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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
7
Correspondents from the Journal send in reports detailing visits, farm work, school openings, and local events around Brighton and nearby towns. Notes include social calls, farm construction, fair attendance, weather damage, and community gatherings at Brinton’s bridge and rural church areas.
Pleasant Hill gossip lists Sunday visits among families including McCall Randall Benson and Chalupa households. Everett Pratt, son of Glenn and Mrs Pratt, funeral at Pleasant Hill church with burial at Elm Grove cemetery. condolences offered. Revival meetings at Pleasant Hill church urged by Rev Pettit with invitations to attend.
KFOVA Route 3 Keota Route 3 Sept 7 Mr and Mrs H A Engle and family attended Sigourney celebration. Myron Tinnis returned from Harper visit. Glayds Banks visited Hazel Engle. Center School opened with Vernaida Johnson as teacher. Emil Fink family and Will Dunbar family visited Richland. Will Hotse home guests. Almeta Griner returned to town.
Zeno Tinnis, a business visitor in Richland Monday, visited the Tinnis home after a stay at the Henry Shetts residence near Keota. Mr and Mrs Doe Engle and family spent Sunday at the Shetts home near Keota.
Miss Elizabeth Hebel of Mt. Pleasant visits area friends. W W Wood and wife move to Wayland. Farmers begin filling silos. Stringtown Summers and Bleicher reopen with teachers Mary Krabill Bernice Miller and Hattie Frey. Ella Schantz returns to Camanche for third year. A Mitchell and Joe Mast shop in Washington. Rev. Miller and Neema Byler return from Nebraska Kansas Mennonite conference at Fortuna. Sutter of Pandora visits with Chriss Sommers. Graber Leichty Swartzendruber head to Heston Kan for studies. Amish Mennonite church Bible conference this week.
Erma Chapman Mary Eiman Edna Rowe and Lucille Hanley left Tuesday for Cedar Falls to attend school. Flora Fells drove to Iowa City for the same purpose. Thelma Eckerman and Bessie Curl are now high school students after starting in Wellman Monday. Clarence Rowe and Opal Green began first terms at Grandview and Smith Creek. Ira Adams shelled and delivered corn Tuesday. Lee Davison and wife attended Old Settlers Day in Sigourney Tuesday. Fairview started Monday with Nellie Berger as teacher and Vera Longwell began at Smith Creek.
The Missionary society will gather with Mrs Edith Meacham Thursday afternoon for an election of officers and dues payment. Rev Grinnell and family return from a trip to Marshalltown, accompanied by his daughter-in-law for a visit.
J H Steinbeck received a car of coal and lumber with Lester Vandyke William Ruby unloading coal and Charlie Leppert unloading lumber. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Roy Decker last week. The school opened with Misses Pfrimmer and Clapper as teachers. Florence Snider (Mrs John Bender) had a granddaughter. Mr. Snider returned home while Mrs Snider stayed in Kalona. Lucile Godwin visited home with her father to be picked up after a week with Mrs Wm Snider. Jade Dickinson helps his son Clayton with a silo. Van Gabby Jo Augustine build a chicken house for William Ireland. Mr and Mrs Andrew Miller attended a barbecue in Sigourney. Rubio will get a new preacher Burnham from Wisconsin and Reo Bogue will go to Stillwater.
William Morrow catches a 20 pound fish while F M Strickland and wife begin a three to four week auto trip to Nebraska. Neighbors share rain after visits to Morrow and Ollie. Pickle factory ends its year after a large cucumber run hindered by lice. Helen Vandyke teaches music, then hosts a pupil musicale. Rubio hosts Keota for a Sunday game. Various visits, drilling plans, and chats fill the week with several minor travels and errands.
A large Wyman crowd watched the home team defeat Columbus Junction 3 to 2 Monday at Columbus Junction. Friday evening the freshmen host a high school reception, and Saturday Mt. Pleasant plays at Wyman Independents.
Dr Catherine Corcoran of the Woman s Catholic Order of Foresters told the National Fraternal Congress that the uncor selled figure is ideal for women. She said modern women are healthier than grandmothers who wore 16 inch waists, advocating stayless silhouettes as a substitute for tight corsets.
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