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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
2
Aug 16 items from Riverside and surrounding towns record visits, family news, and social events. Mrs. Eugene Annas returns from Albion trip. deaths touch Mary Gerot. gatherings include a weenie roast near Wyman and a carnival at Washington. Keota hosts club meetings as families plan moves to Canyon City Texas.
Edwin White and daughter Mrs. T. H. Barnes left for Reynolds Kentucky to visit relatives for a few weeks. Mrs. Malinda VanHorn and son Homer returned home after a week visiting friends. Miss Hazel Miller left for Muscatine after visiting Miss Marie Adams. Henry Pickens and wife went to Clinton to visit Mrs. Pickens' sons Charlie and Bert Nash. Joe Trotter and H. V. Stickley are noted at the end of the report.
A lively agricultural column deplores cement floors for pigs and praises cozy hog houses with ham mocks. It mocks inefficient corn planters and poor fence care, urging peaceful neighborly relations and sturdy gardens to fend off trampling cows.
Local social and travel notes report residents visiting relatives in Missouri Kansas and Illinois with trips to Mt Pleasant Clarinda and Washington. Names include H L McMinamee James Fletcher Dowell Kirk and many Gormley Robins Davis and McFadden family members.
Chicago markets report strong cattle demand with 4 000 receipts and cattle prices 7 25 to 8 10 while sheep and western cattle show varied gains. Grain prices for wheat corn and oats are listed with opening and closing values from a Beach-Wickham report.
Will Jurging of Washington attended as a business visitor. The funeral for Moses Hall was held at 2 30 PM at the M E church with Rev A B Hightshoe presiding and other pastors assisting. Six old soldiers served as pallbearers including P Gordon N L Long J H Huston W A McCall J B McCoy and L L Teas. Out of town mourners included Dr and Mrs J H Hull J B Crooks of Washington Mrs Marsh Sewell and daughters of Winfield Mr and Mrs Mize and family and Mrs McCumber of West Branch.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. Internal remedies are needed to reach the disease in the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is an internal treatment by Dr. Cheney & Co. It combines tonics and blood purifiers and is a regular prescription from leading physicians. Testimonials free. Toledo, Ohio. Price 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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