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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1932
Page
7
An old ad touts Carter's Little Liver Pills to boost bile flow and digestion asserting pills purify the system. The text shifts to local notes about Bryan Swift's hospital operation, family updates, hog deliveries, and community weather impacts on hay making with Marion township board voting.
Friday evening the Pansy Hill and Old South Otown Embroidery Club held a picnic supper at the O. E. Babb home on July 4th.
Route Six notes a threshers meeting at M E Booth's on Thursday. Mary Jones from Crawfordsville visits John Shebeck. Ethel Kerr and family attend a Washington Fourth of July picnic. Various local families celebrate, visit, or spend the holiday in nearby towns and at friends' homes.
Commissioner Thatcher Colt leads an intricate case after Lola Carewe and Christine Quires are found dead in Lola's New Year penthouse. Clues include a medical box, a lab sample, and a mysterious portrait. Suspects range from Guy Everett to Dr Baldwin, Eunice James, and Vincent Rowland as the puzzle deepens.
Wilma and Mr and Mrs L B E and others attended a Monday evening plcnier at George Jarrard's with extended family. Edson Howell of Janesville Wisconsin spent the weekend at his brother Lawrence Howell's home with Mr and Mrs Roy Finke and more in attendance.
Walter and Lewis Graber conducted business in Mt. Peasant last Monday. Verdella Widmer injured her foot while haying at Edd Widmer’s, treated by Doe Lease. Washington choppers joined Ethan Brooks and families and L H W Rinner and families on Saturday night.
Mr and Mrs Noah Richard and daughter Ruby Mae and Clysta and son John visited at the parental John Graber home Saturday eve. Mr and Mrs Earl Swartzen Gruber and daughters Marie and
Riverside residents hosted and visited family members over the weekend with guests from Water loo Valley Junction Washington Davenport Monmouth and Cedar Rapids. Names include Clute Capps Heftarman Hellaman Casper Lintz Hahn Soukup Heitzman Unforth and Pleper with several family visits and returns noted.
The Crawfordsville Consolidated School governing board will meet on July 22 1932 at seven o clock p m at the school. Taxpayers may be heard for or against the proposed expenditure estimate at that time.
From Saturday until Tuesday evening at the Mrs. Helen Critz and R. H. Heigman homes. Miss Corona Kiefer of Fort Madison was a visitor over Sunday and the holiday with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Kiefer. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Swift and family of Manchester visited relatives in Riverside Sunday and Monday.
Prody A. Borkoski and Kosmer Borkoski were Washington callers Friday. Mrs Maynard Crumley of Minneapolis visited her father S M Brinton. Grace Stout spent the weekend at Keith Barnes. The Black Hawk social club held a Fourth of July picnic at the school house. We had another heavy rain Sunday morning and again Monday.
Des Moines Iowa July 6 I T Bode superintendent of the state conservation survey prepared to take over duties as state fish and game warden He was named by the state fish and game commission to succeed Warden W E Albert of Lansing Iowa Albert died several days ago.
The disarmament conference meeting under the League of Nations has run for several months and is likely to adjourn without concrete accomplishments.
Des Moines July 6 Agnes Samuelson state superintendent of public instruction will address county superintendents and rural educators at Western State Teachers College Kalamazoo Michigan tomorrow the two talks focus on rural education issues.
In Prairie Center C A Ruebsam reports July Fourth events with family reunions as Mr and Mrs Carl Koehler host children visiting from distance. Dena Martin and Katie Martin and spouses joined kin for a holiday gathering while Dorothy Ruebsam visited over the weekend.
Doris Zeck and the Zieglowsky family hosted Sunday at Carl Zieglowsky’s home. Thad Brown from Des Moines joined a camping trip at Cone Lake with Chas Ruebsam and Wayne Zeck. Other residents visited relatives, attended picnics near West Chester, and aided Mary Styles at Fred Telford’s home.
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