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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 07, 1920

Page

8

Local Notes and Happenings Across Town

Mrs Turbott returned from Davenport and Washington to Ainsworth. Bryan Nicholson went home to Harve after a business visit. Edna Applegate arrived from Bemidji to visit her parents. Mrs T J Thompson visited Forest City. Mrs C R Smith left for Charleston South Carolina. The Volunteer Slum Army hosts summer meetings with services Sundays through Saturdays. Major and Mrs Sneath in charge. American Pearl Button Co seeks two boys for the Automatic Department. Bevins Motor Co reports next car trade may target Chandler or Cleveland autos or tires. Henry Hofmeester of Chicago visits with cellist credentials. his wife is a Chicago organist.

Henry Hofmeester Chicago Milton White East 7Th Street

Local Notices and Arrivals Share Winter Travel and Services

Daily notices list grocery items and prices from Reynolds Gibson and taxicab services. Readers report migrations to Cedar Falls and Blue Grass for conferences and visits, with several family trips by car to Rochester Minnesota and Clear Lake for summer stays.

Volunteer Slum Army Seeks Clothing and Aid in City

Report urges donations of clothing and furniture to help the needy. Volunteers conduct jail, hospital, street, and house to house visits, mission and church work, and sick visits under Major and Mrs Sneath at 101% N Marion Ave with a local phone line.

Sneath Marion Ave

City Feed Yard Sells Various Chicken Feeds

Miss Gladys Crone recovers well after an appendectomy and tonsillectomy performed a week ago at the county hospital.

Gladys Crone

Local residents and travelers noted in brief

Miss Lola Crone visits relatives from the southeast. A. N. Alberson goes to Spirit Lake for Knights Templar meeting. Frank A. Krotz and Anita R. Shebeck obtain a marriage license. J. C. Ford and Anna Henke travel to Iowa Falls and Cotter respectively. Mrs. Emma Passmore Brown leaves for Oak Park Chicago with granddaughter Ruth Brown. John Rupp heads to San Francisco for a month visiting his daughter in Santa Clara. Mrs. Mary Grecian returns from Des Moines to care for ill daughter-in-law. Eloise Travers departs Wichita for Chicago. Rose Barth returns from Iowa City after visiting Elsie Brownhausen. Mrs. W. L. Stebbins returns to Chicago after funeral in town. Clair Booth and Fred N. Randle visit northern Iowa. Randle married Leona Sadel June 10 at Muscatine. Sam Len back from Spencer. D L Glenn and family from Minnesota visiting grandmother near Washington. Glenn farm sole county land never transferred from original government entry in the 1840s.

D. L. Glenn Minnesota Washington Glenn

Gentlemen Dicken Family Tour and Iberia Visit

Mr and Mrs A B Dicken of Herrington Kansas visiting his parents Dr and Mrs M E Dicken with Dr and Mrs Dicken and daughter Miss Margaret went to Davenport this morning to spend the day. Mrs J M Pinney and daughters Grace Ruth and Mary left yesterday for Iberia Ohio to spend several weeks visiting relatives.

R. G. Vincent Leila Martin Stafford Kansas Keota A.bh. Griffith Virgie Lois Bessie Grolnich Chicago Crawfordsville Wilson Martin Rochester Minnesota J. D. Lowrie Butler, Pa Lucille Wagner Boice Wagner Centerville Alfred Meuser A. B. Dicken Herrington M. E. Dicken J. M. Pinney Grace Ruth Mary Iberia Ohio

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