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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1930
Page
7
Advertising copy touts Castoria as a pure vegetable medicine for colic constipation and upset stomach in children. It claims quick soothing for crying babies and relief from diarrhea and colds, asserting the genuine product bears Chas H Fletcher’s signature and is sold in every drugstore.
Rural Route 4 area residents and relatives are listed visiting and socializing in Ed Simmering, Silas Caldwell, Chas Kephart, and J E Linder homes. Pleasant Hill school opens with Mrs Paul Lytle as teacher. state fair attendance by Helen Caldwell. various short visits and dinners across Des Moines and Washington towns. A separate Kingston note mentions a Gh kingston event and a year old Robert Malon achieving a solo flight after nine hours of instruction.
Union District residents gather for visits as Mrs J Benson and relatives travel between Lincoln and Ottumwa towns. Motorist Wm Koening buys a new Chevrolet. A local tragedy reports Mrs George Sass, 55, suicide by gas inhalation. family pets also died, investigation pending.
Marguerite Heriue correspondence covers a dinner for Sayre as guest, visits by Ruth Wilson and friends, a Chicago reunion attended by the Bratys and Swift, and local family gatherings. Several families host and travel, school duties resume with teachers assigned to Cedar Falls bound study, and local youths prepare for the new term.
Mrs William J Gary found her door lock snapped on return from the grocery and cried to the fire department after finding the biscuits browning in the oven. Firefighters hoisted a ladder to a window and rescued the distressed homeowner as eighteen navy airplanes paused here on their way back to San Diego after refueling before continuing westward.
Route Six Sire reports list John Shebeck as correspondent with sen Charles Fuhr Ruth Jarrard Mabel Wiley Roussell Grises Harriette and Alvin Shebeck Florence and Bun Kyle Dale Kerr Stanley Knapp and David Swartz attending high school this year. Dale Fuhr and Onieta Griges enrolled as sophomores in junior college. Henry Ramsay and children Rawin Evelyn of Des Moines visited at John Shebeck’s home. Edwin Ramsay and Alvin Shebeck visited with cousins Stanley Dutler and family near Riverside. Clarence Fulton Marjorie Maxine returned from Missouri to visit Clarence’s sister. Snowball social club hosted a watermelon feed at Walter Kyle’s Friday with 48 people. Lewis Haker Howard Baker John Shebeck Clifford Thompson left for Wyoming. 40 relatives went to Sunset Park for dinner.
A plan outlines travel through Cheyenne and a visit across Montana to Yellowstone National Park. The travelers intend to be away along a chosen route and path.
Mr and Mrs Avery Horton joined Prody and Clara Borkoski for the First District Rural Letter Carriers picnic held over Labor Day weekend in Morning Sun.
Brighton R1 Prody Borosit and neighbors gathered Friday with Mr and Mrs Ray Parcell hosting. Attendees included Clara Borkoski and multiple Oswalt and Gowey families. visitors from Des Moines and La Salle were present. Refreshments featured sandwiches pie and coffee.
Lodges Washington Chapter No 98 0 KE Regular meetings second Thursday monthly with W M Rose M Reid and Secretary Della Mefiride Visiting Damascus Shrine No 10 W S Jo Regular meeting third Tuesday monthly at Masopic Temple Edith Pulver W H Hazel Haven Worthy Scribe Washington Lodge No 20 Regular meeting first Friday monthly E B Stutsman W M A W Yard Secretary Cyrus Chapter No 1 RO M Regular meeting second Friday monthly J W Buslin HW P A W Yard Secretary
Rail timetable shows eastbound services from Goodland with trains including No 4 Golden State Limited No 12 Express No 60 Lea Pans and local passes. Arrivals and departures list times such as 6:10 pm and 12:20 am for Knoxville Branch, with No 5 Local No 420 Mixed Train No 430 Mixed Train and No 49 Local running daily except Sunday.
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