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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1912
Page
2
Market reports show slow trade and price declines across hogs cattle and sheep with mixed and heavy grades quoted. Estimated receipts total around 26 000 hogs 5 500 cattle and 40 000 sheep with second report noting quiet trading and lower averages for hogs and mixed categories.
In New York King Gustave of Sweden King Christian of Denmark and King Haakon of Norway become patrons of a forthcoming Scandinavian art exhibition opening today. The trio unite in a shared cultural venture 3000 miles from home, with artists largely little known in the United States and defined by a disciplined, land tied vision.
The Kansas City Journal quotes a playful exchange with a Wallaby asking why one would wed a bridge fiend and the other replying a spouse was married to reform her.
In Blue Hill Bay Maine a six foot diameter pinnacle rock rises nearly perpendicular from 78 feet deep water Within seven feet of the surface it evidences the peril of unseen rocks in well known waters and the risk to heedless vessels noted by Harper's Weekly.
Iowa City hosts the annual forum where University of Iowa teams duel with Wisconsin Minnesota and others to decide if interstate commerce firms must obtain federal charters. Hawkeye affirmative faces Wisconsin in Iowa City and negative meets Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Happenings in various county communities reported by correspondents. Local incidents, events, and everyday news items reflect daily life and community activities.
Rural Route workers plastering at Prairie Flower church. Oliver Fullerton sale draws large crowd with Harry Whitaree at lunch stand. Local students begin new terms at Pleasant Plains Cedar Center and Union. Mary Genkinger visits mother Mrs Sarah Noecker of Washington. Cedar Rapids visitors to W E Page. E L Smith boards plasterers. John Rittenhouse hosts Lone Tree friends. Winfred Durst teaches at Summit. Plains Auxiliary W F M S meeting. Frank Novy at Lukavsky residence. W D Booth ships storm windows for Prairie Flower schoolhouse. Frank Snyder rebuilds barn after fire while family in Canada.
Rev. Cooper of Ottumwa preached at the M E church on temperance. Twenty nine from here traveled to Washington and back. M D Works sale realized 3800 dollars. Dr Droz operated in Chicago with hopeful prospects. Christmas Eve entertainment planned at the M E church with a children’s program. George Bishop bought two cars of cattle from Delta.
Wellman and surrounding area residents are noted hosting guests at homes of Livezey, Murphy, and other families. A horse sale occurred at the feed yard Friday. Several residents traveled to Muscatine and Waterloo for care and visits. Chad Hall is announced to be married in Ft Wayne Indiana.
Poet Walt Mason laments the passing of 1912 with a rhymed meditation on time’s advance and the creeping decline of age. He warns readers to live justly and prepare for the final call as the year nears its end.
Miss Susan Gardner returned from Oxford where she led singing for evangelistic meetings at the M E church. Mrs. Ralph Snavely visited her hospitalized father in Iowa City. Miss Grace Dawson did deaconess work at Muscatine First Methodist and is a Bidwell Training graduate. A ten cent tea entertained W C T U members. Herman Zilmer is home after hospital stay and leg amputation.
In Crawfordsville Iowa Dr N A Swickard was unable to preach yesterday due to threat trouble. Local residents carry on church and social visits with Rev Ferguson preaching both services at the U P church. Funeral services for M R Klugh of Washington are set for tomorrow at 11 o clock at the M E church here.
Observer essay argues the man wearing gloves appears wiser than the man who carries gloves in his hands. The remark, though presented as trifling, invites readers to consider social impressions of glove use.
Mer Donner archbishop of Bordeaux faced criticism for friendly ties with a Protestant minister in the city. He replied that he hopes to meet him in this world, since he cannot be sure of meeting him in the next.
Denver youths George McKillip eighteen and Winfield Roerig nineteen hunted in Coal Creek canyon. They encountered a mother bear with two cubs near their cabin and killed the cubs after the mother distracted them with multiple shots and a perilous encounter.
Tacoma's Jack the dog, mascot at a Washington livery stable, warned three sleeping men as the stable fire raged. He bravely searched flames, escaped from a second story window, and was rescued with burns after saving Lewtan, Blaney and Bell from the blaze that destroyed the stables and a hospital, killing horses and poisoning dogs.
EB Moore, a local barber and small rancher, was held up at night in Fort Collins cemetery. Two men jumped from behind a tombstone and relieved him of $41 in cash, a gold watch, and a pipe before fleeing. He was sent home by fright and placed under a physician's care.
Fort Madison reports Prof. P. T. Kirby of the Life Line Mission vanished after Thanksgiving banquet. He planned to start a Keokuk branch but failed to appear by Sunday. Friends notified police. $50 belonging to blind boy Adam Melberg was also missing, heightening suspicion.
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