Local notices and social updates from Washington area
A collage of small town items: dinners at Mrs. Cherry’s, visits between families in Winfield Muscatine and Washington, relatives from Pittsburgh visiting the D H McLaughlin home, and neighbors traveling to Haskins Stickney West Chester Keota Parson Fairfield. Various ads and notices, store closings for inventory, and a sewing machine sale are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Richards
Washington
Harper
A. C. Strigle
Muscatine
Local residents visit across towns and offices noted
Eugene D Owen a chiropractor from Washington reflects on Palmer System use while several families travel for visits. Mrs Besse Bundy and Mrs Alice Lowash go to Keota to visit Hamilton home. J Max Kurtz and family return from Des Moines and plan Burlington stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Besse Bundy
Alice Lowash
Keota
Hamilton Home
Mitchell and relatives visit in Cedar Falls
Crawfordsville Aug 1 Mr and Mrs J C Mitchell Mrs Ros ina White and daughter Anna Mae drove to Cedar Falls to visit Eleanor Mitchell and Prudence Johns T J Long of Sumner Iowa visits relatives E L Clark and Nellie Manners spend day in Burlington Lightning struck James Patterson home during an electrical storm shattering window lights causing damage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
J. C. Mitchell
Rosina White
Anna Mae
Cedar Falls
Eleanor Mitchell
Prudence Johns
T. J. Long
Sumner
Iowa
E. L. Clark
Nellie Manners
Burlington
James Patterson
Reminiscences of Washington Merchants and Passages
In Washington a string of early merchants including John Daugherty from Green County Ohio and Robert R. Walker built sparse business amid harsh winter and wolf threats. Cameron the Scotch trader rose briefly with whiskey sales before dying of stomach disease and unbelief, while Samuel Kinney, Sheriff Stone’s son in law, died soon after marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Daugherty
Green County
Ohio
Robert R. Walker
Washington
Times
George Brokaw
Father Walker
Robert
Vincent
Mary
John Cameron
Cameron
Avernus
Richard Cameron
Tutheath
Samuel Kinney
Sheriff Stone
Local residents visit and travel notes around Washington area
Visitors and returns fill the week with numerous trips from Ainsworth Fairfield Harper Spokane and West Chester. Names include Maxine Welliver Byron Britton Austin Chambers Dorothy Swickard and Mary Elizabeth Ingham as well as D J Palmer and J C Boice with several attending funerals and a Bible conference. Baseball plans Washington versus North English noted.
Four Storms Cause Deaths in Northeast Iowa
Four heavy rainstorms from June 11 to 24 in northeast Iowa caused floods that killed 10 people and damaged property about 2.6 million dollars. Manchester Dyersville Cascade suffered worst with two, two, and two deaths respectively, while 173 bridges were damaged or washed away across six counties and crop losses neared 490 thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Dubuque
H. Merrill Wills
Weather Bureau
Manchester
Dyersville
Cascade
McGregor
Monticello
Mississippi River
Grant County
Wis
Joe Davies County
Iml
Minots Central
Galena
Hawkeye Limited
Chesley Funeral Attended by Local G. A. R. Veterans
Henry Parkinson and N. L. Long were among the G. A. R. veterans who traveled to West Chester this morning to attend Chesley’s funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Sowash
Rev
Ss. K. Coats
West Chester
Chesley
Besse Conger
Henry Parkinson
N. L. Long
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hoot Gibson
Saddle Hawk
Richa Danthornes
EW Toys
William Echler
North Branch
Kas
J. F. Simpson
Echler
Hanna, Ind
M. E. Church
Hanna
McFarlane Co
Credit Managers
Washington Credit Bureau
Iusiness Men's Association
Park
Central Park
Mal Bass
McElhinney Drug Co
Mutual
Doris Stebbins
Winfield
Mills Taylor
J. M. Taylor
Pittsburgh
Penn
D. H. McLaughlin
Triangle
Clarence Rathmel
Haskins
Wilcox
Ralph McCreedy
Harley Meredith
Dempsey & Breitenbach
Charles Beach
Rose Hill
Mrs
D. A. Boyer
Emma Bennett
Louise Stephenson
Fairfield
Geneva Hunter
Leland Meyer
Stickney
South Dakota
Aurilla Mayhew
Parsons
Diamonds
Kelly Springfields
The
E. M. Crabb
St. Bush Home
O. F. Haight
Eugene D. Owen
D. C
Palmer
John
Davidson
O Cahoone
Mr Perry Davidson
Effie van Sickle
Weekington
William Livingston
Des Moines
David Livingston
F. F. Reynolds
Rayma
Willow
J. F. Farthing
Dallas City
Illinois
Howard McCreedy
Charles Howe
Chicago
Jack
Virginia
Howe
George W. Howe
Charley
Charles
Wisconsin
Tamilton
Annapolis
Pacific
Clifford Thorne
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. Max Kurtz
Caryl
Moline
Oral Larkin
Ford
Blaine Holmes
T. A. Jones
Triv
Maxine
Jessie Corbin
Rob Kephart
Wurlington
John Braunshausen
Danville
West Port
John Cook
Milwaukee
Kunath’s Grocery
God
Otr
Maxine Welliver
Ainsworth
Mrs. Byron Britton
Austin Chambers
L. B. Martin
A. ¢. Strigle
Cletus
Ed Ingham
Mary Elizabeth
Elle Ponchard
Wellman
Dorothy Swickard
Julia Cavender
Frank Martin
Waterloo, Town
Marjorie Morrow
Spokane
Miss Morrow
Ivanston
San Francisco
Don Bell
F. W. Eastwood
Douglas
Jean Taylor
Frank Taylor
Arlene Ferguson
R. C. Ferguson
Franklin Waggoner
Oskaloosa
J. C. Boice
John Donaldson
Col
D. J. Palmer
Emmett Frame
Doyle
Bessie
Martha MccCreedy
Joe McCreedy
Robert Mason
Dixie
Aurora, Inois
Ank Kurtz
Victor Records
Breese
Krouth
Washington Cleaners
South Side Square
Dubuaque
Cail
John Shields & Sons
Boyd Berdo
Mammoth Street
Lemmon’s Drug Store
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