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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1922
Page
7
Crawfordsville updates include visitors to Ft. Madison and Washington, teaching moves for Miss Alice Maxwell, Labor Day trips to Muscatine and Muscatine-area events, and a local care circle on September 9. Leaders discuss famous painters, while school resumes with Miss Whalen teaching. Community members travel, host, and observe the English river dredging project nearby.
Beulah and Mariam Miksch hosted a party for sixteen girls with lawn games and ice cream and cake. The Warren, Black, Harvey and Peterson families visited nearby homes and celebrated Mrs. Walter Peterson's birthday. Multiple locals attended school, farm work, and social club events, with robing tasks and farming chores noted around Grace Hill.
A. L. Meridith and family drove to Roseville Illinois last Saturday to visit relatives and return Monday. Olive Moore came home Sunday from Bartholow's sister's, where she had stayed during the Chautauqua. Mr Roberts and Mr Jarvis with Mrs Mary Swartz drove to Fairfield Sunday, where Mrs Swartz will stay to help two daughters. S. E. Wallin went to What Cheer Sunday to begin duties.
Rural Route 5 and 56 notes list dinners and visits among Mrs. Russel Goodwin and kin, Jake Hotle hosts, Will Palmer visiting from Ohio, Augustine and Evans families in Ottumwa, McCalebs with son James, Bert Smith family callers, Cecile Woodford returning home, Waterhouse and Wallace households, Warren Norton moving to Elmer Klocie place, and local barbecue at Brighton attended by A R Conrad and A L McCaleb families.
Rural Route Six item reports Miss Eugene Scott starting at Prairie Flower and Miss Lucille Shalla at Cedar Center. The Griggs family moved to town. Fred Radda family and Ernest Fisher attended a circus. Booth remains about the same. John Lang and family visited Milton Smith and Ray Bell homes. Erma La Fever attends high school in Washington.
William Bragg and Paul De Long visited Johnnie Schulty in Lexington. Mrs. Milo Patterson aids her mother in Ainsworth. Bernice and Ethel Paul stayed with the Duane McClure family at Crawfordsville last week. School opened with Mrs. Brnde teaching. several locals attended Washington Tuesday.
The Maple Grove visit features Mr John Heyek and party including Mr Cole and Mrs Gray. The article surveys local election figures, rural life across Crawfordsville Mt Pleasant Salem Hillsboro and Wayland, reports on a parade cancellation and a notable Maple Grove athlete Joe Krofta, a top Bohemian boxer in Iowa.
Crawfordsville plans a full day of events organized by the Ira Shants Post American Legion on Tuesday September 12. Speakers include Colonel Smith W Brookhart at 10:00 and Clyde Herring at 11:09 with a Mediapolis versus Wy man ball game at 2:30. A band concert and street attractions end the day after a morning fireworks show.
Charles Conner formerly of Utica Il to Centerville left a suicide note at the Rosetta hotel stating he had taken poison and graphite and wished not to wake. He mentions life insurance of 300 dollars and criticizes doctors preachers and living with illness before ending with his sign off as Charles Cennei.
Lyle Moore and family moved into the Will Dusenberry house. The Dayton Grove community marks circus day in Washington and notes social events at the Farmers Union. Mrs James Walker was called to Des Moines by her sister in law Ola Knotts’s death. Embree and Knotts families attended events while Missionary party guests gathered in Lexington. School attendance exceeds two hundred with over sixty high school students. Frankie Moore visited the Lyle Moore home Wednesday.
In Burlington on September 9 a seven month old named Robert Moss died after becoming accidentally suspended by a neck looped over an iron bed frame. The infant slipped through a mattress crevice, mother finding the body at seven o'clock in the evening.
Iowa City and Ames launch a large construction program totaling over 675000 with plans for a 425000 modern library at Ames. A new University of Iowa chemistry building rises north of the dental school, while Ames adds a 225000 physics building and a 50000 girls dormitory, with the library to be limestone and north of Morrell hall. Construction aims for 1923 completion.
Catarrhal deafness results from Eustachian tube inflammation and may cause rumbling or deafness if untreated. Hall's Catarrh Medicine promises to remove catarrh and related deafness, with over forty years of success. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
That Oskaloosa will host a large pork packing plant is anticipated by local business leaders. Reliable information says one of the Big Five packers has bought sixty five acres near the Harvey dam site for construction. Lower power costs from the hydro electric program are cited as the main attraction.
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