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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
3
Special telegram from Washington reports fair weather for Iowa with slightly cooler conditions tonight and Friday. Temperatures easing in the east and central portions tonight.
Saunders E. Bishop died at 2 30 AM after a two week paralysis illness. A native of Indiana born, he came to this county in 1862 from Illinois and leaves a wife with six children including D A Bishop editor of the Rocky Mountain News and Jay Bishop editor in New Hampshire. Funeral at 2 PM tomorrow from his home with Rev. Potter of the M E church officiating. Interment in Lexington cemetery.
Reports from Winfield describe attendance at the county fair with residents and visitors from Algona Eldon Moline Waterloo and Columbus Junction. Notables include Major Bishop of Muscatine and Amos Alberson at the Democratic convention. local families travel and shop for holiday goods while a mishap with a horse carriage prompts a cautionary moral.
Friday evening the Rathbone Sisters hold their regular meeting. Delegates report and other items of interest to every member of the temple. All sisters should be present.
Samuel Morris the comedian delivered a lighthearted performance as his wife died in a hotel poisoning tragedy. He returned to the theater to finish his part then wept backstage as the audience applauded, while the wife had traveled from San Francisco to reconcile.
The notice outlines a season of first class numbers priced at twenty cents per attraction with a season pass offering two people per course. It highlights Prof H V Richards presenting The Water World or the Wonders of Hydrogen with many experiments, Col Geo W Bain’s New Woman and the Old Man, and Bishop Hartzell praising Frederick Truman’s Dickens impersonation in The Cricket on the Hearth. Rector promotes a pile cure with free samples and a guaranteed no cure no pay policy from J H Stewart.
T. L. Emry & Son plan to relocate to a larger egg house by the creamery later this month due to space limits in the current premises. The move includes retaining a cold storage refrigerator from the old site and adding room not available in the present location. Roy has used a barn adjacent to the business this season and remains crowded.
A Cedar Rapids meeting highlighted the B U O. R and N as a major north south line driving the region’s development. Geo Cunningham of the passenger department praised for courteous leadership. tickets offer ten first class attractions for 200 dollars or four entertainments with two people per ticket.
Immensely popular destination grows yearly as tourists flock to Clear Lake via Iowa Central Railway. The area markets itself as a top summer home with special low party rates. Ticket agents provide full particulars and a booklet upon request.
A called meeting for special business will be held at the home of Mrs. L. A. Patterson Thursday evening August 22 at six o'clock. The notice lists attendees and agenda details for the local group.
Augustus Slare recounts a chapter from a friend’s autobiography about a man so absentminded he forgets a conversation a year apart. The repeated greeting about the father’s death shows the same tragedy remains unremembered by the subject.
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