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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal from Washington D C. The forecast calls for generally fair and cooler conditions tonight and Thursday across Iowa.
Willis Trotter of Ainsworth visits the city while George Brown heads to Hannibal. Mrs. E Slattery arrives from Keokuk for a visit with her sister Mrs. J J McKeone. Miss Fulton attends her nephew s wedding in Fairfield and returns. Col S W Brookhart travels to Keosauqua and Des Moines for militia events. Dave Donovan visits from Stratford before moving to Memphis. School district sells two inch planks. Dutch Creek trustee Hotle and Han cock go to Waterloo for a good roads convention.
An election to fill the vacancy of 2nd Lieutenant will be held tonight, August 12, 1908, in the Armory from 7 to 9 p.m. All members are ordered to be there by order of MO. H. Steck, Capt. Commanding Co.
The County News notes Miss Lillian Olds spent yesterday visiting friends at Washington. C. R. Stearns was a business visitor at Washington. Jesse Marr departed to attend business matters in Kansas City. Frank Porter returned from the Chautauqua at Columbus Junction. L. E. Trotter visited friends in Washington. Mrs. N. M. Anderson and two children left to attend Chautauqua at Washington.
The naval reserve fleet, including the gunboat Wolverine and ships Hawk Gopher Dorothea Vantte and Pon Juan De Austria, assembled at South Manitou Island for summer maneuvers. The Hawk ran aground at Northeast Point and was stranded for three hours before rescue by Dorothea and island life-saving crew. no damage reported.
Paris papers report King Alfonso will travel to the French capital in September on his way to the Isle of Wight to join Queen Victoria. From England he will proceed to Vienna to meet Emperor Francis Joseph.
August 12 notes report Mrs Charles Noel and the Misses Una and Dorothy Godlove visiting Washington. Vern Noel cut his foot trimming maple trees. Dr Marr dressed the wound and he is doing well. Matt Miller of Ainsworth wired a phone for Ross Hancock at the hardware. The schoolhouse interior has a fresh coat of paint. Oscar Dickinson of Richland visits the George Askea home. Mrs Ben Cole on sick list but improving. Ladies Aid to host an ice cream social at the hall Friday evening. all invited.
W J Wagner returns from Ogallah Kansas after attending a brother s funeral. John Johnson of near Winfield and Anderson of Chicago were visited yesterday at the James Ferguson home. E J Davidson Mil ton and S W Huston Haydn attend Chautauqua at Columbus Junction. W Ferguson of Washington visits J A Ferguson home. Luther Gormly back from Wilmington Kansas. Earl Griffith travels to Washington. Rev Mr Genung returns from Garrison Iowa. Gardner Robertson returns from Columbus Junction Chautauqua. DeLong Gormley Yeager lose cattle to lightning last night.
In a St. Louis Post-Dispatch quip a speaker remarks scarlet fever at home is a bad disease yet the doctor’s bill suggests no lasting illness. The exchange playfuly contrasts illness with medical costs.
Winchester Indiana August 12 Charles Miller seventeen son of Jen Miller while illustrating how to react to footpads shot and wounded Harry Dull eighteen son of Levi Dull. The bullet pierced his left foot and may require amputation. Miller did not know the revolver was loaded.
Ypsilanti Michigan August 12 Adolf Klaviter Lewis Kemp a boarder at the Klaviter house and six year old Anna Beach a Klaviter niece were sent to Ann Arbor for Pasteur treatment after being bitten by a puppy that also sickened Mrs Klaviter and her daughter who were hospitalized Heavy rains in Springfield Illinois August 12 aided corn and pastures restoring fire damaged crops
A Popular Mechanics description explains a simple drawing device that lets anyone capture true perspective quickly. It uses a forty five degree mirror a glass screen a peephole and a blackened interior to reflect a virtual image onto drawing paper enabling quick accurate outlines with later detailing.
Describes an alphabetical party game where players answer how Cupid comes with words ending in ing or ly. Each response must start with successive letters A to Z, repetitive rounds allowed, and repeats require forfeit if a word is reused.
A French inventor adapts the stereoscope to magic lanterns by supplying spectacles with angled lenses. Viewers gaze at two pictures on the screen, producing a three dimensional effect where figures and surroundings seem to stand out from the background.
A historical note describes making invisible ink using zaffre cobalt oxide dissolved in nitro muriatic acid. The solution yields blue color, becomes green with heat, and fades as paper cools. Excess heat fixes the writing, preventing disappearance.
Poem from Youth's Companion about a child addressing a sister and a bird, expressing familial love and spiritual reassurance. The speaker calls themselves the little brother and notes shared sun and stars, heavenly care, and a whispered prayer.
W R Gilbert notes that scientific balance rations require practical application by feeders. Properly finished sheep come from starting feeding from birth with increasing quantity, avoiding early neglect. Market demand favors deep flesh with a firm fat margin and good handle rather than excessive fat.
Mount Carmel Aug 12 William Dalton thirty four a brakeman on the Southern railway was instantly killed in the Southern yards as a freight car turned over on him. He hailed from Wayne City Illinois.
The Balearic Isles produced the best Roman slingers with early training. Boys learned by having dinners hung from a tree and using a sling stone to cut the string, earning their meal as a reward.
P. G. H. Bement describes breeding season feeding of stallions at Pabst Stock Farm. He provides quantities: about ten quarts oats and eight quarts bran daily, plus as much as they will eat clean, three meals daily and bran mash twice weekly. In nonbreeding season oats are reduced. Stallions receive two hours walking exercise daily and alfalfa hay is noted as fattening.
The passage argues that if stock break through pasture fences, the interior pastures fail to meet the animals needs. It claims a good pasture can replace a need for an effective fence, implying pasture quality is the key to containment and grazing success.
Government measurements by W A Cook record 3.62 inches of rainfall last night and this morning with steady rain through the night and very hard intervals. It follows only one heavier rain this year, 3.72 inches in May, and is expected to aid the corn crop if conditions remain favorable.
Eighteen thousand six hundred dollars was paid by the Western Realty Company of Cedar Rapids for the Jacob Lucas farm of 51 acres just south of Iowa City. Dennis Maher made the sale. The price was 600 dollars per acre, and Cedar Rapids interests plan to plat and add the land to the city.
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