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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1922
Page
8
Local news items list visits and social calls across Washington Haskins Harper Muscatine Letts Fairfield Brighton Columbus City Davenport and Cedar Rapids. People visit relatives attend Memorial Day events teach summer school and shop in nearby towns while piano deliveries and moving between homes are noted.
The day features a string of visits and travel reports. Albert Kuhn and family plan a day in Keota with friends while W J McDonald from Towa City was in Washington on business yesterday. George Pixley and family, B M Burnett and relatives travel to Richland and Fairfield. Memorial Day visits include Atchison residents from Keota and others touring Ainsworth and Ottumwa areas with various family stops.
Notices list residents visiting for Memorial Day including Dr W W Bowers attending a Rotary convention in Los Angeles via Lincoln Neb Frank Haney and family traveling to Davenport Mrs C A Schwartz and Amos Weaver visiting Keota Mrs T C Kyle visiting her father C C Arnold and sister Etta Arnold Mrs BK Bell visiting Cameron Mo Miss Helen Cleselsky and Rose Cleselsky visiting East Pleasant Plain Mrs Harry Dusenberry and son John William returning to Oskaloosa Ora Orris visiting from Fairfield Meas M L Orvis and sisters from Ainsworth arriving for a happy family gathering
Wisconsin asks the U S Supreme Court to halt the Chicago drainage canal’s diversion of Lake Michigan water claiming Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District obstruct navigable waterways harming Wisconsin harbors and lake levels The Wisconsin attorney general argues the canal and hydroelectric plant at Lockport IL reduce Chicago river navigation and shift coastal costs to Wisconsin while a potential order would compel Illinois and Chicago sanitary district officials to show cause.
Mrs Newrich recalls a country outing where her husband shot a bull and faced payment demand from a local farmer. The scene captures a lighthearted but sharp incident amid rural life.
President Harding expresses gratitude for the national unemployment conference and relief services in a letter to Secretary Hoover. He notes the country has passed through the winter of greatest unemployment thanks to federal state and municipal coordination and the revival of employment through public works.
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