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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
4
Angel food and devils food featured at Johnsons with fresh pies at the Vienna. Several arrivals and visits across town including Ralph Junkin from Keota and Francis Buchanan from Mt. Union visiting Miss Bessie Jones. Multiple shoppers and travelers frequenting Johnsons and the Vienna while Easter orders are taken.
Local seller offers solid oak sideboard quarter sawn round dining table davenport oak book case and bedroom furniture plus rugs refrigerator and baby cab in good condition. Items available at reasonable prices to clear stock.
Local brief notes detail a special program at the Star tonight. Mrs. P. Clinkenbeard travels to Fairfield for a short visit with friends. Keck Floral Co offers carnations and other flowers for Easter greetings. Porter Black, West Liberty, a State University student, visits Ben Wallace. Katherine Buxbaum, a Southern Illinois student, returns to Grace Hill for vacation. Mary Reed of Beaver Falls, a Downer College student, spends spring vacation at the H. M. Eicher home.
William Clegg died at his brother Alex Clegg’s home three miles east of Ainsworth, after a long paralysis, yesterday at 2 pm. Born in Ohio July 13, 1839, he lived near the city for forty years and was married twice, leaving a son who died in 1901. He belonged to United Presbyterian church at Winfield, and funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 am at the Alex Clegg home with interment at Winfield.
The Queen Esther circle of the Methodist church schedules a social and box supper at the church next Thursday night the 23rd. Barker's moving pictures will be shown in the opera house tomorrow night. Beware of mercury containing catarrh remedies and choose Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. testimonials free and pills for constipation sold by druggists.
Nut pound and marble cakes at Saarkraut five cents a quart at the Royal market. We still sell sugar cured hams at twelve and a half cents a pound at the South Side Market. Mrs T J Easter and Mrs Sam Chambers of Ainsworth visited J W Dunham's home Wednesday. Miss Dora Montgomery and Arthur Ingham arrived from Iowa City for spring vacation. Mrs John Babcock returned to Chicago Wednesday. Work & Meek will receive ten dozen tan and brown oxfords on the ten oclock express tomorrow morning.
An advertisement promises improved appearance and vitality from Foley's Kidney Remedy. It claims to tone the system, cure backache and nervous exhaustion, and address kidney and bladder troubles, urging readers to start taking it today through Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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