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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
4
Rain or snow expected tonight and Saturday. East portion to warm tonight and Saturday while the west portion turns colder Saturday. Washington forecast notes apply to Iowa with a mix of precipitation and temperature changes.
Local notices list residents visiting from Osksaloosa and Chadron and returning home for Christmas. Names include Mrs. Hamilton Mrs. Wm Welbie Mrs. Chas Fulton and Rev J C W Coxe traveling for family events. Occasional commerce references mention furniture sleds and turkey orders.
Invitations were issued for the marriage of Miss Anna Puxbaum to Mr. J Orie Rehmel at Grace Hill on December 25. The Magnet Literary Society hosted a reception in the Chapel after a music recital. Ruths and Lydias from the Presbyterian church gathered at Miss Margaret Cowden’s home and celebrated Miss Carrie Stephens birthday with a surprise visit.
Mrs Frank Creath hosted a Sabbath School class gathering on W Washinon Street last evening. Activities included games and a guessing contest won by Rosa McAvoy who received a carnations bouquet. Light refreshments were served to members Emma Hays Myrtle Young Edna Bailey Ethel Bailey Mable Means Nellie Bowman Dora Clapper Clara Ross Edith Lewis Daisy Allen Jane McCohn Iola Mayo Carol Forgey Pearl Sharp Edith Davis Thora Duke Glaphry Leer Jennie McKee and Rosa McAvoy.
Mr and Mrs N Corbin plus Mrs Will Maxwell and Mr H Wilson hosted a large gathering at the F L Wilson home on East Main Street. The surprise silver wedding was announced during an elegant reception with cut flower decorations and a luncheon prepared by Miss Hodek and others.
Local items note Crean will perform at Johnsons in Graham tomorrow. Uncle Si Haskins and his company are remembered tonight in Graham. Special prices listed as ten, twenty, three hundred and fifty cents. Cloyce Dougherty shows steady health improvement. John Manser of Riverside visited town today. Manser formerly owned the Valley house. J. J. Eichelberger and wife listed as sick.
The day brings social calls and travels from Brighton Muscatine Ainsworth West Chester and Wayland with residents returning to towns for holidays and visits. Flags of farewell extend to New and old friends as lines from the Firefly and Uncle Si Haskins tour intersect with local engagements.
The Earl of Onslow recalls a phantom at Clandon Park that unsettled servants and drew local talk. To end it, he ordered all family members to sleep with loaded revolvers and shoot at any noise. The mansion now rests free of supernatural reports.
A Somerville Journal note argues that modesty is valued as a character trait yet seldom translates into higher pay. The remark frames humility as admirable but questions its impact on earnings.
The article describes grouse defense tactics that show high intelligence. It hides as hunters approach, dives upward or runs away, can crouch behind branches, and uses camouflage on bark. It may spring noiselessly to spruce, then resume feeding, sometimes running fast for miles on leafy ground to escape detection.
A compact look at how common phrases began with literal wartime signals and social customs. Examples include beat retreat from drums and bugle calls, bag and baggage tied to a wife, cold shoulder from French hospitality, feather in the cap from Hungarian practice, and dead head as a Pompeian free-pass motif.
London Truth recalls a delayed christening story from England where a vessel used leaden rivets in place of steel ones to avoid postponing the launch. Painted and seaworthy at first the ship later showed defects in heavy seas and was hurried back to a dock for repairs.
In Madrid a palm leaf on a balcony railing signals a sleeping room. A white paper indicates for rent, while a palm leaf shows the chamber of a devout Catholic who brought it from church on Palm Sunday. The leaf stays year round until the next anniversary when a fresh palm is placed.
A Covent Garden pawnbroker holds a unique license allowing loans on garden and other produce for up to forty eight hours. Traders pledge late arrivals of fruit flowers or vegetables when market demand is uncertain. The next morning the broker may redeem the goods or sell them.
A couplet of exchanges as a woman enters a shop and a man, after spending time uptown, mail, and lunch at the club, returns to find her just leaving the door. This snippet captures early 20th century social movement and dialogue.
A prosy counselor tells Lord Cockburn he is not treading on time while the judge notes a finer line between trespassing on time and encroaching on eternity. The remark appears in Success.
In A Story of Rossini from Gossip From Paris During the Second Empire, A B N Peat recounts a Russian lady who sought an audience with Rossini. He replies he does nothing for nothing and demands a fine bunch of asparagus, adding the lady may view him but only after supplying the asparagus.
General Passenger Agent Elimluo of St Louis Missouri is identified in the item with his title and location. The brief notes his appointment and place of operation within a railroad or transportation context.
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