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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1929
Page
3
The Journal’s Saturday feature recaps state events from Des Moines university controversies to a merger of Optimist International and Canopus International. It notes 300 club members and 20,000 total, high school events at Ames, a Marshfield bank application, and road contract awards.
Review of events in Washington 20 years ago notes sermons by Rev. John Simpson, hospital open houses, weather, garden and school news, births and weddings, local performances, and staff changes. It highlights community activities from May 12, 1909, including operas, theatre features, athletic contests, and civic organization meetings with multiple local names and places.
Four passengers were killed, one died from injuries, and others hospitalized after a bus truck collision near Mon, Michigan. The incident prompted a state and national response as investigators assess causes and safety factors.
April notes recount a death sentence for VEO Seahave at county prison and many community updates. Families visit Philadelphia, church attendance, dinners, and neighbors share twins named Milford Arlen and Margar et Arlen. Local progress games, a three act comedy “The Time His Life,” and school events wrap the period with Junior close play and upcoming holidays.
A travelogue describes leaving Washington Niver 1 for Fairfield, Iowa, crossing the Skunk River into Brighton. It notes newly paved six week old streets, a service station, and a district booming with shops. The piece lists meat markets, grocery and department stores, hardware and jewelry shops, a theatre, bank, and other businesses shaping Brighton’s commerce.
Brighton hosts diverse industries from a lumber company to a cannery and produce firm. The Brighton creamery serves four hundred patrons while the canning plant operates year round, shipping carloads of tomatoes vegetables and catsup. Public services include three churches, a post office led by postmaster W W Jamison, and schools overseen by superintendent C J Christiansen with high school principal Landes.
In a fragmentary 19th century chronicle, Brighton emerges as a key early settlement with mills powered by water, a first store under John Harter, and Pickerell’s mill serving settlers across the county. It notes county-seat competition, the central Young America schoolhouse, and future railroad routes shaping Brighton’s growth led by mayor A J Dobn fom.
The Louisa county ministerial association will meet at Mornt Sun Monday to discuss Divorce and Marriage led by Rev. Andrew Howie and Rev H G Patterson with Rev J W Zerbe presiding. Evening events include junior senior banquet at Jonesville High School and a charity circle meeting with Mrs Alex Fr. A school program and box supper occurred at Pitclin school led by Miss Fran. Funeral services for Mrs G H Stingley 63, mourned in Davenport, will be at Colum hy Methodist church Thursday at 2. Burial at Beaven tery follows. William Holt of Columbus Jimerson, injured Tuesday while working with a con
A noisy program highlights behind the scenes at the Colon Gowdy Bix City shows featuring Milton Sills, Norman Kerry, and Norma Kerry. The lineup includes songs and dances by Kallma’s Hawaiian dancers, Dorothy Mack, Betty Thompson, Pauline Starke, and Marian Nixon. A new woven wire fence goes up at a Muscatine grade school. The week’s film bill includes Man Woman and Wife, The Younger Generation, Mother Machree, and other features with vaudeville on the screen.
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