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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
8
Will sell at auction Saturday August 30 at 4 P.M. at residence 422 So 3rd Ave one block west of laundry. Items include buffet kitchen cabinet dining table and 6 chairs couch ice box blue steel range gas stove mantle clock parlor set leather chairs hall tree child bed bicycle tires and other articles. W M Sleeper DF Macon Auct 26-28-29.
Our new club rooms and ladies parlor are ready for use. An informal opening is scheduled Saturday afternoon and evening. August 30th invites Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and their families to attend during the afternoon or evening.
Those seeking to take a ride in Washington's new airplane may book at Commercial Savings Bank Mc Elhinney Drug Store or the Journal office.
The Logue Estate sale of household goods set for September 1 has been indefinitely postponed due to sickness in the Logue family. The postponement affects all items previously listed for the sale.
A brief ad invites readers to subscribe with price lists for clubs and access to magazines. It directs inquiries to “59 Red” or to write in care of the Journal for Nita Belle Mekoon Avent.
The Banks of the city will be closed Monday September 1 in observance of Labor Day. Local offices and services will resume on the following business day.
An exploration of inner beauty over outward looks. The text argues that beauty shifts with the heart and mind, making plainness appear charming to a listener who perceives virtue and kindness within. It stresses character as the true measure of beauty.
A reflective line laments overlooking a man and his ox for their strengths, criticizing focus on infirmities. The author questions valuing health and labor over character and deeds, urging attention to essential virtues and usefulness.
A county defense committee drafts a Washington county roster of soldiers sailors Marines and nurses. Read the listed names and report any information to County Auditor Griffith. Names include Bennett Hartman Kock Quinn Schrader Wylie White Guthrie Marek Steil Unger Kersey Simon Black Hi Farr Manasmith Tandy Wingler Miller Neffeneger and others.
Several items note community events and local logistics. Brighton vs Riverside football set for Sept 11 with tickets and transportation services highlighted. Washington County welcomes families for Welcome Home Day on Sept 16 while postings invite residents to host students for the school year and arrange room and board through the superintendent’s office.
Miss Junia Chalmers heads to a hearing for the year ahead. Evening Methodist services resume next Sunday. Frank Leatty and doctors Reid Foley attended races at the Junction Pair. Elizabeth Finlay, county hospital superintendent, traveled to Fairfield on business. Mrs. Mary McAvoy leaves for Muscatine with her daughter and three grandchildren for an evening visit.
A big free dinner for soldiers sailors marines and nurses is planned at the Soldiers Church Methodist with two seatings at 6 and 6 45. Equipment from other churches will be borrowed. About 350 can be served at once in the church basement and tickets will be issued at registration booths.
A fragment from Richards Cash Market lists various grocery items with per pound prices. Items include boneless boil and whole hams, picnic hams, peanut butter, oleo, beet liver veal lamb and chickens, with a phone contact for orders.
Lyon's for jeookies. gout A. FY. Smith and daughter Miss Bessie Smifield returned home with F. E. and C. L. Smith. Florerice and Mar jorie, daughters of F. E. Smith, will visit in Bloomfield. Mrs Varney Smith received a letter from Miss Mildred Varney in Sioux City en route to Florida with her aunt Mrs Clara Bernard visiting many cities.
M. T. Trier of Keota purchases a Duree male yearling at the Des Moines State Fair for $6,000. The animal is described as among the best shown, reflecting strong demand for high quality hogs at the event. A second Duroc reportedly sold for $12,600.66 during the fair.
The remark praises braver people who confront evil directly and speak truth regardless of fear. It frames courage as a valued human trait and cites President Garfield as the speaker.
Rev R F Galloway will leave next week for Fort Smith Arkansas where he has accepted the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian church Fort Smith is a city of about 40000 people and his new charge is a church of some 300 members He completed twenty five months of army MCA work the first of this month and will return to regular ministry His family will join him the last of next month He is one of Washington counties own boys and friends here will be glad for the appointment
Trade in wheelbarrows across South Africa averages between forty five thousand and fifty thousand dollars annually in normal times.
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