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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1903
Page
3
The page lists shops offering fruit cakes and ice cream at Means & Stichter's and Jones bakery with pies and lager cakes. It notes visitors from Havre and Denver, musical events with Wilmet's Orchestra, and several residents traveling to Cleveland and Ottawa. It mentions injuries from a basketball game and a dislocated shoulder, plus upcoming church and social engagements.
Wilfred Bkmnmons hosted the Young Men's Club of the MFE shoreh and ladies for an evening of book guessing. Lena Maxwell and Brillott Lynn won with the most correct answers and received shower bouquets. Florence Kerr entertained guests in honor of Miss Mary Kerr of Victor with guessing contests and prizes for Blanche Chaffee and Grace Lytle. About thirty attended with refreshments served.
The Riverside Leader notes Washington plans to form a baseball club as reported by the Journal. If formed, local ambition runs high for a hot summer of games with Riverside aiming to beat Washington above all rivals.
Raughman & Son have elevated workbenches to suit a new power cutter and installed a six horsepower gasoline engine to run the added machinery. A written turner is in place and plans call for a third floor printing press to label firm names on mittens. Output runs about 100 clozen mittens daily.
Yesterday afternoon a clay pigeon shoot featured five opera company members among the top scorers. All participants fired fifty rounds except A H Wallace who hit twenty five. Corporal Philip Kearney of the Fourteenth U S Cavalry, en route from Fort Du Chien Utah to Washington for a Philippines assignment, passed through Ottumwa en route home to visit relatives before the mission.
Doctors find a good prescription for mankind with the g-cent package suitable for usual occasions. The family bottle costs zero cents and lasts a year. Available at all druggists. City bus line orders by calling Hotel Colenso number 1, handled promptly by Frank Rogers.
We offer cheap work shirts and overalls at 38 cents, 50 cent value, and a lighter shirt at 20 cents. The season calls for dry cleaning and dyeing of old clothes with a satisfaction guarantee. Lace curtains laundered to look like new. Wounded many.
The United Presbyterian church in Washington hosted the wedding of Kila Eleanor Williamson to Melville Glenn Soule of Monmouth Illinois. The ceremony featured green and white decor a large church crowd and a reception for about three hundred guests at Rev and Mrs Williamson’s home. After a wedding journey they will reside at 120 North Fifth Street Monmouth. Soule a Monmouth lawyer and Harvard Law School graduate is slated to practice with John B. Brown.
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