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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
7
Listings include Ned Long lawn mower grinding and seed corn for sale at Marbourg Helwicks. Short notices on Potter, Looney, Cocklin, Garrett and Keck travel, plus Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea ad and Lemmon McElhinney drug store mentions.
Ralph Riggs leads the College Co. for a three act comedy with songs and dances at the opera house on May 9. The cast features Rose Stillman Katherine Witchie Bernard Riggs D M Cross Claude Norrie Mae Holborn Charles Way and other longtime company members. The show has run for three seasons and is touted as one of the season’s best attractions with new songs and specialties.
The column recaps visits and events around Odell and nearby towns. Will Truxan returns home after a week visiting relatives. Edward Lukavsky wedding noted. Will Truxaw hosts a progressive card party. Local residents travel to Iowa City for work and education. School board names teachers for next year. Emma Knotek, Kate Barnett, Peter Barnett, Emma Maresh, and Des Moines visitors feature in social notes.
The Rev Daniel Graber left for Kansas City on Sunday evening for business. Miss Ida Hauenstein and Miss Emma McBride of Cotter visited relatives. Stock buyers Noble and Leeper shipped butcher stock to Chicago Tuesday. J H Witting visits Chicago to see sister Emma at school. Mr and Mrs Joseph Murphy of Crawfordsville visited here Tuesday. Miss Effie Leeper celebrated her twenty first birthday Saturday night hosting about forty friends. R H Leeper attends court at Mt Pleasant this week. Schedule change: No 4 passenger now arrives at 7 35 instead of 8 17.
May 5 records note a birth for Mr and Mrs G W Hill a son born Monday the 4th. Obituary and funeral attendance include W J Dawson at Comrade L J Washburn funeral Sunday. Local movements list tests of laborers and visits from Miss Hattie McKinstry Miss Emma Dencker and Miss Laura Adler with relatives at various homes.
Street fair and carnival set for the week of June 29 to July 4 in Washington with The Great Parker Carnival Co. performing daily. Proceeds fund city volunteer tire department equipment. company pledges clean, family friendly attractions. Also notes 69-40 license to wed issued yesterday to Lloyd Edgar Hayes and Locetta Pearl McNees.
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