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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal reports a forecast for Iowa today and tomorrow. Fair tonight and Tuesday, cooler tonight.
The Clegg Brothers announce a public sale of 19 head of Scotch and Scotch-topped Shorthorn cattle at the fair grounds in Columbus Junction on Saturday December 19 1908. The herd largely comes from J T Kinmonth stock with 37 cows and heifers and 12 young bulls. Clegg Bros offer full catalogue by mail addressed to Clegg Bros Ainsworth Iowa.
Advert reads that Anderson and Wilson offer clean coal free from dirt and dust and claim new customers join daily for good solid coal. Phone 176 is listed for contact.
County News reports social and civic events across the region with brief items on residents, meetings, weather, and local happenings. Names of towns and groups appear as readers learn of community life and daily affairs.
Dec 412 Mr Dunbar of Brighton visits sister Mrs C E Anderson in town. Thomas Ferguson of Lenox visits brother Samuel Ferguson and relatives. Mr and Mrs Anwyl host Anwyl relatives at dinner. Sermon titled What then shall I do with Jesus who is called the Christ. Rev J E Weigle of Ainsworth attends evangelistic meetings. Mr and Mrs Arthur Yard return to Washington after a week with relatives. Mrs A B Mulhern and others travel to Washington for the day.
Mrs. E. W. Spessard and children spend days at the John Dunham home in Washington. A. E. B. Spalding elected by the school board to fill Robert Rhea's grammar room teaching post. Mrs. Hackett and Miss Edma Sherman return to Whitewater Wisconsin after visiting the D. Chapel home.
Mrs. Frank Gerot visited from Iowa City while Otto Shillig of Muscatine spent time at Frank Critz home. Knights of Columbus initiation drew James Barnett J Kelley Clem Schnoebelen and Leo Critz to Cedar Rapids. Marna Libenguth bought C W Walsh hundred acres at public auction for 96 dollars per acre.
Mr and Mrs Than Al lender visited Ottumwa and attended Sunday meetings. Mr and Mrs BE R Lacey of Columbus Junction visited Clarence and Lucile Bailey in Eden. Dr Work finished a three weeks Presbyterian meeting. organizers deem it a success though outcomes were not ideal. Mrs Dawson Mrs Clarke Wright and baby left for Des Moines to stay with the Dawson family.
In Lexington on December 12 Merle Johnson left for Washington. The Rev J A Boatman led weekend quarterly meetings. W F M S meets at Mrs Viola Knotts home Thursday at 2 30. John Wilson Jr buys Henderson property and Jay Bitting buys Verge Weekly farm. Maud and Eva Smith plan a Christmas day wedding at Williamsburg home of their parents. Duane McClure delivers corn to Charlie Johnson. School dismissed for Farmers' Institute attendance in Washington Ezra Gardner family visited Washington.
Dublin notes James Watt of Storm Lake Iowa visiting Mr and Mrs W E Augustine. Watt attended the Chicago stock show last week and stopped in Dub Star for a few days. Mrs Dr H E Marr of Haskins is visiting Mrs J B McCaleb. Andy Augustine spent time with his brother Will, went to Brighton and bought a car load of cattle, returning home Friday.
Crawfordsville reports a Saturday reception at Mr. and Mrs. A T Brown’s home near Haskins in honor of their son George Brown and bride. Local residents included Mr. and Mrs. W K Wooley and Mrs. J F Buxbaum among attendees as others traveled to Washington and Lawrence Kan for events and funeral arrangements.
A meeting at the Methodist church opened with a sermon themed God s Plan for Man s Best from Seek ye first the kingdom of God. In the evening Mr Moody preached The Last Word and illustrated the impact of a single word Come. Afterward attendees shook hands with Mr Moody and Miss McSparran before his departure for Hopkinton to lecture on the West Indies at Lenox College.
Neighborhood updates list people visiting each other, attendees at parties and institutes, shipments and work chores. Names include Dicken Long Mitchell Keating Eckerman Cherryholmes Maxwell and Brown families with multiple Sunday visits and a trip to Washington noted.
Dec 11 report notes August Tines bought the Ad Henry property and moved to town last Tuesday. Local families visited Abraham and Engle homes, a McNarren sale drew several attendees, Dub lin's John Koch visited, and a Nick Weber gathering south of town ended with praise. Verdie Henry returns from South Dakota. Mike Tinnes moves to his brother August's farm for next year.
The original Mason and Mason present Rudolph and Adolph in its sixth season full of fresh costumes Parisian gowns grand electrical and color displays with twenty performers including Hines and Remington. The vaudeville stars headline as they bring the latest Broadway hits to the opera house on December film.
Funeral services for Frederick William Pech were held Saturday at 10:30 AM at the Pech home south of town conducted by Rev. A. S. Smith of the Methodist church. Interment followed in Elm Grove cemetery.
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi says three months bed confinement with kidney and bladder trouble ended after using Foley's Kidney Remedy. She reports feeling like a new person after two bottles and urges other women to try the medicine from Lemmon's pharmacy.
A South Dakota Experiment Station report compares two yearlong series of pig feeding tests. Ground corn and barley alone produced 1.1 pounds daily gain, while adding stock feeds lowered cost per pound of gain to around 4.16 to 4.58 cents. A second trial using cornmeal with stock feeds or homemade stock feed yielded gains and costs showing pasture quality influenced efficiency. The homemade stock feed mix includes gentian ginger sodium bicarbonate fenugreek and salt mixed with shorts and grain.
Thirty shoats averaging 52 pounds were split into three lots of ten. All received the same grain mix of shorts, cornmeal, and Kaffir corn in a dry lot. One lot grazed rape pasture, another alfalfa. gains were nearly equal. The dry lot consumed 157 pounds more grain per gain than the pasture lots. Rape and alfalfa pastures required about one and a half and one half acres respectively.
Farmers across New York state report scarce good labor with day wages from 1.25 to 1.50 dollars and monthly wages from 20 to 38 dollars for ten hours of work. The decline in urban work brings workers back to farms, and immigration from the United Kingdom Germany Sweden and other European countries is urged as a remedy.
Prairie Farmer outlines a simple buggy jack built from oak boards and a metal lever. It uses two 22 by 4 by 1 pieces and one 15 by 4 by 1 piece joined with a smaller piece between the larger ones. A base is formed by two 12 by 4 by 1 pieces on each side. A 28 by 1 by 144 board with a hole acts as the lever, bolted with a four inch bolt. A notched five inch wood piece and a nineteen inch strap iron with a hook complete the mechanism.
The Hains murder case returns to public attention as Thornton Jenkins Hains faces trial for aiding his brother Peter C. Hains in the Bayside killing of William E. Annis. Prosecutors claim the pair aimed to quell a crowd and justify murder as lynch law.
Washington December 14 The War Department orders all requisitions from military authorities for clothing and equipment to be filled from the army supply sources with the latest style or article called for This ensures militia receive no obsolete or old patterned material and are uniformly equipped.
Constantinople December 14 The Young Turks secure victory in local elections for the new chamber. Ten deputies elected include five Turks two Armenians two Greeks and one Jew with Pafik Bey the minister of justice leading the Hat.
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