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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
6
August 21 local visits and fair attendance noted
August 21 records show Guy White at the parental home and Minnie Blum visiting relatives. Many renters seek farms for next year. Steve Ossman his wife and Otto visit White City. Grant Griffith and Geo Longwell attend the state fair. Matt McMahin travels to Keola Wednesday evening. Jim Harley with relatives heads to the fair by automobile Tuesday. Emma Stiners noted as Grandview teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy White
Os Many
Steve Ossman
Otto
White City
Grant Griffith
Geo. Longwell
Matt McMahin
Jim Harley
Minnie Blum
Emma Stiners
Grandview
State Fair Attendance and Local Social Notes
Misses Irma and Margaret Recut spent Wednesday with their friend, 33 Abigail Bishop. Earl Smith delivered shelled corn to Will Phillips Wednesday. Mrs. Margaret Carson and son Sidney spent Sunday at Joe Carson’s. The Misses Gretna Crain and Mary Figgins entertained a company of friends at Harvey Knapp’s home Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White
Charlies Faple
Om i
Thompson
Greeo
Towa
Earl Smith
Will Phillips
Margaret Carson
Sidney
Joe Carson
Gretna Crain
Mary Figgins
Harvey Knapp_ hom
Fafternoon
Unfolding Local Visit News From Lexington Neighborhood
August 27 reports many visitors and daily activities in Lexington area. Mrs Wilson stays with sister near West Chester to can peaches while Rev Smith plans trip to Williamsburg after conference. Local clergy visits, Miss Hanlon the new teacher, farm trade notes, and multiple residents traveling or hosting guests fill the week. Ezra Smith ships 1000 bushels of corn to A. E. Adams at 70 cents per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanlon
Keota
Ezra Gardner
Ezra Smith
A. E. Adams
Hersolera Goodspeed
Minneapolis
Goodspeed
James Gardner
Wellman
F. M. Fleming
Lissa Adams
Oy. Timmons
Duane McClure
Pearl
Washington
Grandma Carlin Remains Steady At Eighty On Sunday
Grandma Carlin marked her eighty years with family and friends visiting during the day. Mr and Mrs George Frain spent Tuesday evening with Frank Smith ers. The West Chester and New Haven Sunday schools held a joint picnic on Crooked creek Wednesday. A R Strum and family and Miss Nannie Nicholson visited relatives in Pleasant Hill neighborhood Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandma Carlin
George Frain
Frank Smithers
West Chester
New Haven
Crooked Creek
A. R. Strum
Nannie Nicholson
Pleasant Hill
Second United Presbyterian Service Schedule Announced
The Rev. W. R. Sawhill will arrive Friday evening and occupy the pulpit at the Second United Presbyterian church on Sabbath morning and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Sawhill
Second United Presbyterian Church
Sol Rich & Co offers campaign hat and peaches sale
Local notices report Sol Rich & Co selling campaign hats and home grown peaches with delivery details. Several residents are listed as arriving or traveling, including Mr and Mrs H Davis from West Chester and Miss Clare Jayz to Ainsworth, plus attendances at local events and rehearsals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol Rich & Co
A. M. Turner
Clare Jayz
Ainsworth
Royal Meats Ad Promises Quality and Low Prices
The notice touts a family friendly store, ROYAL, offering veal beef pork lamb and all cooked meats plus sausages. It claims superior quality at lower prices than competitors and highlights deals like 10 lbs of lard for $1 and fresh pork at 10 to 12 1/2 cents with pickled pork at 10 cents, dated August 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Royal
New Haven Notes Minor Moves And Visits Across Counties
