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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
5
Individuals from Davenport Champaign and other towns were noted visiting Washington yesterday for funerals family visits or business. Updates mention repairs painting sewing machines ice cream and grocery services plus moves to a new bank building and various travel to Keota Ainsworth Havre Greeley and Oklahoma for health family or commerce.
Children carried home Mayflower flowers linked to Plymouth gardens. The column also lists brief local notices about events, travel, school commencements, shopping, and visitors across Washington, Crawfordsville, Sigourney, and nearby towns.
H A Pauls of Blakesburg trades his 130 acre farm for Homer Richardson Delta lumber yard and buys Black & Sons yard then consolidates both into a single substantial operation. Pauls owns the yard solo, not the Pauls Lumber Company chain.
The government thermometer peaked at 6 percent today signaling the day’s highest reading as officials monitor inflation trends and economic indicators.
State of Household Goods on Square Saturday May 25 featuring bedsteads springs dressers desks tables chairs lamps and many other articles. S43 b. F. MACON Auctioneer.
A candy social is planned at Is ar Center school house on Friday May 24, 1912. Everyone is cordially invited by Clara Paulener, teacher.
W. W. Copeland has distributed a fine stock of pineapples in your town for cannery purposes. Put up your pineapples while they are good and the stock is fine and reasonably priced.
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