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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
5
I. K. Beal offers fifteen acres of pasture for rent. Contact R. 12-21 by phone. Also notes a wanted ad for family washing and other small classifieds.
Tondre and Benz advertise a sale tomorrow featuring devil food angel food and cream sponge with a line of untrimmed shapes milans and chips at great reductions. They urge visits to Iowa State Agricultural College on May 26 with a round trip rate of 2.50 from Washington. Train leaves Rock Island at 4 30 a m and returns that night.
Local residents make short trips to Burlington Fairfield Des Moines Monmouth and Ames. Visitors include Mrs E W Arlington Mr and Mrs A Maas and children Miss Clara Coulter and relatives. Plans for sales excursions and a wedding attendance are noted along with church circle gathering and calls for debt settlement.
The Missionary society of the Pleasant Plains auxiliary will hold a social Saturday afternoon May 19 from 3 until 6 at the home of Mrs Ida Rathmel on the Heights. Ice cream cake cheese coffee and other eatables will be served. All are cordially invited. The Automobile club is being entertained this afternoon at the home of Miss Anna Henderson on East Jefferson street.
The Queen Esther circle of the Methodist church will host a plump social next Tuesday evening in the church parlors. A fine program is set and refreshments will be served. Admission is charged by weight, fifty for the first hundred pounds and ten pounds for every additional ten pounds.
The class of 1906 young ladies hosted the visiting gentlemen at Miss Etta Whiting’s home on North Iowa avenue. The evening was very pleasant with the gentlemen reporting a splendid time and nice refreshments served.
The Young Ladies Missionary circle of the First United Presbyterian church hosted a Sunset Park picnic last evening in honor of Miss Josephine White, a missionary who has returned from India.
A group of neighbors and friends surprised Mrs Dell Duncan last evening as she prepares to leave the city. Attendees reported an enjoyable time and warm tributes.
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