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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1919
Page
8
The Grand Master J M Hazlett calls a special session of the Grand Lodge in Washington on April 24 to confer the Grand Lodge and Post Official Degree and to hold a school of Instruction. Past Grands need Past Grand Certificates and dues certificates. others require a jurisdictional request.
A string of morning trips features Mrs. Crawford visiting friends in Ainsworth Iowa Mr. Morris travels to Harris Missouri to see her son W H Norcross Mrs Barnes goes to Moulton Iowa to visit daughter Mrs G A Singley Miss Witthoft visits Lincoln Illinois to see her sister Mrs Katherine Ropers and numerous others attend shops sales and social events across Iowa including weddings and church circle meetings.
Mrs Miles Bradford attended District Convention of the Women's Home Missionary Society. Mrs Alice Hesseltine visited her son Glenn in West Chester. Mrs M D Work Miss Maude Simerman and Lee Lease went to Keota for Ruby Simerman and Irwin England wedding. Mrs J M Wilson Julia Cavender and C 8 Woodford went to Muscatine for the same district gathering. Mrs Mary E Walls returned to Jameson Missouri after visiting daughter Mrs W E B Cox and family. Ads promote Sand and Sanol medicines. Miss Viola Auten plans Washington trip after June, offers piano enrollment. Mr and Mrs Chas Reneau and son visited Burlington to meet relatives Frank Walters and Leonard Walters returning from France.
Howard R. Reighard and Anneta Mary Weible of Dutch Creek township were issued a marriage license. Also noted are a Ford spark plug sale and a brief family visit from Keokuk with Mrs. C. F. Stierwalt and Charles Junior staying with grandparents in Keokuk before Mrs. Stierwalt's trip to Kansas City.
A boy brought before an English magistrate for stealing gooseberries faced an absent clerk. The magistrate searched an alphabetical law book and told the youth it was lucky for him the crime involved gooseberries, not a goose, since a goose would mean a month in detention. He discharged the boy.
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Regular Damascus Shrine U D meeting set for Thursday April 24 at 8 00 PM at the Commercial Club all Shriners urged to attend.
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