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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1927

Page

8

Visit Anticipation By Wayland Family

Me and Mrs. John Conrad and daughter Hazel of Wayland visited to attend to business affairs and spent the day here.

John Conrad Hazel of Wayland

Keota move follows Franklin promotion in utilities

Mr and Mrs Deward Franklin plan to relocate furniture to Keota around Saturday or early next week after he was appointed manager of the Iowa Southern Utilities branch office there. The move comes as he begins a new posting and neighbors note the change amid local business activity.

Deward Franklin Keota Mr. Franklin Iowa Southern Utilities

Local residents relocate homes and travels noted

Miss Edith Chilcote returns from Williamsburg Iowa to stay with sister Mrs C D Weldin and Phillip Weldin family. Mr and Mrs John Swisher sell East Main home and plan move to Pueblo Colorado as daughter Asa Jones resides there. Swisher finalizes leave of absence with Halligan Davenport after 31 years. Mrs Swisher ill with limited improvement.

Edith Chilcote Williamsburg Iowa C. D. Weldin Mrs. Weldin Miss Chilcote Phillip Weldin John Swisher East Main Street Pueblo Colorado Asa Jones Swisher George McDaniel Halligan Company Davenport Raymond Condit Esther Welch Smith Bessie Longer

General Grants Birthday Mentioned and Fashion Notes

Yesterday April 27 marked General Grants birthday born on April 27 1822 and a catalog notes fashion items for young ladies including parchment and rose blush oxfords with Cuban heels and rose blush patent oxfords with inlay trim from Anne Florsheims Atchison Arch-Preservers.

Grant

Town Visitors and Family News Brief

Mrs C E Walton and Mes Clinton Walton of West Chester are in town visiting friends. Mrs Harry Griebel and son Charles have been here the last week visiting Mrs Griebel's mother Mrs W. Nickern and sister Mrs Alfred Faulkner. Mrs Dr Boller was called to Wayland yesterday for her mother Mrs C Wenger who has been hemorrhaging. L S Patterson spent yesterday in Davenport on business.

Harry Pearson Ainsworth Ernest Dean Dan Hazel Dean Ivo Grady Colleen Kalona C. E. Walton Mes Clinton Walton West Chester Harry Griebel Charles Griebel W. ©. Nickern Alfred Faulkner DeWitt Iown Dr. Boller Wayland C. ©. Wenger

For Sale Anto Van Sickle Place on East Washington

Up for sale is the Antho Van Sickle property on East Washington Street a modern one acre lot with fruit trees ample shade and shrubbery. Described as one of the best bargains in Washington the ad invites appointments by Dempsey and Breitenbach on the North Side phone 159.

Antho van Sickle Washington Street Washington

Hofmann Plays Strauss Handel Pieces In Concert

Josef Hofmann performs selections including Johann Strauss pieces and Handel Messiah elements, with minuet and scherzo style passages, highlighting four numbers in a single program.

Josef Hofmann Johann Strauss Messiah George Frederick Handel

Bunce son recovering after appendicitis operation

Mr and Mrs Lyman Bunce received a noon telephone call that their son Ralph Bunce, who underwent an operation for acute appendicitis at a Burlington hospital yesterday morning, is getting along splendidly after the procedure performed about 4:30 yesterday morning.

Lyman Bunce Ralph Bunce Burlington Hopital

Poultry Care Service Offered Free By Local Store

Notice announces HR SS E Watson offers free poultry care and treatment services, with potential permanent support if demand grows. Also mentions McCALL BROS bargains on drop head sewing machines, repairs, and supplies. Mrs. Joe McGraw, burned by a chicken brooder, has improved after hospital care. Mrs. Harry Duncan visits from Ainsworth.

SS. E. Watson

Eastwood Elected Delegate to General Assembly

Rev. F. W. Eastwood was chosen by the Iowa City Presbytery meeting at Muscatine to serve as a delegate to the General Assembly to be held in San Francisco California on May 24. Mrs. Richard Gaines and her daughter Shirlene Mae arrived from Ainsworth last evening to visit at Fairfield before returning home.

Jeannette Rothschild F. W.W. Eastwood Iowa City Muscatine General Assembly The Presbyterian Church Richard Gaines Daugher Shirlene Mae Ainsworth Tie Harry Duncan

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