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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
2
Mr and Mrs John Stewart have moved into the Dr A Boice property on West Madison street. The house has been repainted inside and out, modern improvements added, and the property shows general improvement.
Judge Wade M J Wade of Iowa City is honored by Chairman Mack of the national Democratic committee. Wade is named chairman of the labor committee for the current campaign and becomes a member of the executive committee where Mack is ex officio chairman. Dispatches say Mack appointed him in Buffalo before New York headquarters opening and the pre election battle in the Empire state. Mack will name the finance committee and campaign speakers this week.
Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as immediate relief for asthma and lung trouble, claiming it cures many resistant cases and is the best remedy for coughs and colds with no harmful drugs.
August 4 items from the county list social visits weddings and travels. Lara Hogue attends a family wedding at the Torrey home while Elmer Erdice buys a Buick. Several residents visit relatives, relocate or return home, and a funeral for B E Holtz is noted with Rev H F Pugh officiating.
August 4 events include Misses Minnie and Lillian Browner visiting Muscatine relatives, Miss Helen Reeves from Des Moines staying with Mary Fetters, and the Rev Wm Matthews of Washington delivering a sermon to a fair sized Walnut schoolhouse audience."}
August 4 relatives and neighbors spent weekends visiting homes in Ainsworth Coppock Bible service attendees described Grover Booth and Jarl Nicola illness improvements noted Ida Nicola seriously ill and Miss Loa B Johnson visiting Ward Essley home Accie Clapper assisted with threshers meals at John Work home.
Miss Edna Rice of Cedar Rapids attended E Holtz's funeral and visited friends. Maud and Edna Carr left for Iowa City to begin nurse training. John Kneisel visited his parents for a few days. Chas Hawthorn, Sela Shoes salesman from Chicago, stayed two weeks with relatives and old friends.
August reports from Wayland note Mrs Martha Rhodes and others attending a Winfield Chautauqua. Residents travel to Excelsior Springs and New Hamburg Ontario while store changes occur in Crawfordsville. Local visits include Carl Sodergren, Jennie Stevenson, and families from Washington Coppock Oakville and near Crawfordsville, with a Mennonite church conference planned for August 29.
The Des Moines Capital questions the truth of a long statement from bankers Bache & Co of New York. They present the Standard Oil side, arguing the six cent rate was identical to other railroads and benefited all shippers. The clerical omission in filing the rate allegedly led to 1,900 crimes and a $29,000,000 fine, a claim the article frames as judicial overreach against a powerful foe.
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