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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1919
Page
7
Brief notices from Washington County report local arrivals and departures including births and deaths, with short personals notes on community members. Names and places reflect the local readership, noting small events and familiar faces.
Howard Witting and family and Miss Gertie Swift visited Carl Schneider's Sunday. Frank Kephart family visited A. B. Carr's. Sam Baker family and baby visited Lewis Baker's. County treasurer Mrs H Hayley will speak after Sunday school June 1. Eva Caldwell and son Marion visit Silas Caldwell. Plans for Pleasant Hill children’s exercises on June 8. Roy Kephart and Velma visited Harry Jones. Fern Palmer of Haskins visited Will Saville's. Alfred Hillhouse, back from France, visiting Ben Miller's.
Last week brought profitable showers and rising temperatures as summer arrives. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sommers, Otto Sutter, and others shared Sunday meals and visits. Edward Widmer returned home after army discharge, and many attended a Walland high school baccalaureate service. Samuel Miller’s Chicago death had services at Eicher church.
May 27 notes Fern Palmer visits Will Saville home. Red Hillhouse of California returns from France and visits Hen Miller. Lela Reed of Washington visits Ben Miller home. Sam Baker and baby Bamsie visit Lewis Baker in Washington.
May 28 reports show Mrs. Ed Gallagher and daughters Velma and Catharine with son Verl visiting Mrs. Gallagher's sister Mrs. J R McCreedy. Roy Littrells visit with Harry Littrell. Mrs. Arnet Mathers and daughters Martha and Daryle visit Frank Van Horn. John William and Odie Stockman and friends travel from Noble to W F Welliver home. Ocie Stockman to visit. Charlie Hagen and Walter Kolson families visit Zene Edwards. Dorothy Stafford returns from Lone Tree after visiting Mary and Annie Lukufs.
Miss Hazel Booth and sister Mrs. J L Sands visited Washington Tuesday with Mrs M E Sands. Mrs Sands plans to join her husband in Dunbar Wisconsin this week. Rev Wallin and sons attended a Washington carnival. Miss Bidwell stayed overnight with cousin Mrs Albert Wehr.
In Crawfordsville May 238 Mrs S W Huston and others visited Washington yesterday. Visitors include Mr and Mrs J A Hawthorne and Miss Margaret Hawthorne from Washington. Rev Mr Hawkins of West Liberty Indiana will speak Memorial day here. Miss Bessie Young from Kansas City arrived to visit relatives. The baby son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Hughes of Washington was buried here this morning.
A Kalona column lists visitors and travel from May 26 including Miss Luella Baker in Iowa City, Jacob B. Miller to Davenport, and L. R. Fosdick in Des Moines. Families host relatives from Owassa, Muscatine, and Brooklyn with Dr. Ely arriving to take over Kalona practice. Little Flaine Snyder further recovers from tonsil surgery and returns home.
Riverside falls 5 to 4 to Solon in eleven innings after a ninth inning rally tied the game without a hit. Solon's Solon hit a homer in the eleventh as Whitehill allowed three hits and struck out seventeen but lost support behind him. Riverside meets Moline Federals in a series set for Friday through Sunday.
The Iowa branch of the League to Enforce Peace will hold a convention in the Coliseum Des Moines on June 2 at 2 30 PM open to the public. Speakers include William Howard Taft A Lawrence Lowell Captain Thomas G Chamberlin Anna Howard Shaw Stephen S Wise and Herbert M Houston. Ex Governor George W Clark is president and Dr John C Orth is state organizer.
Ainsworth plans a Decoration day program with a 1:30 p.m. assembly at Second and North Railroad for flower distribution, a 2 p.m. service at M. E. church, and a cemetery march to honor veterans. The program includes songs, an address by Dr. J. A. Kennedy, and a laying of flowers at Ainsworth Cemetery with a long roll of veterans and their units listed.
Roy Emerson will not be released on bond charged with first degree murder of his mother. Rumors of release circulated as locals favor moving the trial out of the county. Adams county is remembered for a recent crime, making Clarke county with rail facilities a likely trial site. sanity evaluation may be ordered before the trial.
Lake Mills May 28 Alex Nelson 50 was bound over to the grand jury on a reported incident involving a 14 year old girl who visited his room while he ran a pool hall. The council refused to renew his license and he posted a $1000 bond.
Ex president William Howard Taft and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska will embark on a three day speaking tour. They will visit Springfield Wisconsin on Thursday Kansas City on Friday and Omaha Nebraska on Saturday.
Senator Hitchcock holds the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He chairs hearings, guides legislation on international affairs, and coordinates with the executive on diplomacy and security matters.
Mrs F J Hannum of Concordia Massachusetts had a surgical needle in her body for more than two decades. It caused leg cramps recently and was removed by a physician.
Knoxville will soon have a new tomato canning factory. M. D. Flanders has purchased the canning machinery and equipment of Sebastian Ferdell and will shortly erect a new building.
Denver Colorado May 28. The invitation to send delegates to a conference on uniting evangelical churches of America met with a cold reception.
At the Northern Baptist Convention Dr Shanller Matthews of the University of Chicago introduced a resolution recommending refusal to send delegates to the conference. The move follows an original proposal by the Presbyterians.
Federal fish authorities will place about 500000 pike in the Des Moines River near Fraser Mississippi May 28 near Boone Iowa. The fish will be stocked with releases both above and below the Dam to support local sport fishing.
West Union May 28 James Whiteford of Volga City plants 110 acres of potatoes across Fayette and Clayton counties in what may be the largest planting in the region.
Mr. Whiteford living near Volga City has shifted from renting two farms to concentrating on potatoes. He previously raised fifteen to twenty acres annually but now rents out his farms to devote time to this crop as his main venture.
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