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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1928
Page
6
Mrs Walter Graves arrives from Wyman to visit daughter Margaret and attend the basketball games tonight. Mr Graves plans to travel to Wight for the game. Ar mory offers 35c midway dance.
The note recounts Caxton founding the first printing press in 1471 and frames later magazines and newspapers as deviations from his early experiments. It contrasts slow historic page production with modern rapid editing and mentions winter footwear and a sale on zippers and rubber footwear.
Mable Fleming a Parsons senior opens the weekend with sister Mrs Charlie Wylie. Mrs S K Coats travels to Ma comb Illinois to visit ill husband Rev Mr Coats at Walter Coates home. Walter Coates brought father home and since then Mr Coates has tailed fast. Modern Woodmen dues for January must be paid by Feb 1 or be delinquent. Call at Larsons Shoe Store EB G POX Clerk 2972.
Lola Alliman visits Mrs. Lester Perry in Fort Madison this morning. Mrs. H. A. Pauls attends lumbermen’s convention in Burlington. J. Earl Eldridge visits W. S. Widridge home with Jake Hendrickson auctioneer. Howard Keating drives to Cedar Rapids. twin sister Pat O Conner visits. D. F. Macon auctioneer based in Washington Iowa. Miss Fanny Wagner returns home from Mt Pleas work for weekend with parents H. and Mrs. Wagner.
L. S. Hewitt is named manager of the Farmers Shipping Association in West Chester Iowa. The notice invites calls to the store for any stock to ship. Also advertised is the new John Deere spreader Beater on axle and box roll turn sold by Geo. W. Stewart. A Newark New Jersey resident Lloyd McCall stopped in Long Beach during a business trip to visit his father Joug McCall.
Tomorrow night the carnival at the Armory offers free acts and celebrated stars with admission set at 35 cents. Oriez and Speer advertise fresh pork at 13 1/4 cents per pound. Miss Alta Wyse, clerk of the district court, spent Sunday at home in Wayland. Mrs. Walter Hays suffers a broken leg from a fall Friday night. H M Ofeld of Burlington arrived Saturday to visit the Whittaker family. Mrs. Ofeld arrived Friday.
Iowa Department of Agriculture reports 1927 egg production around 170 million dozen 2 240 000 000 eggs with three quarters shipped out of state Live poultry output near 100 million pounds with slightly lower value due to weak prices Also reports Ames Legion post name change and Des Moines holiday sales rise while Prof Wardin Craig resigns from Iowa to join Stanford University
Lois Holland returns to Strington school duties after Saturday work session. Walter and Mary Scranton visit Mount Pleasant parents for the weekend. Lena and Bertha Red visit C. A. Rich in Crawfordsville. Florice Schultz spends weekend with West Chester parents while attending Parsons School. Helen Gingerich travels from Kalona via Oskaloosa and will attend Whalona High this semester. Taxi Anderson’s Taxi advertises service.
Homestead Farm reports on local life with Ford sales woes, county officials, and community figures. Ed Kos advances in Washington county finances while Lewis Evans' Orange California letter charms readers. Traffic and school teacher tales reflect rural Iowa concerns and daily labor.
Miss Pearl Harrison’s South Hill residence suffered a noon fire causing heavy smoke water damage to the upper story and damage to the garage roof. In other news Henry Oak and Fay Foster are elected directors of the Columbus Junction Shipping association with nineteen stock cars shipped since October.
Hughie Jennings, once the world’s top shortstop and former Giants assistant manager, near death from spinal meningitis in Scranton after moving there to live with his sister. He fell seriously ill Friday and slipped into unconsciousness yesterday as four physicians treated him.
SAC CITY Mrs Lola Wright won a $15 000 damage suit against Mrs Hilda Lane for alienation of her husband William C C Wright s affections. Wright said last week he would enlist in the French Foreign Legion to escape marital troubles.
Mrs C C Hillhouse traveled to her Brighton home this morning following a weekend spent with her husband and visiting Mrs J A Hillhouse.
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