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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1920
Page
7
Correspondents report social visits and local errands across Coppoack. Families from Brighton, Wayland, and Washington are noted attending at homes of relatives. Various residents, including Jim Marek and D. O. Davison, make short business trips to nearby towns.
Miss Jennie Holman shows some improvement after serious illness at the Se home. Flu patients trace recovery. Miss Winifred Brady of Oskaloosa plans Easter visits with local friends, while Ruth Baumgarten returns home for a weekend. Alva Wagner moves into a new house with Dr Luithly’s former property. Albert Logan remains very ill at his sister Lillie Logan’s home. Mrs Nan Bales and Mrs Orris Collett depart for Canada. Pratt family plans Canada as future home, with Mrs Bales visiting son Al Bales and family for months.
Mrs J N Phillips and daughter Miss Jessie visited relatives in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday as rain and mud delay travel. There will be no Farmers Union meeting at the schoolhouse tonight but a session is planned for Friday night April 2. Mrs BE lL Bartholow attended.
Mrs Schwartz and baby visit. Cyrus Bush dehorned cattle for H B Porter’s farm. Mr and Mrs Charles Cherry in town for Mrs Cherry’s mother illness. Mrs Lloyd Humston and Raymond depart for Burlington. Pringle family spring papering. Mrs Ernest Carlson improving. Hen Briley sawing for Howard Stewart. Mr and Mrs A R Strum in Washington on Friday. Miss Hazel Statler home for weekend. Mrs Seymour Statler and Merle visit ill father. Mrs Della Neal caring for new baby near Brighton. Marion Wells called in West Chester. Mrs Marion Smith visits. Marie Carenoff plans to move March 31. Harve Carcuff still not better.
Wellman notes say heavy rain and poor roads kept White Shrine members from traveling to Washington. About fifty members are affiliated with Muscatine and Washington Chapters. Local updates include Esther Ashby’s new barn near Pilotsburg and Hewitt Karr’s house renovation. Charley Wells visits with bride. John Graham travels from Davenport to supply Bell Jones Produce Co. and John Gibson returns from Washington after helping in a drug store. Vera Arthur, daughter of
Frank Arthur suffers acute appendicitis and is operated on by Dr. Don iphan in Iowa City. The frog family croaked for the first time this year. W. T. Hamilton visits his daughter Roselyn at school in Iowa City. H. G. Moore moves to Kansas City with goods. Jessen brick and tile factory opens. Mrs. Barney Bringerman ill for weeks. Jessen return from Nebraska. Wm. Rhodes shops in Muscatine. Chas Sallinger sourcing pianos in Peoria. George Knotts visits Muscatine for dental work. Frank Hicks and sons in Muscatine on business. Mrs. Fred Taylor of Keswick visits. J. L ldwin visits Keswick. Wm. McConnell ships horses to Chicago. School kids enjoy vacation. George Groff ships cattle to Chicago. Mrs. Schachner ill with neuralgia. Odd Fellows hall kitchen enlarged. Rebekahs pleased. Howard Cooper in Muscatine. Leslie Lewis in Iowa City. Dr. Brereton in Iowa City. Chas. Miller of Nira on business. Ivan Weidline has appendicitis and is operated at State University Hospital Iowa City. Mother and brother visit. George Glider very ill at daughter’s home. Arthur family faces illness. Albert Glider of Parnell summoned by father’s condition. Flora Wells home from Keswick visiting family. Wells and Charles BEB. Wells and James Wehr visiting Cedar Rapids while James on vacation. F C Shroder to Des Moines on business. Ben Marvin of Iowa City on Iowa City Citizen business.
The Misses Frances and Harriette Cochran and Roseland Hamilton arrived from Iowa City on Thursday evening for a week's stay. Frances Cochran is set to graduate this spring. Mrs. Frank Jones and daughter Mere Carl Othield traveled to Cedar Rapids on Monday to visit their son and brother Dr. Harry Jones and family for a week.
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Mrs M Theall Bessey of 186 Appleton Street Lowell Massachusetts describes three years of misery from right side pain convulsions and exhaustion. She credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and enabling her to work twice as much. The ad cites the product as a forty year standard remedy for female ills and invites confidential letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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