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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1930
Page
8
Mrs Harriet Pickett Berk eley of Yeenton Iowa visits sister Mrs Cint Cunningham in Brooklyn New York. Miss Charette Cunningham serves as Y W C A secretary in Brooklyn. VITO medicine referenced as recently sold by a local man.
County teachers will wind up the institute with Prof. C B Germane delivering a talk on Character Education to school officers and PTA groups after mornings sessions on teaching to think and diagnostic methods. The program includes a significant focus on improving reading, health, and home cooperation to raise student achievement.
Robert G. Sheetz, veteran Poland China breeder near Keota, will offer a lineup of Poland China boars and gifts on Tuesday October 14. Top pigs from his new herd include Dawn by Nighthawk and Early Dawn. The sale features well grown pigs with strong Poland bloodlines from respected dams. a top sire is highlighted for his recent draft of pigs.
Local brief mentions advise chimney rebuilding before cold weather and include a phone contact. Travel note reports Win Smouse returning from a five week vacation visiting relatives in Maryland Pennsylvania Indiana and Ohio with driver A L Young in an Oakland eight. A social dance is announced for October 2 in Richmond featuring Joe Fisher's Happy Melody Boys. An advertisement promotes laundry services at 1.25 per dozen. A pledge to an engineering fraternity and a call for Iowa City women to attend a gathering are noted along with scattered garbled text about a Mrs. Davis and a telephone contact.
Mrs Frank Sage to host sisters Dora Littleton of Fullerton and W F Miller of Pasadena for a brief visit. They have been visiting their father in the Ozarks and were in Des Moines last week. Also noted are a local overcoat purchase, M A Herron of Modern Woodmen in town, and Joan Harrah, former Journal night line type man, visiting as a substitute operator for the Kansas City Star.
The group will meet at Methods First Church on Wednesday at seven o clock to discuss attending the football game at Iowa City on Saturday as guests of the university. Boys should not make their own travel plans. 1950s notice details guidance for participants.
A brief notice notes that 71 calves at SaLE-2 Dairy were deemed too late to qualify for the sale. It records the auction window closure and identifies the dairy under sanitary inspection. No later action specified.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ayres of New Orleans spent yesterday with relatives and friends. They plan to visit Mr. and Mrs. Normal Hail in Colfax before sailing soon for the South Seas.
Henderson Wallace lists the Washington Hand of 1984 with 17 members, only four living Chas Jebner Lee Wallace Frank Webly and John McMallen. New Virginia Lee shoes for girls arrive this morning in black and brown calfskin with trimmed square toe at 5.00 dollars a pair.
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