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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1929
Page
8
Mrs. R. C. Risk and Mrs. Harvey Meek spent yesterday in Des Moines. Mr. Risk has been in the northwestern part of the state on state highway work. The Risks plan to visit J. H. Hunston and Mrs. Meek. A serious diphtheria case is reported in the A. B. Music home southwest of town.
Seventy six Mrs Albert Ol linger and son Leo visited Tuesday afternoon at the Harley Harden home. Quite a number attended the Albert Dayton sale Wednesday. Mrs Henry Henderson visited Tuesday afternoon at the Albert Dayton home. E E Chambers and Harry Huber own new Ford Tudors. Mr and Mrs Carl Mayer and Mary Martha drove to Des Moines Wednesday after Richard Mayers who attends school there. Mr and Mrs Albert Dayton and Mabel to Thanksgiving dinner at James Havel Jr home south of Rivers de. Mrs Harry Huber on sick list. Mr and Mrs Seba Fleaney visited Thursday at the John Henderson home. Mrs Henry Wenderson visited Thursday at the Stanleighender son home. Mr and Mrs Carl Mayer and family visited Friday at Arthur Romine home. Stanleigh Henderson was a West Chester caller Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Edward Conrad visited last Sunday at parental John Woltering home near Harper. We had a few cold days last week and winter thoughts came. A very complete surprise was carried off at the Albert Dayton home Friday night with about thirty friends and neighbors of the western area.
Seventy-Six township hosted a long social with games and a late hour refreshment of weiner sandwiches, pickles and coffee. Attendees included multiple local families and individuals such as Bower Gabel Olinger Sanders Nycum Funston Fleanor Hender son Harden and Pulver with Dayton praised for a silver souvenir gift as they move to Washington.
Coach George Freshwaters leads a 15 plus member Washington junior college squad in early winter practice. Standouts include Fisher Lytle Korf Harold Floyd Tucker Turner Fuhr Johnson Little Zeck Reinert Letts Blick Westphal and others. Manager David Fulton. Schedule lists Muscatine Malquoketa Albia Muscatine Burlington Albia Burlington Bloomfield Bloomfield Graceland Maquoketa. Additional games possible.
Local item notes a pass ion play at the M E church scheduled for tomorrow with admission 50c and 25c. Auctioneer Chas Brown can be reached at phone 282 Black. Also mentions a poultry breeder offering eggs for hatching and a Richmond Low a native visiting en route to Houston for a Los Angeles paint company inspector job. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs George Dodds weighs 6% pounds. Shorty offers a 25 cent haircut.
Mrs Will Dunbar and Clair were Washington callers Friday. Families from Cedar Falls Brilton and Brighton shared Thanksgiving at Harlow Engel and visited others during the holiday. A light snow marked the holiday while many relatives gathered around Davie and Stout families in Iowa communities.
An advertisement lists Moriarty's Repair Shop at 105 N. Mar. Ave offering furniture re pairing upholstering and refinishing services. It also notes local errands and social notices including travel plans of Robert Burnside to Garden City Kansas and Mr and Mrs H W Russell heading to San Diego for the winter. The page includes a Passion Play feature from Oberammergau with Dr Berry of Chicago and a Baptist bazaar date at Washington Cleaners with homemade mincemeat and Vapore throat remedy from Shermans.
In Kansas City Missouri a patrolman C H D'agman Jr was shot in the abdomen and nose during a gunfight with three gangsters. He lay in critical condition as volunteers offered blood transfusions after the attack near a gangster car.
Columbus Junction reports a community event with the optretta Jerry of Jericho Road set for the Columbus High School auditorium. Local pastor Rev G I Davis of Grand Junction preached at the Presbyterian church, while residents Burle Ruston and the Ames family visited relatives and welcomed a newborn. 4-H club congress in Chicago featured Miss Lucille Oak and Miss Veda Gipple.
The Iowa state highway commission planned to let contracts today for 73.164 miles of paving on primary roads across the state. Audubon county gains 22.971 miles on U S 71 Brayton to Audubon and other segments include primary No 7 from Hamlin to Guthrie county line and Kimballtown to county line. Black Hawk Grundy Shelby and Clark counties receive additional pave projects totaling 11 to 13 miles each along routes 59 90 7 and 34 respectively, plus 26 carloads of Douglas fir bridge lumber.
Russia maintains a vast air network with the Moscow to Irkutsk line as the longest regular route, spanning over 3000 miles and forming the core of its long distance aviation system.
Harmon Brinning and Henry Horning left last night for Long Beach California to spend the remainder of the winter. Mrs Effie Knowles went to Burlington to visit at the home of her daughter Mrs H S Shaw. Miss Lette Stanton returned to Davenport after visiting at C V Stanton's home. Auctioneer D F Macon of Washington Iowa with phone 251 red 244tt.
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