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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1924
Page
3
The Evening Journal announces a $3500 Salesmanship Club Campaign with first prize a Buick auto worth $1278 and a Brunswick Radiola. It urges all readers to participate or nominate others, stressing civic pride and personal gain from active campaign work.
The City hotel and restaurant in Ainsworth changed hands last night. New owners are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Olds, former East End restaurant owners. Mrs. Carl Burris, who managed it for years, departs to rest and visit relatives in Chicago. The Olds couple promise continued good service in Charley Olds’s hometown.
Beginning next Sunday at 7 30 p m a two week series of special evangelistic services will be held at the New Haven Baptist church nightly except Saturday. Rev and Mrs C E Hillis will lead the meetings bringing fifteen years of evangelistic experience and already hosting successful campaigns at Wellman and West Chester. An urgent invitation is extended to all to attend and be inspired.
A wartime style appeal urges readers to submit nominations for a local award with promises of a cash prize and recognition. It stresses immediacy, noting tomorrow never comes and nominating a friend or self before the November deadline.
Funeral services are held at Downing Missouri for Avery Miller a seventeen year old Washington county youth killed near Cedar Rapids when he fell from a moving freight train. The body traveled from Cedar Rapids to Downing with an uncle and was identified by Linn County authorities. Father Will Miller of Big Falls Minnesota learned of the death after locating the body and the estate of his deceased wife.
Funeral services for Samuel Henry were conducted at 2 PM Monday at Grace Hill church with Dr W W Bowers and Rev Mr Bender presiding. A quartet sang as pallbearers Dave Augustine George Augustine Henry Luers Joshua Sherlock and Harlow Engle served. Burial followed at Elm Grove. a large gathering of family and friends attended.
Local women donate jars of homemade pickles to support hospital needs. The effort gathers interest across the town as volunteers stock shelves and encourage others to contribute. Proceeds or donations benefit patient care and hospital programs.
Julius Enslin returned from St. Louis after buying goods for the Clark and Englin store in West Chester. He later lived near Brighton and worked on farms before joining a road crew in Algona. A Burlington train collision near Fairfield on November 3, 1922, killed Mrs. Will Miller and L. E. Ruth of Queen City, Mo., and seriously injured Mr. Miller, who never fully recovered.
James Work Jr described a frugal, eventful Europe tour with fellow students aboard a cattle boat from Montreal to Liverpool. He recounted meals, living conditions, Venice dust, Mount Vesuvius fees, Rhine trip, and observed Franco German tensions, noting London as a world center and a future English Scottish stay.
A daughter was born Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Strohm of Elgin. The infant is the first great grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller of the city.
A. F. Powrie manager of Victory Insurance Company Chicago advises any holder of policies numbered 310876 to 400, 10361 to 875, 80326 to 350, and 10376 to 400 that these policies are lost or mislaid and not sued with the company. Contact J. D. McConnell state agent at 83 3.
Washington schools report strong turnout for recent parent teacher meetings at Heights Wallace and Lincoln schools. Heights selects Mrs Clyde Brown as chairwoman with Miss Carol Foreey as secretary treasurer. Wallace names Mrs Carl Jung ruth chairwoman and Mrs Catherine Null assistant chair. Lincoln names Mrs Howard Crozier chair with Mrs Charles Thomas as secretary treasurer.
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