Mr and Mrs Geo Teas Return From Auto Trip
Mr and Mrs Geo Teas have returned from a car journey to Excelsior Springs Missouri. They had been away since the first of September.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1924
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Geo Teas have returned from a car journey to Excelsior Springs Missouri. They had been away since the first of September.
Mrs F W Hamilton of Crawfordsville visits Washington today to shop and visit at the Dodds home. Local note highlights apples on sale at the W J Brooks farm from Tuesday through the week ending September 29.
Miss Mara Wallace, a Normal Training School instructor in Davenport, returned home for a weekend visit and expressed pleasure with her work there. An announcement reports the birth of Robert Frank to Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Phillips of Alexander Iowa on Sept 22. Mrs Phillips formerly Miss Anna Fern Shinnabarger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Shinnabarger of Muscatine. An auction sale is set for Sept 30 at W. J. Brooks farm. A bazaar and cafeteria supper by the Valley Church Ladies Aid is planned for this evening near Washington. Mrs. Harve Porter and daughter, Mrs. Helen Jackson and grandson head to Mundelein.
Local note lists residents visiting from War saw Illinois and Mt Pleasant and Burlington folk returning home with Miss Mae Allen. Bazaar and rummage sale set in room south of Klein Ko Saturday. Various residents from Iowa City Crawfordsville Keota Ottumwa noted in brief travel and social calls.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Gates and son Bobby with DPD J. Gates arrived home after an auto trip through Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. They report a fine time and note D. F. Macon of Washington Iowa served as auctioneer with phone 251 Red 289.
A concert entry titled The Lost Cord presents a piece by Mr. Corder. The program note places the work within a Boston Tran script context and highlights its performer and setting.
A fresh shipment of mattresses arrived and workers will move and store them in the mattress mow awaiting customer orders. The weather forecast warns unsettled conditions with possible showers tonight or Saturday.
Long list of local residents traveling for visits and weekend stays. Notable mentions include Miss Louise Livingston heading to Monmouth, Mrs. Charlie Clark returning from Haskins, Mrs. Tracy Phillips to Ottumwa, and Mrs. Barons of Cedar Rapids visiting relatives in Washington. Also noted are Farm displays of apples, Miss Gretta Williams from Denver, and John Woods from Colorado Springs visiting to inspect properties and urge advertising Iowa.
J B E Pick of Hartford Wisconsin won the grand championship with a three year old Holstein bull at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo Iowa as R E Haeger began judging. Johanna Ray Apple Pabst was given high animal honors. Fr J Reaping of Fond du Lac won both junior and senior bull championships in the Guernsey division.
In Huntington and across the southern coal fields John W. Davis the Democratic presidential nominee tells West Virginians he is confident of victory. He stresses anti corruption and a platform to serve the people and mankind as he continues his rail tour toward Bluefield for a final WV address.
Bankers of the United States plan a dense program in Chicago from September 29 to October 2. Walter W. Head, president of the American Bankers Association, says 22 000 banks with vast resources will participate. The event includes discussions on finance railroads agriculture and government amid a presidential year.
A Chicago committee organized an entertainment program with sight seeing trips luncheons theatre parties a smoker and a golf tournament for a forthcoming bankers conference. Speakers include Arthur Reynolds president Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago C H Markham president Illinois Central Railroad John E Edgerton president National Association of Manufacturers James C Cropsey Justice of the Supreme Court of New York Senator George Wharton Pepper Dwight W Morrow and J P Morgan Co.
Buenos Aires theater managers develop local chorus girls after years of foreign revues. They prize prettiness and tuneful voices, hiring Parisian-inspired costumes and training. With two months of RO signouts, American patrons say the performances resemble New York.
Berlin Sept 1 An effort is under way to revise public garage operations in Germany to bring in efficiency similar to that in the United States. Under German building laws, not more than three automobiles may be parked in a garage at once.
In District Court Washington County Iowa an instrument purporting to be the last will of Martha F Rudd deceased dated January 31 1917 was filed read and set for hearing at 10 a m September 30 1924 before the District Court or Clerk to prove and probate the will. J D Glasgow Clerk of District Court issued by order of Hon Charles A Dewey judge of the Sixth Judicial District.
A historic note describes garages solving space problems by building box stalls for each car and dividing a large room into small cells. Time lost moving cars and wasted space deter expansion, and a new amendment to the law may address these issues. A brief mention suggests a Want-ad would help.
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