August 27 reports Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Snyder and baby leaving for Missouri to visit his brother Harlin and relatives of Mrs. Snyder before returning home. Curtis Snyder ill under Dr. Caldwell of West Chester. Nannie Nicholson visiting aunt Mrs. A. B. Strum. Opal Guy assisting with peach canning at Mrs. Lottie Robertson. Pearl Peterson visiting Dr. Marr home in Haskins. Mrs. J. W. Guy entertaining Ottumwa visitors. State fair attendees listed: Marion Work, Ira Rathmer, James Combs, Cuddeck and son Glen, Bert Smith, Asel Robertson, Jess Guy, Frank Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Snyder
Baby
Missouri
Harlin Snyder
Pearl Peterson
Haskins
James Combs
Cuddcock
Glen
Bert Smth
Asel Robertson
Jess Guy
Frank Snyder
Mechanical shovel may dethrone the lead and zinc spade
Near Joplin at Prosperity mine a compressed air powered underground shovel, the first of its kind, moves ore dirt more efficiently than laborers. It uses three engines to operate boom, dipper, and traction, with armor shielding. If successful it could replace mules, tram cars, and tub rustlers, reshaping mining methods in the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prosperity
Joplin
Captain K. Thew
Lorain
Socialists nominate Hazelton for Montana governor
In state convention the Socialists of Montana adopt a platform and nominate a full state ticket with Harry Hazelton of Missoula for governor. The report notes diverse events across the country including river flooding in South Carolina and a lumber yard fire in Lake Superior region with substantial losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Harry Hazelton
Missoula
Four Bank Officials Indicted In Owensboro Bank Failures
A Kentucky grand jury indicted four officers from the Owensboro Savings Bank and Trust and the Daviess County Bank and Trust. James H. Parrish, president, faces embezzlement, perjury subordination, and accepting deposits while insolvent. J Otis Parrish, cashier, charged with perjury. Isaac N. Parrish, trust officer, charged with false entry in the March 31 statement. T S Anderson faces three counts of perjury embezzlement and accepting deposits while insolvent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owensboro
Owensboro Savings Bank and Trust Company
Daviess County Bank and Trust Company
James H. Parrish
Savings Bank and Trust Company
J. Otis Parrish
Isaac N. Parrish
T. S. Anderson
Weather forecast across states up to eight tonight
The official forecast reports Hiinoils and Indiana generally fair. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin partly cloudy with possible local showers in the north. Iowa partly cloudy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
North Portion
Iowa
Markets Close Mixed As Corn And Wheat Hold Steady In Chicago
Chicago market report shows wheat and corn trading within narrow ranges with Sept and Dec futures steady. Livestock quotes reflect steady hog and cattle demand. prairie buyers in Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin report steady hay and feed prices. East Buffalo firming on calves and sheep with moderate receipts across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Timothy
Timothy Hay
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Puzzler No. 149 Botanical Terms St Nicolas acrostic
The puzzle lists clues for seven objects leading to initials that spell a famous surname. Items include footwear on a horseman, an ancient wax writing tool now a fashion term, a brand, a water jug, a musical instrument, and a ship part. The correct answers form a vertical acrostic spelling a notable name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas
No. 151 You and I in a Moorish Verse Tale
A fragmentary verse sketch ponders identity and mischief as the speaker imagines a spin over the moor. The self is seen as impolite and tedious, with discoveries becoming surplus for others, and a hoop of gold and midnight bell imagery. The journey feels like a race over eight furlongs ending in stubbornness.
