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Local notes and visits fill the town
Local item brief mentions numerous visitors and departures. Win Smouse and Miss Essie MacGugin return from Fairfield, Johnson advertises goods and lager cakes, and bread specials at Johnsons. Several residents travel to Ainsworth Havre Muscatine Keota and Washington for visits, Easter celebrations, or work. Community events include a dance in Columbus Junction and Life Insurance work in West Chester.
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Verle Dunham
Ainsworth
Fred Smith
Richland
Miss Moreland
Maud Chilcote
Keota
Johnson's
Vienna
Sandros
Muscatine
Louis Jugenheimer
Havre
Frankie Porter
Wyman
E. M. Jones
Iowa City
Unionville
Conner & Schilling
W. L. Smith
Chas. McDowell
Clarence Atwood
West Chester
New York Life Insurance Co
Merton Teeter
Have
Mount
Laura Rich
Earl Corbin
Bert Dixon
K. P. Hall
Columbus Junction
E. G. McFarland
Lucy Langenberg
News
G. E. Rynearson
Mable Chaffee
Webster
Walter Brown
Washington
Kalona News