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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 12, 1925

Page

8

Miss Nettie Frakes and Miss Nan Crawford attend Crawford funeral

Clarion residents Miss Nettie Frakes and Miss Nan Crawford attend the funeral of Miss Martha Crawford today. Mr Geo McDaniels had a tendon removed at the county hospital yesterday. Chautauqua hours will close each afternoon. Tina Patton leaves for Wichita to take a season position. Frank and Frances Skipton drive to Sigourney in an open car. Haight advertises sewing machines for sale and repair. Mr and Mrs Bruce Dill visit from Stanford to Harvard for fellowships. Ellen Morrison expected home from Sioux City after a house party. Homemade cookies and hermits sold at Conner's West End grocery and Ross dining hall during Chautauqua.

Nettie Frakes Nan Crawford Clarion Martha Crawford Conner’s West End Ross Chautauqua Grounds Etta Conner Ross Dining Hall Chautauuqua Grounds

Morning travelers and visitors fill area towns

George Maxwell rode the morning train to Winfield while Mrs John Skipton and son Richard left for Sigourney. Mrs E F Bauer rode to Burlington. Mrs M F Huxford with children and her parents journeyed to Crawfordsville. Gertrude Troyler and Anna Hertzler arrived from Hess ton Kansas to visit Katie Reber. Emma Hazlett of Pittsburgh and Emma Fleming of Denver reached for a family gathering with Mrs Clara Darbyshire. A Licher Floyd Miller and Mary A Marsden of Wapello spent the weekend with Mrs M J Kolden. C B Dougherty was in Columbus Junction on business. Lucille Young remains home ill with influenza.

Emma Hazlett Pittsburg Emma Fleming Denver, Colo Clara Darbyshire

Brunswick Company Buys Aeolian Records for Phonographs

Dir and ee report The Brunswick Company has bought and is manufacturing Aeolian Records for phonographs selling at 500¢. Stock includes Because of You Let Me Linger in Your Arms Prisoner's Song Sometime Waltzes Sleeping Beauty's Wedding Montmartre Ros Desert Isle and I'm Tired of Everything But You. Weather forecast notes generally fair tonight and tomorrow.

Brunswick Company Ani Aril Montmartre Ros Desert Isle

Economy to Pave Some Roads In Haynes Address

Haynes argues public funds spent on road paving reduce private motor costs. He cites a 500-vehicle day line and $5,000 yearly savings per mile, with pavement at 25 000 per mile repaid in three years by savings. He favors an 85 million bond to complete a six year program, funded by gas tax and license fees.

Haynes Low Iowa Good Roads Association General Assembly

Brookhart argues against pledges and coop credit limits

Senator Brookhart claims Republicans break pledges and that U S law blocks cooperative farming credit. He says the federal reserve system and Wall Street control credit, and that cooperative credit systems must be legally allowed to survive. He cites Aaron Sapiro and cites potential banking reform to permit cooperative banks and deposits.

Federal Reserve Wall United States National Banking Act

Local residents travel and visitors arrive in town

Mr and Mrs Claude Reister and daughter Harriet plus Mr and Mrs Bert Tracy spent Sunday in Iowa City. Etta Conner Howard Sitler Al Pields and Bernard Wolfe return from Pine River Minnesota fishing trip. Hilda Larson travels to Moline after her mother s death. Martha Crawford funeral drew Keota Leeton and town visitors. Harriet Dougherty heads to Colorado Springs to teach. Wilma Huggins and Mildred Paul visit from California. Mary Roberts and Josephine Bailey to arrive from Colorado Springs.

Claude Reister Harriet Bert Tracy Iowa City Howard Sitler al Pields Bernard Wolfe Pine River Minnesota Mary Roberts Josephine Bailey Washington Colorado Springs Colorado

Local residents and visitors noted in town and travel

Miss Eather Gibson returns from University of Wisconsin summer school and will teach in Charles City next year. Will Chilcote of Cedar Rapids visits Washington on business and to see old friends. Stanley Maxwell assists at Johnsons grocery. Mr and Mrs Julius Wolfe and daughter of Haskins spent the day in town. Mrs Edgar Whetstine of Haskins shopped here. Raymond and Darlene Tillotson leave for Clinton after visiting the Will Steele home. George Lewis and Pat McLaughlin came from Fairfield for the Washington dance. In Viscount Saskatchewan a goose egg setting yielded six hatched birds with one pair from a half-pound eye as an experimental result.

Will Chilcote Cedar Rapids Washington Sask J. J. Elliot

Community events and notices from Columbus Junction

An administrative conference and institute will be held at the Methodist church with pastors, Sunday school workers, and officials attending. A banquet follows at the Presbyterian parlors. A chautauqua concert is planned for August 25 directed by Glenn W. Ayers. The column notes local reunions, rehearsals for Circus Sally, and various visits and travels. it also reports the death of Mrs. W. C. Covert, widow of a former local pastor.

Columbus Junction Methodist Louisa Presbyterian Church Philathea Cres Columbus

Crawfordsville Visitors Stop By on Weekend

Deward Franklin of Burlington and his father E B Franklin were weekend visitors in Crawfordsville. Mr and Mrs Murray Smylie and daughter Helen of Washington visited the John Smylie home. Charles Rodgers and children from near Winfield attended church services. Verne remained longer with his cousin Johnnie McNeill. John McCoy, who had been here several days, returned Saturday.

Crawfordsville

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