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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
7
Mrs. Horace Steele visits near Haskins. Miss Marie Powellson to give a reading at the UU B church this evening. Horace Steele went to Chicago yesterday. Ww. W. Fairall visited Washington yesterday.
Dec 9 notes in town as K D Morrison of Washington visits friends Howard Johnson and Lee Duncan of Columbus City later in the day. Mrs Mary Lease returns from Wayland due to her sister Mrs Susan Mason’s illness. Mason is improving. Local Presbyterians closed after a two day Keokuk Presbytery meeting. Rev Roy Kehlin to preach tomorrow and Friday. Thomas’s singing praised. Newsmen survey Rural Route patronage set to start Jan 1. Hog and cattle shipments reported by Fisher, Augustine, Lewis, Munro. Wm Plummer moves to town. Mr and Mrs Wells host at Crayne home. Major rail service updates noted with Milwaukee trains increasing to three daily each direction.
Dec 8 Rev Rights preached to large crowds Sunday morning and evening. I M Lewis returned from Pekin on business. Grace Hill school begins Monday with Eva Denny as teacher. Ella Beitel returns from Muscatine after two months. A new church organ arrived yesterday. S E Blick and wife of Washington visited the Lewis home and attended church. W W Harvey, who had worked for Harry Shrader in carpentry, quit Saturday for winter.
Dec 8 revival services begin at this place with a watch night on New Year’s Eve led by Rev. Giller assisted by Rev. Monkman and wife who will lead singing. Sunday School reorganized last Sunday with Supt. J B Gardner, Asst F M Fleming, Sec Clara Fleming, Asst Ora Henderson, Treasurer O J Col lumber. Neighbor J W Eyestone of Mt Vernon on business. F M Gardner to return home Thursday from visit with parents Mr and Mrs James Gardner. Mrs Rachel Brown of Maduro Iowa visited over Sunday en route to Wellman. Corn on streets selling 35 cents a bushel. Miss Lillis Eyestone returns from the West to live with sister Mrs J B Young. L E Fleming to have public sale at C C Gardner farm Dec 15. S C Gardner and family of Keota attended church. Win Eyestone began winter term at Slab Street. Everett Young teaching Pleasant View school in 76 township. George Bishop plans a trip to Colorado to visit sister Kate and brother Adam.
The text notes that meetings at the Baptist church are increasing in number during December, signaling growing activity for the church community this month.
A physician argues rattlesnakes are less dangerous than feared. He notes they warn before striking and that most bites don t inject poison into clothing, while many victims overreact after alcohol and fear. Plus, reports from LaGuayra describe Colombian troops moving toward Panama amid General Reyes mission.
Russell H. McWilliams of Kansas City Missouri, a junior literary student at the University of Michigan, shot himself at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. WH W Sutton, who shared a room with McWilliams, found him dead with a bullet through the heart. Sutton offered no reason for the act.
The Parlor Circus performs at the Graham Saturday evening December 12 due to a change in Opera House management. Tickets cost 10 cents for children, 25 and 35 or 50 cents for adults. Seats are on sale at Carris Drug Store.
KE A Langfeldt rector of St Luke's Ashburnham testifies that a cough and cold vanished after three doses of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, enabling him to preach three times on Easter Day. The note, unsolicited, thanks the remedy and lists Stewart's Pharmacy Cook Sherman as sellers.
California entertainer and humorist Fred Emerson Brooks will appear in Graham on Thursday evening December 10. Admission is 50 cents and course tickets are $1.25. Secure seats through O. H. Wilson and enjoy a night of laughs.
An old marketplace style ad touts Bucklen's Arnica as the best salve for burns cuts sores and piles. It claims quick relief and urges readers to obtain the 25 cent tube at the local pharmacy.
The big musical comedy The Katzenjammer Kids plays Graham Tuesday evening December 15. Popular prices.
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