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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1923
Page
3
The Interchurch committee announces banquet tickets are selling slowly for Tuesday evening with many left for a fifty cent plate. The Methodist Ladies Aid will serve the banquet and an excellent program is promised.
Despite bad weather Fairfield Rotary Club hosted an intercity gathering in the city armory with clubs from Ft. Madison Keokuk Burlington Mt. Pleasant Albia Ottumwa Okaloosa and Washington. Attendance was lower than hoped but the program featured visiting clubs stunts music and addresses by Paul Rankin of Rotary International and about three hundred Rotarians and Rotary Anns enjoyed a 6 o’clock dinner.
The Rev F W Eastwood ends a four year pastorate at First Presbyterian Church in Wausau Wisconsin with morning and evening services. He expresses thanks to the congregation and district friends and departs for Washington Iowa with his family. A farewell reception and gifts honor his service and loyalty to the church community.
Judge Wagner pushes to finish the Cannon Brown case today as a new term nears. Defense evidence opens in the dispute over the Brookhart farm near Verdi and Brown homestead claims amid a partner split with the Cannon brothers.
A pleasant gathering ended with the hymn God Be With You Till We Meet Again and a benediction by Rev Eastwood. This marked the third time in a week sections of the First Presbyterian Church, with several branches, have joined to honor the Rastwood family.
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