17 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1896
Page
1
A crowded Terian Church event heard Rev Thorne Rev Logue Rev Gray and Rev Stark urge against saloons. Details covered church attitudes to liquor and argued licensing costs. Speaker Stark cited county crime expenses and liquor consumption to claim no saloon will likely open here.
Mrs Gallagher and BR Boling wed at Boling residence on the Heights Saturday night at 8 30 conducted by Rev Thorne of the Methodist church. A small gathering witnessed the ceremony and wished the couple well as they begin married life.
Traveling salesmen met at Coppock on Saturday and the O E 8s of Oskaloosa plan a celebration there on Wednesday. A tradesman seeks local aid to open a glove factory employing fifty workers and urges bringing Jim to help attract factories to the area.
Saturday evening friends gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs K Clapper and gave them a splendid surprise with cakes and ices. They will leave in about a month for a new home in Arkansas and are wished well by their many friends as they depart to their new southern home.
Dr Burroughs enters Lucy B in a 2 17 trot at Columbus Junction and plans shipping her Wednesday of this week.
The forecast covers Iowa with cloudy nights and Tuesday showers, warmer southeast and in the forecast area. Washington Red and Gan Club hosts a live pigeon shoot at the ball park with Gene Breidenbach. John McCartney leaves the club for Oelwein after today's event. The Graham presents a grand Theatrical program with Fox, Clivette, Proto, Madame Clivette and other acts, marketed as the largest Faust show. A lightning strike near Washington kills a pig on a Meher farm. a horse death under the same incident led to insurance payout of 15 dollars.
Joseph Stewart died at ten to five this morning after a long illness. He was born in Nenni a Ohio and came to this county with his family in 1820, leaving a wife and four children. Funeral set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. from West Washington residence with Rev. Logue officiating. The obituary notes a long local life. other family details and church membership are listed. A separate ad asks about celebrating Labor Day or Old Settler’s Day to boost town business.
In Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas on August 15 special reports note Mrs. Waddington of this city inheriting one third of a $93 000 Pennsylvania grandfather’s estate and August McCormack the local horse trader set to inherit $42 000 from a Guatemalan relative. Also reported are church anniversary ceremonies at St Mary’s Iowa City and a series of accidents and incidents including a boy’s severe arm injury from a sharp bone fragment, a fatal tetanus death from an electric burn, a poisoning case in Webster City, a drowning in a creek near Cedar Rapids and a relocation of Patton’s family to Washington. Ian Maclaren’s new short story The Minister of St Bede’s is secured for The Ladies Home Journal’s October and November issues with praise for its charm and character.
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