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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1927
Page
7
Crawfordsville area notes report a heat related loss to a horse on Route 1 2 Nim Clark and a busy week with farm bureau meetings political leadership talks and social visits. Road work on primary 161 nears completion while bridge and culvert projects continue. Local families attend gatherings visit relatives and prepare for harvest with haying and livestock movements.
Sunday dinner hosts included Marguerite Herring and family alongside Mrs Harry Carrison and Dorothy Chip of Good Hope Illinois. Guests from Washington and West Chester joined the Herring household. John Caldwell and O F. E. Babbs families visited Wellman and Sigafoose households. John Wagner was building or putting up something.
West Chester residents report eleven Methodist church members bound for Mt. Pleasant college. Ruth Bauer will attend there, while Daryl Dayton and Margaret Wood plan Oberlin study. The community discusses a new northwest road to stockyards, pledging funds and support for the project.
Mrs W E Ruston hosted the P E O Chapter X in Columbus Junction as Miss Elsie Freeman led a program on the History of the Chautauqua Movement. Plans for Oct 3 and topics for later meetings were announced, with attendance over seventy.
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