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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1909
Page
5
A small family seeks a girl for general house work at the M. R. Mee residence. Inquiries directed to Frank Webb. The residence offers hot and cold water, electric light, gas and furnace. Contact at 37-66.
Weather forecast for Iowa calls for increasing cloudiness with possible showers late tonight or Sunday and warmer conditions.
Local notes mention fresh rolls and coffee cakes at the Vienna. Mr and Mrs Rothschild spent last night in Muscatine. Courter family returned from Oklahoma. Dunham family visited Ainsworth. Frank Buckley heads to Hartford for Travelers Insurance. Mrs Miller and Dora Minick return from Chicago with New York store work. Holmes of Chicago leaves Marsh Bailey home. Florence Miller arrives from Ackley for a weekend visit with Mrs Fleming.
House Cleaning Time is a yearly period for housekeepers and a list of products to ease it. Ammonia Turpentine Paint Chi Nam el Varnish Floor Wax Johnsons Silverware Soap Bon Ami Red Cedar Flakes Insect Powder Krese Germicides fumigators formaldehyde lye sal soda are recommended for floors silverware windows vermin and decontamination.
The advertisement asserts that women housekeepers recognize Anderson & Wilson as the coal seller. It emphasizes firsthand experience with burning quality and claims ladies know the product well.
J J McKeone introduces the Coltrin Concrete Mixer No 9 in Washington adding a 90 cubic yard daily capacity. The machine delivers uniform concrete with correct mix proportions, runs on a gasoline engine, and supports blocks and reinforced concrete work. McKeone highlights prior cement sidewalk and block innovations and invites the community to view demonstrations.
Mr and Mrs George H Paul Mr and Mrs W J Southwell and Frank Webb of the city with David Teuscher and R Hamilton of Keota and Curtis Wells of West Chester arrived from Mexico Missouri where they attended a fine horse sale on the 1st and 2nd. Paul bought three horses including Callaway Belle a Kentucky thoroughbred mare and Diamond Rose a bay gelding. Avenue King a gray trick gelding also purchased. Southwell bought a brown saddle and driving mare while Wells acquired Jella Squirrel and a younger sister among one hundred head shown. The party expects their animals early next week and to display them in Washington streets.
Mrs America M Lee and Miss Goodlander from Drakeville visited at the C L Walker home en route to Packwood for a reception for new revival members with Miss Goodlander as singer. Chas Dunbar and wife travel to Davenport then Minneapolis for their new home. Elijah Fulton on sick list. Ladies of the Christian church host a well attended supper profit 32. The quotation contest in room 6 draws a crowd Friday. About fifty friends bid Alma Kientz farewell before a California trip with family. games and refreshments follow. Musgrove's moves to J L Downs property. White and Utterback attend Lone Tree horse sale. Mrs Mary Breed departs for Perry relatives trip. Misses Stephens and Crossett shop in Washington. Mrs Georgia Turbott returns from Mattoon nursing to help ill mother.
April 3 notices show Mr and Mrs Lee McCleary of Washington visiting J H McCleary home. Mrs J A Morehead travels to Martinsburg Iowa to visit her brother Will Craig. Washington guests include Mrs Frank Young Lizzie Jeanette Wooley Edna Young and Wm Randal. Other locals, Mr and Mrs J Benn return from McFarland visit in Washington. Mrs J YV Datin and son from Bussey Iowa arrive for a kin visit, joining Mrs John Shaffer. Mrs Marsh Sewell and daughter from Winfield arrive to visit my parents. Gordon returns from a short visit at Wyman.
Levi Troyer visited Kalona yesterday while Chas Brown announced the Geo Sauer sale near Richmond today. Mrs Ed Kiburz and two children spent today with friends in Ottumwa. W A Cherryholmes of Morning Sun was in the city on business. Miss Nena Wilson arrived from Brighton to spend Sunday at home. Mr and Mrs Geo McCutcheon drove to Riverside this afternoon for Sunday with relatives. East Side Restaurant advertises Sunday dinners and various pies at the Vienna.
The body of Dempsey Welch will arrive at 6:30 this evening from Portis Kansas and be taken to Wilber Miller's undertaking parlors. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 PM conducted by Rev. A. Smith. Interment will be at Elim Grove cemetery.
M L Bingham of Princeville Illinois refused amputation saying he would rather die. Doctors warned gangrene would kill him if toes were not removed. He treated with Bucklen's Arnica Salve and fully recovered from eczema fever sores boils and piles. 25 cents at J B Lemmon's.
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