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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1918
Page
8
The item requests tire savings from White Way Garage Co and asks the finder of a car jack in front of a home on W 8 Eldridge to return it. A correction notes an error in pallbearers list for Fred Wong funeral and Ted Eggers should be listed instead of Nate Jones.
The column lists ads for shoes tailor services and cash prices for walnut logs. It notes Mrs. Marshall Gannon visiting relatives in Crawfordsville and several residents traveling to Burlington Rock Island and Kansas City. A track meet and district nurse convention draw crowds while others attend family and hospital visits.
A. H. Guze, a centenarian in Washington, rose at six and did not retire until nine after celebrating his hundredth birthday. His home brimmed with flowers as two delegations of business leaders and Lincoln schoolchildren visited, and he expressed gratitude for their kindness.
The D. & D. Sanitary Comfort Shop will open Monday morning at 312 F. & M. Bank building for shampooing and manicuring services. For appointments call 484 Blue. Mrs. Be H. Dorsey, proprietor.
Having sold my store I ask all those owing me to call at once and settle. If anyone has an account against me please present it for payment. Mrs H N Dunning and her sister Mrs D W Harvey, visitors from New York, were in Fairfield Wednesday at the J Fulton home. In the afternoon Mrs Dunning sang at a musicale before the Wit and Wisdom club.
Ruth Barger led a school and Red Cross fund with 31 60 from a recent event. The Afternoon Bridge club met at W M Keeley home on South Iown avenue with 30 guests and a luncheon. Men contributed fifty cents each to the Red Cross, and a vocal duet was canceled due to illness and objections. A surprise party honored Miss Emma Green who is to marry.
A surprise party hosted at Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Stewart home brought together Washington grammar and grade school teachers along with Miss C. N. Wells of Albia to celebrate Miss Green. Jessie Klein won an efficiency test prize while a china shower and green white luncheon completed the festive evening signaling Miss Green’s impending departure from Washington.
In Boston the Transcript notes a lighthearted social item where Lapleigh says he likes a girl who can take a joke. Miss Keen replies that he stands a splendid chance of being accepted.
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