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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 18, 1923

Page

6

Local notices and movements across town

Ray Sweet of Crawfordsville spends the day in town. George Bickford arrives from Davenport. Miss Frances McCoy returns from Iowa City. Mrs. Clara Fisher and daughter travel to Chicago. Jim Thompson from Havre is in town on business. Bessie V Dayton heads to Davenport. Mrs. Dick Bidwell to Des Moines to visit relatives. Miss Etta Rush returns home from chautauqua. Fiancee Vanishing Cream advertised. Mrs. W. A. Waner visits from Longmont. Mrs. H. T. Barker travels to Chicago after visiting Fred Sweet. Public auction announced for a well located house near the new high school on Aug 25 at 2 pm. Earnestine Pfaff visits Little Rock after Sigourney stay. Mrs. D. N. Jones goes to Cotter for relatives and chautauqua. Miss Sophia Bogle returns home to Pleasant Plain for weekend with family.

West Chester residents visit town amid community notices

Mrs L P Jackson and Mrs W M Plumber with daughter Lucille of West Chester spend a day in town. Des Moines visitors attend chautauqua. Families return from trips to Michigan Indiana Yellowstone and Black Hills. Local furnace service advertised and car cleaning supplies offered at Lemmon's Pharmacy.

L. P. Jackson W. M. Plumber Daugher Lucille West Chester E. D. Morrison C. C. Wilson Yellowstone Park Black Hills South Dakota Minnesota Iowa

Local social notes include visitors and family travels

Miss Helen Burkey visits Miss Hilda Brown while Miss Marie Butterfield arrives for vacation with her mother Mrs Gladys Verner Williams and son Hoyt of Moline. Various relatives travel from Creston Davenport Holdrege and Pontiac to attend the Conrad reunion and chautauqua with trips to Chicago and California.

Marie Butterfield Gladys Verner Williams Hoyt Moline Jim Varner

Local Society Notes Highlight Club Meetings and Marriages

Booster club members welcomed Mrs. John Miller into the group while plans for a picnic were finalized by organizers Car Jarrard Geo Jarrard Clem Ed gar and Charles Kerr. The issue also reports the marriage of Miss Marjorie Thelma Weidenbeck of Long Beach to Clark Albert Smith. The West Chester Methodist Church auxiliary notes $218 sent to the conference treasurer and a quiet social week with a chautauqua gathering and a post picnic gathering by twelve girls honoring Mrs. Gladys Warner Williams and her son Hoyt.

W. A. Sealer John Miller Jarrard Geo Clem Edgar Charles Kerr Journal Marjorie Thelma Weidenbeck Long Beach California Clark Albert Smith Myrtle Weidenbeck Washington Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the West Chester Methodist Church J. G. Henderson Henderson S. R. Baker C. D. Nash Mis John Dodd Chautauqua Gladys Warner Williams Hoyt Moline

Gossipy Household News and Visitor Notes

Mrs. John Bailey is expected the first of the week for a visit with relatives. J A Work Insurance Agency located in Room 410 of the F and M Bank Building. New phone 254 Black. Mr and Mrs J L Seigle and daughter to visit Mrs Laura Lonwell. Hoxworth reunion in Galesburg Illinois next week. W J Edger of Crawfordsville shopped here yesterday. Capitola Brindley home from Cedar Falls to teach near Fort Dodge. Kate Buckley guest at John Buckley home. hospital charge in Cincinnati. Pendray of Maquoketa visiting friends. Kilgore from Ainsworth shopping. Ora Henderson on vacation at Blair store. Ed Page assisting. Beth Thompson and Georgia Walker visiting Mort Keeley home. Keeley aunt and sister. Dorothy Walker has been here all week.

Kate Buckley John Buckley West 2Nd Street Miss Buckley Cincinnati Ohio Vach Thompson Counel, Bluffs Beth Thompson Georgia Walker Mt. Pleasant Mort Keeley Mrs. Thompson Mrs. Keeley Walker Dorothy Walker

Picnic Planned at Chautauqua for Mrs Sproatt and Son

A picnic party is planned for this evening at Chautauqua to honor Mrs Mary Sproatt and her son John from Iowa City Iowa.

Chautauqua Mary Sproatt John Iowa City Iowa

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