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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1931
Page
8
Keota resident Charles Lenninger visited Washington today for business. Mrs. J. B. Mangold and her children John Franses Mae Laville and Mary Dougall traveled to Des Moines today for a short business trip.
Local notice reports a fresh shipment of Foss chocolates at the Chocolate Shop on the East Side. Also notes residents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Case and son, Mrs. J. W. HesselTine visiting Reel Island with Harry Boileau, and cucumber pickles for sale with delivery starting Tuesday.
Washington residents and visitors were seen in town with several calling on local businesses. Rev and Mrs D C Fulton and children returned from the east after two months away with Mrs Fulton recovering from an operation in Pittsburgh. AMuscatine couples and Muscatine visitors plan weekend visits with local families.
Mrs Alvin S Allen and daughters Louise and Katherine from Richland visited Washington yesterday. Out of town shoppers include Mrs D C Schantz Grace Duvall Mrs Herman Schultz Maude Fleming and Effie McCarty. Virginia Heyde and Wendall Lund were noted in town with local events and illness affecting Dorothy Babb at J C Penney and a tonsil case at the county hospital.
Patients undergo tonsillectomies at the county hospital in Washington this morning including Howard Stewart Jr and Oscar Riley. Ice cream and bread specials are listed by Hartman Ice Cream Co. in Washington. The Independent club convenes at Mrs. Nelson Thompson’s home while several residents such as Mrs. Ida Cady and Mrs. Seymour Martin visit from Keota and Des Moines.
A truck delivered fish to town and deputy game warden E L Breitenbach was notified. The tanks held 1090 channel catfish 200 bullheads and 2000 carp. The fish were placed above the dam at Wellman on the English River and came from the Town state fisheries in Des Moines.
Oklahoma City August 22 motorists paid two cents a gallon more for gasoline and most did so with a smile as they viewed the rise as proof that Gov. William H Murray and Gov. Ross Sterling were pressuring refiners to abandon open price policy.
London reports King George will return from Scotland tomorrow as the labor cabinet concludes final planning for a solution to the financial crisis. The king abandoned his holiday to oversee the process and the cabinet is to meet on the plan's results.
A good hive in a favorable location yields about a pound of honey in 45 minutes, equating to roughly 20 to 22 cents daily.
Miss Virginia Dunbar, released from the local hospital after two months, left the facility this morning.
U P reports Senator James Couzens offers $1,000,000 for Detroit unemployment relief next winter. The gift depends on Mayor Frank Murphy's unemployment committee raising $8,000,000 from private sources.
Minneapolis August 22 James F Bell president of General Mills urged the farm board to mill wheat into flour before shipping to Brazil and China He said milling 40 000 000 bushels would raise mill employment by ten percent and that American mills would operate without profit to keep workers employed Misses Dorothy and Geneva Prebyl of Riverside were shoppers in town yesterday.
Auctioneer and scout officials visited Washington while local residents dropped by for updates.Phillip A. Dumont visited from Des Moines with Mr and Mrs W G Dumont. Mrs James Frain and Mrs Stone from Brighton spent time in town. A J McMillan of Lone Tree renewed acquaintances and Eugene Schipfer of Sigourney called on CC A Speer. C E Beatty brought a 12 and a half foot tall corn stalk to the Journal office from his field south of the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baird and Mr. and Mrs. G. ik. Gilbert report a week in a cabin owned by Mrs. Baird’s daughter Mrs. Milo Browns high in the Colorado mountains 11000 feet up where they caught 87 mountain trout. They praise the scenery and note orchards with fruit ready to pick and ship east. Mrs. J. P. Thomas returned home from visiting W. T. Marr at Ainsworth.
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