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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1921
Page
3
Veterans of 1898 to hold banquet with 250 expected at the teachers institute opening in the high school. Promotions include antique Washington Democrat pages and modern advertising plans while new textbooks arrive for the Advertising Club.
Masonic Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M will hold its regular monthly meeting on Friday evening October 7 at eight oclock. Regular order of business petitions to ballot upon and receive and closing with work in the Third Degree. Let's have a good attendance. 9813 Elliot Grayson W M
At a county board meeting a resolution approved the sale of 20000 dollars in bonds to support county and bridge funds. They will be issued at six percent, payable in five years with early payoff possible. Increased expenses due to higher salaries and office costs necessitate funding. Washington county has kept debt low compared with many counties statewide.
Local clubs and church groups announce meetings for October including Havre Social Club W S C sewing circle Catholic Daughters and Presbyterian rummage sale in Stewart building. Other events include a white roast at the Christian church and various lodge and missionary society gatherings with times and leaders listed.
Notice states no responsibility for debts of wife Mrs. Joey Matthews by Henry Matthews. A sale is planned Saturday Oct. at 9713 Presbyterian runmage Sale on the south side square.
J. D. Dayton of West Chester declines a $120,000 proposal tied to a Barcelona prisoner seeking funds to fight bankruptcy. The letter explains a plan to raise $360,000 in America to recover baggage and hidden checks, offering a one third share. The sender suggests a cable to Dayten for responses.
In two days the community suffered three fires. The Earl Edmondson home two miles southeast burned with about 10000 dollars in losses. The H S Busby house on West Main suffered minor damage from a hidden fire behind a wall. A shed at the S Mason property on West Third burned, lightly charring the adjacent house. origin unknown.
This evening at 7:30 the registration for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society convention of the Methodist church begins, with hosts guiding guests to their rooms. Officers and out-of-town guests arrive to prepare literature and meeting spaces for sessions tomorrow at Epworth League rooms.
City health officials report a tentative end to the diphtheria outbreak as three new cases, all from last week’s positive cultures, are isolated and treated. Most cases cluster near Centennial school in the southwest, which remains closed for the week to halt spread. Dr. C. W. Stewart urges continued vigilance.
Dr and Mrs M E Dicken returned from a pleasant motor journey to Cedar Rapids for the Eastern Iowa Veterinary convention. They stayed with Mrs Dicken’s brother Howard Wilson and visited Dr Cora Smiltzer Allen in Independence and Mrs F G Martin in Waterloo. They attended the Cattle Congress in Waterloo and ended with a visit to daughter Mrs Leonard J Hogan in Williamsburg.
A C Dewey begins construction on 15 acres one mile north of town for Highland Lake wild game and poultry preserve. The lodge bungalow garage and tee house will light the grounds with electricity and modern poultry houses will house pigeons and fowl under a competent superintendent.
Ainsworth records list visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Trotter of Cincinnati visiting Trotter relatives, Mrs. Ada Funston visiting Vieasant Plain, and Coffman family at Keota and Richland. Ainsworth high school lost its first football game 13 to 0 to Conesville. Special Baptist meetings are led by Rev. C. E. Riddington with assistance from Rev. Turpen of Bloomfield. Mrs. Reddington improves after illness.
A reflective essay noting that while opponents quickly grasp principles, society as a whole is slow to apply the same standards to everyone. The piece argues for universal adherence to core principles and warns against selective moral application.
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