Local notes and upcoming events in the city
Local items list residents and visitors with brief notes on arrivals departures travels and social events. Highlights include Johnson’s bakery pies and cookies offerings and various residents’ trips to Danville LaSalle Keota Crawfordsville West Chester Muscatine and Havre. Examinations at the high school and a community sale by the Methodist women are noted along with a Christmas edition gift from Junction City Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
M. Dennison
Danville
Willow Creek
Graham
Hawkeye Pump Co
Dick Fisher
West Chester
J. 11
Stewart
Asa Reid
LaSalle
Win. McCausland
Ainsworth
Robinson
Des Moines
Johnson's Bakery
Morrison
Muscatine
Iowa City Kalona & Washington Railway Elects Directors
The annual stockholders meeting at 4 pm in the Commercial club parlors elected a 10 member board: W P Coast George S Carson Willard J Welch B Welch Thos N Wagner A G Smith A N Alberson S W Brookhart G G Rodman M Keck. A committee was named to pursue road financing and a local subscription drive. The plan targets raising $100 000 to $200 000 in local stock as part of the potential Iowa City Kalona line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City, Kalona & Washington Railway Co
Commercial Club
W. P. Coast
George S. Carson
Willard J. Welch
G. G. Rodman
M. Keck
G.G. Rodman
S. W. Brochart
Iowa City
Kalona
Farm Property Sale Scheduled by Peter Centliver
Peter Centliver set a public sale for February 6 to dispose of all farm property stock and implements before moving to Kansas next spring. Teeter and Lathrop to conduct the sale in Washington Iowa. Also notes include local social visits and travel reports from Washington and Mt Pleasant Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Centliver
Kansas
Teeter & Lathrop
Hair Work Offered and Missing Boy Identification
A notice offers hair work and cleaning of switches by Mrs. James Warnock at 110 North 7th Ave. The police chief asks if marks can identify the boy. the father replies there will be marks when he is found after running away to fight Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Warnock
North 7Th Ave
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frank L
Wilson
Dougherty Bros
C. S. Lemmon
J. A. Harwood
South Side
Teresa Swift
Glen Zaring
J. B. Young
Mt. Vernon
D. H. Logan
Bloomington, Jr
George Wilson
Crawfordsville
Oscar Jugenheimer
Havre
Elmer Mason
W. E. Conn
Proudfit
H. H. Willison
Wellman
Washington County
Eo Ness
Cedar Falls
the Methodist
Reynolds Furniture Store
J. P. Hays
East Washington
Journal
Junction City
Kansas Union
John Montgomery and
Harry Montgomery
The
Ki & W
Company
Commercial
G. P. Dolan
Grosby’s
McCall Bros
Nicola
Harmon
Edmund D. Morrison
Washington
Iowa
Gertrude Winders
Stella Savage
Stanley Miller
Free Press
Mt. Pleasant
Glotfelty
Rock Island No. 3
Fairfield Journal
New York
Ogee
H. F. Steck’s
East Side Jeweler
Washington National Bank
Photography
the Reynolds Photo Studio
Hobson & Gove
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