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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 26, 1920

Page

8

Local Classifieds and Notices Short Update

Mrs. Eli Telford returns to Moline after visit with Mrs. J W Houghtaling. Spotted Poland China hogs for sale with fall and spring boars. Three tiles north of West Chester at M C Dayton and Amiong. Mrs James Porter of West Chester visits Washington. Second hand Pound Oak furnace with jacket for sale at Geo W Stewart. W E K Cox in Galatin Mo for his mother Mrs Cox death. daughter Miss Jessica Cox at home. Parisian Sage hair product advertised at Lenmon's Pharmacy.

Poland West Chester M. C. Dayton Amiong Geo. W. Stewart W. EK. Cox Galatin Cox Misa Jesuis Cox

Local notices mix taxi calls and travel updates in Davenport

The page lists taxi services and phone numbers, visits by Mrs Eminy Cherry and Mrs Crayne to Washington, a horseshoeing yard, travel notes about Miss Margaret Kirk from Davenport to Webster City, a hospital update on Mrs George Bereiter, a birth announcement of an 8½ pound boy to Mr and Mrs Clarence Dodds, and various ads for coal heaters tires and pota toes at Milwaukee track.

Margaret Kirk Davenport Western Union Webster City MacGugin

Local society notes and notices from Ottumwa area

Miss Alice Shoner returns to Ottumwa after visiting father Basney Shroner. Keota presbytery convention attendees include Mrs. Jamison and several Ainsworth women. Wool growers invited to ship with association next Saturday. Ready-to-Wear sale at New York Store offers one fourth off. fur excluded. J. W. Warner took a party to Marianna Florida. Mrs. Chasey visits son in hospital. Bitro-Phosphate ads claim health gains. Teeters relays Woodford Rochester operation news. Ketly Shrinefield Tires advertised by Bevins Motor Co.

New York

Social Roundup Moves Through Washington and Cedar Rapids

Miss Lily Farrier of Brighton spent yesterday in Washington. Mr and Mrs Chas Atkinson returned last night from Toulon and other points in Illinois. Their daughter Ethel remains for a longer visit with her sister Alice at Cambridge. Little Myrtle Tappen of Cedar Rapids, Alice Patton of Morning Sun and Grace Oesbaker of Sigourney were weekend visitors with Miss Mildred Brock at her home.

E. L. Brewer Oskaloosa Jack Pierce Richland Missouri Lily Farrier Brighton Washington Chas. Atkinson Toulon Milnois Ethel Alice Cambridge Lit Myrtle Tappen Cedar Rapids Alice Patton Morning Sun Grace Oesbaker Sigourney Mildred Brock

W C T U Urges Dues Before September Legal Year

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union urges members to pay dues starting September as the new year begins. It notes more than twenty have paid and about fifty are delayed, urging donors to send or bring payment to the treasurer so the worry ends and the group feels stronger.

Sneeze a serious matter to Hindoo

New York October 26. Dr Anna Degenring of the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission society says sneezes and superstition cost many lives in India. On furlough after 14 years as a doctor there she notes that a sneeze signals calamity and prevents major undertakings. She describes auspicious days as hobgoblin beliefs guiding illness and delays in seeking care. Epidemics are attributed to goddesses of health. Indians lack quarantine concepts and intend to.

New York India Anna Degenring American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Degenring

Secretary Ramsey Names First Woman Deputy Secretary of State

Secretary of State Walter Ramsey appoints Lillian Leffert as deputy secretary of state, making her the first state official to recognize newly enfranchised women voters in Iowa. Leffert, former chief clerk, succeeds J. H. Moore who left to practice law in Guthrie Center. she has passed the state bar in Illinois and Iowa.

Des Moines Walter Ramsey Lillian Leffert Miss Leffert Lieut J. H. Moore Guthrie Center W. IF. Moore

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