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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
2
Lemmon's Pharmacy touts its soda as delicious and satisfying, promising it always makes friends and keeps them. The copy argues there can be no finer soda due to superior materials and meticulous preparation to serve it properly.
Mrs Chas Keck spends the week at Fairbault Minnesota attending the St Marys college commencement where Miss Luella Crandall is a graduate Miss Alice Fluke who has taught in Minneapolis and Miss Crandall will accompany Mrs Keck home Joseph Barnett and Leo Critz assistant cashiers of Citizens Savings bank Riverside transacted business in town yesterday
Grat and Sel introduce 99 6 up to date styles shown in photographs at Frey’s studio. Miss Helen Anderson assisted at the auditor’s office yesterday. Howard Hays arrived from the east on the Rock Island yesterday. Miss Anna Scott expected to return from New York City this evening. Paul Willits of Muscatine passed through yesterday en route to Mt. Pleasant. George Zeck left for Roxbury Kansas after attending the funeral of Mr. Zeck near West Chester.
Captain Kellogg recalls a Macon area picket duty when a funeral procession sought burial without a post headquarters pass. He briefly inspected the hearse and casket, discovered a young girl, and accompanied the party to the grave, feeling both humane and guilty for breaking orders. The narrative ends with lingering doubt and a promise to continue.
Local notes from the Southwest corner reflect arrivals and departures at Crawfordsville and nearby towns. Visitors include Rev. D Everette Smith and Misses Blanche Neiswanger and Etta Arnold. several families travel to West Chester, Chicago, Pella, and Ainsworth. Grace Lytle graduates from Monmouth. the Pleasant township ice cream supper raises funds for the school. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea ad ends the page.
No humbug claims are needed for Foley's Honey and Tar the well known cough remedy used more than any other. It costs no more and is safe and sure according to Lemmon's Pharmacy, urging customers to choose this proven product over unknown preparations.
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