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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
5
The forecast calls for rain or snow tonight and Friday with warmer conditions in the northeast portion tonight and a colder Friday.
A marriage license was issued to Wyatt B Marbourg and Winifred L Adams. Local residents undertook daily business and travel with several departures to Burlington and Delta. A crowd cheered at a town wedding as serenaders received cigar money from the groom. Elmo Friend reported healing from eye surgery in Iowa City and planned to return home. A visitor from Nebraska joined grandparents in town. Miss Ethel Grecian slipped near the courthouse, injuring the back of her head but recovered to return to work at Eicher Livingston.
An old advertisement offers a one day cure claim for a cold using LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. Druggists refund money if it fails. The box bears E. W. Grove's signature. 265c.
A column of local items from across the county reports on daily incidents, social notes, and community events. Readers learn about small town activities, meetings, and brief exchanges shaping local life.
J R Madden leaves for Missouri to work as operator. Laura D Garst speaks in Coppock on Japan. Prof Ensign visits to assess accreditation of the high school. Obituaries for Jesse Edwards and Phoebe Nieukirk. Bazaar by Presbyterian Willing Workers. Various notes on school absences, travel, sick lists, and residents moving within Iowa and nearby states.
December plans show the church committees arranging a Christmas Eve tree and entertainment. Watermans entertain Wisconsin relatives. Raper Dutweiler of Pleasant Plain visited Clay for a business call. A J Morgan moved his father’s old store, adding a modern kitchen to the adjacent house.
Miss Whiting boards at the Mert Carlson home. Mazie Palmer sews for Mrs. Augustine. Bert Donaldson hauls corn to I. K. Beal. Pleasant Plains ladies serve dinner at the Musch sale. Al Crone and child visit H. M. Crewe. McCraw brothers deliver corn to Will Todd and Thomas Wheelan to N. W. Noecker. Verle Murphy shot a raccoon in his corn patch last week. F Stewart helped R. Stewart build a hen house. Mr. Kerr delivers corn to Mr. Wells. Farmers Institute expected Friday and Saturday.
Rev A R B Moody speaks at evangelistic services urging Christ led church as unique organism open to all. He cites unchanging leadership and unequaled benefits. Attendees include Sr. and Mrs Chas Turner and several couples and ministers who traveled to Washington this morning.
Mrs Lee Duncan returned to Columbus City after visiting relatives in Ainsworth. Miss Hattie Pratt traveled to Cotter. Mrs A J Peterson and daughter Ethel shopped at Washington. Walter Jennings attended a sale near Columbus Junction. Mrs C P Nichols visited relatives at Muscatine. Mr S D Ross spent yesterday at Washington. Mr and Mrs Kirkpatrick attended the wedding of Miss Adams in Washington yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Hugh Crayne of West Chester visited Miss Nora Stewart. Mr and Mrs Ralph Junkin returned to Washington after a brief visit with the Allender family. Mrs I B Schreckengast of Burlington arrived for a short visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs J G Clarke. Charles Hebner of Washington transacted business here yesterday. Mrs J G Ranous and baby Ruth arrived from Richland where they had visited relatives. Ed Grove moved from the Tip Dayton property to the D P Martin house. Mr and Mrs Sam Shrader traveled to Washington to attend the wedding of her sister Winnie Adams.
County ministers and temperance activists discussed resubmission and formed a permanent organization led by Rev. George D. Rogers. Officers were chosen, a finance plan to raise at least 1000 dollars outlined, and a constitution adopted to push prohibition amendments.
The Missional society asks Presbyterian church ladies to bring cash or fabric donations to Dugherty Bros. clothing store for a box of new materials sent to the Industrial school in Asheville North Carolina under Miss Florence Stephen son. Please contribute before Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Floyd Maxwell of Crawfordsville shopped in the city while Mr and Mrs J M Maxwell were Washington shoppers from Crawfordsville today. Rush Warner traveled this morning to Davenport for a few days away. Stanley Miller from Mt Pleasant visited relatives and friends here.
Due to Miss Nora Motts being in Chicago from December 4 to December 21, the Washington hair dressing parlors will be closed during that period.
Mrs. Alex Knox learns of the death of her brother C. W. Cook at his Huntsville Ohio home. He once visited the Knox home and will be recalled by some. He was the father of Knox Cook once employed at J. H. Stewart drug store.
Mrs Hervey Bell visited West Chester today and was seen interacting with local residents. The event drew attention from community members and staff at the town center.
John Gile of Eldon arrived in the city last evening and Miss Auniee Scott left for Des Moines after a several weeks visit with Mrs. Frank Sage. Mr. and Mrs. R O Sibelin of Tipton journeyed to Colorado for a two week stay, while Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kleese of Titus were guests at the Isaac Kleese home and en route from Iowa City where the latter had been in hospital for three weeks. Banks Mouser and wife depart for Red Oak to visit for a month or more with plans to also see Lincoln Lincoln and Sioux City before returning to Washington.
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