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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 05, 1926

Page

7

Pleasant Ridge Social Roundup and Visits

Sun day callers and visitors fill a Pleasant Ridge stretch with family drops and small town errands. Gust Strum and Harold Sniders host and guest lists include Thompson siblings, Arthur Conrad and family, Clyde Lambert household, and Arlene Mae arriving to stay with Jaco Lambert. Local work notes mention John Erlenbush near Noble and Henry Underwood family shopping in Washington.

Pleasant Ridge R. R Gus Strum Harold Sniders Mary Grace Stella Thompson Arthur Conrad Fred Blees Maurice Jaco Lambert Washington Arlene Mae Clyde Lambert Horace Hesseltine Will Conrad John Erlengush Noble John Erlenbush Ghters Esther Virginia Mr. Arnold Elgar Henry Underwood Olive Sam Marsh Jacob Lambert

Fleur-de-Lis club meeting and farm bureau note in Glendale

Mrs Murray Smy lie Mrs Earl Birney and Mrs John Stewart attended the Fleur de Lis club meeting in Washington Thursday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Jurgen Koehler called at the John Gerdes home Friday afternoon. Mrs Thomas Gerdes attended the district leaders meeting in the Farm Bureau work at the J N

Glendale Murray Smylie Earl Birney John Stewart Fleur-de-Lis Club Washington Jurgen Koehler John Gerdes Thomas Gerdes J. N

Phillips home Friday and Wagner’s return from Colorado

Michael Wagner arrived home Thursday evening from Colorado where he had been working. The Spread Eagle school patrons plan a Wednesday noon dinner and a school program in the afternoon as the term ends. Farmers have plowed much ground in ten days and expect to finish soon with a few corn plantings if weather remains favorable. Mr and Mrs Martin Koehler and family and Mr and Mrs Logan Ahrens and family visited the Clark Hopping home Sunday.

Phillips Michael Wagner Colorado Spread Eagle School Martin Koehler Logan Ahrens Clark WEAF Sam Schulty Sam Jones Heaven

Local letters from Keota reflect weather, travel, and politics

In a West Chester diary style communication, readers discuss a dinner in Keota, road conditions, rain impacts, eye care by Irvin Coffey, and community visits. Reflections touch on weather tolerance, local radio WEAF, farming progress, and upcoming political changes, with anecdotes about neighbors Bristo and Stewart and mentions of a Journal special edition.

West Chester Keota Jim Nelson Nevada Washington Irvin Coffey Iowa Irvin Howard Stewart Nora Stewart Journal Tony Doofrau Rosie

Picnic plans and tractor news from the town

The note mentions a forthcoming picnic and hopes for past attendees to return. It describes George Baker delivering tractors to farmers, a long drive by George Breitenbach and the author, and a gasoline shortage on a ten gallon start with poor mileage. It argues hard roads would boost local spending beyond tires and gas.

Tony Journal George Baker George Breitenbach Towa

Advertising Pays to a Startling Degree

In a Cleveland Trust Monthly note the author argues advertising boosts sales and preserves capital. It contrasts merchants who advertise with those who neglect marketing, warning neglect leads to dusty shelves and eventual ruin.

Cleveland Trust Monthly

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