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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1928
Page
2
In a brief garden scene a woman is seen wearing a garment she recently rediscovered while digging potatoes, demonstrating a practical reuse of clothing. The moment captures ordinary domestic activity in a rural setting.
Mrs Sarah Marr and daughter Mary return to California next week. Lyn Vanhorn visits with son Homer Vanhorn in Iowa. Families from Estherville, Iowa City and Jamesville Wisconsin visit local homes. High School orchestra entertains at the auditorium. Fireman Floyd Hamill moves to Washington. Several locals travel or visit relatives in Des Moines Rock Island Omaha and Chicago. School enrollment and farewell to the summer season noted with various trips and reunions.
September entries report Mrs L B Luithly and daughter from Rubio sharing impressions of the Dutch Creek fair and Washington bands. W M Keeley visits from Chicago. The piece notes straw hats in use and mentions local sales and residents including Charley Custer and Clyde Maxwell, with remarks on Corn crops and travel detours.
Mr M T Cooper and wife sister of Mrs Henry Looney visit the Looney home and other relatives. John Geerdes shells and delivers several hundred bushels of old corn and buys $4 Journal. Dennis Brohm reports good livestock and crops. he knows when his Journal runs out. Fern Crozier leads relatives touring the cleanest city in Iowa. Ben Beck visits Washington college friends while en route to Cedar Falls. Lela Wilson visits with her husband. Mr and Mrs A C Benhrens and son Charles of Waterloo return home after visiting P L Young.
Dalton Galloway a missionary and brother of Waterloo’s Wm Galloway and his wife are visiting in Washington at the Harlan McCreedy and other homes. They will spend their vacation at Monmouth Dl.
Mr and Mrs I E Green hosted a Washington reunion with children visiting from Lindsay Montana Allen Green and wife St Paul Neb Lydia Nicho le Algo Neb and daughter Mrs Sherm White Crawfords ville. A new railroad line crossed Henry Green s Montana farm and the first train ran over it after Ist and Henry departed for a ride.
Sardou’s Captain Ferreol is reimagined as A Night of Mystery with Adolphe Menjou in a deft lead as Ferreol. The plot centers on Ferreol’s love for Therese and his conflict when a murder threatens to expose his trysts. Supporting cast includes Evelyn Brent Nora Lane Raoul Paoh Frank Leigh Claude King Margaret Burt and William Collier Jr. Des Moines visitors stay with Mrs. T J Lewis.
The Journal lists upcoming sale dates and sellers including Sept 5 Guy Koch for corn, Sept 11 C. W. Gray for livestock, Oct 10 John Wagner for Poland China sows, Oct 17 Knotek Bros for Duroc Jersey hogs, and Oct 22 W. R. Gamon & Sons with H. E. Busby offering Poland China hogs.
At Le Bourget Field France the monoplane of Jean Assolant and Rene Lefevre failed to rise after a short run, forcing a temporary abort of their bid for a direct flight to New York. The two sergeants in the French flying corps aimed to fly north of the Azores to Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.
A cow owned by John Stinson, dairyman, died after swallowing a loose charged wire in a patch of grass and was electrocuted. The incident occurred in Delhi California. The case is recorded as death by own action in bovine property.
Erwin Town gains a music instructor for the school. Neal Sands returns to teach at Bloomfield school. Wanda Spessard begins her second year at Batavia Iowa. Duane House moves to Champagne Illinois. Mrs George Lord returns from Cincinnati. Mr and Mrs Ralph Kelsey come home from Wisconsin after a visit.
The listing shows Washington Produce Markets offering cream at 45 cents per pound butterfat, eggs at 27 cents per dozen, various poultry prices for leghorn hens and springs, old roosters, ducks, geese, and large beef hides at 120 per pound. Additional terms include one cent more paid per pound for poultry delivered and a note about marketing for sick or crippled poultry.
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