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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1925
Page
5
Local items recount visits from Reynolds Alabama and Fairfield. church events. a funeral at Grace Hill and Antioch North Carolina graduation for Miss Emmeline Hanna. farm outlook notes on frost damage and corn planting. reflections on Mothers and Fathers Day. calls for Iowa farming prosperity and land value discussed amidst community life.
A West Chester note reports Rev. Gray visiting Carl Fisher at his Washington home. The writer recalls Fisher’s Muscatine ties and questions a local correspondent while praising Gray and hinting at a supportive wife. No violence described.
Mr. and Mrs. John McCall visited Sunday April 26 at the Chas Kephart and Ed Simmering home. Mrs. Susie Hopping and daughter Mary spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Waller Gartner home. Ed Simmering and family and Chea Kephart visited the Dewey Coffman home. Carl Nicholson and baby and Tom Nicholson and three daughters visited the Walter Gardner home. Will Miller and daughter Wanita and other relatives visited Sunday after Sunday school at the Harry Jones home.
In Steamboat Springs Missouri on May 5 Pearl Alderich, 23, shot and killed her husband Is Alderich, 27, after he refused to come home to dinner. She surrendered to officers and is held in the county jail as the investigation continues.
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