Mrs Hervey Bell Visits West Chester Yesterday
Mrs Hervey Bell arrived in West Chester as a visitor yesterday and stayed briefly to tour local sites. She met with residents and shared remarks on community events during her brief stop.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
2
Mrs Hervey Bell arrived in West Chester as a visitor yesterday and stayed briefly to tour local sites. She met with residents and shared remarks on community events during her brief stop.
The official forecast covers Indiana Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa as generally fair. Lower Michigan will be partly cloudy.
Winter wheat prices between 1.02 and 1.04 per bushel for No 3 grades with several spring and hard wheat listings. Live stock data show hogs at 5.70 to 5.80 for choice heavy shipping, cattle from 6.40 to 7.25 for prime steers, and sheep around 4.50 to 6.50. East Buffalo stock receipts include slower cattle trading, hogs near 5.60 to 5.80, and lambs up to 7.50. Elgin creamery prices list various creamery product quotes from 23 to 32 cents.
Elmer Vincent of Keola and Bert Smith of Dublin visited the Academy last Friday. Harry Robertson, Harry Coppock, and Arthur Lathrop began work there last week. Marguerite Simpson visited friends in town. Carl Mayer visited his brother Walter. A skating party after prayer meeting occurred at the pond west of town. Several absences noted including Bidwell and Myra Gibson. The two literary societies will host the new students in chapel hall next Tuesday night. Mr and Mrs Frank Schultz and others departed for Delavan Illinois after visiting the Fred Pech home.
The Rev. J. M. Walsh was a passenger yesterday morning for Iowa City where he spent the day.
For sale is a collection of extra good farms and town residence and business property near West Chester in Washington County Iowa. Properties are within two to five miles of town and in a strong market. Also offered are a meat market and ice business with buildings and fixtures, a good paying enterprise, and a first class elevator and coal business. J. D. Dayton, West Chester.
Moving sale on December 17, 1908 begins 10 a m on the Jesse Marr farm four miles east of Washington along the Washington and Ainsworth wagon road. Auction lists horses cattle hogs corn seed oats hay farm implements and household items with credit terms over ten dollars and cash for smaller sums. Auctioneers F W Bracht D F Macon.
Mrs A C Williams of Backy recounts a grave yard cough that plagued her for three years until Dr King’s New Discovery restored her health. She gained 58 pounds and praises the medicine’s record for curing coughs and lung throat diseases and preventing pneumonia. Sold at J E Lemmon’s drug store 50 cents and 1 dollar Trials free.
Owing to Miss Nora Motts being in Chicago from Monday December 14 to Monday December 21, the Washington hair dressing parlors will be closed during that time. Fox & Dewey, Props. N. S. 8. 8.
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