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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
7
Community items from Brighton and surroundings report visitors, travels, and daily life. Highlights include guests from Fair field and Keentacal der, farm activity with hog houses and hog shipments, harvest progress with apples and Jonathan varieties, new cement bridge risk, a light accident to W T Anderson, a new son for Floyd Edmonson, and church notices with five accessions.
Ainsworth notes Frank Chihak and wife traveling to Chicago after the illness and death of brother in law Adam Ferguson. Mrs. Chihak arrived before his death, and Mr. Chihak left after a message about the death. Local social items mention choir directors and recent visits, plus the birth of a baby girl to Sam and wife at the county hospital.
Crawfordsville reports that the Rev. John Simpson of Pittsburgh Pa will preach at the United Presbyterian church Sunday morning in preparation for the Home Mission rally to be held in Washington that Sabbath afternoon and night. A. R. Miller of Washington was a...
Mrs Rosinu White and others visited Washington yesterday while John Anderson spent the day in Wapello. The Brightonian literary society plans a program in the high school auditorium Friday night.
Riverside residents report Mrs. C. B. Turner hosted the Social Cinch club at her west Riverside home. Mrs. E. F. Blythe won top honors at the card games and Mrs. C. V. D Autremont received the special prize with Mrs. William Griffin gaining the consolation. Mrs. R. H. Heltzman plans November's meeting.
Miss Pauline Walsh has come back to Town City after spending a week with her parents Mr and Mrs Jas Walsh.
Geneva reports Alps mountaineering season again costs lives in Switzerland. A bank clerk Goetsch vanished on a cliff for 12 hours of rescue work ending with a burial mound and ice cross. A priest led the funeral as searchers recover the body and note.
Captain Alfred Davis cites an unexplained force behind recent disasters near Santa Barbara including seven US destroyers the Texas and the Steel Seafarer. He notes the Point Arguello channel earned the grim nickname the graveyard of ships and warns sailors to stay vigilant against unseen hazards.
In Crawfordsville locals debate the timing of the old two story Masonic hall. Built before the Civil War likely in the fifties, it was moved in 1887 to its current site. Henry Crooks and Clint Fletcher plan a splendid railroad station on the corner replacing the former opera house.
A terse note captures a shopper telling merchants I saw your ad in the Journal. The line echoes local commerce chatter and ad visibility in the era’s newspaper culture.
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