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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
5
Will Shearer of Purdue University Lafayette Indiana and Mrs Dade Shearer of Chicago University are due home this evening to spend the holidays with their parents Mr and Mrs J S Shearer.
Wanted three salesmen to promote Rand McNally & Co's reversible 6x46 inch map of the U S and world. Map features eleven colors, railroad routes, Panama Canal, Russo-Japanese war battle sites, and country data. No experience needed. earn over 100 sales weekly with a new territory and terms.
Readers note a drop in temperatures this fall with longer coats for both men and animals. The message urges preparation for winter by stocking coal and prioritizing warm apparel as belts appear on toms.
London on December 22 reports the thickest fog in years, shutting streets and crossings. Omnibus drivers and police lose direction while traffic stalls under long lines of motionless vehicles. Torchboys rush to meet demand as electric lights fail to pierce the gloom.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester visited Northville on December 22 en route to Detroit. They toured the government fisheries plant with Superintendent Frank N. Clark, observed fish culture operations, and showed strong knowledge of fish and breeding. The visit ended with discussions on introducing new food fish varieties to England.
At a Boston meeting of the Benjamin Franklin fund Hu Lets reads a letter from MIT President Pritchett presenting a proposal from Andrew Carnegie to double the fund to 400000 dollars. The grant would create a school for industrial training for men and women modeled after New York's Mechanics' and Tradesmen and the Cooper Union.
In Rapids Michigan on December 22 William Anderson aged 16 was killed by an accidental gun discharge while hunting near Altona. He played with Byron Willett aged 16 and George Anderson aged 20. The party had one gun. Willett held it when the shot occurred, though Willett claims Anderson had the gun.
Beverly Missouri December 22 The south bound Burlington passenger train from Omaha to Kansas City derailed here the engine jumped the track and overturned Fireman Peter Calcutt of St Joseph Missouri was pinned under the engine and died Engineer Farmsworth escaped by jumping all passengers uninjured
The Senate met briefly for four minutes in Washington on December 22 and adjourned to January 4. An Illinois senator objected to unanimous consent to take up the inaugural resolution in the House, delaying action until after the holidays. The House likewise adjourned to January 4, 1905, due to lack of a quorum.
Mrs. EB Townsend died at 67 in Sycamore Illinois on December 22. She was a Lombard college trustee and founder of the Townsend prize for oratory there, and served on the executive board of the National Woman's Society of the Universalist church.
San Francisco gate receipts totaled 26900 dollars for the Britt Nelson bout. Britt earned 8877 dollars and Nelson 5918 dollars with the Yosemite club receiving 12105 dollars.
The official Connecticut Governor race tally shows Henry Roberts 25,572 votes ahead of A H Robertson. The New York City Railway Company loses about 1000 dollars daily from illegal transfers. The Crane Company of Chicago plans 250000 dollars in Christmas salary increases for its workers.
In New York on December 22 the Nan Patterson trial paused as speeches and law years were not sent to the jury. The judge's charge followed, and the jury was sent home to rest. This morning the judge delivered the charge and the case went to the jury to express its verdict on the testimony and speeches.
Hay Memorial Chapel in Simsbury Conn burned December 22. The structure, given by Secretary Hay in memory of his son Adelbert, dates to 1902 and valued at about 12500, with partial insurance coverage. Officials say a furnace defect likely started the blaze.
Rear Admiral Charles I. Davis arrives in Paris as U S representative on the North Sea commission. George TL Shoup, ex Senator from Idaho, dies at Tulsa at age US years. A Chicago isolation hospital birth records a child born to Mrs Mary O Connor a smallpox patient. King Charles and Queen Amelia return to Lisbon after visits to Britain and France. Count Cassini the Russian ambassador is ill and confined to his Washington room for seven days. The fiscal year ending June 1905 is forecast to bring the largest immigrant influx yet. M Sevastianoff succeeds M M Durneevo as superintendent of posts and telegraphs in Russia.
The young man who visited a fortune teller claims she told him he was born to command, while Henpeck quips that this means he will never be married.
Up to noon today 20691.01 had been paid into the county treasurer on the paying tax bringing the total to 46566.87. H Al Moyer of Brighton of the Lowden Manufacturing company spent the day at his daughter’s home. Kathryn Stichter and Gertrude Smith are home from Cedar Falls for the holidays. W A Sigler of Wellman visited the city and plans to start for California in about two weeks to spend the winter there.
Society notes announce the kindergarten program moved to tomorrow forenoon. Miss Isabel McE Binney and Miss Mary French invite guests to a reception at the French home on East Jefferson Street next Tuesday evening. Baptist Sunday School plans an evening entertainment in church parlors. Miss Ethel Titterington hosted about thirty friends with games and luncheon last night. No Epworth League Bible class meeting tonight. Final pre nuptials for Miss Myrtle Sage hosted by Mrs Laura Rich yesterday with gifts and luncheon.
A Davenport audience failed to sway Bishop Cosgrove to keep Rev. Jacobsmeier locally as a petition signed by about 300 Washington citizens urged retention. The bishop said the change is a promotion and Riverside awaits his service while Father Sucope of Newton will replace him here. The bishop praised Jacobsmeier’s popularity based on the petition.
Pessession Jan Ist by G Knottnerus and J B Toyle on the T J Dempsey billiard bowling and lunch business. Mr Dempsey has run the business 20 years and believes a settlement is due. New owners buy full equipment and plan to run the business, with Ed Dempsey staying on for a few weeks to transition.
Short items report 64eSt oysters at Vienna bakery, pound cakes and cream rolls, sheet music at Maars Eichelberger, high grade pianos sale at Maass Eichelberger, and local visitors and travel notes. Arion A. Smith and Myrtle J. Edwards receive license to wed. Tom Miller returns from Chicago for Christmas home.
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