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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
3
A rose mocks a cornstalk for lacking beauty until a corn ear matures. The cornstalk yields a tasty roasting ear while the rose withers, leaving only a knot. The tale concludes that being useful is nicer than being merely pretty.
Washington April 22 Maj Gen Leonard Wood now assumes duties as chief of staff succeeding Maj Gen J Franklin Bell. Wood, famed army doctor and former Rough Riders colonel, led the Department of the East from New York and is regarded as one of the era's finest military minds.
Berkeley April 22 Coach Garnet Holmes has cast students with true Roman noses to portray ghosts of Julius Caesar Augustus Caius Tiberius and Claudius in the university production of Nero. The spirits will appear as chants to remind Nero of his misdeeds.
St Joseph Missouri hosts the Western League opener as Jack Holland builds a strong roster to challenge Des Moines for the pennant. Lincoln plays Denver, Sioux City meets Topeka, and Omaha faces Wichita in a hopeful start to the season.
Mrs. A R Strum died at 5 10 am at her Dutch Creek township home seven miles west of the city after a brief illness of peritonitis. Funeral Sunday at one at the residence conducted by Rev S K Coats with interment in Elm Grove cemetery.
The schedule lists 168 games with the season closing on October 3. Past standings show Des Moines, Sioux City, Omaha, Topeka, Wichita, Denver, Lincoln, and Pueblo in that order.
Senator Chauncey Mitchell Depew turns seventy six today as colleagues offer congratulations. He and Mrs Depew will host a dinner that evening to mark the anniversary.
President Taft and Governor Slughes to be guests of honor at the Old Guard annual dinner at Delmonico's in New York. Memorial services and parade are to precede the banquet this evening.
Patient testimonial from J. L. Saunthers of Eau Claire Wisconsin praises Foley's Kidney Pills for restoring deep sleep, easing back pain and kidney soreness, improving appetite and overall health, with Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Company as distributors.
Plans are under way for the Crocker Brigade reunion in Washington Iowa next September. Marion O Loughlin former sheriff of Washington and brigade member recently visited Iowa City comrades and said attendance would be large. Dan Wenger visited from Washington to see relatives and inspect Schowalter's Missouri hogs before returning home. Mrs W H Hughes led a Sunday school party from Washington for a Pansy Hill picnic plan that weather and other events altered, then spent the day at Mrs J L Overholt's home in Columbus Junction. Dr Lena Louise Willmering left for York Pennsylvania to live with sister Mrs Dora Rutland after a successful career in the city.
A Primer of Life argues that wealth or poverty is driven by an inherent money-making instinct. It notes people follow their destined paths regardless of riches or famine and that happiness has no fixed relationship to wealth.
A man boasts of self-satisfaction after learning his doctor ordered an European trip for health. The exchange mocks pride and digs into the joke of health versus wealth, with a humorous punch about the compliment in the order.
Three years ago I suffered falls and female troubles and was very sick yet within six months Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made me well. Mrs C W Dunn of Glenwood says the remedy cured her and she recommends sharing the letter. The ad claims the product is standard for female ills and offers free advice from Lynn Mass.
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