Local and Personal Notes Roundup in Washington
A long list of brief notices from Washington details visits and travels by residents and visitors. People like G. W. Hobson Mrs. Asa Jeffrey and many others travel to Davenport Des Moines Brighton and Chicago for shopping visits business and family gatherings. Local shops advertise music and appliances while others seek loans and housing options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Miksch
Chicago
Miksch
Attie King
Washington
Poverty Ball Planned by The Bagies
The Bagies announce a Hallowe'en poverty ball to be held Wednesday evening October 30. Invitation holders may bring a friend and no gladrags will be worn on the floor before 10 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Eagles
Oyster Supper Benefit at Lexington Hall
An oyster supper will be held at Lexington hall on Saturday night November 2 to benefit the Lexington church. Everyone is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Center School
Haskins
Bessie Busby
Lexington Hall
Lexington Church
Sues Bank for Graft Money in Iowa Suit
James E. McGrath filed suit in Council Bluffs against a local bank alleging involvement with the Mabray gang. He seeks the return of a $10,000 draft plus interest, claiming the bank acted in the gang's interests and took part in graft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
James E. McGrath
Mabray
Social and church events highlight Washington gatherings
Miss Minnie Wolfe hosted about thirty guests at her west Washington home for a pleasant social evening followed by luncheon. Invitations were issued for a Hallowe en party at 200 East Washington Street, and a dancing party at Eagle hall with music by James Cunningham and Levi Pattison. The Second United Presbyterian Church Christian Endeavor society planned a Hallowe en social in the church basement. Cedar Falls College Eye notes a luncheon at Nelle Lucas home honoring Edith Riland with Kindergarten girls Ella Van Delien Carol Forgey Clara Belle Walker. First Baptist choir hosted a pre nuptial party for Ruth Brindley and Ray Lemley at Mrs Will Sickles home with a decorated table and luncheon. The couple will wed on Wednesday October 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Wolfe
West
Washington
Eagle Hall
James Cunningham
Levi Pattison
Carol Forgey
College Eye
State Teachers’ College At
Cedar Falls
Nelle Lucas
Ella van Delien
Clarabelle Walker
Edith Riland
Jefferson Building
First Baptist Church
Will Sickles
Ruth Brindley
Ray Lemley
D. I. Coon
Community Group Gatherings Planned This Week
Announcements list various Wednesday events: poverty ball for Invitation holders at 21813, Mrs Same McCleery hosting Navajo club at 21812, corn busking at Norman Pratt’s, St James Sewing Circle at Mrs J C Swift’s, 11 cent social by D of HM with refreshments, Hallowe en party by chapter 98 at Masonic hall Oct 30. Also W U will meet at 2 30 p.m. Oct 31 with guest Rev Chas Proudfit. Second United Presbyterian Christian Endeavor hosts a Hallowe en social in church basement inviting members and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James
J. C. Swift
Chapter
Masonic Hall
Martha Maxwell
James
J. M Taylor
Chas. T. Proudfit
Des Moines
Anniversary of a fearful storm on Brazos Island
Forty nine years ago today the Nineteenth Iowa and Seventh Maine with a six gun battery rode a Gulf crossing from New Orleans to Brownsville. A two day storm battered General Banks, pumps failed, mules were thrown overboard to lighten the ship, and the regiment became the first to land on Brazos Island escaping a watery grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herron
Iowa
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Brownsville
Texas
Gulf
Maine
Brazos Island
Views and Vagabonds quote from Macaulay on life
A compact literary fragment cites R. Macaulay’s line noting life as a mix of tragedy and humor. It contrasts solemn gravity with pathetically varied experiences and widespread dreaming and laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Macaulay
The Forest on the Hill by Eden Phillpotts
A quotation contrasts cleverness and ignorance highlighting that the clever obtain what they seek while the foolish long for the unattainable moon. The line explores executive wit versus perpetual desire within a reflective literary frame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eden Phillpotts
Fat-Making Foods and Fat in Diets
Dr. T. J. Allen outlines fat making foods for consumptives and the nervous, noting cod liver oil and fats from butter bacon lard and pork. He favors vegetable oils olive peanut and cottonseed for purity and easier assimilation, advises two tablespoons daily away from protein, and compares human diet to nut and fruit eating primates with nuts comprising about 30 percent fat.
Bearded Customer Argues over Peanuts at Cyrus Teed Store
In a New Hampshire town Cyrus Teed serves a pint of peanuts for five cents. A bearded man complains the measure is small, recalling Boston where he says he could get twice as many for five cents. Teed counters that a round trip to Boston costs $2.55, ending the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus Teed
New Hampshire
Cyrus
Boston
Also Mentioned on This Page
McKinley Mus
G. W. Hobson
Don Sherman
St. Louis, Missouri
Buerkens
Nate Jones
Amos Durst
Cyrus Bush
Eotn
8. S. Wright Home
Dougherty Bros
Asa Jeffrey
Ainsworth
Monarch and Arrow
Adam Peck
Pleasant Plains
George Wheelan
Benz House
A. C. Durst
Chickering Bros
Turner Bros
John Davis
R. J. Armstrong
Brighton
G. Fox
W. T. Clark
W. F. Bailey
Mt. Pleasant
John Minner
M. M. Wallace
Palo Alto, Calif
J. M. Stiles
North English
Hanna Eicher
Edith Stifes
Pittsburgh
Eicher
Davenport
D. A. Chalmers
W. K. Henss
Wayland
O. L. Samson
Wyman
W. F. Wilson
Dr. Braden
Wellman
City
C. F. Smick
W. H. Riley
Winfield
J. B. Crooks
Mrs. L. B. Nicola
Norfolk
Nebr
A. M. Hendee
Crawfordsville
J. M. Duncan
Keota
Busi
Ness
Robert Prebo
Centerville
Joe Smith
West Chester
M. F. Harbaugh
W. H. Keiper
Clyde Keiper
George Reister
Mr. Reister
Poultry
Luella Shaw
Nettie Samson
Merie Samson
Dr. W. R. Samson
Birmingham
G. W. Dodder
Miss Mary
Muscatine
Elizabeth VanHorn
Mason City
Ludlam
William Zingg
Clinton
A. Hagie
George Stewart Hardware Store
Geo. C. Reames
Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank
Mrs. J. S. Montgomery
W. M. Hartman
C. E. Roth
Burlington
Margaret Cochran
Coppock
M. E. Brown
H. L. Parrott
DeWitt, Neb
John Knupp
Edwin, C. A
Harvey Knupp
Joseph Burgess
J. H. Keating
Anna Peck
East Pleasant Plain
W. A. Hamil
David Crawford
Crawford
J. H. Hogue
Monmouth, HS
H. Hogue
M. G. Campbell
Jay
the Royal
Todd Stuart
Mutual
Sues Bank
Harwood Shoes
Harwood
J. A. Harwood & Son
South Side
Aaas “ S Society
Methodist Church
East Washington Street
Christian Endeavor Society of
Second United Presbyterian Church
Society
Hallowe'en
Same McCleery
Norman Pratt
D. of HM
B.S
Second United Presbyterian Christian Endeavor Society
T. J. Allen
Yright
Joseph B
Bowle
Oak
Cherry
Washington National Bank
C.S. Lemmon
Agency
Hawkes
S. Lemmon
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