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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1949
Page
6
The Board of Supervisors of Washington County Iowa orders all property owners to destroy noxious weeds on county trunk and focal county roads and along their lines under Chapter 21718 Code of 1946 as amended.
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The order requires adjoining property owners to cut burn or destroy weeds to prevent seed production between June 10 and July 1 1949. If not done the county may perform the work at county expense and recover costs via assessment under section 817.20 1946 Code of Iowa. Ned Morrow board of supervisors attest: Predé Bourg county auditor.
Community sale every Friday at Whittaker sale barn. Livestock sales weekly at Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa and Salona Sales Barn Kalona Iowa. Ollie Livestock Exchange weekly Tuesday 1 00 pm. Keota Junction Sale barn Friday 12 30 pm. June 11 public auction Pleasant Mound School house starts 2 00 pm. June 21 auction of old Prairie Flower school 6 30 pm directors Earl Booth Gamon and Maurice Crawford.
In a front page reminiscence Hiram Johnson aged about 89 recounts life from Cherry Valley Michigan to Van Buren County Michigan and finally to Washington Iowa in 1883. He describes early work as a plasterer bricklayer and mason including the 1886 county courthouse and his long residency in Washington. He hints at more stories to come.
Mrs 1B Rabenold of Motine IN has a June 10 birthday. Dr H F Masson noted American railroads carried more freight per train in 1998 than ever, with higher speeds. The 1948 average load was 1 176 tons, up 30 from 1947, when 1 146 tons. It rose 37 tons above 1943, the wartime peak. In 1929 the average was 804 tons.
D Morrison Jr Henry B Batley and LE Wilson families and Foster Bickel observe wedding anniversaries today with acknowledgments from relatives and friends in a local community notice.
Awards are being issued this year to railway express drivers who have achieved perfect driving records. The program covers periods from one to fourteen years and recognizes a majority of the roughly 20,000 safety drivers.
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