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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1913
Page
5
Local shoppers and visitors are noted in a stream of social items. Names include A. F. Loos Monroe Mich Bounties paid for wolves and West Chester business chatter. Johnson Keota West Chester Muscatine and Lincoln Nebr residents visit or travel through the city.
Local notes report Mrs. Taylor Morgan of Bostwick Nebraska visiting relatives, Mrs. Laura Maxwell leaving for Davenport, and families planning winter homes in Fairfield. Rubber goods headquarters, Dr. C L Thomas ill but improving, and a Colfax Jasper county delegation agreeing to help fund gravel road work. Also coverage of corn prizes at Ames, Masons and Eastern Stars installation in Wellman, and brief health and travel updates.
Special dispatch reports the Senate verdict of sixty eight to five finding Judge Archibald guilty on the first thirteen articles of impeachment. Senators not guilty named Burnham Catron Oliver Paynter and Penrose.
Mr and Mrs Harry Crone were surprised at their northwest of town home Friday evening when 40 neighbors arrived by sleds for a farewell party. An oyster supper was served by Mrs Bert Booth and Mrs Newt Noecker. A cold meat fork was left as a memento. The Crones plan to move to an Iowa home early next week.
Col. S. W. Brookhart returned from Washington to report on the National Rifle Association meeting. He was named second vice president and a member of the seven man executive committee, joining Hayden of Arizona on the committee. Plans for next summer’s international matches at Camp Perry, Ohio were laid, with at least twenty nations expected and thirty thousand dollars in prizes already available. Subcommittees and arrangements for the Camp Perry shoot were appointed.
A scanned list shows multiple sale dates and seller names across towns including Washington Crawfordsville Ainsworth Havre West Chester and Crawfordsville. Entries include Sam Knupp Haskins Louis Miller Ralph Bozeman Fritechen Bros Wm McConnell Long Emmet Frame John Reed J A Kolosick F W Juzeler and others with day numbers in late month.
Preliminary steps to organize boy scouts in Washington are underway. Methodist Sunday school boys are the first group, with about forty attending a meeting addressed by Paul MacEachron of the city Y M C A. Additional meetings for high school, town workers, and McKee school boys follow this week and Saturday morning. Plans aim to form four or five patrols and raise many to second class by spring. Other churches will join as quickly as possible.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an uncured catarrh case. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, with testimonials and a note that the cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. The ad notes F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio and endorsements from the National Bank of Commerce Toledo.
The Ladies Aid society of the M42 church will host its annual dinner and supper in the church basement on Tuesday January 21.
The Franklin Stock Co presents Across the Rio Grande as the opening play of its week at the Graham tonight with high class vaudeville between acts. A full repertoire from last engagement is offered and ladies get free admission tonight under usual conditions. Curtain rises at 8 15 except Saturday with tickets priced 10 20 and 30 cents.
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