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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1905
Page
5
Mrs Herbert Yerkes of Vinton is due tomorrow to visit friends in the city. Mr and Mrs Yerkes plan to leave soon for their new home in California.
A brief notice column reports accidents and deaths along with births and marriages. It lists local figures and happenings, noting timely results from community events and life milestones.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Wingler on Tuesday April 4. Their joy follows a period of concern for a family member, with news of a sister's death and subsequent burial arrangements in Washington.
April notices report Elnore Brimhall improving and Ola Simpson returning to Washington to study music. Frank Martin resumes activity with his egg wagon this spring while Floyd Timmons and Charlie Eye Stone resume duties at the Academy. Andrew Simpson sells his farm to Mr Crosby and the Simpson family considers an Oklahoma move in fall. Simpson Clendenning Brown and White dig for William Phillips and Mrs J Clendenning visits friends in the city before returning home. Miss Margeret Simpson is visiting.
The County Board adjourned last evening and will meet again next Monday to take up other business. Several road cases were decided or continued including vacating Nick Burkhart road, rejecting several others, approving Riverside vacation, and establishing Washington Two. Appointments were made with W M Black named constable and M D Yard as Justice of the Peace.
James Moothart hosted a large gathering at the County Farm for an April fool party with many friends in attendance. Ola Simpson plans a Friday evening visit at her aunt Mrs. Belle Hampston's home.
April 4 items report visits by Mr and Mrs Roy Foss at E P Foss's and other neighbors. Zeta Pratt was ill but improving. Rosa Nicholson and Mary Wigum visited Robert Kephart's. Farmers sow oats. Monard Caldwell injured at school but better. Etienne sisters visited at Robert Kephart's. Sunday School attendance was strong and sessions will start at ten. All are invited each Sunday.
April reports from Washington list Miss Maggie Turbott returning home from a visit with Mrs. A G Gault and relatives, Oscar and John Finley from Leighton visiting their sister Mrs D A Cassel, and Adda Methew from Cotter visiting Mrs S B Sands. George C McGraw, clipping a mule, broke his right thumb. Austin Lord, age eleven, fractured his left wrist when a horse jumped and struck him. Others include J H Pearson on county business, Dr J H Hull attending bank directors, and visits by Mrs E J Southworth and daughter to L B Cocklin’s home.
A Columbus Ohio man Theodore Schuele recalls a deep foot wound from an accident. He says physicians were helpless but Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly healed it. The ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as soothing burns and healing injuries. Available at J H Stewarts druggist.
The notice urges planting trees now and lists local residents like Mrs Isaac Nickerson and Mrs Nancy Wallace traveling to Muscatine and Ainsworth. It urges calling Stewart's Nursery for tree orders and mentions T E McMillan traveling to Verdi Missouri and Colorado Springs for extended stays.
Indoor baseball game this evening featuring Par alyzers versus Invincibles at the Commercial club gym. Free admission for club members and friends. Do not miss it.
Judge Preston adjourned court this afternoon and rescheduled for May 20 to hold a one day session.
A health notice explains arsenic rapidly alters skin tone as it poisons the body. It mentions the waxy ivory appearance during poisoning and warns that popular belief in beauty use leads some women to self harm with small repeated doses. The piece cautions the aftereffects become widely known, reducing any cosmetic appeal.
The message says opportunity is not only for grand moments but grows from the daily actions you take. The focus is on the why behind your work and how steady progress becomes the path to greater achievement.
Chattanooga dispatch reports Col T G Bush announcing a procelient certainty in the Southern Iron merger forming from Tennessee Coal and Iron Pony Slos Sheffieldron Foundry Alabama Consolidated Coal and Tron Alabama properties of S yrub lic Tron and Steel. Bridgeport dispatch notes a deadly Union Metallic Cartridge building explosion killing three workers John Meary Michael Hurley William Bayliss and causing an estimated 30000 loss.
A mob in Springfield Ohio was contained by police with no riot occurring. A managers meeting of Ohio coal firms will meet in Chicago later this week to fix lake trade prices for coal. Fire at Rocky Mount North Carolina caused about 1100000 in damage and ensure insurance. Despondent Mount Sterling banker Glenn Loushbourrow died by suicide in Wellington Kansas. Forest fire efforts on South Mountain Maryland failed. residents pray for rain.
In Rome on April 5 a speeding motor car carriage driven by Prince and Princess Brogli struck and killed a woman near Naples. The prince was arrested as a result.
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