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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1924
Page
8
Arch Rest Oxfords. Wilson's. gat and W Shannon arrived last evening from Mt. Pleasant to visit Mrs. W A Shannon. Lucille and James Pasha, pupils at the local school, returned from Pleasant Plain after Easter break.
Local note shows Acrobata footwear marketed for children at Wilsons. Mrs Dora Goodwin was called to Letts by her daughter illness. Ina Patterson and Hazel Snell of Ainsworth visited Washington yesterday. Real estate ad for Broadgate Shop sale at South Iowa Ave. Rose Wheelan and Marian Gelski, Easter at Immaculate Academy in Davenport, return to studies. Oats supply available from Washington Cereal Mill. Mrs J R Blanchflower returned home from winter visit via Chicago. Wylie Stewart to sing at First United Presbyterian Friday night. Major American tenor scheduled for 8 o clock program.
Readable notices advertise ready-made porch trellises and a decorative pergola for homes from The White Yard with phone numbers. Also listed are sales on silk pongee yardage at 95c, a chicken dinner special, and various local notices including a chiropodist offering services and a rummage sale at P. E. B. O. in a period newspaper style.
Tomorrow evening the University Symphony Orchestra performs a seventy five member program at Graham Theatre. Seats are on sale now and the concert is billed as a memorable musical event. Also noted are brief classified items about clothing and silk pongee at New York Store and a local trip report by John Belville and Glenn Mace returning from Cedar Falls.
The Associated Press reports Governor Pinchot competes with Ralph Strassburger for the state wide Republican primary and delegate at large to the Republican National Convention. After William S. Vare shifted support, Pinchot faced organized opposition from Vare followers who now back Strassburger.
Crawfordsville notes show Mr. Knowles of Fairfield visiting over Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Davidson. Milton Davidson Mabel Crooks and Lucile Sipe returned to Iowa City to resume college work after Easter vacation. The Doty siblings moved into Mrs Nicholson's house. Mrs Fr R McKee and J H Huston are ill. Fire alarm this morning as the Methodist parsonage roof burned from a chimney but extinguished by chemicals.
Vernon L. Hague withdrew as a Republican candidate for the U S Senate from Iowa. He hinted he may run again in two years when Senator Cummins’s term ends. Hague, a Princeton graduate and Fairfield cattleman, had campaigned since last September with state HQ in Fort Dodge.
A baby girl, first child of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Baldrige, arrived Sunday morning at the county hospital and is described as a welcome addition to Washington. Jimmy Tree and family visited grandparents on South Iowa Ave, with ties to the Schmoeller family through Norine Schmoeller.
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