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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
8
Local residents travel to Muscatine Geneseo Crawfordsville and Brighton for funerals parties and visits. Crails offers socks umbrellas and shoes while Washington Motor Co advertises battery service and discounted Ford Studebaker parts. A June 8 Memorial Day observance by the Washington Fire Dept calls for all members to assemble at City Hall.
Community notices list a June 6 Epworth League home talent program at the High School Auditorium and short travels by local residents. It mentions a To wn Wesleyan college contest in oratory and music with $100 in prizes and several marriage licenses issued to Darrel Rosa Avia Baker Arthur Shannon Fourt Lois Vivian Hochstetler.
Joseph Kelly starts at the Chocolate Shop. Mr and Mrs Bentley Crair return from Kansas City. Sam and Hugh Boyd of Ainsworth visit town Tuesday evening. Mrs Wayne Rash of Keota spends yesterday shopping in town.
Mrs. A Bennett returns home in Keota after a visit with friends and relatives. Rev. John Acheson arrives from Fowler California to visit his mother Jennie Acheson and other friends. Frank Skubal and Martin Albaugh of Ainsworth spent yesterday in Washington.
Craila and Mr. and Mrs. BE A McFarland of Lincoln Kansas visit Washington to see J O J T and William Matthews Mee and J M Acheson. McFarland, a former local resident and 1880 Washington Academy graduate, toured after thirty years and heads to Chicago to see two lawyer sons. he is a county prosecuting attorney.
Miss Eva Mehling of the Ogantz day nursery returned to Chicago this morning with Dorothy Somrek who had been staying at the Wyatt Marbourg home.
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