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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1920
Page
4
Readers urged to answer questionnaires with ten to twenty daily returns as the Journal promotes user input. A contributed poem encourages readers to stop complaints and support the workers, marching with the band and boosting the effort.
M D Brown longtime Kalona resident died at home Saturday September 18 after ten months illness. Born 1836 in Hanover town Ohio he moved to Iowa 1854 and taught in Washington and Johnson counties for forty years. He married Phebe McMillan in 1862 four children survived. widowed 1911 and married Caroline Myers in 1914. burial at Riverside Cemetery Kalona follows service at the Christian church. Also note Mme Bessarabo in Paris arrested for alleged murder of her husband with plans to publish new editions of her writing.
Poetical column rails against economic excess and boom times. It questions wealth, thrift, and future downturns while imagining rivers of money and foreseeing possible debt if the boom ends. It blends satire with vivid imagery of prosperity and caution.
Citizens are urged to hand in journal questionnaires to carrier boys or leave them on porches. Hundreds have been returned with thoughtful suggestions from town and country districts. No questionnaire has been treated as a joke, and the public’s honest opinions are appreciated. A want ad will sell it.
Seventeen lines describe local movements Elwyn Davidson Velma Twinam and Cloyce Huston leaving for Iowa City to attend college. Mrs R S White visits from Washington at Harold White's home. David Jones and Elmer return to Williamsburg Iowa after visiting relatives and attending a Zion church meeting. Rev Leneau and wife return to Webster Iowa after a Sabbath sermon. An organ installation in a California grove by the Bohemian club is described as protected by electric stoves and asphaltum covering.
Miss Alta Munson Wright daughter of J E Wright of 621 East Main Street won the Graves Studio beauty contest judged by five out-of-town judges from sixty two entrants. The winner receives a diamond ring and competes were showcased with fifteen finalists named including Harriet Dougherty Dessal Dayton Mable Anderson Aol urshen Cecil Hotle Marguerite Springman Beatrice Wallace Arline Spessard.
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