Local shoe shop notices and city errands mixed in text
Arch Best Oxfords and Wilsons appear with ad like notes. Mrs J P George travels to Davenport for the day. Dougherty Bros. advertises trunks bags and suit cases at West Side Square. Mrs FE M Davis visits Keota to see relatives. T Brown goes to Mt Union on business. Mrs Pr Husson of Crawfordsville is in town on business.
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Dougherty D Bros
West Side Square
Dougherty Bros
Pr. Husson
Crawfordsville
C. E. Jessup
Des Moines
Davenport
Haskins
Local Notices and Social Tidbits From Washington Iowa
Washington Iowa society page records visits from Mrs A G Lorrance of Keota and Mrs J C Huston of Crawfordsville. Bake sale by Baptist ladies Sept 15 at South Side Square. Francis Barnoske from Ottumwa visits Rodney Mayhew. Miss Tietji Brewer and Alma Corpman head to Cedar Falls for State Normal Training. St James Hall hosts chicken dinner Sept 15 evening. Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes Ma Chongg Sets and new stationery.
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Baptist Ladies
South Side Square
Eod
Baptist Ladies’ Bake
Tietji Brewer
Alma Corpman
Cedar Falls
State Normal Training School
Rock Island Lines To Fund Four-H Club Trip Prizes
The Rock Island Lines will pay the cost of round trip tickets to Chicago for winners of 4-H farm boys and girls club contests during the International Live Stock Exposition, December 1–9, 1923. Each county with a full time Extension Agent may enter. one boy or girl per county receives a ticket. Selection rests with state agricultural colleges and extension agents.
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Rock Island
Chicago
L. M. al- Jen
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
State Agricultural College
L. M Allen
Rock Island Lines
Illinois
Agricultural Colleges
Local Social Notes and Visits Across Town
Trunks and bags mentioned with names of residents traveling to nearby towns. Mrs Cleo Shockey and daughter visited her sister in Oskaloosa while Mrs Floyd Bower and son Dake spent the day in Brighton. Other movements include Mrs Daniel near Wayland to Sterling Illinois and Keith Molesworth with Verle Gallagher heading to Monmouth Illinois for college. Miss Marjorie Wells visits Fairfield friend Miss Lois Brown. Esther Hay heads to Iowa City to resume studies. Rob Chilcote family return from Iowa Falls after a visit in John Tucker’s area. Cigar sale advertised at Venice. Mrs W A Lytle of Chicago plans a visit to Mrs Boyd Lerdo.
Dime Saver Encourages Habits of Saving
Since April 1922 a steady young saver in our city deposits a full book each month in a time saver and now uses the habit to save larger sums. The bank urges readers to form the dime habit by depositing daily and notes that good habits form as easily as bad ones. The Only National Bank in Washington County.
Keokuk Presbytery Closes Meeting With Licensing
Keokuk presbytery adjourned after an all day session at Second United Presbyterian Church. Fred Blick of Washington was licensed to preach after a well received sermon on the Twenty third Psalm. Discussion focused on a proposed United Presbyterian doctrine statement about hymn usage. The April meeting will be in Columbus City and Rev Park’s installation at St Andrew, Iowa was planned.
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Keokuk
United Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Philadelphia
Church
G. W. Hanna
Crawfordsville
D. M. Davis
Ainsworth
Columbus City
Crocker's Brigade to Meet in Ames Reunion
Crocker's Iowa Brigade consisting of the eleventh thirteenth fifteenth and sixteenth Iowa infantry volunteers will hold its twenty first biennial reunion in Ames on September 19 and 20 Milton G Wig bins of Dow City first vice president announces the event
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Associated Press
Ames
Crocker
Iowa Brigade
Iowa Infantry
Milton G. Wig
Dow City
Dredge Plan For Upper Mississippi Aimed At Sandbars
Captain Harry G. Dress recommends sending a Panama Canal dredge to the upper Mississippi to remove sand bars hindering late season navigation. He argues one large dredge would quickly improve conditions while calling for more water from Lake Cooper. About six boats halted navigation due to low water and sandbars.
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Mississippi
Preas
Dubuque
Mississsippi
Harry G. Dress
Dress
Lake Cooper
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Ron Nareg
Milton Sills
Campeau
Anna Q. Nilsson
Walter Long
Atchisons
Curtis & Ross
Penn
Sylvania, Kentucky
Indiana, Illinois
Iowa Coals
John Shields & Sons
The
White House
Frudeger
Arch
Wilson's
J. P. George
FE. M. Davis
Keota
A. T. Brown
Mt. Union
John Applegate
Journal
McElhinney Drug Co
Mt. Pleasant Stuart Hotel
N. Dpd
Anderson
Lyons
A. G. Lorrance
Washington
Bernice Shidler
Wellston
J. C. Huston
Frank Pearson
North of Washington
June Willis
McNarren
Francis Barnoske
Ottumwa
Rodney Mayhew
Norton
Adolph Speas
Mathilda Speas
la Preferencia
Venice
H. H. Liverly
Laura Longwell
St. James Hall
R. L. Quinn
van Ess
Lemmon's Pharmacy
John Titterington
Pekin
Ellis
Frank Rouse
Louis Masson
Cambridge
Mass
D. J. Masson
Mayhew
Aurilla
Enid
Okla
Phillips University
M. M. Flynn
Washington County
Iowa
Drovers Journal
David Warfel
Gary
Ind
Leigh Wallace
Cleo Shockey
Babs
Martha Marie
Oskaloosa
Floyd Bower
Dake
Brighton
Daniel Trader
Wayland
Sterling, Ill
Keith Molesworth
Verle Gallagher
Monmouth Illinois
J. A. Work. Insurance Agency
F. Bank
Marjorie Wells
Parsons College
Fairfield
Lois Brown
Esther Hay
Iowa City
University
Rob Chilcote
Iowa Falls
John Tucker
W. A. Lytle
Boyd Lerdo
Ile
Ance
Saver
Fred Blick
T. D. Edgar
Rh. W. McGranahan
James McQuillan
F. Kimmelshaw
C. M. & F. Clothing Co. Clothes
Wilie Long
Gust Bramer
East Side Square
Bon Booth
Washington Oil Co
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