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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
7
In Brief Letters readers of The Journal are asked to send in short news reports from their area. The notice explains submission guidelines and invites locals to share timely information for possible publication.
Social notes list recent comings and goings in Washington County. Includes personals births and deaths with brief mentions of local residents and notable visitors.
Mrs Ernest Hora and son Lavern return from Des Moines with Miss Edna Kneera visiting. Rose Dautremont back from Moline. Chariton visitors Cyril Droll and Eleanor with Magdalen Proll family. Mrs Mike Stumpf and daughters Ruth and Glee with Wie land family. Dautremont relatives visit Davenport. Frank Kneisel family visit from Iowa City. 135 acre Beatch farm sold to Herman Ruth of Russell for 252.60 an acre with possession March 1, 1920. Parochial and public schools reopen with new teachers. Holy Name Society Labor Day picnic draws regional outlets. Education notes and marriages announced. Edna Kotttel and Edward Bushey to wed Sept 16 at St Marys. Ernest Petry sells pool hall to Joe Havel.
Floyd Jones attends the state fair. Miss Ethel McNees visits Miss Beth Godfrey in Crawfordsville. Rev. 8S. B. Wells travels to Wisconsin. W. C. Beauchamp and Loraine Stanard take a trip to Minnesota last week.
A car load of hogs was shipped from Havre to Chicago on Tuesday. Local residents, including Gola Miller aiding Glen Pratt with painting. Several families moved or visited relatives in Washington and nearby towns. School opened with Miss Hazel Tucker teaching. Rev. M Warren of Keota conducting Pleasant Hill church meetings this week and next. Numerous social visits and trips to Burlington and Spokane noted.
Miss Esther Howell stayed with Mrs. Earl Ferguson in Crawfordsville last week. Prody A. Borkoski went to the rural letter carriers meeting in Washington on Monday. Otis Waggoner has returned home from service in France and Germany with the American Expeditionary Forces. A. L. and family spent Sunday in Fairfield. Ray Woodford attended the State Fair in Brighton on September 4.
The Lexington report lists a county home picnic attended by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson and mentions automoble races at Burlington on Labor Day with attendees including Mr. and Mrs. Will Shalla Mr. and Mrs. Milo Shalla Mr. and Mrs. Warren Matthess Joe Shalla and family Miss Lucile Mrs. Joe Knote and Miss Mella Vacha. E K Fleming returned from Ohio and Chicago. A straw baler fire damaged Frank Wilson's straw stack last Monday. ownership not confirmed.
Rev Shep hard begins a few weeks visit in Hudson Wyoming. Fred Pershing duo spends early week in Muscatine and Davenport. Amos Hull sells barbershop to Dr McIntosh and plans California departure. Nick Snyder buys Marty McMahon residence. Keith Adams to Iowa City to study electrical engineering this year. Jay Nichols shops in Cedar Rapids Tuesday.
Oskaloosa planned paving eighteen blocks but received no bids when the contract was opened. Waterloo faced high bids, with later offers rejected as excessively costly compared to earlier submissions in the Beuson.
In Iowa City on September 4 Miss Blanche Graham 17 of Burt County is kept under care after X rays reveal three safety pins in her stomach. One pin was open and the others were inside as doctors monitor her condition. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs George Graham.
Article notes that the belief hard wood fuels better is challenged by recent findings. Soft wood is found to be a viable alternative for fuel with comparable burning properties.
The Best Man starring Kerrigan with Lois Wilson opens at The Fox Friday. Kerrigan plays Cyril Gordon an agent for the Secret Service, delivering a polished performance praised as unsurpassed. Billy West co-stars in the W. W. Hodkinson release.
Mrs A H Hall of Caseville Michigan thanks Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a life saving medicine for her baby and keeps it in the house. Mrs Mary Carrington of Caseville Michigan reports long term reliable use and prompt relief. Lemmon's Drug Store advertises the product.
Dr Jeannette F Throckmorton state health lecturer leads a September tour across southern Iowa visiting towns daily with lectures for high school girls parent teacher groups and adult women She partners with Dr Wilbur Conkling in the campaign against social diseases visiting What Cheer Washington Wapello Keesauqua Farmington Mystic Georydon Humeston Le Roy Garden Grove Leon Grand River Mt Ayr Redding Orient Bloomfield and Bedford between Sept 4 and Sept 29.
St Louis court rules a woman who wears silk hose cannot dodge court costs by claiming poverty. Circuit Judge Landwehr notes those who can afford silk stockings should pay costs. The ruling arose in the $7,500 damage suit of Miss Alice Montagnon against Frank Kierch after she pleaded poverty while wearing silk stockings.
The article notes personal differences with their husbands arising not from disputes but from brides' inability to adjust to American customs and daily life.
In Los Angeles Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe dismissed six consolidated suits by the United States seeking to cancel patents to oil lands in the San Joaquin valley. The total land area involved covers 165000 acres valued at 421 million dollars. The government claimed fraud via affidavits claiming agricultural value.
Two Marion district court cases hinge on bacteria. Guy M. Fath sues Charles E. Green and others for 1000 dollars, claiming water contamination on the Green farm harmed his family and stock. Fath was the farm renter. J W Kulchera sues W S Grafft, alleging hog cholera spread to his hogs after leasing Grafft’s farm, with Kulchera claiming Grafft knew of the illness.
Benjamin Franklin LeValley, Civil War veteran and Sunday school leader, proposes a longevity plan stressing busy work, associating with children, neat dress, a clear conscience, and avoiding worry. He arrived from Sharon Wisconsin to visit relatives in Waterloo Illinois. He notes intoxicating liquor has never been...
A brief description notes the subject’s face is smooth with rounded cheeks while sight and hearing are well preserved and hearing remains erect. The fragment suggests an elderly or dignified individual without further context or outcome.
Capt James Norman Hall, famed Colfax ace, will serve as a delegate to the Iowa American Legion state convention in Des Moines, attending Thursday and Friday. A Colfax post charter was rushed to enable Hall's delegation, with secretary MacVicar noting admissions to Friday Roosevelt lecture are open to G A R W R C and Ladies of the G A R without tickets.
Lieut Col Theodore Roosevelt will be entertained at Maj H H Polk's home in Des Moines during the city visit. Col Matt Tinley arrives for Friday sessions as the 1920 Iowa American Legion convention nears. Dubuque seeks the convention with inducements from Richard M Plaister as fifteen delegates head in.
The ad quotes BE Milburn of Guion Drug Store praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after years of sales with complete satisfaction. Lemmon's Drug Store is also cited as endorsing the product.
Seventy two French women who had married American servicemen and were divorced in the United States sailed back to France on the same steamer last week. The Avenir notes many returned not due to personal reasons but following wartime arrangements and social pressures.
An old advertisement touts Zemo as a safe reliable skin treatment that relieves itching and irritation quickly. It claims to cleanse soften and smooth skin while banishing irritations pimples blackheads eczema blotches ringworm and similar troubles. The E W Rose Co Cleveland OH markets 35c or 1 bottle.
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