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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1931
Page
8
Miss Emma Heck visits Davenport for a day. Notice to all indebted to the late C O Davis to settle at 215 S Ave C residence. Mrs C O Davis Admx. Hazen and son Rex return from a week in Des Moines visiting Mrs Hazel’s daughter Mrs Alfred Neal.
Mr. and Mrs John Timmerman seen in Iowa City on Sunday. Auctioneer B Macon Washington Iowa phone 251 red. Mr and Mrs Harvey Meek and Mr and Mrs Robert Risk returned from Des Moines where they attended the state fair. Carl Barges and Ed Kern of Minneapolis visiting Carl Jungbluth. Watches on sale Elgin 19.00 and 14.26. Mrs Pierninseld discharged from Washington County Hospital. Watermelons available 1000 Dixie Belles with guaranteed satisfaction. James Chapman 527 S Ave B. Joe Brookhart returns from St Louis after Geological survey work and visits Washington before heading to Washington DC.
Miss Beatrice Wilson will spend this evening in Davenport. Liv Carleton arrives from Humeston for the school year. Miss Alyce Gillespie spent the week in Richland with Miss Leora Cox. Ladies $27.50 Elgin watches $20.65 in our sale this week. Westphal the Jeweler 1703 Charles Denison leases an oil station on Highway 2 in Ainsworth formerly Dixie Oil Columbus Junction. The station becomes a Diamond oil station with Harold Wilson operating for Mr. Denison, leased from Cotter bank. Sam T. Donahey returns from extended stay in Indiana Kentucky Michigan, plans to stay several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor and daughters Evelyn Elaine at 1009 East Main. Mr. Taylor attended Columbia University summer school. Mrs. Taylor and daughters summered at Wayland.
Mr and Mrs Hugh McCleery Mr and Mrs T J McElhinney and Miss Mary French plan to travel Friday to attend a United Presbyterian church celebration five miles north of Somonauk Illinois. The event marks the church expansion and redecorations funded in part by the late J A Patten family of Evanston. J A Patten was a cousin of Mrs T J McElhinney and linked to the McCleerys and Miss French. Also George McCall leaves Des Moines for San Diego to join the Navy. his mother Mrs Robert T McCall joins him there after a Des Moines camp with Troop F.
Washington county chapter Red Cross shipped ten Christmas bags to the Pacific branch in San Francisco for distribution. The William McKinley Relief Corps post at Kalona organized the effort with Kalona Indies supplying material and the county Red Cross providing the rest. Miss Grace Kessler heads the Kalona Relief Corps and Miss Dawson noted the chapter’s strong quota fulfillment.
Fred R. White of the Iowa State Highway Commission outlined a decade of progress toward better roads at the state fair. He cited 3 380 miles of pavement built in the past five years, averaging 676 miles annually, as evidence that continued improvements serve Iowa's interests.
Mrs Luella Strouther Powers, questioned again by police in the bluebeard marriage agency case, denounces her husband Harry F Powers as a fiendish wretch while denying knowledge of his activities. She had previously supported his innocence after his arrest for killing two women and three children.
Fray of Ollie the masseur will be at the Cy Bush residence 427 S 4th Ave this Saturday Sept 5. Mr and Mrs Sherm Welch and Mrs Esther Condit returned from Omaha visit. Mrs Condit and Miss Dolly Condit plan to leave for Pueblo Colo after a month with the Condit grandparents.
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