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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1924
Page
8
Mrs Etta Glassburner and Miss Elsie spent yesterday in Fairfield while Jack Baker returned to Burlington after a visit with Mark Weidt. Warren's Seed Store promotes campers iceless coolers to keep butter hard and milk sweet for chautauqua supplies.
Miss Nelle Tripp returns from Sioux City after visiting Dr and Mrs Roy Tripp. Dr Tripp drove to Washington last week with his two children Mary F Frances and George for a visit at George Maxwell and Mrs George Tripp homer. Miss Tripp resumes stay in Sioux City.
Local notices and briefings show Mr and Mrs Robert McClintock of Brighton visiting Washington. Rev F W Eastwood Rev Frank Gallaway and Rep Willard Wylie travel to Cedar Falls for a conference. Diabetes illness hits the three year old son of Mr and Mrs Asa Tappan. Baptist ladies plan a August 2 bake sale at the Washington Cleaners. Mrs D A Peterson of Ainsworth visited. Third annual Legion fall festival slated for Crawfordsville September 4 and 5 with games tennis tournaments and entertainments.
The notice lists residents traveling to South Dakota for harvest, visits to Des Moines and Kansas City, and opening of a new taxi service at phone 73 run by Clark & Ross. Various families, including Eicher, Dougherty, Baker, Tracy, Humphreys, and others, are noted with departures and visits across Iowa and nearby states.
A sequence of short notices lists residents and visitors: Mable Dankwart heads to Danville for weeks. E W Wise and James Jones of Brighton visited town. Mrs J M Kelly and Mr and Mrs Gladden Mast with Katheryn June visited. many locals spend days in Washington or Muscatine. T F Greenfield and Florence from Wisconsin visit and Mr Greenfield moves to Baltimore for a printing job.
President Calvin Coolidge completes his first year in office staying at the desk most of the day. He recalls the year’s points as viewed by the public while planning a possible speech and a future voyage aboard the Mayflower for a while.
Washington, Aug 2 Establishment of an additional Republican headquarters in Minneapolis for intensive campaign in the five state stronghold of Senator La Follette's independent bid is under consideration. Senator Curtis urged the national committee to act, saying it would best organize the fight in Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana.
Qualified Tennessee voters will cast ballots August 7 in state and local primaries including two Supreme Court seats and two Court of Appeals seats. Governor Peay seeks renomination amid reform and economy plans while five Republicans contend for the governorship. Senate and congressional races feature several Democratic and Republican hopefuls and a heated contest for the U.S. Senate seat will unfold alongside district Congress races.
Arm strong Spear longtime secretary of Cornell college Cedar Rapids dies at Mount Vernon Iowa from a stroke. He had been unconscious since Thursday after first being struck in California last spring. He was seventy years old.
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