All the missing worga rhyme found its place
A poem in fragmented phrases about a new teacher and a bizarre sequence. An apple eaten except for parts. A steer with horns to the something. A stranger intended, the teacher forgetting chassical things. Climbing steps, perspiration from every pore. Savage Taurus persisted. A coat caught a pail, wind blew off a hat, leaving the narrator feeling like a martyr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asven
Mythological Puzzle No 153 Doubly Behead and Curtail
A five item word puzzle in which each clue doubles the beheading and curtailing of a mythic or literary name from Roman and Shakespearean sources. Each step yields a short word, and the initials of the five survivors form a famous name associated with Troy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadmus
Harmonia
Ing
Troy
Airborne Toy or Bri as River Fish
A riddle describes two forms: in the sky a birdlike or toy aircraft and in the river a fish known as Bri, hinting at a single entity that changes with setting. The phrasing suggests a playful moniker linking flight and aquatic life without naming specific people or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bri
All Is In To Summons By Name And More
A fragmented verse puzzle list includes phrases such as All is in part of the eya and All is in to summons by name. The page also quotes a Finnegan remark from the Catholic Standard and Times about life being worth living only when you think it is not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finnegan
Vlannery
Catholic Standard and Times
Mai
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark
N. J
Farm Sale Conducted by Teeter and Lathrop Auctioneers
Teeter and Lathrop, auctioneers, offer 13744 acres at public sale on the Joseph Churchill homestead in Dutch Creek township Washington county Iowa. Sale at 2 pm on Saturday September 5 1908 with possession end of October. Personal property includes nineteen head two year old native steers four yearling steers one good black Norman farming team eight years old forty hogs twelve tons hay eight acres shear oats in barn and other items. Conditions and terms announced sale day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teeter & Lathrop
Joseph Churchill
Dutch Creek Township
Washington County
Iowa
Dublin
Grace Hill
Double Decker Potatoes Grow Above and Below Ground
Connecticut farmer Samuel Wilson of Wolcott near Waterbury reports a two year experiment producing potatoes both above and below ground on the same vine. Budlike growths at leaf bases mature into tubers, creating a bush potato hybrid between Beauty of Hebron and the Delaware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Samuel Wilson
Wolcott
Waterbury
Conn
Hebron
Real Beds In Sleeping Cars on English Railways
The new sleeping cars on the I and 8. W. railway in England replace berths with brass bedsteads and remove heavy upholstery. These hygienic cars have seven single and two double sleeping compartments across the car, each with its own lavatory, per Popular Mechanics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. W
England
United States
Popwlar
Puzzler Transpositions and Beehive Wordplay No 140 146
Key to the Puzzler presents fifteen items from No 140 to No 148. It lists wordplay puzzles including transpositions, rebus resolutions, and letter changes with paired examples and sequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose
Sore
Bury
Ruby
Shop
Mrs. Browning
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Robert Burns
Julia Ward Howe
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Lamb
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Nice
Nile
Lady
Host
Hose
Lake
Locals and brief journeys noted in Columbus Junction area
R H Walker departed on the Burlington for Mediapolis on business. W G Lewis returned to Crawfordsville after a brief city visit. Miss Corinne Teuscher arrived from Keota after visiting relatives. Mrs Given, visiting Mrs J A Todd, left for Beaver Falls Pa. Misses Margaret and Helen Cowden headed to Crawfordsville to visit relatives. Campaign chats for the children at Sol Rich & Co. are urged. Bryan and Kern, and Taft and Sherman referenced in a brief political note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corinne Teuscher
Keota
Mrs. Given
J. A. Todd
Beaver Falls
Sol Rich & Co
Bryan
Kern
Taft and
Sherman
Also Mentioned on This Page
the County News
Lexington
U P. Church
H. Davis Swere
Lucy Miller
Perlee
John Simpson
U. P
J. E. Roth
Milt Roth
Fairfield
C. H. Wilson
C. T. Arnold
Etta Arnold
Brighton
Tom Kyle
W. A. Whiting
Glenn Ayres
Columbus Junction
Tom Davis
Royal
Stuart & McCreedy
Mutual
South Carolina
Columba
Soa
Lake Superior Corporation
New Orleans
Cole
Avegne
Canadian
Amsterdam
Arkansas
Lombardo
Chicago Grain
Puzzler
Blanks
Lord Many
Haly
Earl
Wade
Ute
Rat
Lemmon's Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
Mark Churchill
R. H. Walker
Burlington
Mediapolis
Columbus
W.G. Lewis
Crawfordsville
City
Margaret
Helen Cowden
Popham
Williams Mfg. CO
Cleveland, C
Othoman Wedvoon
Edison
Mr. Edison
T. H. Ghilcote
Washington, Iowa
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