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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
7
Correspondents of the Journal send in brief items from Washington County including social happenings. The column lists comings and goings, gatherings, and personal notices such as births and deaths reported by locals.
Residents of Clearfield and diagonally nearby towns visit Solomon and Wilk White as funeral notices and church conference plans unfold. Emma Wonderly hosts a Halloween themed dinner at Cottage Hotel with fruit centerpiece and Victrola music. Carolyn Parker of Monmouth joins guests while Mrs. Ray Miller travels from Chico Hot Springs to visit her mother.
Grace Hill report covers visits by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Waggoner of Washington to Paul Harvey and other local guests. Includes J. H. Hamm returning from Davenport and Geneseo, Rev and Mrs Drebert staying for Billy Sunday talks, and Ed Libe's visit to Jacob Hotle home. About fifty relatives gathered for Charley Hotle and wife. Wes Engel sought arm treatment in Muscatine after an accident. Elmina May Bower, seven months, buried at Wellman cemetery after illness. Baptist minister of Wellman preached locally.
Mrs Paul Harvey reports her brother Leonard Taylor seriously ill with diphtheria in Minneapolis. He is staying with his brother Harry and is hospitalized there. The Ladies Aid met at the community building Wednesday afternoon and will reconvene there in two weeks.
Mr and Mrs Glen Pratt attended the funeral of George Black in Washington on Sunday afternoon. Mrs John Rittenhouse of Washington visited the Will Stafford home Thursday of last week. Mrs Elmer Collens and two daughters from Nebraska are visiting the Ben Miller home. Miss Katie and Mary Easter of Cabinet Idaho and Mrs Marie Easter of Des Moines were at Will Easter's Wednesday. A large crowd attended the candy social at the school house Tuesday with Holloween decorations and a profitable outcome of $65 for school purposes. A car load of hogs was shipped from Havre to Chicago Tuesday. The ladies of Pleasant Hill served lunch at Will Clemens sale Tuesday. Mrs Frank Macon of Washington visited Will Mitchell Monday.
The Ladies Aid served lunch at the Clemen sale raising about 26 dollars. A large crowd attended an all day church meeting. Visits included Elmer Kephart and family and Virginia Kephart, plus Mrs Shebeck and Harriet, and Mrs Baker and Lucile. Florence Carr visited George Duke. A candy social drew neighbors to Benson school.
The district Sunday school convention for Marion Oregon and Crawford townships will meet at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath at 2 30 pm. The program includes congregational singing an address by J K Beal declamations by Juanita Rabenold Leona Lease and others duet Elwyn Davidson Bruce McCleery and a standard school address by Rev Mavis with Mrs Riddington singing. All Sabbath schools are represented and invited to attend.
Sea island cotton is mainly produced in Georgia Florida and South Carolina. The finest comes from the chain of islands off the Carolina coast. Growth away from the coast causes fiber to degenerate into upland cotton unless island seed is used for successive crops.
An old advertisement touts a family cold remedy for croup cough and related illnesses. It claims fifty years of trusted quality, offering bottles at 60 cents and 1.20 dollars, with directions to loosen phlegm and throat irritation. Drugstores are urged to stock the product.
A terse street encounter ends years of owing as Smith pays S5 to the speaker while the speaker is rebuffed by Brown for also owing S5 for three years.
During months each year some great Siberian rivers freeze solid to the bottom. Fishes imprisoned in the ice maintain vitality and resume active life when the ice melts in spring.
Sunday school begins at 10 with a 11 o clock preaching service. Attendance again rose beyond our communicant membership. A new furnace was installed and warmed the basement Sunday school. audience room to be ready next Sunday. The first quarterly conference with Dr. G L Minear in charge was held Tuesday. Next Sabbath services at Zion Center and Pilotsburg led by Rev H C Millice with a Kingdom News message.
An old advertisement touts King New Life Pills claiming they purify the bowels and remove impurities from the system. The copy promises easy relief and a gaseous balance, priced at 25 cents per bottle and sold by all Seasee.
An article promotes Men Tho Eze as a preventive nasal treatment to keep membranes moist and fight Spanish influenza symptoms. It claims efficacy for sore throat colds and bronchial troubles and urges timely use to avoid doctor bills. Available in opal jars at 30c and 60c from druggists.
The church will soon have electric lights for evening services and wires are being installed along the street. The nearby schoolhouse will be wired for use. Evening services will be at Lexington at 7 30 with a warm church and expected full attendance. Public is invited to these services.
Rev C F Bowers will preach at Haskins Presbyterian Church next Sabbath in morning and evening. Bowers is an veteran pastor formerly with Crawfordsville and Bethel churches.
The exchange centers on Mr. Bestseller accused of hiring an ad writer to author his books. The dialogue suggests a disagreement over creative attribution and promotional leverage.
The article traces modern sheep to the Mowf flon European wild breed, notes wild relatives At gali from Central Asia and Bighgun of the Rockies, and suggests most domesticated varieties derive from European English stock with few from Spain.
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