Good Fellows Will Publish Statement Soon
The Good Fellows club treasurer will publish this year’s receipts and expenditures after all bills arrive. Members are urged to submit accounts to J. B. Crall immediately. Contributions exceed prior years with nearly 120 dinner baskets delivered at about three dollars each. Surplus, if any, will be banked to earn interest and aid next Christmas fund.
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Good Fellows Club
Good Fellows
J. B. Crall
Good Fellows Fund
Churches to Hold or Skip New Year Dinners Across Washington
Two Washington churches plan New Year s dinners next Saturday at First United Presbyterian and Second church with dinners and meetings. The Baptists cancel their annual dinner due to other duties. Reformed Presbyterians move dinners to mid January. Associate Presbyterian cancels dinner but holds a congregational meeting January 6 with a sermon by Rev. William Porter.
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Washington
First United Presbyterian Church
Baptists
Associate Presbyterian Church
William Porter
Albia
Nearly Half Cars in County Now Licensed
About 2 000 of 4 500 motor vehicles in the county have been licensed for the new year. The county treasurer reports the plates are assigned and to be distributed when they arrive. There is still as much licensing work remaining in the last two days before January 1 as in the prior twenty nine days. Yesterday was the biggest licensing day yet and more applications are expected daily. Many unlicensed cars are in Washington.
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Washington
Bowmen & Wilson Lumber Co Debts Lin
As Bowman & Wilson has been dissolved those knowing themselves indebted are urged to call and settle their accounts at once. Bowman & Wilson Lumber Co 2014.
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Bowman & Wilson
Bowman & Wilson Lumber Co
Plan to send carloads of corn to famine areas grows
Dr J B Kirbye announced a midwest relief plan to ship shelled corn from Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Kansas to Armenia and the Balkans. Counties pledge multiple carloads as high schools volunteer to shell and sack the grain with rail and shipping support arranged to fund freight costs.
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Des Moines
J. B. Kirbye
Armenia
Balkans
Kirbye
Middle West
J. E. Kirbye
Relief Committee
Carloada
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Arthur Hildred
Polk County Farm Board
Polk County
Mail Clerk Examination Announcement
Civil service exams for railway mail clerks will be held in several locations on January 15. Nearest centers to Washington include Burlington Iowa City Ottumwa and Davenport. Qualifications and details are available at the post office.
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Post Office of Civil Service
Washington
Burlington
Iowa City
Ottumwa
Davenport
Collateral Inheritance Tax Appraisals Set for 18 Estates
Eighteen county estates were appraised yesterday by the county collateral inheritance tax commission under the five percent tax on bequests to indirect heirs. Direct heirs include father mother children and spouses. Estates over 1000 in value fall under the law with charitable bequests exempt. Appraisals listed include Mrs S P McConaughey M G Thompson S B Dewey Anna F Anderson and others.
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County Collateral Inheritance Tax Commission
C. C. Wilson
Ralph Thompson
District Court
Des Moines
P. McConaughey
M. G. Thompson
B. Dewey
Anna F. Anderson
G. G. Sigler
Mary E. Wolfe
Mary A. Miller
A. Triska
Thomas Wilson
Antonette Hamilton
Oora W. Bosworth
Celia A. Ross
Anna FE. Wells
Anna Houdek
William Ramge
Nancy Younkin
Anna W. Linn
Lou Tooman
Sister of Washington People Dies in Ohio
Mrs. Maggie Wyman, sister of J Squires of Washington, died in McArthur Ohio from pneumonia at age sixty three after a long illness. She was the second of fourteen children in the White family, five siblings remaining reported. The father died in the Civil War and one baby was born after his death. Mrs Wyman had visited Washington several times.
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John Squires
Maggie Wyman
McArthur
Ohio
J. W. White
Washington
West Chester Business Visitor Stops in Town
F. H. Ross of West Chester is in town today on a business visit.
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F. H. Ross of
West Chester
I Bought a Touring Car and Went Driving
A humorous poem narrates buying a touring car and learning to drive. The speaker describes filling the tank with gasoline extract, cranking the engine, and taking off. He recounts chaotic mishaps including wrecking a sow, Dodging a fence, and a fatal Dobbin reaction. The piece ends with a quip to contact via the number twenty three.
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Dobbin
Christmas gatherings tie Kin and friends in Iowa city
Families from Libe, Mann, Lefranch, Conrad and Coppock share Christmas dinners and gifts at home. A Washington group hosts an after noon bridge party with forty guests and charity collection. Guild members and relatives attend a church event, with dinners, trees, and social visits spanning Ames, Waterloo, and surrounding towns.
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Leigh H. Wallace
Washington
Will G. Stewart
Ben Wallace
Iowa City
Howard Anderson
Oklahoma City
Glenn Laffer
Ft. Dodge
Anna Henderson
Ames
Daisy Hull Staiisman
East Orange
New Jersey
Chester Patterson
Beatrice
Nebraska
Pred Smith
Richland
George Dempsey
Sioux City
Brighton Resident Dies Suddenly Today
Brighton December 29 Emmet Stockman about 55 years old died suddenly at his home a neighbor found him in his chair with the newspaper on his knees the coroner from Washington was summoned Stockman had no family locally and funeral plans were not yet made.
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Brighton
Emmet Stockman
Mr. Stockman
Legion Cancels Evening Game With Wellman
The high school basketball game between the local American Legion team and Wellman has been canceled due to lack of interest during the holiday period.
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American Legion
Wellman Five
Legion
Manitoba Mennonites Plan Mass Migration to Mississippi
A Winnipeg newspaper reports over 40 000 Mennonites from Manitoba plan to move to southeastern Mississippi in the United States where a deal to acquire one eighth of a million acres of land has been arranged.
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Winnipeg, Man
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Mississippi
United States
Ottumwa to Play Cedar Rapids Team
Ottumwa reports its 1920 grid season set a local high school record and plans a stronger team next year. Arrangements with Cedar Rapids likely pit the Tigers against the Ottumwa High School squad on November 19, marking a return to big caliber competition after years.
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Cedar Rapids
Tigers
Ottumwa
Amphibious crayfish in Australia dig burrows to dry chambers
A short note explains how certain Australian crayfish leave water to construct burrows. The tunnels leading to the burrow cores are dry while the final chambers remain moist, allowing the crayfish to live partly on land.
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Australia
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