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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1911
Page
8
Mason City reports Lehigh Portland Cement Co. won a major Winnipeg contract for 25 000 barrels to be delivered within two months. Canadian officials say the move challenges cement trust pricing despite lowered railroad rates.
Des Moines report says the state department of Justice ruled that an automobile dealer who licenses each car separately can avoid listing stock for taxation and avoid a dealer license. A per car license allows transfer to the buyer with a one dollar transfer fee. If a dealer uses a general dealer license, the buyer must obtain the state license and transfer fees apply on resale.
Twenty of forty stock food dealers in Iowa refused to pay the state license of $100 in Des Moines on December 30. The state food and dairy department has long faced opposition from dealers who contend the tax is not required, though towns may impose it. Twenty dealers have paid, twenty refused.
David Zimmerman of Blaine township marketed 192 acres of popcorn this year and husked 300000 pounds selling at 2.65 per hundred. He nets 8745 dollars and estimates at least 7500 dollars profit for the summer work on his eigh ty acre farm.
Waterloo Iowa reports Billy Sunday continues his revival, converting Western league umpire Dick Morgan St Joseph premier first baseman Tex Jones and Albert Isbell brother of Frank Isbell ex Sioux City outfielder during Tuesday events. Sunday, once a National League star, rose from the platform to greet the players amid cheers.
Mason City December 30 A crow bar on a monitor car nearly killed F Langenbach of Thornton as he rode into town with the section crew. The bar dislodged and trapped him but he survived.
The piece contrasts diary readings from January to February with sharp satire on marriage and diary flaws. It jokes about wives diaries and schoolboy romance while noting the impact of diaries on spelling and household routines. A bar accident involving Mr. Langenbacher injures him when a crowbar strikes him on a streetcar, leaving him unconscious.
Des Moines union men plan a special train to Muscatine for a mass meeting linked to the button workers strike. About 250 from Des Moines and 100 from Cedar Rapids are expected to join, with the date pending Muscatine strikers action and possible participation from other towns.
Northern Iowa Power company excavating at the Des Moines river site for a new hydroelectric plant to generate horse power from cement dam construction. Several carloads of machinery arrived. work will continue all winter with completion planned by spring. only about one third of daily power will be usable unless new manufacturers settle nearby.
Buffalo marks its tenth annual auto show at the Seventy-fourth Regiment Armory. Exhibits include all major manufacturers and cover 22 000 additional feet of space versus last year.
Public health alert warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury as dangerous to smell and body. Hall's Catarrh Cure from FJ Cheney Co Toledo is promoted as mercury free and taken internally. Sold by Druggists at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A West Chester woman found a small black handbag on a Rock Island train and turned it over to Agent H. W. Russell at the Rock Island station. The purse contains several dollars in change and likely belonged to a Washington visitor or traveler who left the train at Washington. The owner can claim it upon identification.
The Men and Religion Forward movement in Duluth aims to raise the city’s housing standards by mobilizing church members. W. L. Smithies says the effort will show the church’s human side and unite men of faith to promote decent living conditions, reducing vice and building a righteous community.
Chief Probation Officer Walter R. Black lauds the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Pittsburgh. He says the effort targets root causes of social ills rather than symptoms and calls the crusade simple yet profound in mobilizing Christians to address juvenile issues.
The Mergenthaler Linotype company issued an extra 3 percent dividend in addition to the regular 2 percent quarterly payout, paid today to stockholders.
In Cedar Rapids a tramp and a west side boy braved wind and ice to rescue a frozen yellow cat from the Cedar River near Second Avenue Bridge. Humane officer Mrs. John Rose organized the effort as fifty onlookers watched the daring rescue from a boat. The cat was returned to safety after being dumped earlier in the night by an unknown person.
In Des Moines Iowa on December 30 Republicans crowded Senator A B Cummins office for discussions with seven former lawmakers about Cummins entering the presidential race George W Clarke Adel lieutenant governor and gubernatorial hopeful met with Cummins while a conference of progressive Republicans met in the Crocker building Officials say La Follette will not affect Iowa convention dynamics
Don Griffin of Standard Oil was arraigned for assault with intent to do great bodily injury after pulling a gun on bartender Joseph Becker at the Western bar during a spree. Griffin posted a $500 bond and is to appear next Tuesday.
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