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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
6
Special to The Evening Journal presents Iowa weather for today and tomorrow. Pair tonight and Saturday with some rain in the west, cooler in the northwest tonight, cooler Saturday overall.
Keota visitor A J Smith returns from trip. several residents travel for business and social visits. Le Chas Stuart returns from Dwight Illinois. Delia Shaw visits Fairfield. Jed Neiswanger passes through Brighton. Pollok Wallace back from West Chester carpenter work. W Brookhart from Des Moines state convention. JH Shaw and wife from Winterset to visit Bowman and Graham homes. Mrs Lewis Klein travels to Alexandria due to illness. Earl Warner returns from St Cobb California. Harry Gray returns to Crete Nebraska. Leanna Swisher and Cecil Rogers visit Mabel Wenger and Baja Wenger. Carrie Hamilton to Waterloo as Monmouth college YWCA delegate with Grace Brownell joining in Columbus Junction.
A flood of notes from Mt. Vernon area report Mrs Hazel Grush ill Emma Wonderly and Miss Marguerite Cherry among visitors in Chicago and West Chester. The entries list numerous residents traveling to Minneapolis Muscatine Havre and Columbus Junction for visits business or Chautauqua events. A six day old daughter of Mr and Mrs Eyestone died in Mt Vernon with burial planned at Mt Vernon cemetery. Waterlow Courier Aug 1.
Chopsney at the Vienna and several arrivals mark a busy period. Dr. A J Laird comes from Ainsworth, Wm Simpson from Rock Island, and Miss Babe Buckner from Oskaloosa to visit Miss Marie Redd. Mrs Nate Black returns from Chicago, and Mrs Yank Lehrer with daughters travel to Havre. Miss Cora Smiley returns home from Winfield, A B Aiey visits Havre, and Monie and Lillian Bronner return from Washington. Vera Rogers leaves Washington after two weeks with Miss Niver. Dr W C Williamson learns of his daughter-in-law's death in Kansas City at 38 after cancer. The Rev W Williamson departs for Kansas City.
Chautauqua tickets go on sale at banks for 1 50 with prices rising to 1 75 after August 10. The notice lists the sale points and the schedule 6b.
Major Hamm editor and manager of the Constitutionalist Eminence Ky recounts a four year old attack where Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him in ten days. It is touted as the fastest healer of burns sores cuts and wounds sold at Stewart’s drug store for 65 cents.
The Keota Eagle reports residents and visitors traveling to Columbus Junction for the Chautauqua festival. Names include Mrs J D McLaughlin, Della Deane, Della Tomlinson, Amy Folger, M Osborne, Rita Schreckengast, Edna Webb, Richard Hughes, A Hayes, Agnes Butterfield, Mrs Jas Taggart, and Rev Arch L Graham attending events and visiting friends and relatives.
Unnecessary expense warned for acute colic diarrhoea and dysentery. A dose of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy relieves before a doctor arrives and is claimed never to fail. Sold by Cook Sherman and Stewarts Pharmacy.
Willis Todd and H E McCollum went to Ottumwa this morning for a horse sale. McCollum and Cherryhomes shipped a car of horses from Winfield and part of another. Merle Lytle accompanied the shipment to Detroit.
E 8 Wolf of Bear Grove Iowa credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney trouble, general debility and stomach liver kidney complaints. The ad claims relief from blood diseases headache dizziness and bodily decline at 50 cents with Stewart's drug store guaranteeing the remedy.
Low rates from all points on the Iowa Central Railway. Tickets on sale daily August 1 1906 to August 31 1906. Wages from 1 75 to 3 00 a day including board. For rates contact agents or write A B Cutts G P and T Minneapolis Minn.
Nickel Plate Road offers one fare plus 4.00 for a round trip with a 30 day limit and one fare plus 2.00 for a round trip with a 15 day limit. Tickets go on sale in August. For sleeping car berths and details contact John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 107 Adams St. Troy, Aug 20.
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