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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
2
Local notices report on accidents deaths births and marriages gathered by our staff with prompt coverage. Names and places reflect community events and changes in residents’ lives.
August 21 notes list numerous trips and visits by residents. Nicola and family return from Marengo to their home. Estelle Cruz and Josie Allen came back from Minneapolis after a G A R encampment. A Schell visit Cedar Rapids. several others depart for Wellman Wapello Des Moines Iowa City and Canada trips.
August notes report Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chabal visiting relatives at the Yanskey home. Lula Tobin visits family in Ainsworth. Grandpa Kos visits Mrs. Joe Shalla. Public school opens with Dee Work and Bertha Grady teaching. Nettie Keifer returns from weeks at home. Mrs. Page remains ill. Adolph Votruda painted the house last week. Henry Smith calls on business in Washington. Mr. Arnold on sick list. Mrs. S rank Welte visits Geo. Stumpf. Chas Lintz busy cider making in warm days.
Rev Walter Smith drove to Williamsburg Monday to visit home folks with church to follow after conference. Miss Zella Gardner of Albia leaves for Washington for a day visit after a week with relatives nearby. Miss Joy Schreckengast of Burlington arrives for several days at the F G Martin home. Families plan camping during Chautauqua. Miss Mabel Chaffee of Webster visits Mrs Duane McClure and friends nearby.
John Byers from Chanute Kansas visits the Byers parental home. A new boy arrives at the Tom Riordan home since Thursday. Mrs. E W Dicken and daughter Mrs. Cavender visit Frank Martins. Jay Bishop from New Hampton visits his mother Mrs Mary Bishop. Miss Lissa Armacost visits her aunt Mrs Warren Bishop. Marie Riordan narrowly avoids serious injury after a horse kick to the stomach.
August 22 reports many residents leaving for extended trips including Kansas Oklahoma and Colorado. individuals travel to Washington Hecla Kankakee Tipton Stratford Perryland Texas Panhandle and Oregon for family visits land interests and business.
Roland Neal returned home from Sigourney where he attended Chautauqua the past days. William Sunday spoke yesterday. Claude Davis and thirteen men left for Canada for about two weeks. Ralph Hamilton and son Claire plus Conrad Ramge took a pleasure trip to California. Mrs. Charles Dittman of Buffalo, N Y visited Dr. Paul Dittman’s home and left for Illinois to see her daughter.
August 21 updates include Joe Rich building a chicken house with Jake Graber and crew doing carpentry work. Shady Vansant assists Jake Leichty remodeling a house. J F Roth of Wayland and Bill Cochran work on timber and town visits. Local residents attend Chautauqua in Washington and visit relatives in nearby towns.
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