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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
5
For sale foods of wood See Ear Little. Wanted Your spring carpet cleaning Ingrain 24 cents a yard and Brussels 344. Carpet Cleaning Co. Phone 694.
The regular quarterly prayer service was held last evening at the Methodist church with large attendance. Frank Sage of the Baptist church led a talk on Watch. The meeting featured many participants and Prof. R. D. Daugherty directing the music.
The contract for the main building of the Central Holiness University at Holiness University in Oskaloosa Iowa was let yesterday. The project is priced at 850000 and will include an auditorium and a dormitory to be erected this summer.
Fraternal Aid members are requested to attend a Thursday evening meeting at 7 30 sharp for important business.
Open and frank disclosure of ingredients on bottle wrappers is touted as evidence of safety and honesty. The Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments is claimed to use native American roots, no narcotics or alcohol, with glycerine as solvent, and endorsed by medical writers. Readers are urged to request Dr. Pierce’s extracts from Buffalo New York.
The ceremony took place at 7 30 PM at the Cherryhomes home with Rev W Gardner Robertson officiating. About forty guests attended, the bride wore white mohair and pink and white roses, and a three course dinner followed by local relatives and friends. The couple will reside in Utica Kansas, with Fletcher a substitute carrier on route two. Out of town guests included Mrs Wal Cherryholmes Edith and Jessie Cherryholmes Mrs J B Crooks Jessie Crooks and Mr and Mrs Harley Cherryholmes of Washington.
Riverside news reports editor William Kuneman at Keokuk federal court. George Craig’s typhoid fever eases. Rev Kottenstette of Hills and Rev Jacobsmeier visit. Alma Ott visits Iowa City with J.L. Stevens family. W. Ott surveys for J.B. Carr. A baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles th Saturday night. J.L. Kern of Cedar Rapids visits Frank Kern. W.R.C. to present The Milkmaids' Convention on April 21 with refreshments. Easter service at the M. E. church Sunday morning.
Rosa Kohlicek returns from visiting her sister Mrs Underwood in Wyman. A nine pound boy greets the Martin Kern home Maes. Libby Escher Anna Houghton Mr and Mrs Al Reeves Jos Pieper and family and Mr and Mrs Frank Horn visit Washington Saturday. Our telephone lines discuss a dead wire direct Kalona to the county seat. Tobin Co ships stock last Friday. Mrs Henson slowly improves. Miss Eda Kos spends days in the country with cousins the Misses Vacha.
April 12 notes report Charles Foster traveling in Davenport and Muscatine on business. Rev. G. Voorhies attends presbytery in Iowa City. Miss Pearle Davis of Chula Missouri visits sister Mrs H F Owen. Masons work on Foster store building and H F Owen moves into Crozier property. Mrs Sam Leffler visits Washington with daughter Mrs Harry Raymond.
April 12 brief social items include visits by Mrs. Margaret Nichols and Hazel Campbell with relatives in Washington. An infant buried at Welsh cemetery. mother recovering. Mrs. Jennie Bailey and H. A. Wickham noted in town. Paul Davis spent time with friends in Washington before departing for Davenport. Teresa receives piano from Muscatine firm. E F Brockway of Letts visits. Mrs. Frank Chihak travels to Easter services at St James church.
Miss Nellie Hull left for Davenport to visit friends. Mrs Mary Barrows returns home after two weeks with Miss Anna Maxwell. Mrs John Long shops in Washington. Mrs Robert Turkington and children of Wyman visit her father D H Griffith. Mr Aodes Miller came back from Hillsboro last evening.
The Iowa City presbytery covers forty five churches thirty six ministers and eight counties. Rev J B Donaldson was elected a commissioner to the General Assembly meeting in Des Moines May 17. W C Wilcox spoke on Reasons in the Resurrection of Christ. Delegates visited the State University and a scholarship was granted by the Syndical Home Mission committee. Andrew Carnegie gifted 45000 for a science jail. The fall meeting will be in Montezuma in September.
The Washington agency of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co has grown westward adding counties. Stanley Logan must move the district office to Oskaloosa soon while retaining partial charge here. Friends of the Logans regret the move but wish them success in their new home.
New York reports James A Bailey longtime showman and former Barnum Bailey partner died yesterday at his Mount Vernon home from erysipelas. He was considered one of the era's great exponents of the show business.
J. Elliott Lynn of Iowa City arrived last evening to spend a week at the John Bergquist residence, visiting during a university break.
A historical excerpt touts Japanese endurance and strong health due to digestive care. It credits Mi ona as a stomach remedy sold by Columbia Pharmacy in Washington, with a signed money back guarantee if Mi ona fails to benefit the user.
Des Moines reports Iowa lost two million dollars in the past year from falling butter prices. Secretary James Wilson creates a butter inspection department headed by W S Smarzo of Manchester to test Iowa butter in New York with assistants. Tests aim to see if price decline stems from production methods or feed, and to compare small versus large creameries. Inspections will extend to Chicago and other shipping hubs.
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