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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
7
Correspondents from Brighton report visits by Heauchamp and family from Hayfield Minnesota and Mrs Lizzie Leuny from Ottumwa. Families attend Sunday gatherings, picnics, and county fairs. Rural carriers prepare Labor Day picnic at Brinton's bridge while locals travel to Des Moines and Madison for state fairs and judging swine.
Alma Short returns to Keota from Brighton while H W Helmish and family complete an auto trip to Decatur county. Vivian Wikoff visits Burlington. Bartlett and family visit Marion. Jim Shaffer escorts party to Cedar Rapids. Edward Brinton returns from summer with grandparents in Brighton and Kansas City trip planned. Verne Madden family to Des Moines for relocation.
The report notes several young ladies working on the OCRth Wednesday afternoon as a few sow fall wheat. William Lake introduces a new Waterloo Bay tractor and has begun fall plowing. Stile filling has begun.
Mrs M r Jones visited Cone Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Joe Durst hosted a Rock party Thursday night. Geo Augustine Sr and James McCall went to Mr Pleasant last Thursday. Mrs Jim McNeese and children Ida Lucile Royal and Sam visited, as did Mrs Ethel Marrow with Mrs Florence Conrad Monday afternoon. Mrs Davis returned home Friday after two week visit with her son Glen Davis and wife. Geo Klett and family came back Friday morning from their trip.
Mrs. J. B. McCaleb spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. John Luris. Anta May Conrad returned home Sunday morning from her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jackson's Tom Riegard and a Brighton area family visited D. C. Robertson home, also Mrs. Olive Sanders. Rob McCaleb visited Fairfield, Geo. Riegard and wife visited Dale Moody's in 76 township.
Manager Pratt hails Maurice Tourneur's film of The Last of the Mohicans as a must see at the Fox Theatre opening Friday. He praises its broad appeal for all ages, its educational ties to Cooper’s novel, and its vivid scenery, acting, settings, and photography. The screening runs Friday and Saturday afternoon and night.
Sheriff F E Marsh and deputies pursued a Great Western train from Mason City to Clarion. A. B. Hamlin and wife were captured after Hamlin, a registered pharmacist, allegedly stole about 90 dollars from Brady Drug Store. He was traced to Clarion and Eagle Grove and arrested with 75 dollars on his person, claiming rent payment.
In Yunnan China the Lisso warriors use bows to strike with force enough to pierce a one inch thick dart board at seventy yards. The report highlights the precision and prowess of the archer tradition in the Salwin valley.
Keota reports Reverend Shaul pastor of Kinross Christian church broke an arm Wednesday while cranking a Ford at the Homer Coffman home north of town. Fracture reduced by Dr. Pershing with anesthetic by Dr. Hinscoll. Shaul to start evangelistic meetings tonight at Kinross with an evangelist assisting. Also notes visitors and residents including Miss Anna Newman and Mr. and Mrs. Newman, Art Stoutner returning from Missouri trip, and others visiting or moving in nearby.
NIRA August 1 reports Chas Rowe and family visiting Henry McVeigh in Keota, Clover hulling activity, Jay White group at the state fair, and John Adams with others in Des Moines. The item mentions a Journal article about Mrs. Frank Townley Brown leading a movement to protect vulnerable women from swindlers.
The writer warns Mrs Brown and the editor to alert women and men that professional swindlers target widowers and married men. Will Hradek returned home from Des Moines, Arthur Miller and family visited Muscatine, Don and Cleo Cave from Brighton visited relatives, and the Will Curl family attended the county home picnic Wednesday.
Homer Daniel White the eight month old son of Mr and Mrs Earl White died at 1 a m Thursday after two weeks of bowel trouble that led to meningitis Funeral arrangements are not yet set Ainsworth chautauqua starts Thursday evening with promising program A large number of season tickets sold Today marks the 40th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Rowan and the fifth anniversary of Mrs Karl Mechelson at the Rowan home The county Home piecing event drew many from Ainsworth
Nebraska guardsmen completed a two week encampment at Camp Dodge as Governor Kendall attended the parade and review at 3 PM marking the final formal events of the camp. The story notes Governor McKelvie’s guest status and the close of the session with a focus on the ceremonial close.
In Canton Ohio the Westlawn Cemetery bans Sunday burials prompting the Canton post of the American Legion to protest. The legion holds military funerals on Sundays to honor soldiers who died overseas, defying the cemetery order with a vigil and active campaigns to rally state and national officers.
Police search for five men after midnight Saturday as wrecked autos were stripped at Fourteenth Street north of Des Moines. The vehicles were piled and burned following a fatal collision.
Two motor vehicles collided near Boat Fourteenth street and Aurora avenue injuring L W Minear and D A Plumb. Mrs McCall, a newlywed, died en route to Iowa Lutheran Hospital after helping a neighbor pursue a corn thief. Five men in a Ford robbed a field, then stripped accessories from both cars.
In Cedar Rapids Judge Patterson's courtroom, over a dozen women confronted the hearing of Anna Bixler nine neighbors accusing assault and battery. Bixler pleaded guilty and was fined $100 and costs or thirty days in jail. The 12 year old adopted girl, with sixty bruises counted by a police matron, was removed from foster care and placed in a family home.
A thought experiment compares a man's voice to a canary's, proposing that if a human carried voice power proportional to weight like a canary, the voice could travel 800 miles. The piece questions limits of vocal range and frequency.
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