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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
8
Local residents travel to see family in Harper and Oskaloosa while relatives visit in Libertyville and Springfield. Businesses advertise Goodyear tires Crail rugs and Emerson fans with Lemmon’s Pharmacy and Mannhart Bros promoting sales and financing options.
The clipping lists ad prompts for merchants and sold goods including Goodyear tires and house furnishings. It notes a home for sale at 825 North Marion Ave with barn and fruit ground, a Klein Kilo auction at 2:30 on August 2, various social updates, peach delivery plans, and residents visiting relatives. It also mentions a navy furlough, a birth, a death in the family, and local property development plans in south Iowa.
Members of Carpenters Local 12398 are urged to attend a labor hall meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Albert Simpson Recording Secretary reminds members to be present.
Local items list events and needs including Chautauqua dates August 12 to 21, various advertisements for Goodyear tires and tubes, taxi calls, canning tomatoes, peaches, and daily errands. Names include Lydia Hellam, Lor etta Whelan, Miss Julia McKevitt, Miss Ellen Colling, Mrs Joan Beemblossom, Kitheryn, Donald, Dorothy Buck, Marjorie Scott, Marine McLaughlin, Louise Livingston, Evelyn Eldridge.
The lodge plans a regular meeting Friday evening August 1 at eight o'clock with standard business, several petitions to receive and ballot upon, and probable work in the first degree on one or two candidates. Signed by 4113 l. D. Langworthy, W. M.
During the Rural Carriers Convention on August 6 7 and 8 it is likely private homes will be used for lodging if hotels cannot accommodate visitors. Citizens with rooms to rent should notify J R Maxwell at the C M F Store at once. 4213 COMMITTEE.
The knives and scissors belonging to the Red Cross workers are kept at Crail’s store. Readers are asked to call to select their own from the supply.
An advertisement offers price lists for clubs and invites magazine purchases. It directs readers to call 59 Red or write in care of the Journal, mentioning Nita Belle McKoon as agent.
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