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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1931
Page
8
Don Benz came home from Oskaloosa after taking part in the Central Iowa golf tournament. He has the entire week off from his position at McDaniel's drug store for vacation.
Mr Hugo Struve and his wife are relocating from 22044 West Second to Davenport as he accepts a higher post with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, where he has been employed.
Mr and Mrs Milburn A Mc Kay leave for their honeymoon through the east. Eunice Hammer Waymack arrives from Cincinnati to spend the summer after earning a masters at the University of Cincinnati. Ed Kos and family are quarantined with light smallpox at nine miles northeast of town. Mrs Lewis Klein hospital bound in Iowa City for examinations and her daughters plan a visit tonight. Sidney Meachim and two Kalona children shop locally. Persian Sherbet advertised at Lemmon's Pharmacy and new velvet dresses arrive at H I Ward Co.
Minor operations performed at Washington county hospital this morning on Charles Crone and H I Ward Jr. and Mrs C B Brown of Keota. Twenty five patients currently hospitalized. Mrs George Preston visited from Minneapolis. Mrs Richard Gaines of Fairfield visited Fred Jones household. Also shipment of new voice dresses arrived and Frank T McKune offered pump work at reasonable prices.
Des Moines reports Dr. George Donohoe, alienist, concludes after a second exam that John M. Smith, former governor hopeful found near Garner, is insane due to an old skull fracture from eight years prior in Norfolk. Dallas County begins commitment proceedings per Dr. Donohoe’s recommendation. possible transfer to Anamosa for observation.
Despite heat the new athletic field in the southeast town area advances with grading to be completed this afternoon and sod replacement to start tomorrow. The sod was removed last week and graded operations began. Watering of the piles of sod has continued daily.
Otto Hillier and Holger Hoims, flying the Liberty from New York to Denmark, landed at Krefeld in the Rhineland after drifting south and over Spain and France. They remained airborne 32 hours since Harbor Grace departure and then continued to Copenhagen after a refuel. Thousands welcomed the pair back.
Monoplane Winnie Mae piloted by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty arrived in Moscow at 5 40 p m from Berlin, completing a third of their round the world trip in under three days. They plan to depart for Irkutsk, aided by Soviet air ministry support, aiming to circumnavigate the globe in under 10 days.
Miss Cora Stewart visits Ft Worth sister and heat relief at Lemmon s Pharmacy. Bake sale by Christian Ladies Aid at Ramseyer s June 27. Hinshaw family attends wedding. others attend district meetings in Columbus Junction Ottumwa Waterloo and Keota. Des Moines visitors Mrs Casey and son Wilbur stay with Mrs Hartman.
Clarence Richardson of Burlington visited the Journal office today where he once worked as a linotype operator. Fresh buttermilk for Friday available by the jug from Sunny Slope Dairy with two daily deliveries.
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