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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
8
The group seeks clothing and furniture to aid the city’s needy. Their tasks include jail, hospital, street, and house to house work, mission activities, church outreach, visiting the sick, and organized by Major and Mrs. Sneath.
Alfred Fulton visits his brother Earl in Fairfield. The Volunteer Slum army holds meetings on Tue Thu and Sat at 8 p m in July and August. Sunday school and preaching at 2:30 with evening service at 8. Major and Mrs Sneath in charge. Numerous notes list property listings, sales events, and visits across local residents and businesses including Flour sale by Farmers' Union Exchange and Dempsey Land Company promoting farm and city property.
The clipping lists casual local notices including prices for creamery butter and eggs, taxi and baggage services with contact numbers, shoe shop ads, a Reo announcement reference, a Miss Simons visit from Oxford, Iowa, and trips to Wakita and St. Joseph. It also mentions recruiting two boys for the Automatic Department at American Pearl Button Co, a Keota traveler heading to Wakita, rug purchases at Crail's, a trip by Mr. and Mrs. Keene to St. Joseph, an auctioneer ad by D. F. Macon, and a visit by Mrs. Bert Smith and Bert Russel Smith to Winston, with other short notices and contact lines.
A brief social note places Miss Elizabeth Lyle at home in Keota en route to Centerville. Mr and Mrs G L Davison return to Brighton after visiting Ed Vinton and his wife. Crail's cloak sale offers all wool late style garments at substantial reductions including coats and dresses.
Last call for new installations or location changes for the Washington Telephone Co directory. Notify promptly to ensure proper listing in the new book before it goes to press on Friday July 9.
Miss Nell Hebner traveled to Chicago to see friend Miss Lou Vogt. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Abraham of Portland, Oregon, now in Keota and Talleyrand to visit J. F. Abraham and return via Washington. Mrs. Floresberg and son Hollis headed to Davenport. Pat Swift left for Davenport and Gary Ind. L. B. Tedford returned from Albia to Columbus Junction. C. N. Johnson and wife visited Mrs. Mary Fisher on their route from Van Meter to Columbus Junction. Ella Link visited Mrs. Chas. Harris in Cotter.
A leading hairdresser praises Parisan Sage for dandruff cure and hair improvement. Lemmon's Pharmacy sells the genuine. An exchange offer seeks a modern house for acreage between 2 lots and 4 or 6 acres, priced 5000 to 7500 dollars. Little Miss Juanita Weidner had tonsils and adenoids removed yesterday and is recovering well.
H G Smither of Indianapolis visits at Mrs N J Burham's home. He and Mrs Burham traveled to Lyons Iowa to see Mrs A Fishburn. John McCracken and granddaughter Helen McCracken of Thornburg Iowa visited the John Warnock home and left for Geneseo Illinois. Mrs Chas Baker visited Fairfield to see her sister Mrs Ova Stuff. Harry Smith of the Graham theater projection machine spent yesterday visiting relatives in Bloomfield.
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