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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
4
Vity Bus Line offers pickup and delivery by phone through Hotel Allen and Frank Rogers promises prompt attention to all orders.
A lost ladies silver watch with W and W movement is described as sightly dis figured but usable. Also lost is a steel ring with a post office key and two small desk keys. Finder or owner should leave or call at the Journal Office between Bowman Bros and Press Figgins.
Mrs. Robert Cherry improves as Mollie returns from Colorado. A new Holland Ferry bridge nears completion. Amy Folger heads Fairview school. Leta Lins and Georgia Folger travel 42 miles home. Other items note Colorado and Wyoming forest fires 10 million dollar damage, drownings in Chicago, a child scalding, a church fire saved by gypsies, and population counts of Odd Fellows and Free Masons. Additional items mention Cape Nome mortality, a czar wedding gift, a Kansas City rent dispute killing, and a riot injuring many at a Doolittle Mills picnic.
Washington county Sunday schools prepare to gather at Col Palmer's Grove three quarters of a mile northwest of the city. Attendees meet at the Baptist church at 10 am and ride or walk to the grounds for a day of picnic dinner speaking and music.
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling relatives. W R Jeffrey and daughter return from Moulton. Mrs T J Easter and daughter back from Burlington. Manfred Owen visiting grandparents Parrow. will travel to California. May Love returns home. W Hoffstetter visiting his father. I A Stone from Atchison visiting his mother. James Trotter goes to Fairfield.
Workmen haul brick for a new hardware store as Mrs Kaye and Mrs Switzer of Iowa City visit. Mr and Mrs Ford of Syracuse Kap Sas are visiting friends. Mrs Guthrie from your city visits. Dan Fessler returns home from a trip through the east.
August 22 a big ball game is set in Muscatine with Muscatine team facing Keota on Saturday at the local field. Strong local interest expected as teams meet in a key early season clash.
Mr D Anwyle and wife and Mrs Thomas Martin departed for Kansas last night. The Presbyterians have called Rev Taylor of Martinsburg and he is now occupying rooms in the parsonage. Miss Nellie Cowden of Illinois arrived to stay with her uncle H Manners.
A social at the Hill house grove last night for Pleasant Hill church attracted a large crowd and a good sum was cleared. Alex Lytle rode his bicycle from Washington to spend the day.
John Jacoby of Indiana visits Grant Vlick. Mrs fee Bowes of Illinois visits Mrs Scheibel. Mrs Simmons of Massachusetts also guests at the Scheibel home. The above ladies are aunts of Mrs Scheibel.
Washington second nine faced Ainsworth in a contentious game. score cited as 12 to 11 by Washingtonians and 0 by Ainsworthites, with the contest ending in discussion. Washington lineup included Shearer pitcher, Lewis catcher, Jeffrey first base, Adams second, Crawford third, Jordan left, Corbin center, Winters right.
Aiden Benedict's New York company performs Quo Vadis at the Graham on August 20 with elaborate scenery and strong reception. The road presentation is praised as among the best seen.
The school board selected Lucy Meachem to teach in the second primary room of the 3rd ward school replacing Nellie Anderson who resigned for health reasons. Meachem is described as an efficient young lady and should prove an excellent choice.
Ainsworth family reunion notes Rev Acheson W Matthews and others from Iowa Arkansas and Cuba missionary Rev R H Barnes arrives from Crawfordsville. Railway expansion highlights four new business centers Reading Wilmot Lismore Kenneth route extensions Germania Faribault and Worthington to Hardwick reach Faribault by fall dairy counties Full page promotes townsites Rake Walters and new towns with job opportunities and calls for pioneers.
A reader from Sharpsburg Maryland sends thirty one one cent stamps for Dr Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser and praises Golden Medical Discovery. He notes rheumatic recovery after three bottles and urges others to use Dr Pierce's medicines. The offer includes a free 1008 page adviser and mail bound books on receipt of stamps.
An atlas of China with halftone illustrations and engraved maps is on sale at large stations of the B C R and N R y for 15 cents or can be mailed for 18 cents. The publisher is Jno G Farnmer A G P T A B O R WN Ry Cedar Rapids Iowa.
A severe electrical storm swept the lower peninsula of Michigan Monday afternoon, flattening standing grain and causing heavy farm losses from lightning strikes on barns. One fatality, Ferdinand Holtz, was killed near Mount Clemens. Detroit trees were uprooted, and the Knights of Pythias encampment tents were ruined though replacements are en route. The camp committee expects repairs within 24 hours.
Aug 22 reports from Sheboygan Wis recount storm damage after a re count shows about seventy five buildings damaged or wrecked and losses near $100000. The storm originated at Marinetta and tracked along the Northwestern line to Oshkosh then toward the lake. It caused roofs to collapse but no fatalities. Also from Chicago scores recap of yesterday’s baseball games with St Louis and New York noted.
Joseph D. Keith, jailed for Nora Kifer slaying, fears mob violence if moved. He stays calm in Boonville jail then reacts to outside noises, seeks to remain in custody as officials search Warrick county. His religious shift follows mob talk led by Nora Kifer’s father.
Julian Tregenna Biddulph Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold, has been ordered extradited to England from San Francisco on an embezzlement charge. A sawmill boiler exploded at Glenford Ohio killing Laviga Dupler Elza Winegartner and Mc Laughlin. A massive iron furnace is planned for Rose Hill Virginia near Middlesboro Kentucky.
Travel offers include Des Moines state fair Aug 23 to Sept, Muscatine Labor Day Sept 3, Oskaoosa Sept 3–7, Town City Wild West Sept 4, Colorado points Sept 4 and 18, Homeseeker Excur Sept 4 and 18, Detroit Conclave Aug 25–27, Yellowstone trips this summer, and daily trips to Paris and other Old World points. Agencies for White Star Red Star American and International Transrusion Co. Tickets available now with on‑the‑spot arrangements.
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