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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1902
Page
3
Portable scraps show names of residents and travelers. Miss Maude Daugherty and Lloyd Bickford arrive or travel through Davenport and Winfield. Attorny P J Hanley visits Nira Kinross. City council adjourns to city hall this evening. Mattie Dill returns from Cedar Rapids. Chas Chance returns from Burlington. Mrs Dave White visits West Branch.
Watters and Allen mingle at Allen's ice cream while houses for rent and trips fill daily life. Residents visit relatives, travel to Davenport Omaha and Kankakee, and locals plan vacations. Highland Park Lake hosts boating. Miss Conner travels from Minneapolis. New York store to measure fall fashions. multiple residents travel to See Washington and nearby towns.
Mr. Herman Hawke left the St Stichter home for Freeport Illinois. Miss May Hailey left for Keota after visiting her uncle Tom Hatley. Jewelry items including rings pins and chains are listed in the notice.
Local tidbits report rattlesnake sightings and killings, town arrivals and departures, church notices, and a sales pitch for Electric Bitters. Community updates include railroad and farm comments, a charity notice, and a drill gathering for Company D at the armory in Oakaloosa.
Notices overview numerous residents traveling, visiting, and returning. Truesdale leaves for Decatur to finish brick work on a new building. Paul Jugenheimer arrives from Davenport with his wife visiting Havre. Prof Daugherty canvasses for students. Reports of apple sales and farm activity. Alex Miller heads to El Paso and Old Mexico with a kodak, amid broader regional chatter.
The Queen Rather Circle of the M E church will meet Tuesday evening July 20 instead of Monday due to a tent meeting. Mrs H A Burgess of Burling will attend and speak briefly. Fresh fish will be sold on the public square every Thursday at ten. peddling the town the same day.
Subscribers are urged to join the Presbyterian O E excursion Thursday August 7 from Washington to Ft Madison via B and W with a river trip on the Ottumwa Belle. Round trip fare 1 50 and several rail excursions advertise low summer rates to Denver and points west with limited dates and tickets valid through October 1902.
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