hospital weighing six pounds six and a quarter ounces.
Universal selects a globe trotting adventure with Herbert Rawlinson and Hobart Henley at the Fox Theater on Wednesday. The film features Marjorie Daw Doris Pawn Warner Baxter Winter Hall and Boris Karloff with Tangiers Paris and Morocco among authentic settings. Hanley directs from Wallace Clifton adaptation of a Payson book.
Des Moines May 1 A farmer Benjamin Fegley northeast of the city found two horses a cow and 378 chickens dead in a barn The livestock perished from gas fumes emitted by the exhaust of Fegley s car which he negligently left running all night The loss totals about 1000 dollars
In early Manhattan churches heat was scarce and parishioners wore heavy mittens and mufflers. Dominies preached with fur cups over their ears while both men and women carried muffs. family heads sometimes smoked a pipe during services.
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