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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
5
May 26 report from Trington Town notes fine weather and active field work. Families visit and host others, teachers return home, and locals attend a Crawfordsville play and a Thursday night party. Several residents stay busy with farm tasks and tractor activity per the local diary.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Lawrence White on Friday May 2. Mrs George Anderson and her two children left Monday for Valpariso Indiana to visit her mother before continuing to Stafford Kansas. Mr and Mrs George Heyde traveled to Fairfield after Mr Heydes brother Will Heyde died suddenly of heart failure Sunday morning.
Miss Clara Knerr and Tom Hoover wed quietly at eight o clock Tuesday night at the home of her brother Alvin Knerr with Rev Reiber officiating Mrs Hoover is daughter of Mrs Susan Knerr who has lived in Brighton five or six years Dallas City Illinois visitors with relatives A large crowd attended the Presbyterian church evangelistic service with Rev G W Hanna delivering a sermon on Lot and his warning to his sons in law The message stressed urgency against moral danger and the folly of treating serious matters as jokes Marie Jacoby heads to Washington for the summer Read The Evening Journal.
May 26 itemization lists Floyd Jones and family visits at Glen Dunbar home near Richwoods and other locals such as Mr and Mrs Harry Morse Mise Alta Moree Esther Savage returning from Monroe to teach, and various families visiting neighbors. Wm Heyde funeral noted in Fairfield attendance.
Crawfordsville reports W G Robertson and daughter Margaret left for New Wilmington Pennsylvania to visit his mother and relatives for two weeks. A son was born Sabbath to Mr and Mrs Roy Ficke, completing the family of two boys.
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