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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1911
Page
8
Des Moines Iowa April 25 The past week was dry and pleasant with cool nights and above normal temperatures. Light showers on the 11th and 18th with frost on the 22nd. no damage as vegetation was not advanced. Conditions favorable for farm work, seeding progress, corn prep, and fruit prospects with orchard heaters increasingly used. Pig crop disappointing. foals and calves average.
Des Moines officials review new law affecting Knoxville institution discipline. Inmates may face sworn officers with authority to act without warrants for protection. Last year about thirty inmates walked away.
Inmates are put to work in a stone quarry and in the garden as a new policy under the Knoxville institution aims to increase productivity and achieve more good through the operation of the new law.
Cedar Rapids Iowa April 25 Members of the state educational board of control refer guardedly to charges by Representative Ernest R Moore against Prof PG Holden of the Ames Agricultural college The board may next meet to consider Holden s case and investigate all charges The board also says instructors should teach not lobby and any requests regarding money for short courses must go through the board before reaching the legislature.
The pastor preached on John 1 29 framing Jesus as the Lamb of God and the cost of sacrifice. The service closed with the Lord's Supper as seven new members joined and a B Y P U meeting on Keeping the Sabbath led by Vera Cole.
President and Mrs. Taft welcomed attendees of the National Episcopal Church Congress in Washington. Justice Lurton, general committee chair, will open the first session at Continental Hall as clergy and lay leaders gather for a four day forum on church matters.
The Rev J M Duncan preached at the First United Presbyterian church in Keota during the Lord's Supper services. The Rev W O Fisher and Rev T Jackson addressed missions in West Chester and Keota. A Keota presbytery plan calls visiting pastors to discuss missions at each church and a union gathering in Keokuk on Wednesday at 7 30 pm with Rev Rd Graham and Rev AH T Jackson and Mr C A Sprague.
Venice marks the civil centennial of Italian unity with the dedication of a rebuilt Campanile on St Mark's site. The new tower replicates the original, using modern safety methods while preserving ancient materials. Sirens and crowds join dignitaries as Venice observes the day as a holiday.
A national mass meeting at Carnegie Hall in New York commemorates the King James Bible centennial. Prominent church and state figures, led by the American Bible Society, will address the audience as the ceremony recalls English Bible history from Wycliffe to the 1901 Revised Version and the American Standard Version.
Hiram Scranton of Clay City HL trudged home after doctors warned consumption in the mountains. He tried Dr. King's New Discovery and says it saved his life making him a new man able to work again. A remedy for lung diseases coughs and more priced 60c and 1.00 with a trial bottle free by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
President Taft accepted an invitation to visit Kalamazoo Michigan in September during his Chicago tour. The exact date will be set later.
Bank Ste Marie Mich reports water released into the American canal on Sunday morning with locking operations beginning on Monday. Local authorities expect navigation to resume as crews complete securing and signaling procedures.
An advertisement touts a new Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic powder dissolving in water for toilet and dental care. It claims teeth cleansing tartar removal breath purification and disease germ disinfection. Also advertised as an eye wash throat and wound healer with boxes priced 50 cents and samples mailed from Boston.
Washington April 25 A conference on the parcels post opened at the New Willard by the Postal Progress league to press for a parcels post in Congress and public support for mail facilities. Resolutions call for a general parcels post for 1 to 1 1/2 pound packages at eight cents a pound a local cheap parcels post on rural routes and insurance for all mail. The note cites the current U S rate of sixteen cents per pound up to four pounds and contrasts with eight cents per pound for eleven pound shipments from Europe to the United States benefiting foreign shipments over citizens.
A. L. Hamilton reports congress intends to set February 17 as Mothers Day across the country in a push for organized motherhood started in 1860. Leaders include Mrs Theodore W Birney and Mrs Phebe Hearst. Also notes favorable remedies for coughs and rheumatism from Chamberlains products and Foley kidney remedy used by a street railway conductor to return to work.
In Washington on April 25 the second International Congress of Child Welfare gathers hundreds of women to discuss the duty of home school church and state to children. Sessions run daily through next Tuesday under the National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers association with topics on health play grounds child labor and city country welfare. Europe is represented and various state delegates attend including Mrs Justice Harlan Kentucky and Mrs Charles D Carter Oklahoma among others.
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