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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
8
The Washington Telephone Company announces a new directory will be delivered in coming weeks. It notes about twenty five hundred subscribers may have listing mistakes and asks patrons to call the Chief Operator to correct number name and address.
The Independent School District of Washington Iowa invites sealed proposals to furnish and install 200 chairs 275 steel lockers and vacuum cleaning apparatus for the new high school building. Bidders must deposit certified checks as security and file proposals with R W Thompson Secretary by 7 20 pm June 56 191% at his office in Washington Iowa.
Local note records the relocation of Washington's Auto Accessory to the B. A. Dieckford Store at the northwest corner square. The brief item notes the move as a business update with no further details.
A collage of small ads and notes shows daily life highlights including store promotions at Bickford's and The Fair, clothing and hat displays, auto accessories, and home goods. Readers share travel and visiting updates, health tips, and family news across several Iowa towns with mentions of Lemley's Grocery, Dean's, Crail's Fox & Dewey, and Bowman & Wilson Lumber.
A visiting American business figure says conditions across Mexico are returning to normal after the armistice and the departure of German minister von Eckhardt. He notes improving finance, growing confidence in Carranza, and renewed American investment in mining and industry with hopes for 1919 returning to stable governance and suppression of banditry.
The Evening Journal notes Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra performs tonight and includes local ads and brief items. Vases on Elm Grove cemetery graves were damaged or stolen, and Mrs. Rush Morris sustained a leg fracture after a closet accident. Paul Palmer of Burns Kansas visits Washington after army service and plans study at Northwestern University.
Dr R A Hutchinson of Pittsburg will deliver the principal address at the opening session of the general committee of home missions of the United Presbyterian church Wednesday evening. Col D J Palmer will give a welcome. The eight o clock gathering meets in the old Methodist church to discuss spring allotments for home mission work with day sessions for business.
Miss Esther Maxwell arrived home yesterday after eight months as a nurse in American hospitals in France. She administered anaesthetics in operations and plans to stay with her mother Mrs Martha Maxwell who is not in good health.
The McKee grammar school building will be offered to the highest bidder at a public auction tomorrow at 2 30 pm. The sale includes the real estate where the school sits, with the district funds also set to be liquidated as $50 000 in school bonds approved recently will be sold this evening.
A called meeting of Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M will be held Tuesday evening May 20 at 8 00 for work on the first degree for two candidates An especially large attendance is desired PD Langworthy W M
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