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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
8
A fragmented ad copy touts a variety of pound paper with matching envelopes and a new soda fountain offering a root beer variant. Weather is noted as fair tonight and Saturday with no major temperature change. price listed at ten dollars and fifty cents.
George Freshwaters leads a squad of eight boys from Washington as they travel to Tefferson Town for the state DeMolay basketball tournament. They draw Washington in the first round and Webster City in the second round.
Cedar Rapids defeated Washington Y boys 63 to an incomplete score at the Y pool last evening, clinching the meet in a narrow victory.
Local residents and visitors visit Washington and nearby towns for shopping and meetings. Notable items include a birthday train trip by Miss Maude Murphy, a funeral in Manit o NL, and a presbytery meeting to dismiss Rev W C Harner from a church in Ireton.
Sirs Merle Twinam and son W W Twinam and daughter Violet of Crawfordsville spent today here visiting Monmouth College students. Miss Twinam is a college student at Monmouth IL and at home for spring vacation. Others from Monmouth college and area towns attended funerals and visited relatives. Local residents, teachers, and officials were noted at various events and trips.
Sam Beese of Wayland passed through Town City this morning on his way home from treatment. His left hand is infected and an operation may be needed. Gertrude Hammer takes a week's vacation at her parental Hammer home on East Main Street from the Chicago School of Physical Education. Mrs J H McCall returned this morning to Allerton after visiting the David McLaughlin home and other relatives.
In Washington rents rise as Claire Dewey remodels the Emley house on North Second Avenue into apartments and the Lupton property on South Second Avenue will become a apartment house. Mr and Mrs L By Lupton move to the Ed Bovee house on the Coppock highway. Mary Wi is noted as a Washington day.
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