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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1922
Page
5
Brighton reports a flurry of visits and movements with residents and guests traveling to Kirkeville Des Moines and Martinsburg. Local life centers on church events school activities and a fatal Los Angeles car crash involving a former resident.
Residents recount trips to the Oskaloosa fair with W S Boyer A T Augustine and visitors from Los Angeles Ames and Chicago. They praise the Minteer family, mention cotton yields, contemplate moving to Mission Texas, and plan a Keota football game while reflecting on wartime fruit prices and plentiful apples.
Luther Gomley left last night for a western states trip and will visit his brother Calvin Gomley in Washington. Mise Lois Davidson hosted a small rock party with dainty refreshments for her friends.
Sunday evening at Mrs Porters hosted by the Paul Harvey and Dave Turnipseed families. Pleasant school opened with Miss Bessie Smith as teacher and 28 pupils enrolled reflecting local activity.
Rain cooled the air and spurred farm activity as silo filling took priority. Ira Miksch finished a silo last week while Roy Wells and Clarence Rathmel ramp up work. locals attended the Oskaloosa fair and Booster Day at Brighton. Miss Hazel Sutten learned her father died in Canada, while others visited family and attended events in the area.
Mrs Frank Smith aided her daughter and Mrs Sheetz prepared a meal for the silo fillers on Friday at the New Haven school event.
Miss Wilma Miller leaves for Drake University Des Moines to resume music study. Baby boy born at James Trotter home in Tipton. Marion Crawford of Washington visiting W R Crawford and W H Keiper homes. M E B Sunday school picnic planned for September 23 at Jesse Marr's grave. Dr Rex attends annual conference at Keokuk. Kay Blankenhorn back from county hospital after appendectomy. Manford Owen from Schenectady visiting Miss Sarah Parrow. W T Marr visiting son Karl and family in Denver. Special meetings at U P church nightly to Oct 1 with Rev J Reade McCrory and Dr Kimmelshue. Wm Anderson and family visit from Dr Marion Anderson of Clinton. W R C meets at Legion hall. refreshments served.
Crawfordsville reports visitors arriving on Sept 16 including Mrs. Brooks of Lawrence Kansas and Thomas Darley of Illinois as well as Mr and Mrs James Carpenter of Mt Pleasant. Bruce Lease departs for Champaign to attend the University of Illinois. Mary Moore of Washington visits with Mrs Luther Gormly and James McFadden of Washington spends the day at the Dr Lease home. John McCoy of Mt Pleasant also visits. Mr and Mrs D D Nicholson of
Huber Smith, 22, confessed to killing Bruce Rogers in Denison Iowa after an apparent hold up at a dice game. The confession implicates Allen Boeck, 17, son of supervisor H Boeck, who lives eight miles south. Smith, a Manilla resident with no living parents, was identified by stepfather Si Drakes and led to Boeck’s arrest. Smith said he did not intend to shoot anyone and that Boeck wanted to proceed. Rogers was a friend of Smith.
F. J. Lazell of the Republican and Times received a letter allegedly from the Ku Klux Klan warning him against publishing anti Klan editorials and threatening a home visit. The notice labeled as the first and last warning. The piece also recalls Edison's 1877 phonograph invention origin from a speaking mouthpiece and a recoding coincidence.
Iowa City visitors and their mother Mrs T J Nicholson attended a social at the Clyde Maxwell residence where the high school seniors hosted other classes and faculty with a watermelon party last night.
The article extols the Washington Conference as the greatest peace achievement, detailing treaties limiting naval armament and fortifications, Open Door commitments, and Japan relations. It argues current Republican policy will sustain peace by reducing U.S. military power and encouraging global disarmament, contrasting with the previous administration.
Frank J. Chramosta of Cedar Rapids meets his boyhood friend Vanceslay Kotal in Chicago. Kotal is undertaking a 40 000 mile walk around the world, planning routes through the Americas Europe and Asia, aiming to complete the journey in five to seven years.
Mrs. Charles Conklin was seriously injured when her 15 year old son Gerald Conklin pushed her from an upstairs window during a dispute over attending a military school. She fell about twelve feet, fracturing her hip and sustaining internal injuries.
Eugene Weeks a World War I draftee in the eighty eighth division deserted after Camp Dodge and was to receive a Legion funeral if his wife’s request was honored. The American Legion, via Omaha undertaker Harry H Polk, refused official involvement with the burial despite Mrs Weeks wishes.
Hurdy gurdy grinders in New va Civ rent pianos by day. Pianos stored in a warehouse, renters rise at dawn to secure top instruments and latest tunes. Most earn about $3 daily and pay $2 per day for instrument rental.
Washington residents back Dean's Kidney Pills with Mrs. A L Dusenberry sharing long term relief from kidney pain backache and fatigue after trying other remedies. She notes lasting improvement and recommends the same product from Foster Milling Co Buffalo NY noting price 60 cents at dealers.
In a reference report it notes that more than six million families own their homes across the United States reflecting a broad trend in suburban and urban housing markets.
A historic film records the capture of a sperm whale with a whaling vessel, showing crewman irons and the whaling process. A replica of the film will be preserved by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in Massachusetts for archival purposes.
A 1540 founding tradition ties Yeleta Texas to Don Francisco Vasquez Coronado, asserting it as the oldest U S town by tradition. The date would place it 27 years before St Augustine Florida’s claim to authenticity.
St. Louis reader Mrs. Della Scholz credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing monthly cramps backache and enabling her to work. The ad extols fifty years of use and medicinal plant ingredients claiming a gentle restorative effect and symptom relief.
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