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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
4
New York hosts a week long toy exhibition at Madison Square Garden starting today and running through Christmas. Proceeds from special dolls donated by society women go to the Hospital for Crippled Children. The Junior Aero club debuts with miniature planes kites balloons and wireless telegraph displays.
Union City Tennessee December 18 testimony will begin today in the trial of the night riders accused of murdering Captain Quentin Rankin. The jury has been completed amid cheers as officers prepare for examination. Tries to Burn Two Churches in Chicago also reported with detectives seeking Englewood firebugs who damaged the Thoburn Methodist and Drexel Park Presbyterian churches within a block.
The forecast calls for cloudy and colder conditions in Illinois Indiana and Iowa. Snow and colder weather are expected in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Olga Stein faces trial in St. Petersburg for forgery and embezzlement. Victims reportedly lost over 150000 dollars as a large, fashionable audience attended the opening session.
T M Reynolds expresses gratitude to friends for kindness as he prepares to move to Montrose Colorado. He says he will settle all remaining debts and asks unsettled accounts be found at Eadmund Morrison's office. He will work in real estate and plans to answer questions through The Journal.
All members of the A O U W band are ordered to attend the gathering next Monday at 7 o clock without fail.
Ed Foss and Anna Eagle travel Ottumwa for business and visits. G L Duke and son Louis call on Ottumwa merchants. Rev and Mrs Chas McMann of West Chester spend the day in the city. Roy Y Stichter promotes Gunther candies with a large Christmas stock and homemade sweets. A private Rock Island car and a line of Pullman cars pass through. Jim Lemley visits from Dublin and heads to Mulberry for two weeks.
Miss Mary Shepard visited Colum bus Junction to see friends and view fashions. Hobson and Gove advertise fine cameo rings and tie pins with appealing prices. Mrs. McCall’s millinery window features Burnt Wood in the West Side Square. J G Risk and Chas Long traveled to Brighton and attended Mrs. Edward Brinton’s funeral.
Mrs. G F Cook and husband arrived in the city yesterday and left for West Chester this morning. Mr. and Mrs. J T Maddox, visiting Jas Boyd's house, will return to Sidney Nebraska tomorrow morning. W H Hughes attended his brother D R Hughes's funeral at Cotter today, with services led by Rev J M Jones of Lake Crystal Minnesota at one o'clock.
A party of eight ladies departed this morning for West Chester and will return this evening. The Journal reporter learned they were visiting the station, but the ladies refused to reveal their names. Some did say the party was being entertained today by Mrs. Sam Staller at her West Chester home.
At the Henry county short course declamatory contest in Mt Pleasant Miss Lena Patten of Winfield High School won top honors. Floyd Shockley represented our local high school and did creditably. the Mt Pleasant News notes his non placing was due to the high caliber of other contestants.
Relatives report the sudden death of Mrs. Laura Reed Fairbanks at her home in Springfield Missouri. Daughter of Mr and Mrs S W Reed she visited last summer at her aunt Mrs M P Watson’s home northeast of the city. She is survived by her husband James Fairbanks and the Reed family who left the city about ten years ago.
A marriage license was issued to Arthur Peterson and Pederbacks.
Mr and Mrs R S Warfel of South Iowa avenue entertained about twenty guests last evening playing five hundred. Mrs J Wilson and J M Bratten won the honors. A three course luncheon followed in the dining room with a small Christmas tree centerpiece and holiday decorations. The evening was pleasantly spent.
Holiday shoppers overlook many women gifts but find a line of hand painted paper and envelopes in decorative packages. The high quality paper and boxes serve after use as receptacles for gloves or handkerchiefs. Lemmon's pharmacy displays the items for men to choose before sunset.
The Young Women’s Missionary Society of the First United Presbyterian Church recalls its sister lady missionaries in Egypt India and the Soudan with a message of Christmas greetings from the church.
Burnt wood at Mrs McCalls and marble cake items mark a sale at the time bakery for tomorrow. Miss Florence Humble assists at the F F Parrish store during the sale. Local visits include James Baird from Ottumwa and Henry Crooks party from Crawfordsville. Hobson and Gove advertise diamond rings. The F W Bracht sale grossed 3784 dollars. Frank Macon completed a purchase in two and a half hours.
Miss Blanche Smith will leave tonight for her home in Long Beach California and Miss Cora Ball will join her at Fairfield to travel together. An item of local interest notes Eva Gardner of Lawrence Kansas, who died recently, once taught in Washington public schools about twenty years ago and was a sister of J Cunningham of Crawfordsville and Mrs Ervin Lease formerly of this city.
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