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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1905

Page

6

Graduation Banquet Celebrates Ben High Class

Graduates and guests gathered for a social hour and banquet in the auditorium after an honors program. Rev I I Schrecken gast gave the invocation and Joe Clyde led introductions while Miss Ella May Brown presided as toastmistress.

Knese Ben Trinity Guild I. I. Schreckengast Joe Clyde Ella May Brown Board of Education and the Public Schools F. L. Wilson Helen Anderson Ruth Winter Charles Keck Jeannette Cherry Miss Brown Frank L. Wilson Board of Education School Wilson Seth Thomas

Saving a City by Dynamite and a Cough Cure

A reader from Calhoun Georgia recalls a blaze saved by dynamiting a barrier the fire could not cross. The advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds claimed to ease a cough aid sleep and cure bronchitis La Grippe with trial bottle offer at J H Stewarts drug store priced 50 cents and a dollar.

Z. T Gray Calhoun J. H. Stewart

Fresco Work At Bethe Church Delights Visitors

Chas. Dodder and assistants from Washington are painting frescoes in the Bethe church south of Cotter. The artist’s work impresses visitors and promises a beautiful place of worship once scaffolds come down. Miss Elizabeth Rauch of Washington visited Saturday evening with her friend Lenny Mize.

Chas. Dodder Washington Bethe Cotter Dodder Elizabeth Rauch Lenny Mize Safeguard

Shoe shining at Hotel Colenso opens day and night

Nathan Lyne runs a shoe shining service at Hotel Colenso offering continuous availability with day and night hours.

Colenso Nathan Lyne

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