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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
3
The Rev and Mrs A Bailey I M P Watson and Mrs Dr H Hamilton returned home to Ainsworth last evening after a day in the city.
New pictures tonight at Star feature city visitors from Ainsworth including Robert West and S A Walker. Ada Lambert improves from measles as Mrs Will Dupuis returns from Sigourney. Brownsville area residents Harley O Loughlin and W K Wooley shop in the city. library tables arrive at North Side Furniture. Frank McFarlane visits West Chester. Mr and Mrs George Rogers depart for York Nebraska. Royal Neighbors organizer W L Dowd plans Rubio camp with seventeen applicants. Rev and Mrs Ely move to Cedar Rapids after his church call. Elsie Messenger and Charles Edwards wed near Verdi. Brighton sees town elections with L J Bidwell mayor and new councilors. Col vard child ill in Brighton. A A Wall on sick list. Eckerman of Washington seeks county clerk post. Gilbert Cole and wife return to East Moline.
Miss Edith Dayton leaves for Mt Vernon to resume her studies after a home vacation. Claude Stattler's funeral set for tomorrow at the Christian church at 2 PM, conducted by Rev Mr Davis. Mrs Warner departs for western Iowa due to ill brother in law. Mrs Page and Eva visiting Sigourney. Paul Neal heads to Mt Vernon after a week with his parents.
March 31 Bruce Gardner left for Ottumwa to serve on the federal jury. Ezra Gardner delivered hogs at West Chester. School opened with Miss Amy Folger as teacher in Washingto. Miss Eva Smith of Williamsburg visited the parsonage. Quarterly meeting set for Pilotsburg next Sunday. no meeting here. Rev W A Smith and Eva left for Burlington. The Q E C plans a pie social at the parsonage next Saturday night. Susie Bitting assists at Oy Timmons home. Mrs Adams and daughter Lissa visited Keota last week. Bruce Moore of West Chester fixes phones locally. Mrs Frankie Wilson spends the week with her Washington parents.
Miss Ethel Crawford of Washington visited Benj Humm’s home on Sunday. Elenor Ollie Lot tie Dunbar and Bessie Taylor visited Mellie and Ella Beitel. Mrs. Martin of Muscatine and her daughter Florence visited sister C L Beitel. Anna Rehmel visited Emma Buxbaum in Washington. Elenor Dunbar stayed with cousin Dora Dunbar near Brighton last week. C L Beitel began an egg wagon run yesterday.
Lay March 30 report details Seth Hart guesting with D E family and Easter homecomings. J B Free of Jefferson County is found dead by suicide, hanged between buggy shafts near double corn cribs, after months of mental strain. Frantic relief expresses respect for the well to do farmer, MTB hospital patient in past. Frances Meacham begins school at Schopperville, J S McClellands travel east from Brighton after visiting Frank McClelland’s west of Veo.
Jesse P. Morris of Skippers Virginia recalls a 1906 pneumonia scare with a severe cough. He credits Dr King s New Discovery for rapid relief after two and a half bottles and declares it the best remedy for coughs and lung disease. Available at Lemmon s Pharmacy with guarantee, 50 cents and 1.00. Trial bottle free.
Official weather forecast up to 8 o clock tonight shows showers and cooler in Illinois and Indiana north portion. Lower Michigan rain with possible snow in the north and west, cooler in the north and west. Wisconsin rain or snow with cooler temperatures. Iowa east portion marked by rain and colder conditions.
Chicago quotations show wheat corn oats hogs and cattle prices with May and July futures and cash sale ranges. East Buffalo live stock quotes list cattle hogs sheep and calves with receipts and market levels as of March 21.
A testimonial from O. S. Woolever of LeRaysville New York claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured his bleeding piles twenty years ago after a brief course. The ad touts healing for sores boils burns wounds and cuts with a 25 cent price at Lemmon's Pharmacy. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is promoted as an all natural aid antitussive that eases coughs opens secretions and supports recovery. sales by Cook and Sherman.
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