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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1902
Page
3
Special to The Evening Journal reports fair weather in Iowa for today and tomorrow with rising temperatures. Washington notes tonight and Wednesday will be fair with increasing warmth.
Local items list weekly prices at Allens for table board and chocolate imports. Various residents and visitors travel or stay in the area, including Walter Wilde from Peoria and Miss Fannie Cowan attending a state teachers' association in Des Moines. Several meetings and visits unfold with teachers, churches, and shops referenced. invitations for a Friday dance at the Armory are announced with Wilmot's harp orchestra.
A compilation of small town notices includes visitors and departures from West Chester Aledo Ottumwa and Lawrence Kan reports on illnesses and visits family events and social activities at the Johnson bakery East Jefferson Street and East Main Street. The item also notes sales lost and wanted ads for jobs and goods with several addresses and references to Journal office listings.
State of Iowa rested after presenting about eight witnesses in the Samuel Evans case at the Washington County Savings Bank court room. Witnesses included W W Mendenhall a Parsons College chemist who testified that Rock Candy Cordial contained 22 to 25 percent alcohol and Quinine Slixir 25 to 35 percent. The defense offered six witnesses and Evans testified as the trial continued with a key point about incriminating himself raised by his attorney. Verdict expected tomorrow.
Mr. Raymond Alberson clarifies a misunderstanding from yesterday's Journal. He states Miss Otis, not Miss Knox, was arrested for whipping a pupil while Miss Knox's principal, Miss Otis, faced the case.
The Evening Journal will pay five cents per copy for journals dated the seventeenth of December. Quantity requested is twenty copies.
The Garfield Beacon notes the American Economic Association meeting in Philadelphia where Charles A. Prouty and Walker D. Hines led talks on national regulation and legislative changes to railroad rates. Separate items mention Laura Biggar leaving Freehold for acting offers and a drowning rescue by Alice Hance, plus a lynching in Greenwood, Illinois.
The article reports that prominent figures including George Po McCrtloeh and Walter A. Hell incorporated a new university project at Munete aimed at fostering Christian ethics and moral development. It describes the institution’s aim to harmonize human growth with divine attributes and to depart from evolutionary theory.
The article notes lake copper prices ranged between 1 and 12 cents a pound for most of the year. Despite higher costs for machinery and supplies, average ore returns left little profit. Some mines had higher price contracts earlier, reducing losses, while dividends were smaller. Rail freight hikes and crop market woes also affect farming and trade regions. Governor Dockery offers a reward for bank robbery suspects in Union Missouri. Ottawa and Jefferson City dispatches cover the national tone.
An outline notes Saute Pe intends to construct a rail line from Guthrie through El Reno and Cement in Oklahoma into Texas. Clerks on western railroads demand a 20 percent wage increase. Tailor Taneill dies in New Mexico of heart failure. The Star Theater in Atlanta suffers near total fire loss. The American Association for the Advancement of Science meets in Washington. Humberts jailed in Madrid for swindling have arrived in Paris. Mrs. McKinley hosts a prize contest at the Waldorf Astoria on January 7. Sherman strikes a rock and sinks off the southern coast. Shoe now in Manila. La Champagne officer Pierre Bardelles dies in a Christmas wave accident.
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