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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 12, 1920

Page

8

Local News Items Include Visits and Car Series

Mrs H F Steck returns home from Iowa visiting daughter Mrs J F Sproat. Local ads list property listings, second hand mower, and tires. W E Hender starts a Ford care upkeep and repair talk series in this issue continuing daily. Mrs Chas Griggs and Mrs Gueta Rock visit Canton relatives. First Iowa Cavalry enlistments and need for 18 more before federal inspection. Len Singmaster and family return from Estherville after visiting sisters. Mildred Varney Blanche Varney Dorothy Slaven Gertrude Lehmann motor over from Muscatine. Remark about Kelly Springfield tires and Bevins Motor Co. Wilburn Ferrell visits from Union City Tenn. Marian Norton returns from Davenport after visiting grandparents.

Local notices and ads from Milton area

The page lists prices for cream butter at 52c and eggs at 34c, advertisements for taxi service with phone numbers, and several personal notices: Lena and Carrie Haney returning from Milton, Mr and Mrs John Zaring visiting Cotter, plus a taxi call line. An advertisement for a Royal Electric Cleaner and a hog price of 16.35 is noted amid unsettled thunderstorm forecasts tonight and Tuesday.

Oklahoma City visitors head to Minnesota lake resorts

Mr. and Mrs Harti Moreen and daughter Margaret of Oklahoma City visited here last week. They left Saturday to spend weeks at a Minnesota lake resort, guests of Mr and Mrs Fred Anderson. They may return around September first and resume their visit. Mrs Moreau aka Hazel Ward, daughter of Charles Ward, former Washington residents, was mentioned. A report notes the Volunteer Slum Army seeks clothing and furniture for city needy, with jail, hospital, street, house to house, mission work and visiting the sick. Major and Mrs Sneath in charge at 101% N Marion Ave. phone 417 Green kl 9-28.

Harti Moreen Margaret Oklahoma City Okla Minnesota Lake Fred Anderson Moreau Hazel Ward Chas. Ward Washington

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