Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa
Tuesday, November 29, 1929
page 8, column 3-5
WILLIAMSBURG NEWS
The Ford Garage of Williamsburg owned and operated by D. C.
Toomey was sold this week by Mr. Toomey to Mr. Swartzendruber and
Mr. Yoder of Kalona and Possession passes at once. Mr. Toomey had
been handling the Ford business in Williamsburg for the past four
years and during that time has made a big success. He has not
made known his plans for the future, but says that he intends to
take a respite for a time at least from work. It is to be hoped
that he and his family will remain in Williamsburg, where in the
past four years they have entered so largely into the business
educational and social activities of the community.
Dr. S. A. Moffett, a missionary for thirty-one years in Pyeng
Yang, Korea, arrived in Williamsburg Thursday night and visited
until Saturday morning at the home of Mrs. Thos. E. Gittins and
her daughter, Miss Ann. Dr. Moffett went from Indiana in 1889 and
was sent by the Mission Board to the field of Korea where he, in
company with Dr. Lee were pioneers in mission work in that
country. He has witnessed the initial Christian work in Korea
into the phenomenal proportion that it has resumed today and in
all this he has been a large part. He is now home on a years'
furlough, leaving Korea in July, commissioned as a delegate to
the pre-war conference. A reception was given in his honor at the
home of Mrs. Gittins Friday afternoon. Miss Ann Gittins and Mr.
Moffett were co-laborers in the same mission station at Pyeng
Yang. They were in Korea during the stirring time and scenes of
March 1, 1919, and were eye-witnesses to the heart-rendering
scenes that were brought on by the strained relations between the
Japanese and Koreans. Dr. Moffett spoke at the Presbyterian
church Friday evening. He left Saturday morning for a Sunday
appointment in Fort Dodge.
Rev. R. Ames Montgomery, Prest [sic] of Parsons college filled
the pulpit of the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. John Yates and granddaughter, Elizabeth Tales, have
left for Dalvina, Florida, to spend the winter.
Mr. Milo Black has returned from Winnipeg to spend the winter
here among his old friends and neighbors. He runs an extensive
farm near Winnipeg and each year after the harvesting, threshing
and marketing, he returns to Iowa to await the opening of the
spring in the northern land.
Mrs. Evan W. Edwards and Mrs, Elizabeth Harris returned from
Cumberland, Saturday night where they have been visiting their
sister, Mrs. Hughes, who is ill.
Miss Rachel Williams, who is teacher of music in the public
schools of Shenandoah spent the week end with her relatives in
town.
The crew of men who are to slate the roof of St. Mary's church
have arrived and are now at work. It is a tedious job as all of
the slate must be separated according to size and color, and the
time required on the work will be five or six weeks with good
weather.
Mrs. Freeman Smith visited recently at Moulton with her son, Rev.
Natter Smith and family.
F. W. Tomasek was a business caller at Parnell on Wednesday.
Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Brockman visited this week with Mrs. M. Brown
of the Leader Store, sister of Mrs. Brockman.
Mrs. H. P. Edwards returned home Wednesday from a two weeks visit
at the home of her son Aubrey at Garden Grove, Iowa.
Williamsburg has a good chance securing the Pershing highway if
proper steps are taken. The agent of the Pershing Highway
Association has been in town several times to consult with the
business men in regard to the matter. He tells us we are in the
most favorable route for the road. This highway runs from
Winnipeg to New Orleans and will be one of the main north and
south roads through the country.
A big meeting was held in Fairfield the other day at which time
our townsman, Mr. H. A. Dunlap, was elected president of the road
for the section between Williamsburg and Fairfield. The Community
club will hold a meeting Tuesday evening in the Interests of the
Pershing Highway.
Mr. Thos. G. Williams was out from Iowa City Tuesday and spent a
day with his brother. W. G. Williams of Evansville. Mr. Williams
is planning to leave soon for Florida to spend the winter.
Miss Mae Keegan came down from Cedar Rapids Tuesday for a week's
visit with her sister and brother west of town.
Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Vanderlip and the Superintendent of the
Sigourney schools were up on Wednesday and spent the afternoon
with Rev. G. J. Schillerstrom in a conference on church work and
methods.
Mrs. Williams Setzer of Amana recently visited her daughter, Mrs.
F. C. Schadt.
W. L. Williams, the school janitor sold his crop of honey last
week to Mr. Johnson of Webster and received more than $600.
"Janitor Bill," as his friends call him, has bees as
one of his side lines and he has made a success of bee culture.
His honey is always of a high standard and commands a high price.
Walter Gallagher, the nephew of the editor man, is on the staff
of the Williamsburg Journal-Tribune. Walter is an
ambitious, lovable boy, and he says it is his desire to know the
ins and outs of the newspaper business. We think there must be
something in the name of Gallagher to be able to put cheer and
warmth and life in a paper. Anyway it goes right on from uncle to
nephew.
Fred Newkirk of York township finished husking his 5,000 bushels
of corn last week. This is not so remarkable itself, but when it
is remembered that the Newkirk farm picked and barreled 6,000 it
is at once plain that every one at Newkirks works.
Evan Williams, of Evansville left Wednesday for California to
spend the winter with his daughter, at El Centro.
[transcribed by S.W., November 2007]