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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
2
The home talent play Too Much Money will be staged Saturday evening as a baseball benefit. Seats go on sale Thursday morning at Lemmon's Pharmacy. Cast members rehearse daily and promise a good show.
Walnut school house hosts a box supper on Wednesday evening December 22. Jennie Dunbar, teacher, announces the social event for the community.
The cold spell continues with temperatures down to four below this morning, eight below yesterday. The high yesterday and today reached only ten above at noon, marking the severest cold snap in years for this time of year. Also note Vienna Bakery offers all home made choice candies with pure ingredients.
The passage promotes the Vienna bakery with bars of various sizes and mentions O. T. Smith traveling to Cedar Rapids for business, W. R. Mount to Monmouth for Geo. St. Paul Co., Walter Williams visiting relatives then to Muscatine, Major Latta leaving for Davenport after a weekend at home, and notes the Vienna bakery as the place to get top quality home made candies and bakery goods.
Miss Leora Taylor completed her term at Gray school four miles south of town on Saturday and takes a two week vacation. Misstet Taylor, a Cedar township teacher, visited her parents. Mr and Mrs B F Taylor and daughter Amy, formerly of Estherville, left for Oskaloosa Atlantic Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska after selling their farm and heading to Los Angeles to settle.
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