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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1923
Page
8
Ott J. W. Enalin visits St. Louis on business. Everett Mitchell spends Saturday in Washington. Mrs. Robert Welte of Kalona visits Washington Saturday. H. W. Wiggins of Wayland spends Saturday in Washington. Dan O’Hair spends Sunday at home in Centerville. My summer pianoforte class soon starts. call 395 Blue. May the nineteenth. Miss Elsie Bratten.
Brighton resident E E Johnson visited Washington on Saturday. Carl Mayer and James Boileau are listed as visitors from West Chester and Ainsworth. Crail's advertises mer cerized crochet cotton and Nemo corsets with reduced prices. Omar Liebig, D J Jones, Omar Liebig and others are noted as Saturday visitors. Farmers Co-Operative Exchange touts reduced tankage prices. John and Mrs. Belville spent the weekend in Fairfield with relatives.
Mrs J C Rhea and Mrs E W Wood shopped in Washington on Saturday. Harold E Cummings of Keota, Victor Malichky of Riverside and Mrs R C McKilernan of Ainsworth were business or shopping visitors. Miss Mabel Reisner returned to Lyon bakery. Local events include a dance at Lyon's and Crail's sale of Amoskeag ginghams and curtains.
M J Kahn departs for New Orleans. Miles Stearns auction in Ainsworth Friday May 11 at 2 PM. Various local notes include popcorn shop, door and window shop offerings, lawn mower sharpening, and residents visiting Salem Fairfield and Kan sas City. Also ads for Crail’s May sale and Putnam remnants.
Programs issued for the Marion township Sunday school convention to be held Sunday afternoon May 18 at two o clock in the Pleasant Hill church. W S Saville is president and L H inner is vice president. The program includes prayers songs recitations addresses reports and educational talks by local church and school figures.
Washington friends celebrate Mrs Lulu F McKinnon of Cedar Rapids for being elected to the office of Supreme Worthy Guide of the White Shrine at Jerusalem during the national gathering in St Paul last week. She installed Damascus Shrine officers in Washington at their regular meeting last month as delegates Mrs Beatty Mrs George McDaniels and Mrs W F Glasscock attended the St Paul meeting.
Bargain sale at Putnam’s this week features small women’s aprons and xinghams in a pretty design priced at $1.04 each. Dark and light covered calico fabrics in well made arens are offered at 5 percent. Readily available for small women with stylish patterns.
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