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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1925
Page
8
The report notes Jerry Simmering underwent appendicitis surgery at the county hospital yesterday morning and is reported doing fine. Other items list visits, travel to Burlington and Albany New York, Davenport excursions, a Hunter Genkinger wedding, and funerals in Keota and Belknap with various residents visiting family and friends.
Mrs. Walter Edwards and daughter Gladys travel to West Chester for the Washington West Chester game and to visit Mrs. Frank McParlane. Others head to town for shopping and family visits including Miss Rachel Fabrick and sister and Mrs. Julia Marshall of Weldon visiting relatives.
Mrs. Kate Bell Babcock and friends toured from Chicago for a short stay. Josephin Hull, returning from Iowa City, rests after a mastoid operation. Mrs. Miller heads to Minneapolis for a PFEQ convention. Tax notices warn the last month to pay without penalty. Residents travel to visit kin, attend events, or conduct business in nearby towns. Grimes apples available from Senator Brookhart orchard. notify within a week. W Mikseh returns from a western trip touting home as best. South English visits and family trips feature prominently.
A historical item notes Jo Dancy offers boot shining in two and a half minutes. The High School Exhibition in Corvette's Hall drew a crowd, netting $74. Performances included essays, declamations, charades, and songs with praise for Alice Vearick and Kate Smith. Superintendent Lewis urged duties of teachers and parents.
J A Henderson Esq sails to Kentucky to buy blooded cattle and join a growing stock legacy. County assessor Palmer is sworn in and takes office. March 27 1870 marks his official document date. Mr and Mrs Charles Miller return from a long roughing trip of 600 miles west by wagon. The city approves a street culvert project east of the square to be built by Andrew Maxwell as the town seeks lasting improvements.
The new diagonal underroad structure is completed and touted as enduring as the Great Wall. Isbell's express and the city bus now serve all trains, carrying passengers and baggage for 25 cents across the city.
Miss Ferne Freshwatery visits Mrs. Joe McConnell for the weekend. Coy Motor Co. advertises Weed Chains of all sizes. Mrs. BE Allen, Mrs. Katy Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. John Kaufman of Wayland shopped here yesterday. Eugene Hagberg visited Ottumwa relatives yesterday. Elizabeth Dawson returns from a two week vacation in Jennings Oklahoma. Lela Rhodes and Florence Bodwan spend weekend at West Liberty. Ruth Annisie visits Keota friends. O L Rogers and wife of Kaona visit Washington on business.
J. S. Adair starts a circulating library with a modest opening and a 10 cent weekly tariff per book. The newspaper hopes the reading public supports the venture as a potential first class institution in the future.
A woman rushed into a saloon and shattered a glass of beer her husband had just raised, challenging him to drink another. The husband refused and departed, leaving the scene with anger and embarrassment.
A humorous vignette features a clergyman from Weellington who boasts over eating eggs in a grocery, cracking shells and swallowing eggs. The piece ends with a boast of his future sermon and a swaggering closing line.
Report notes two leading citizens joking during croquet and requests to tread on a coat tail and chip off a shoulder. S C Corbin plans return to old ward after a failed bid for alderman and promises permanent residence among neighbors. Items remark on heat, suffrage convention, and lack of discussion of the 16th amendment.
A rambling homely column argues coffee quality drives domestic harmony. The narrator insists good coffee keeps husbands alert, warns against weak brews, and suggests wives prioritize a pleasant home over quarrels, citing a court case about second cups and divorce.
A Grand Rapids professor notes the old-fashioned American hired man as the sole worker who laborers when the boss is away. He cites a few who would sit on a fence yet continue to work until their jaws were exhausted.
Fragmentary quotation attributes a speech to Cicero praising gifts to mankind. The line extols friendship and celestial light as incomparable benefits, noting the sun as essential to human life and joy.
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