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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1921
Page
7
Brighton dispatches recount visits from Bert Chris tie and Mrs Christie with babies Patricia and Jean to their grandfather Dr W Parks. Notes list weddings, family visits, school staff Mrs Laura Riter from Platteville Wis, and community guests at the W F M B convention.
Keota area residents frequent social visits as Nick Tinnis celebrated a birthday with neighbors at the Tinnis home. Family members noted several children with sore feet and Mrs Engle recovering after an eye injury. Cattle deliveries and local visits round out a weekend of chores and community exchanges.
Miss Louisa Wombacker visits Riverside from Washington staying with H L Swift and Mary Dautremont. Couples Quinn and Elmo Knittel wed. Peter Schneider returns from honeymoon and begins farm life. Local residents make short trips to Chariton Davenport Cedar Rapids Lone Tree and Kalona while Rev B Jacobsmeier visits relatives.
Homer Davis, third son of Mr and Mrs Evan H Davis, contracted typhoid fever in Crawfordsville on October 11. The illness follows John Davis and Mrs Metzgar slowly recovering from the fever as his relatives assist during the outbreak.
Mrs J A Moorhead returned home Saturday from Martinsburg Iowa where she visited Frank McCoy. Miss Eva Gomely taught yesterday for Miss Strothiman who was ill and unable to take her work.
Mrs J B Orris hosted the Braden club gathering with eighteen members present and two visitors Mrs Ollie Blake and Mrs 8 K Orris. After various tasks Mrs Orris with Mrs Delbert Maxwell served ple a la mode doughnut tea and coffee. Merle Smith spent the weekend at home near Ottumwa. C M Maxwell left for Richmond Mo on a business trip. Howard Crozier visited on the neighborhood Wednesday.
Miss Eula Neal of Linneus Missouri attended the Missionary Convention in Washington as a delegate and visited relatives between trains. Mr and Mrs G A Stannard traveled to Washington to see Mrs Stannard's sister in the county hospital. Mr and Mrs W G Fleig and children Morgan and Alma and Ruth Morgan toured to Salem on Sunday visiting the Whites Institute. Mr and Mrs C C Waterhouse and son Harold of Ollie visited at the Warehouse home. Miss Erma Grinnell departs this week for California to make her future home. Miss Harriett Prizer of Brighton visited Mrs Lucy Morgan. Mrs Amy Bosworth Cornwall of Denver and Miss Cora Preston arrived at the Bosworth home, Cornwall a long time Iowa native now resident of Denver at 72 driving her own car, snow touring the area.
Miss Gertrude Reed traveled to Ottumwa on business. Teachers Frances Meacham Gertrude Reed Ruth Morgan Wilma Elder Viola Crile attended a Washington Institute session last week reporting it instructive. Several local families hosted visitors and shared meals as Carroll Morgan and Richland H football clashed Ft Madison 26 to 14.
Mrs. Clara Gibson of Carthage Missouri attends the Washington convention and visits relatives in town. The Scranton farm is named as the old family property. Local visits include Mrs. B F Hart of Bureau Illinois and Walter Statler with family. Several residents traveled to Washington last weekend and reports describe winterlike weather. Brumback and Dayton upgrade their roof and paint the exterior. Sunday services were held at three churches and local residents toured Ohio by auto.
Reader recalls a near fatal episode on a birthday eight months earlier. After healing with Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, they report improved appetite and relief from stomach and intestinal pains for ten years, claiming the preparation clears catarrhal mucus and reduces inflammation. Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists promote a money back guarantee.
Cloyce Hamilton and Pilot Earl Campbell, Curtiss Iowa Aircraft staff, journeyed from Des Moines to Monmouth and Fairfield testing a three passenger Curtis Oriole for Des Moines to Iowa City passenger service for the Iowa City Notre Dame game. They battled blizzards and headwinds, landing near Mediapolis after altitude 2500 feet and receiving aid from local farmers and a generous coat from a nearby farm wife. They previously traveled Monmouth to Galva, meeting a wary farmer who allowed parkage in a plowed field as the company expands regional field network including Fort Dodge Fairfield Ottumwa Olwein and links to Chicago St Louis Kansas City and Minneapolis. Hamilton plans to return to Monmouth soon.
Twenty five delegates from the low Grand Chapter attend the supreme convention of the P. E. O. Sisterhood. Mrs. Ola B. Miller is elected supreme recording secretary and is popular with Keota P. E. O.s. Charles Meyers returns to Mason City after a weekend visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Mike Meyers.
The Consolidated Independent School District of Crawfordsville Iowa invites bids at People's Savings Bank Crawfordsville on October 15 1921 at 2 pm for 100000 six percent school building bonds dated October 1 1921 due November 1 1931 with oct 1 1926 option. Bids prior to meeting. bids announced at meeting. bids may be rejected. Bonds sold with Chicago attorneys opinion. par plus accrued interest minimum. Signed J H Jones President J P Jones Secretary.
The custom of placing candies on birthday cakes comes from Germany. A central Lebenslicht candle represents the light of life and may be blown out only by the birthday person. Lights symbolize life and its years, and a single candle is used for the elderly to avoid too many candles.
Hopkins Minnesota woman Mrs Rosss Block recounts years of hot flashes and relief after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She urges others to try the remedy and offers to publish the testimonial with confidence from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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