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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1926
Page
8
J. W. Willard of Town City visited for business. Dave Blankenhorn departs for a South Dakota trip lasting about a week. Mrs. John Boshart and Mrs. Charles Lute of Wayland are shopping there today.
Wells Crail establishment relocates to the former Peterson Flower Shop on the south side of the square. Kenneth Thomas returns to Muscatine to resume work after a visit with his parents here.
Local brief notes list a shipment of new Victor records by McNamaras including By bye Blackbird and other tunes. Shirley Clark has returned from Massachusetts after an insurance convention. Mrs J D Martin's ten week Colorado visit is noted. Jessie Stewart visits sister Mrs E C Statler in Brighton. Mr and Mrs Charles Morton of Sigourney are back from Centerville. Jess Crawford to perform Valencia on the new phonograph.
A local report from near Coppock notes roadways flooded and travel impassable after a week of record water levels. The community praises recent Arch Preserver Shoes for their quality amid the hardship and offers thanks for the service received.
At the Union county fair in Creston Col. Smith W. Brookhart challenges Claude R. Porter for misquoting his figures on farmers losses to New York financiers. Brookhart defends his own data from Hoover’s Bulletin of Wealth Increase and calls Porter’s charges inconsistent and self serving.
Chas Seabery of West Chester was a business caller here yesterday. Jno Brookhart has returned to Duluth after visiting Col Smith W Brookhart home. Mrs Brookhart and daughter Joanne Mae stay a few days. Mr and Mrs Fred Maute leave for Los Angeles to visit daughter Legory O Loughlin. Ed Gretter of Keota spending day here on business. W J Keifer and Frank Casey are business callers in Burlington today. Mr and Mrs Albert Shrack of Moline Illinois visiting Frank Casey. Frank Sage was a business caller of Independence today.
Mrs Jees McCoy visited Crawfordsville last evening after a stay here. Mlorerice Rohrer leaves for Ames to enter school. F R B Swift returns to Chicago after a brief stay at home. Mrs Charles Benz goes to Fairfield to visit her mother. Mr and Mrs L S Patterson visit daughter Mrs G L Laffer in Fort Dodge. Albert Bailey of Mulberry Arkansas visits at W M Bailey home. Lloyd Brown of Ottumwa moves to Albia to work in the Myer shoe shop.
Town entries show residents returning to school and travel plans. Rodney Mayhew resumes studies in Ames after a home visit while others depart for Oct 1 and Mayo Clinic. Several visits and relocations noted among Masson family, Dawa, Scott, Kerr, Dawson, and Finke households.
Mr and Mrs Loyd Consto and J H Bainter of LaHarpe visited at the home of Mr and Jel Walker over the weekend. Ernest Booth of Lincoln Nebr is spending a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Merritt Boo and is working in a grocery store. Ralph Pratt has returned to home after a few days in Des Moines on business. Mrs Herman John and Herman of Rock Island are visiting the E F Goldsmith home. Randolph Kelsey has returned from a short business trip to Maine. Mrs George Newton came evening from her home at Gra Oklahoma called by illness of her mother Mrs Issac Kleese. Mr and Mrs J S Courtright Portland Ore are visiting at the home of Mrs Sidney Chilcote.
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