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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
4
McKee, who had been visiting 1 800, Obaries in Sioux City, is back home this morning.
Local notices urge women to visit the Up-to-Date Parlor for stylish millinery on Thursday to Saturday afternoons. Classifieds advertise items for sale or trade including a Winchester shotgun, mandolin, furnished rooms, steel spectacles, and a house rental. The Journal also notes community-buying habits favoring home merchants over distant grocery houses and reports moves of locals H. Ealy and K. Brown between Webster and Cedar Rapids.
The High School Band serenaded the newly elected city officers and directed collected money toward the High School fund. A H Wallace added to the fund, bringing the total to an amount that supports a new library and other school needs instead of cigars.
The High School Band plans a benefit concert next Monday evening at the Graham with assist from Miss Hallie Berdo Emason Ladies Quartette Miss Lou Slocum Grover Neiswanner and Cbarhas Langenberg Proceeds fund uniforms for the band Tickets are 25 cents with a 42 dollar reserved first floor option Also reports of local visits and moves including Rev Schreckengast Mrs Coxe Mr Palmer and others plus a note on a bank robbery in Somerset Ohio and relatives in town
Riverside Iowa March 27 special The Savings bank at this place was burglarized last night with minimal theft. Intruders drilled two doors entered the vault and took forty dollars in peonies pickles and dimes before fleeing via the hand car toward Iowa City A city woman heard the car leaving town around one oclock Telegrams fail to locate the culprits Meanwhile other local notices promote a millinery display and a Keota Presbytery Woman's society meeting with talks on social purity temperance and missions including remarks by Mrs J R Logue and Miss Moore
The Milwaukee surveying party started stake setting at the high city water works, moved west a mile and a half, crossed near Parkinson Buckley yards, and the engineer in charge, Baker, directed men then returned to city to catch the Firefly for Muscatine. Residents urged to report missed JOURNALS deliveries to fix issues.
Trustees May and Stobo plan to vote against Superintendent J A Carnegey at the March 28 meeting while Otto supports him. A 200-signature petition to retain Carnegey was ruled out of order by Mayor Caldwell after an executive session, prompting indignant protests from Carnegey supporters.
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