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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1909
Page
2
Al Augustine of West Chester visited the city on Friday as a business guest. The Fair invites shoppers to watch for bargains and to plan January purchases during the 1910 event featuring New Year cards and local offers.
Miss Edith Shields of Monmouth college is home for vacation. Kentucky coal for sale by D. A. Chalmers, phone 80. Mel Anderson left for Wyman to do carpentry. W.8 White returned to Crawfordsville after a city visit.
At the Opera House Mrs. Dr. F. C. Thornburgh of Macon Missouri is visiting her mother Mrs. A. M. Butler. Dr. Charles Leiberthal of Defiance Ohio arrived Thursday night to spend Christmas at the Sol Rich home. Mort Sessler traveled to Burlington for a visit with his sister Mrs. J. G. Suutherland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chance of Hammond Indiana are visiting at Mrs. E. J. Stewart and H. Chance homes. Mrs. Charles Halbert of Atlanta Tr arrived Thursday and is visiting her daughter Mrs. G. W. Hill.
Centerville residents and visitors are profiled in a long list of relatives travel and holiday greetings. It notes dozens of families arriving, visiting, or returning home from nearby towns and cities, with several references to Christmas activities and a basketball game upcoming at the Commercial club.
Tomorrow Night We were sorry to disappoint so many customers by being out of goods, but we weren't looking for such an immense business. The Fair. R. P. Lewis and daughter Miss Mide and Miss Gusta Stone left Thursday night for Rockford Ill for a visit at the James Baird home. Manton Hebner arrived Thursday night from Oklahoma City to spend Christmas at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hebner.
Mr and Mrs Allen DeLong and their two children return to Crawfordsville after a visit with George C Stewart. Miss Joy Harmon and Miss Zoe Harmon arrive from Cedar Falls for Christmas with the Nicola and Harmon families. Joy Harmon taught in Hampton Iowa. W M Johnson and daughter Loa depart for Des Moines for a Great Western Accident Insurance agents convention.
Mrs. R Gallagher travels to Crawfordsville for the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs A Davidson tomorrow. Mr Ray Simpson and Mr Tom Olds from Ainsworth visiting Miss Margaret Simpson for a Simpson family reunion today. Farm loan opportunities touted by Edmund D Mor rson as early applications secure favorable terms and savings.
The Graham opera house hosted a full audience for the home talent production Too Much Money a benefit show to aid a local baseball fund. W E Chicote played Ralph Van Vlissengen in disguise as Miss Cynthia Van Doorleberger with Miss Jessie Laffer Miss Irma Wilbur and James L Brookhart delivering strong performances amid lively interludes by Parl Dayton and Bessie Darbyshire.
An oyster supper benefits St James school with a fancy table sale by parish ladies. A musical program of six numbers follows in the school auditorium at 9:30 p m.
Miss Jessie Sweeney of Waterloo visits Hugh Mc Causland home while Katherine Jailey returns from Riverside to spend vacation. Dave McKee of Davenport joins sister Mrs Henry Eicher for Christmas. Mrs Earl Bewis of Des Moines visits her parents Mr and Mrs A Van Sickle. Mr and Mrs Stanley Singmaster and families from Valley Junction celebrate Christmas at mother Kate Singmaster's home.
The national monetary commission announces a coming year program to publish a score or more volumes on monetary and banking systems of major nations. The aim is to provide an unparalleled English language library and to broaden understanding of world finance for bankers, students, and business leaders.
Vallecas in Spain is described as almost entirely built from meerschaum with distant outskirts containing crude quarries unsuitable for pipemaking.
Sapphires once mined in Kashmir are said exhausted. Yellow white blue and green sapphires occur in ruby bearing gravels in Burma. Spinel is found in considerable quantities in Burma.
Immigration Commission experts report that descendants of European immigrants in New York show measurable changes in head shape and other physical traits by the first generation. The study notes environment influences, with Sicilians and East European Hebrews exhibiting distinct intergenerational shifts and a general trend toward an American type.
A British gunboat returning from the Bering Sea notes changes in the Bogoslov islands formed five years ago by a volcanic upheaval off the Alaskan coast. The rising ocean floor now joins two islands, vegetation appears on all, signaling evolving geography.
Fine picture programs mark December 27 28 and 29 at the Graham with a complete change each evening. William Owen presents The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It with a top supporting company backed by Metropolitan favorites including Margaret Morrison Don Merrifield W Joseph Poirier Clayton Anderson and W Hi Niemeyer. The engagement restores Owen to small towns after three years and promises high grade drama.
A brief editorial urging calm reasoning and study of other nations to achieve level headedness when crises arise in Arehdencen Madden. The piece emphasizes thoughtful analysis over reaction and cites history as a guide for prudent responses.
Due to my wife’s illness I must sell a large part of my dairy cows and reduce retail trade. The sale takes place at my residence on East Second Street just outside the city limits on Tuesday December 28 starting at 11 o’clock. Terms disclosed at sale. Delos Disan. D Macon, Auctioneer.
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