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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
5
The Happenings in the county cover daily life across towns with brief notes on local events. Readers learn about community efforts, social gatherings, and small milestones shaping neighborhood activity.
James Delaney retires after fifty years as a New York letter carrier at eighty two. The Duke of Abruzzi forgives Americans who took his valuables during a visit. Field Marshal Oyama now lives on half pay in Tokyo, preferring quiet life. Warren Bly raises a historic flag on July 3, 1860. Joseph Hofmann pursues electrical invention in Berlin. John H. Hall, seventy five, has over a hundred balloon ascents. Captain J. E. Ryan becomes a grandfather three times in one period. T. W. Lee owns an English bureau over eighty years old, brought to the U.S. in the 1830s. Prince Loewenstein-Wertheim enters the Dominican order in Benl Holland at seventy three. J. Marshall Chatterson, Burns’ great-grandson, acts as Louisville police court judge. John P. Rideout, seventy five, claims to have built fifty two ships over a thousand tons each.
A flurry of brief notes records residents traveling to Sigourney Des Moines and Chicago visiting relatives in Muscatine Bloomington and Burlington. Prof W C Wilcox lectures on The Race Problem and Eb Wright and Joe Eagle visit from Indiana and Silvis. Mrs Latta returns to Iowa establishing new headquarters after Texas St Louis trip.
Mrs George Young and May Clancy visit Davenport relatives this morning. Mr and Mrs John Woods of Westchester visited friends and attended Chautauqua yesterday. Mr and Mrs John Mauthe left after weeks with Utica friends. Miss Myrtle Pettit returns to Keota after Sunday with Alice Taylor. Mrs Frank Neal returns to Des Moines after a week at Linkin home. Max Baumann and daughter from Chicago expected to spend a few days at the Eagle home. Mr and Mrs Fred Klepper return to Muscatine after visiting F L Wilson. Mrs Ed McClure and son George return to Monmouth Ill after a visit with Henry Parkinson. Mrs Nettie Anderson and son Jal go to Ainsworth to lay cornerstone of new Methodist church.
Carlsbad in its early history is described as a royal charter town since 1401 famed for its health cures. The wellness tradition began with baths and later added drinking Carlsbad water around 1500 under Dr Pay of Elbogen. The water intake grew from baths to a daily regimen of twenty to sixty cups.
August notes report hog sales by Joe Prebyl Jr to Crooks. Visits by Miss Della Sauer to Mrs. Jos Dann. James Knebel mourns sister Mrs. Frank Swift at River side. Anna Reiner Sara Dougall May Eagle travel countryside. Chautauqua outing to hear Tillman. Jim Tobin loses horse. Clara Shalla near full recovery. John Kupka, the bridge man, installs cement steel culvert south of town.
August 17 notices show Samuel Christy and son 8S W Christy of Edgar Nebr visiting brothers in law J W and Chris Harper. Other locals welcome Mrs Sellers and Cecil from Wapello. August 15 events include Dr Frank Lee of Skidmore Mo visiting, Miss June Carothers returning to Stronghurst Ill, and several residents taking trips to Washington and Columbus Junction.
Sir William Herschel arranged a telescope at Windsor Castle for Queen Charlotte and the court to view Saturn. Clouds hid the sky, but the queen and ladies still glimpsed the planet and its rings clearly after aiming the instrument. Herschel had even prepared a cardboard model of the Saturnian system to illuminate the scene.
A wary Bailie Macduff is lured into a friend's house where he loses 50 shillings at nap. After parting with his last coin he rises in wrath when invited to supper, declaring he cannot eat ham worth fifty shillings.
A Baltimore Sun snippet notes that once a woman finishes cleaning she starts putting up preserves, then soon it will be time to clear the house again. The brief reflects domestic routine language and household tasks of the era.
Helen Ware to be Arnold Daly’s leading woman next season Lillian Russell to appear in a racing play by Broadhurst and Hobart playing a lobbyist Mary Mannering to star in Glorious Betsy in New York autumn The Fate of the Mermaids debuts in Dreamland New York real mermaids appear in a fountain Henry Arthur Jones writes a modern religious life play for Klaw and Erlanger in New York Will J Block Amusement Company bankrupt after $209581.60 loan from Mor ris Largey of Montana to fund productions
England spends vastly more on drink than education and the British army horses cost £25 per animal yearly for forage. The largest UK estate is the lordship of Sutherland at 739200 acres owned by the Duke of Sutherland. A curfew bell from Bury parish church tolls sunset each day for 300 years. Nelsons Victory flag sold in London for $600. Four tons a half of bullets from Yarmouth rifle range were found, valued at $122.50 per ton.
The New York Herald notes vast shifts in city life over seventy seven years. It cites 105000 babies under one year old and weekly arrivals of fifteen foreign automobiles while warning that without new water the present supply would last fifteen weeks. Transportation has evolved since 1838.
The Rock Island Frisco lines advertise a special educational display car of farm products on Seventh Street Des Moines. The exhibit will run all week of the fair and is free to visitors. It features grains grasses seeds fruits and other items for farmers to view.
Mrs. Fred Bragg returns from Davenport after visiting relatives. Miss Laura Dupuis goes back to Keota following a weekend at home. Miss Ella Montgomery departs for Warm Springs Oregon to join an Indian mission. She is joined by Miss Ella Mitchell from New Wilmington Pennsylvania to same mission.
Miss Nina Isenhart spends the day with relatives in Brighton and plans to return to Des Moines this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Alverson and three children return home to Des Moines after visiting Kellogg and Abber son households. Ross Coulter resumes duties at Klein Clothing Co after a week in Fairfield and Birmingham. Sister Felician leaves for Iowa City after six years teaching at St James School. Mrs Edith Norton Fendrich of New York City travels to Davenport after visiting the Sam Forman home and plans a later return for a short stay.
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