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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1911
Page
2
Community brief reports from Wyman and Lexington Aug 7 9 include visits to Columbus Junction Hartington and Mount Pleasant. Residents like Mrs Turkington Eva Matthews and J F Frain help with travel stores and church activities while others attend lectures picnics and threshing events.
A Crawfordsville update reports Angie Trotter Susie Trotter Cora Olds Grace Adams attending Chautauqua in Columbus Junction yesterday. Community members including Mr and Mrs A B Stites and Myrtle Stewart travel to Union Nebraska for an extended visit. The large grain elevator built by T Y Wickham decades ago collapsed, owner J A Marsh estimates 500 dollars to repair, eight to nine carloads of grain in the structure at the time. Nearby residents and visitors including Rev Will Yard and Mrs Yard of Wisconsin and many Washington and Columbus Junction residents are noted attending events and visiting friends.
Ranuel Waldauf, a longtime Oskaloosa merchant known for the Bauidaauf store, died suddenly Tuesday night near Monmouth while traveling with companions to Chicago for an aviation meet. He passed within minutes after illness, ending a long career in local business.
Keota area residents host relatives and friends from Piedmont West Virginia and Iowa city guests plan travels to Des Moines Oklahoma and West Virginia. Other items note Mrs James DeVoe post surgery in Ottumwa and several families visiting or returning from Texas Colorado and Burlington with health and hospitality remarks.
A humorous column riffs on gasoline prices from country merchants, contrasting high finance with farmers paying 12 to 25 cents a gallon. It lampoons Standard Oil, potato bugs, and the craze over crazy quilts, noting department stores erode the old rural wardrobe and social norms.
The ad promotes D D D Prescription for Eczema a cooling winter green lotion claiming instant itch relief in five seconds. It notes a bottle commonly sells for $1.00 now offered at 25 cents under a special arrangement. Cook and Sherman endorse the product for all skin troubles.
Miss Lou Ohngemach and D. F. Macon with Rougherty clerk announce a sale of household items on Saturday August 12 at 2 30 PM at the home near the Press office. Item list includes furniture sewing machine refrigerator range stove lamps lumber tools lawn mower and other articles.
City banks will close at noon daily from August 16 to August 25 during the Chautauqua season.
The funeral for the late S. A. Love was held yesterday at 2 PM at the Joe McCreedy residence near Haskins. Rev. R. D. Hughes conducted the service. Interment followed in Ainsworth cemetery with pallbearers Joe McCreedy Wm Love John Love George Fulton Matthew Fuwer and A N Euwer.
Rain fell yesterday morning to .14 inches and another .02 inches last night. Some hail and light wind accompanied both showers but no significant damage reported.
In a bid for a sane Fourth of July, a Chicagoan introduces a new instrument that creates noise by bursting paper between a rubber bulb and a perforated handle.
Market notes show cattle sheep and grain activity with receipts and shipments for Chicago and Washington. Prices range from bulk cattle 7 25 to 7 65 and sheep lambs 7 35 to 6 90 with grain close and other commodities listed for regional markets.
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