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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1921
Page
7
Brighton notes report a high school arm injury from a scuffle, diphtheria cases in the Oakland district, and a new Community Oil Co. formed with local leaders. Others travel to Washington for the Flying Circus, visit relatives, move to Muscatine, or attend the fair in Oskaloosa.
County boards from Washington and Keokuk meet at the Farmers Savings Bank in Keota to map the straightening of the Skunk river across both counties. Engineers and Brighton representatives attend, aiming to divert flood overflow toward the next county and eventually the Mississippi River.
The column lists visits and gatherings from Rural Route Four. Families noted include Walter Gardner with Elwyn and Florence, Ed Simmering with Helen and Hazel, Mrs. Ed Chalupa with Eugene, and Clarence Randall with Cora May and Mrs. Tom Randall, visiting various homes such as Charlie Kephart, Dewey Coffman, Silas Caldwell, and Roy Randall.
Mrs H C Hull hosted a dinner party with out of town guests Mrs McKenzie Mrs Reister and the Robertson family from Ainsworth. Edythe Miller of Chico Springs Montana visited her mother Mrs L L Teas. A. A. McFadden arrived from Des Moines to visit Dr N J Lease. A baseball game between Columbus Junction and Wyman teams ended 3 to 2 in favor of Wyman. T W Sloan of Momnth Ill and Margaret Manners of Ocean Park Calif visited. C W McLaughlin and son Charles and Henry Bailey of Washington were here visiting. Mina McCleary returned from Keota for the weekend. Irene Holmes, teacher at Cotter, came home for the weekend.
Iowa State College outlines a fall gridiron slate featuring seven Missouri Valley games plus an early-season with Coe College. Home games include Coe, Grinnell, Kansas, Kansas State and Nebraska with trips to Missouri, Washington, Drake and Navy. Homecoming set for Nov 19 against Nebraska.
Des Moines reports show F H Thompson and the state veterinary department pushing a tuberculosis campaign with $67,000 funding for the year after Congress withheld usual appropriations. Tests rise as dairy interests resist buying cattle not tested, while counties Shelby and Winnebago seek local aid.
At a state meeting the Farmers Co operative and Educational Union voted to consolidate with the American Society of Equity, signaling estrangement from the Farm Bureau Federation. Milo Reno defeated incumbent Hougas 440 to 187 for state office. Reno opposed the Farm Bureau coalition. The Equity and Union origins are noted, with 20,000 Union members and about 15,000 Equity members in Iowa. The annual Equity convention in Waterloo on October 3 will consider the coalition proposal.
The Iowa Supreme Court reverses the verdict against E. G. Dickson and thirty neighbors in Davis county seeking damages from wartime actions. The court cites undue prejudice in the lower court process. Dickson, an old bachelor, opposed liberty bonds and Red Cross support amid wartime tensions. The Anamosa community also congratulates Frank Beels and wife on their Los Angeles wedding October 9 1907 conducted by Bishop Robert McIntyre.
John E Brown of 400 E Fourth St describes years of kidney trouble and backaches worsened by weather. He recovered after using Deans Kidney Pills, praised as a fine kidney remedy available widely.
Walter J. Miller of Caledonia surprised nine youths in a Granville melon patch as they gathered fruit. The men were forced to load melons into three autos and drove to Miller’s home where, under threat, they held a melon eating contest and surrendered claiming they had their fill for the season.
The state highway commission will complete the full 1921 program as outlined by chairman Jas W Holden and chief engineer F R White. The plan called for 150 projects to advance road building and maintenance statewide.
The report details paving gravel and drainage progress in Iowa with miles completed and projected by season end. It notes contracts let in March at about $36 000 per mile for a reinforced eight inch concrete pave road and references a 1920 cost of $43 000. The John Brown house near Springdale is to be marked as a historic site by the D A R. An addition is under way at Nashua woolen mills amid a busy wool season with large regional shipments and cooperative plans.
Elizabeth Grant was convicted of selling cigarettes to minors in Independence Iowa, the first city in the state to secure a conviction under the cigarette law. She was fined $25.
Mills County proud of high yield as the Murray brothers thrash 51.25 bushels per acre from a 12 acre field. Wheat weighed about 53 bushels at the elevator. Largest winter wheat acreage in state history sowing this fall with ideal weather for germination and growth. Hesian fly districts delaying sowing to early October or later.
Col. Guy Brewer, tying to the attorney general's office, orders fingerprinting of state penal institution inmates. The program, mandated by a new law, will create a complete criminal record on file and preserve distinguishing prisoner peculiarities to aid tracing movements and identifications.
Rev. William Christie Smith of Dedham Iowa completes half a century in ministry. He preached 7500 sermons and helped 2800 converts join the church while officiating at hundreds of weddings. Now 76 he enjoys walking a tight rope. His first sermon was at Perry with a salary of 300 dollars. He came from Coshocton Ohio to Iowa in 1856 with his parents, settled near Des Moines, and was in Simpson college's second graduating class as the paper’s first editor.
The city of Oskaloosa seeks a permit to construct a dam across the Des Moines river at Tracy to power a large central Iowa electrical plant. The project aims to supply electrical currents to central Iowa as the Keokuk dam supplies southeastern Iowa and neighboring states.
The article details water measurements from Tracy over several years used to estimate dam height to sustain power through the dry season. It notes regional electric power plans linking Illinois and Missouri to run St Louis street cars and maintain energy supply.
The census bureau notes 1,396 persons over ten in Des Moines cannot write, including 309 native whites, 800 foreign born whites, and 282 Negroes. Iowa totals 20,680 illiterate residents with under a quarter native white or native-born.
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