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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1921
Page
7
Correspondents report on sick lists visitors and travel around West Chester and nearby towns. Several residents visit kin in Wisconsin Iowa Illinois and California. A closing out sale is announced for September 21 with plans noted for attendance.
Miss Hazel Ley returned to Kansas City after visiting the Joseph Murphy home. Mrs. Mary Clemens and Miss Jennie hosted a dinner for Clyde Fishburn Chapman Nebraska Lauder Kennedy Washington Thompson Burlington and R. J. Ferguson. The Ladies Aid sold pantry items then served creamed chicken dinner. Miss Orpha Weekly left Galesburg Illinois after visiting J. H. Crooks.
The West Chester schoolhouse held a teachers reception with pumpkin pie and whipped cream enjoyed by many. locals attended Rubio versus Keota ball game. Herman Luers bought 15 cars of old corn, corn at 40 cents seen as a better investment.
Lexington residents report weekend guests including Mr. and Mrs. Duane McClure and children from Crawfordsville at the Albert Paul home. Mrs. Lissa Timmons and Phyllis from Des Moines visited Cy Timmons, others hosted neighbors, and care help for Mrs. Page in Prairie Flower area.
Crawfordsville notices cover visits by T E Johns of Des Moines and relatives from Vendocia Ohio. Funeral details for Will Owens and Frank Strain, with attendants named. Architect Gordon chosen to plan a new schoolhouse. social events include a watermel on party at C M Maxwell home and visits from Miss Orpha Weekley and Mrs Nettie Bain.
Mr and Mrs Loren Hazen and family spent last Saturday in Iowa City. Mr and Mrs Clyde Matson of Kansas City visited with his brother Dr W A Matson at the W E Paul home. School Begins At Oregon No 3 with eight pupils. Mrs Will Richards teaches. The G club met at Glenwood Bowdens with refreshments served. Mrs Minnie Jennings plans move to Washington for the school year. J C Sullivan painting his farm house with help from Dan Sullivan. Ruth Hazen did business in Fairfield. E B Cave of Moberly MO visited J M Stone.
Iowa among seven states sending delegates to a Chicago conference on livestock shipping. A five member committee was named to draft a specimen constitution and bylaws for a nationwide cooperative livestock shipping association. Members include Dr E G Nourse Ames Iowa State College F E Simpson Chicago Illinois. E Boty Columbus Ohio Farm Bureau. F G King Lafayette Indiana Purdue. Ralph Leasie Columbia Missouri. The special committee will present organizing and management recommendations at the next fifteen member meeting in Chicago on September 27.
The West Chester Community Club hosted a reception for the consolidated school teachers with about 150 attendees. A varied musical program featured piano drums and vocal solos, followed by social games and light refreshments, highlighting community support for education and a call for a dedicated social building and gym facilities.
Lecturers trained to teach Americanism will tour Iowa county institutes under a state plan making the subject compulsory in public schools. Des Moines will host a meeting Monday to prepare instructors for two institute periods on citizenship and its teaching.
Grundy Center reports Parkersburg plans a $1500 free barbecue on Thursday September 15 with a big dinner band concerts street attractions wrestling horseshoe contests balloon ascension parachute jumps two baseball games and many prizes to be won throughout the day.
Hog cholera began about a month ago on farms near Fredericksburg causing eight to ten hogs lost daily before control. The Farm Bureau vaccinated fifty hog herds and the state veterinary department quarantined all stockyards. No new cases are reported.
TRAER Sept. 12 The first real movement of last year's big corn crop started three to four weeks ago after months of holding and now appears to be gaining momentum.
In the past week the tract elevators slipped 16 000 bushels of shelled corn and 6 400 bushels of oats, reflecting a period of reduced handling.
A collage of light dialogue from humorous exchanges spans multilingual snippets. Warden contemplates a last wish to learn Chinese while a Paris journal hints at playful linguistic gags. A foxed joke set includes a French farewell and a quip about carbolic acid as good-bye.
A maid at Scene-Remote Country Inn complains of water and a cracked basin asking the guest to wash in a bucket as guests hurry to return to the stable. A Boulder deacon promises a supply but warns careful use, as in Field and Farm.
A Scottish lad Willie Macgregor returns home from his first day at school and tells his father he learned to say Yes ma am and No sir to his mother and father. The tale reflects a playful family moment from Pearsons Weekly London.
A Sydney Bulletin snippet recalls a friend asking a mother about her daughter's new surname after marriage. The mother冷 responds with a shrug, saying she did not press for the name of the husband, admitting annoyance at the marriage news.
Editor rejects the poem for space but suggests a business trade. The Clarion editor accepts a manuscript if the author subscribes for a year and includes a brief personal column note praising spelling and punctuation. The village poet expresses disappointment at the exchange.
A Los Angeles Times story recounts a teacher facing a class of six year olds of foreign parentage. She asks Minnie for her father’s name, and the girl replies that her mother calls her papa simply “Mamma don’t call my papa names,” highlighting a tender family moment.
A humorous excerpt from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph contrasts a bishop's son learning courage with a classroom joke. It features a mother teaching bravery through a parable of boys in bed and a teacher testing Tommy Smith on fractions with visual wordplay about eight.
Char lie Chaplin arrives in London after the Olympic voyage as crowds throng Waterloo and Westminster. Police shield the star from frenzied admirers while taxis crawl through Piccadilly. newspapers trumpet Charlie as the city savors his arrival and trade his name for front pages.
Des Moines reports only eighty three buses in service down from one hundred five as routes lose profitability. City supervisor Scott Goodrell notes many vehicles returned to Kansas City or left from Bridgeport Connecticut after service cuts and half fare school carriage debates linger. A municipal franchise study by Corporation Counsel Miller stalls streetcar plans and keeps conditions unchanged.
Ames Sept 12 hush hush for two weeks as investigators hunted a clever check forgery case at the Ames bank. A victim details an unusual scheme with forged checks and altered signatures complicating the recovery. Authorities pursue leads and urge cooperation from the public.
George D. Shaw, a Civil War veteran of Springfield Massachusetts, says Tanlac made him feel twenty five years younger and healthier. Once ill with indigestion his weight rose from 117 to 143 pounds and his stomach became sound. He urges other veterans to try Tanlac and notes local availability at Sherman Bros Pioneer Drug Store.
Officials reveal a manalready posed as W S Parker deposited a $500 check forged in the name of W W Finnie at Ames National Bank after stealing Finnie’s checks from Nevada. He withdrew $150 before the bluff failed and police were alerted.
The agency assumed active charge of the case for the bank and insurance company. So far, investigators have found little to guide the pursuit of leads.
A Tama county meeting of land owners and tenants is set for Toledo to discuss leases and establish a sound rental basis for the coming season. The Tama county farm bureau organizes the session with two land owners, two renters, a banker and a lawyer to cover all sides.
Bread such as this would claim the prize as the biggest bread show ever held. The era of bread making shows unprecedented skill may crown new champions at the upcoming Southern Iowa Pair.
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