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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
8
A. N. Traverse and daughter Clara Marie returned to their Monmouth Indiana home this morning after spending the week visiting at the J. M. Boileau and Mrs. Clara Vinton homes.
Dr. H F Masson came back from five weeks of post graduate work at Metropolitan hospital New York City then visited Washington D C on the way home. Dr K C Gibson of Chicago Sixth United Presbyterian church left for home last night after preaching Sabbath and officiating at the Boice Ander wedding. He stayed with Miss Carolyn Hamilton in Washington, once Loveland Colorado choir director. Mrs Pollok Wallace returned from Burlington where she visited Mr and Mrs George Novey.
Mrs N D Anderson and her young daughter Bernice traveled to Ainsworth to visit relatives. The item notes a popular line of toilet goods and face powders, inviting readers to call for their favorite brand.
A humorous ad style item touts arsenate of lead as a weapon against potato bugs. The blurb also mentions hog prices at 10.75 and a weather note predicting local thunderstorms and cooler conditions.
Miss Hattie Clendenning traveled from her Keota home this morning to spend the day shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fairchild of Sigourney shopped in Washington yesterday. C. W. Keck and Frank Sage returned from Cedar Rapids where they attended the Iowa state bankers meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stearns of Ainsworth visited Washington on business. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Felgar of Trenton shopped in Washington today. Donald Maxwell and James Sexton assist in the A. E. Atcheson store during the sale.
In Houston Texas on June 20 a 24 year old Black man Robert Powell was dragged from a bed at Jefferson Davis hospital and taken six miles away where he was lynched. Unmasked armed men held him against his will for hours before his body was found hanging under a wooden bridge.
In St Louis on June 26 the Mississippi river flood control board, with a $325 million budget for a vast engineering project, travels south aboard the H. G. Wright to Cape Girardeau. The panel, formed recently, includes Major General Edgar Jadwin as chairman, Brig. General Thomas H. Jackson and Charles W. Sturtevant.
I. B. Tom Sutton of Tampico Mexico was elected president of Rotary International at the 19th annual convention in Minneapolis Minnesota on June 29.
Mrs Ezra Goodin visits her daughter Mrs Will Martin in Hayesville this morning before planning a trip to Montezuma to see her sister. Miss Fva Pauls, wintering in Denver, arrives in Washington for a summer with her parents Mr and Mrs George Pauls. A baby boy named Jack Albert arrives at the home of Mr and Mrs J A McKinstry weighing 5 15 pounds, with McKinstry formerly a high school athletic coach here. The family spends the summer at Vinton.
Mrs Esther arrived in Washington this morning to spend most of the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs George Pauls. Phillips and Hebner, Druggists, invite readers to try Malted Milks.
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