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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1911
Page
5
Local brief items record visits and travels across towns. Fred Wilde and others arrive and depart Kad Moline for family visits. several residents travel to Columbus Junction Kansas City and Toledo for short visits. bicycles for sale at McFarland shop. relatives seen at West Chester Keosauqua and Lenox.
Local notes list baseball matchups for Monday and Tuesday between Washington and Mystic or Washington Grounds, with additional town visits and travel mentions for residents and visitors across several Iowa and nearby regions.
A bedtime tale unfolds with Jack and Evelyn debating hunger and a sea lion Nick who signals mealtime with a bell. Daddy imagines a dinner bell for Jack to ring once daily as a playful solution. The scene features family dialogue about meals, patience, and a humorous pretend sea creature in a story.
Frank Porter of Marian Iowa visits with friends in the city while Mr Slattery from St. Louis stays with his daughter Mrs Kellogg. Mrs William Shannon returns from Davenport visiting her daughter Mrs Glick. Rev W R Yard and wife from Delavan Wisconsin arrive to visit his parents. Miss Julia Swisher of Sigourney arrives to spend Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Swisher. William Lintner of Pittsburgh arrives to visit Mrs Elizabeth Hopen Gardner. The Misses Lois DeFrance and Eloie Graham of Iowa City plan Sunday visit with Mr and Mrs HL Parrott. Miss Hessie Cook returns to Moline after visiting cousins Jennie and Ellen Smith. A Bible school worker from India will speak tomorrow at the Baptist church. The pastor will preach at 11 on The Meaning Method and Measure of Redemption.
Flour sellers offer 175 sacks of high grade flour at 1.25 per sack with money back satisfaction. Park Service plans tomorrow evening 7:30 service in the park with extra seating for Rev. W. R. Yard of the First Baptist Church Delavan Wisconsin delivering the sermon. Noise control on square stressed for the hour.
Riots erupted in Des Moines as street car workers began a citywide walkout early this morning. Five detectives and police officers were injured while sympathizers derided the barricaded loops. Managers promise service to resume Monday.
Theodore Roosevelt takes the witness stand in a Congressional inquiry into the Steel Trust to recount his knowledge of the absorption of Tennessee Coal and Iron by the steel company amid the panic era.
Sheriff McCarty has no definite trace yet of the escaped prisoners. He continues to work, hoping for success in a few more days. State officers are on the lookout and the escape is widely known through broad publication.
A group of about thirty five neighbors hosted a birthday party for Will Spehenger at his father in law Chas Hoxworth home with five hundred games and refreshments. Miss Zoe Harmon of Cedar Falls and guests from Sterling Iowa City Freemont Neb gathered for visiting and fancy work at hostess Miss Hope Otts afternoon event. Mrs H Steck and daughter Mary hosted a tea at East Main Street with yellow and white decor. forty ladies attended and sewed while enjoying a luncheon. Mrs Endicott of Brighton was the out of town guest. The Baptist Ladies Mission circle met at Mrs Ioa Bowmans house for a program after devotional exercises.
D C Gillette former Brown Swiss Dairy superintendent under M T Anderson plans to start his own milk delivery. He will source milk from Leet Brothers of West Chester and charge 6 cents per quart and 3 cents per pint. Gillette has twenty five years in the trade and promises soon to announce his service details at No 62.
Word came of the death of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs AE Stites of Nebraska at the home of Mrs Stites parents Mr and Mrs M Stewart near Ainsworth. The child had been frail and ill with poco vonta in recent days and the father now home from Montana was summoned. Stites was formerly Miss Rabel Stewart.
A reflective note argues that predicting which current people will be honored in the future is impossible and risks misjudgment as fashion changes. It suggests no one can accurately point to which parts of today’s scene will endure or fade.
A brief, humorous exchange reveals a father's cautious stance toward his daughter's chosen partner. In real life he often objects yet remains discreet, wisely avoiding open conflict.
The afternoon featured Mrs Core and her husband a longtime missionaries in India for twenty years She will return to India in October leaving her children in care for education The discussion was engaging and reflected on peaceful aims and shared faith by attendees
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