High School vs Old Boys Open Season Saturday
The season opens Saturday evening at the Commercial club with a game between the high school team and the old boys. The game starts at 8 15 and admission is 15 cents.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
4
Dr Driver Monday Evening Event Note
A brief notice mentions Dr Driver speaking Monday evening and a Vienna venue for Saturday. It also notes a regular meeting of the Women Relief Corps tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 in the hall with annual election of officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Relief Corps
Accused Doctor Brayfield Released on Bond in Double Death Case
Benton Missouri week 4. Additional indictments in the double death mystery for which Dr Brayfield of Mulkeytown is under arrest are threatened. Brayfield pleaded not guilty and bail was set at 5000 dollars. A woman in the plot is hinted by State's Attorney Seeber. Mrs Reuben Parrish, widow of the man he is accused of killing, supports the doctor. Body of Parrish to be exhumed to test for poison traces in Richview Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parrish
Richview
Madman shoots in Dryden saloon maniac theory
In Dryden Ontario on December 4 Joseph Milroy fired on Richard Denna Daniel Foy and Kenneth Stanton while thirteen men watched. Police say Milroy claimed he would have shot more if time allowed and investigators consider him a possible maniac as victims remain in critical condition.
Assassin Cornered in Barn After Wage Dispute Killing
Lewistown Pa Dec 4 Frank Lee colored shooter of George Porter colored in a wage dispute is surrounded in a barn near McCoysville Juniata County. Sheriff Kemberling drives to scene. Lee asked to sleep in barn and was identified. After entry he refused surrender and threatened to shoot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Frank Lee
George Porter
McCoysville
Junitat County
Kemberling
Lee
Early Ohio settlement noted by Cutler prediction
The 1787 circular by Manasseh Cutler praised planting a New England settlement at the Muskingum delta and forecast Ohio River commerce would dwarf other streams. Then the Vienna hosts a holiday opening by Snouffer Hughes & Co with Christmas goods and a harp music program. Fresh nuts on sale for Saturday trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manasseh Cutler
Massachusetts
Ohio
Muskingum
Mississippi
Fulton
Clermont
Hudson
Snouffer, Hughes & Co
Caner
Harp Orchestra
Vienna enriched bakery and trade notes from local visitors
Local shoppers are urged to try coffee cakes at the Vienna for Fresh and the choice candies for daily use. Mrs. J B Crail returned from Winfield, Mr and Mrs G L Duke visited Brighton on business-day, Miss Bessie Purvis returned from Burlington and Chicago, Gus Strum and Bert Smith traveled from West Chester to Chicago for the Live Stock show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
J. B. Crail
Winfield
Bessie Purvis
Burlington
Chicago
Gus Strum
Bert Smith
West Chester
J. H. Kephart
North Side Shoe Store Advertises Men’s High Tops in Washington County
Special notice promotes Fox & Dewey goods at the North Side Shoe Store. It touts the largest line and variety of men’s and boys high top shoes in Washington county and a big line of rubber goods fresh from the manufacturer. Call for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Side
Fox & Dewey
Washington County
Candy sale at M. E. Church bazaar by Queen Esther circle
The Queen Esther circle will run a homemade candy sale all day Saturday at the M. E. church as part of the Ladies' Aid bazaar. Chauncey McKeon left the H. A. Teeter home after a month there and headed to Marshalltown to visit veterans at the Soldiers' home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Esther
Ladies’ Aid
M. E
Chauncey McKeon
H. A. Teeter
Marshalltown
Soldiers’ Home
Misses Ida and Florence Miller Visit from Cheyenne
The Misses Ida and Florence Miller arrived this morning from Cheyenne Wyoming and are visiting at the W F Fleming home. Ida has been treated in a Cheyenne hospital and Florence, a teacher at Ackley Iowa, left Cheyenne last week and joined her sister on the trip home. Florence will stay a few days before returning to Ackley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida
Florence Miller
Cheyenne
Wyoming
W. F. Fleming
Miss Ida
Miss Florence
Ackley
Iowa
Illinois District Court notice in Washington County Iowa
Hannah H. Story files a suit in District Court of Iowa Washington County seeking title to Lot 3 and a 26 foot strip off Lot 2 in Southeast Washington addition. She claims record and equitable ownership by fee simple and possession for over twenty years against multiple named defendants and unknown claimants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Baker
John Brier
Damaris Brier
Joshua Marshall
Margaret Marshall
John Young
Mary J. Young
Alfred T. Burris
Elizabeth J. Burris
David P. Sturges
Maria Sturges
M. H. Gates
Charles H. Gates
May H. Gates
Laury Ann Young
Lizzie N. Young
Jacob Dodder
Sarah Dodder
Jonathan A. Young
Eveline F. Slaughter
Evaline F. Slaughter
W. Thornton
Samuel W. Thornton
Sarah A. Thornton
J. B. Slaughter
John B. Slaughter
E. F. Slaughter
Susannah
G. Stewart
M. ©. Cavender
Morris C. Cavender
James Clyde
J. H. Young
W. W. Cook
J. E. Cook
W. H. Cook
Agnes J. Cook
Ella E. George
Lycurgus George
L. C. Cook
W. BR. Cook
Maggie J. Cook
Maggie Cook
R. W. Cook
B. P. Baldwin
J. H. Kirkpatrick
Washington County
Iowa
Washington
Iown
District Court
State of Iowa
Hannah H. Story
Quieting Title Notice in Iowa District Court
Maria W. Barbery files a petition to quiet title to real estate in Washington County Iowa. The notice seeks to bar unknown claimants and all adverse claims by providing that the plaintiff is owner in fee simple and that liens are void. Default may be entered if defendants fail to appear by January 2, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron W. Preston
Sixth Judicial District
Uary
A. D
Court House
Washington
Washington County
State of
Iowa
Counterfeit Cash and Remedy Ad Promoted at Lemmon's
An old newspaper fragment touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs and lung ailments while equating counterfeit money with the substitution of another worthless remedy at Lemmon’s Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Lemmon
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Washington, Iowa
Lemmen’s Pharmacy
Bright’s
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Madman
Academy
Knights of Pythias Convention
Knights of Pythias
Twenty-Ninth District
G. L. Duke
Brighton
Gib Bailey
Ottumwa
D. E. Rowe
A. D. Sanders
Matthew Clifton
T. C. Kyle
Miss Bessie
M. E. Bazaar
Singer
District Court of
Plaintiff
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H. F. Steck
Maria W. Barbery
C. E. Gawley
Rothschild & Company
Hart Schaitner & Marx
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Harr Schaffner & Marx Clorues
Klein Klothing Ko
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