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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1910
Page
5
Local notice notes C A Knupp and daughter Rachel visiting West Chester yesterday with Mr Knupp and his elderly parents. Mrs Edwin Griffith and her children traveled to Wyman to visit Mrs Griffiths parents.
The item mentions Buy your bakery in Vienna and Perry Michardson at Snouffer Hues Co. It notes Marie Burk from Key visiting Claud Reister and Mrs KR Richardson arriving for a visit at John Richardson’s home.
A steady stream of residents and visitors traveled through the city yesterday on short trips and returns home. Notables include Mrs H B Cox and son from Kewanee Illinois, Miss Ruth Whitmore from Fairfield, Supt A C Fuller from Iowa City, Rev S K Coats visiting South English, and J T Risk departing to Fairfield Batavia on business. Local social and church figures were seen in transit, with several families and groups returning from visits in West Chester, Keota, Muscatine, Columbus Junction, and Davenport.
William Clark and Bert Smith went to Brighton for the funeral of their son, Mrs. C. £. Townsby. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ulrich with two children left for Chicago after visiting Herman Koenig and family. Mrs. Carl Keck and son Burrell are visiting West Chester with L. P. Jack-
F M Crawford and daughter visit Crawford sister Miss Margaret Crawford in poor health at Ainsworth. Mrs John Brown of Ireton leaves after three weeks with niece Mrs W S Stewart, accompanied by Mrs Stewart, to Ottumwa. Harry Chance hosts visits from Charles Chance and wife from Hammond Indiana and Morton Chance with Mrs Anna Fitzgerald from Bullington. Others: S W Reynolds J C Williams Oskaloko P Meyers Newton W C Gamble Sigourney. Meyers and Reynolds are Democratic district judge candidates visiting to assess politics. Harry Haifley of Gree Hill also in city.
Daddy tells Jack and Evelyn about playful young goats or kids and recalls a mountain goat kept on a western ranch. A curious kid lags behind while foraging in spring woods, hides from its master, and pretends to be dead before being rescued, then scampers home in mischief.
P J Hanley and other residents travel for legal business and visits to Fairfield Burlington Muscatine West Chester Grandview Morning Sun Centerville and Centerville. A petition plan may trigger an election statewide in Iowa counties later this fall as the board weighs the measure.
The Baptist church announces a 0:30 Sabbath school with no other services. Tomorrow morning Pastor Rev D L Coon will preach “In the Midst of the Darkness God” and at 7:30 in the evening the topic will be “Advices to a Commander-in-Chief.”
There will be no preaching services tomorrow. Sabbath school begins at 9 40 with Junior Endeavor? meeting at 6 30. Prayer meeting is set for Wednesday at 7 30 led by Mrs. John McCall.
Petitions requesting a special county hospital election are being circulated and signed across Washington County. The Washington County Medical Society backs the measure and reports rapid support as twenty petitions were distributed and several returned today before the county board’s adjourned Monday session to address unfinished business.
A wrestling bout at the old armory pitted Fred Sampson the Rubber Kid against Kid Dayton of West Chester. Sampson won the first fall in nine minutes before Dayton refused to return to the mat. The Rubber Kid then teamed with Wendell Knauss for a three.
The matches lasted ten minutes each with quick work by both fighters. Neither opponent secured a fall as the bouts concluded without a decisive victory.
The Masonic Fraternity of Ainsworth extends an invitation to the Fraters of this place to attend the lodge on Monday evening in August to witness the conferring of a degree on a prominent citizen. Chauncey E. Myers, W.
Dr. Wade H. Frost of the U S health department in Washington arrives with the Iowa state board of health president and others to Mason City to investigate the epidemic of infantile paralysis that has broken out there.
Surviving Hampton red shirt veterans plan a Spartanburg reunion in mid August with a parade through town. The participants will wear cheap red calico shirts and ride mules.
A reflection on success in timing and place. It argues that skill may be masked by luck and questions whether notable feats prove genius or chance, urging caution before praising decisive moments as pure genius.
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