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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1923
Page
7
Local correspondents recap social and church events in Kalona and nearby towns. Attendees include James Tester at Gibson, state Sunday school convention in Washington, and multiple families visiting Iowa City, Muscatine, and Fairfield. Noted illnesses include measles and bronchial pneumonia in Phillip Grove.
A rural records section notes A. R. Miller as caller on Route 3 Monday. Mr and Mrs Walters shopped in Washington Wednesday. Mr and Mrs W C Hotle were called to Washington Thursday by the death of Mr Hotle’s uncle, Mr Shockley. Mrs Emma Tinnes and sons Cloyce and Leroy visited Washington Thursday. The Hotles and family spent Sunday at the W H Hotle home near Brighton. David Banks and Bill Strum visited the H A Engle home Sunday. Farmers await corn planting as rain last week slowed fieldwork. Ethel Marie and Daryl Hotle visited sister Mrs Homer Mayers. Nick Tinnes and family spent Sunday at the parental Tinnes home in Tharper.
Chester West Chester May 18 A couple, Will Plummer and wife, returned from Excelsior Springs. Charlie Schulty and wife stayed at Mrs Del Skinner’s home. A lively crowd gathered, 94 counted at Emery restaurant for ice cream. James Daniela, 81, rang a cow bell to join the fun. The groom’s bride Clair, a fine girl, drew praise and an invitation to come again.
May 19 Pleasant Plain updates say Ikeah Farrier recovering from measles. Mothers banquet at Friends church hosted by Good For Something and Loyal Daughter classes. Several families report measles spread. Local visits and housekeeping activity noted. A baby girl born May 7 to Mr and Mrs Charles McMurry weighed thirteen and a half pounds. Des Moines visitor Verne Ore stays with mother Sarah Ore. Pleasant Plain Consolidated school active.
May 13 service led by Rev S S W Stine of Burlington at Olds Congregational church. May 11 Junior Senior banquet held at Olds Schoolhouse with decorated gym and class colors leaf green cream green pink. Several local families and visitors mentioned enjoying Sunday gatherings and Fern Cliff picnic in honor of Mrs J Barquist birthday and 35th wedding anniversary.
May 19 report notes a good Sunday crowd despite rain as locals visit the new Kalona road and bridge. Workmen labor on Sunday to finish on time. Decoration day services are planned May 27 at the church with Marsh W. Bailey delivering the forenoon address and graveside service to follow. Basket dinners requested. Rex Moore and Dr Minear will teach in the afternoon with several miscellaneous numbers. Mr and Mrs Carl Oldfield and family visited at the Lyle Oldfield residence.
At Crawfordsville on May 19 the community celebrated the end of term with a morning program for grades one through six, a large community picnic, and a seventh grade graduation. Diplomas were presented by Supt. Harold Ross to Alice White, Mary Eisele, Doris Fletcher, Beatrice Wilson, Clara Patterson, Pearl McClure, Myrtle Orris, Marshall Huston, Robert Holmes, Carson Packer, Forrest Davidson, Karl Lowe, Harold Lowe, Paul Stewart, and Ivan Lemon.
Alva remarks that changes have altered romantic social norms. The wealthy elder laments altered attentions once seen as declarations of love are now treated as polite gestures.
ABE MARTIN contrasts Mrs. Beasley’s $500,000 claim for her husband’s love with other suits for affection. The column jokes on value of love, likening lawsuits to price tags, noting humor in court battles, elopements, and alimony as a cheaper option.
The sixth and seventh graders presented the final Literary program of the year featuring Gerturde Bates on minutes Rob Lytle xylophone Edith Brookhart reading Mike Jackson piano solo Lucille Ross reading and a talk. The piece notes ongoing Wednesday programs and praises junior high talent plus a pep rally vignette with eighth graders and references school closing worries and city-wide decoration mischief.
Spur of the Moment notes a Friday May 25 commencement at the Cleanest School in Iowa with Dr Boice and Mrs Cavender presenting a framed Flag Etiquette, plus plans for Memorial Day parade and a gift contest offering ten million dollars for Enope. Burham signs off urging seventh graders and seniors to prepare for exams and next September at the Senior High School.
In Washington County Iowa a will dated July 20 1918 allegedly of G W Corbin deceased was filed May 24 1923 for probate. The hearing before the District Court and Clerk at 9 00 AM requires all interested parties to show cause why the instrument should not be probated. Dated Washington Iowa May 18 1923.
Boston Evening Transcript notes the aphorism about wasting time as a killer of future chances, reflecting a philosophical aside in the newspaper.
The article notes modern villages rising in bituminous coal regions, with Dun Glen Ohio highlighted. It describes affordable rents, plentiful coal, and new town amenities like schools and recreation centers. It also discusses labor tensions, citing violent actions by the United Mine Workers of America and operators’ briefs against a destructive monopoly.
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