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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1907
Page
4
White City tents up as crowds prepare for a full program tonight headlined by Schubert vocalists. Events begin 7:30 with an invocation by Rev. W O Fisher and address by S W Livingston. Evening concerts, lectures, Bible hour, and activities fill the schedule.
Mrs. C. C. Cunningham entertained a group of young ladies in honor of the Misses Thielen of Chicago at the F. L. Wilson home. Music featured the evening with Nena Wilson violin May Florine Thielen vocal and instrumental numbers by Emily Cunningham Bessie Louise Thielen Hanna Eicher. Refreshments were served by Charles and Howard Cunningham.
A lively program unfolds with talks by Dr. W. G. Searles and Sen. Benjamin Tillman on democracy and the race problem. Misses Isenhart and Ingham hosted a social at the Minick home with games, music, and a sweet pea bouquet centerpiece. A Thursday picnic at Chautauqua park honors the guests.
At noon today in North Iowa avenue home of Mr and Mrs I J Hartman their eldest daughter Grace married Henry Wasson of Burlington The ceremony was performed by Rev Elias Handy of the Methodist church with Miss Nancy Wasson and Will Hartman as attendants A wedding dinner for about fifty followed with contributions from Miss Houdek and others Grace leaves Pleasant Plain where she was active socially and in church circles
Burlington report notes a large array of wedding gifts as Mr. and Mrs. Wasson plan to reside at 220 South Tenth Street Burlington Iowa after August 20. Out of town guests include Pierce Hartman family from north of the city Walter Hartman near Lexington Ira Rathmel near Dublin and others from Cone Linneus Winfield Succora N M and adjacent areas.
Misses Hallie Berdo Blodwin Jones and Reid were entertained yesterday at the Joe Wright home northeast of the city in a social event.
Mrs. James Laughead learns of the death of her sister Mrs. Rev. Marshall in Jerusalem. The cause is unknown. Marshall, formerly Miss Elizabeth McCleery, traveled to the Holy Land last September for health and study. Rev. Marshall of Moody Bible Institute accompanied by wife had planned to return this fall. Survived by sister Mrs. James Laughead and brothers John McCleery Ed McCleery Martin McCleery Dr. Thomas McCleery H. H. McCleery is a city nephew.
Ella Doehling, 20, attempted to enlist in the navy in Sioux City on August 13 wearing men's garb. She balked at a physical when asked to strip, providing evasive answers and revealing she was an orphan seeking to join her brother, George Soehling, an apprentice seaman aboard the Vermont. The report also notes Frank Sherbeck’s family reunion in Bedford with nine of ten siblings present.
A German story recalls American diners debating American sculpture. A waiter in Lucerne suggests the Farragut monument as the missing St Gaudens work, revealing he once worked near Madison Square and knew art well.
Professor Charlies J. Bushnell warned that Socialists may hold the balance of power as trusts concentrate wealth and wealth distribution grows starkly unequal. He cited United States Steel, railway control by few men, and millions in poverty amid immigrant inflows, urging awake citizens to prepare for possible political shifts.
The Alaska daisy grown by grafting a field daisy and a chrysanthemum, developed by Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, California, is chosen as the official flower of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Extensive beds of Burbank's flowers will be planted across the fair grounds in Seattle.
On the Carmania returning from Liverpool to New York a British flirt is publicly humiliated by Mrs. Hi C Jackson of Norfolk Virginia. She orchestrates a lemon prank that leaves the man embarrassed and retreating to his cabin as passengers roar with laughter and sailors chafe.
The George H. Paul Co moves today into offices in the Roberts building replacing the former Doctors Sandy and Courtright. Samuel Cocksin and John Miller labor to secure teams to haul office effects as wagons are tied up with Chautauqua campers and gear. Mrs Garard and her son Rey return from Davenport and Muscatine, and J. B. McCoy arrives from Crawfordsville for a day of city business.
A former cavalier reunites with a lady after years and learns her children are seven, five, and two, sparking astonishment at how time passes. The piece notes serpents with movable fangs and the regenerative biology that replaces a broken fang.
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