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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1902
Page
3
Local diary items list prices at Stewart's Pharmacy and Johnson's for Boston Brown Bread and oysters. Several residents travel to Chicago and Des Moines, attend musicales, and visit relatives. A marriage near the community is announced, along with upcoming events at the M K E church.
Local notes report Mrs Alva Boileau and Mrs Walderick of Grace Hill visiting friends. Sami Logan ill but improving. Frank Stewart and F L Wilson returned from the east and Chicago respectively. Al Hott to St Louis. Mrs Roy Farria returns to Shenandoah. A magic show by Frederek entertained a large crowd with musical acts by Elizabeth Kinsely and Harry Austin. A new baby boy arrives at Lewis Wesley and Shan Davis households.
Notice to advertisers that copy must be received by 10 o clock in the morning to ensure changes are applied the same day. The fragment indicates a deadline and process for updating ads.
A vendor pledges to provide good meat and reliable service to secure continued patronage, inviting customers to choose Home Grown and the Very Finest Meats for quality offerings.
Local advertisement for Joseph Pollard Jr indicating services as examiner of real estate titles farm loans and conveyancer in Washington Iowa opposite the court house with phone contact.
The Washington County Farmers Mutual Insurance association will hold its annual meeting in Smouses Hall next week on Friday.
A traveler recounts roaming Europe and meeting only one man who hesitated to take a fee. In an English graveyard he notices a stone for a longtime charity leader. A man there admits the deceased was his wife and accepts the sixpence after a brief hesitation, then pockets it with satisfaction.
A Kansas postmaster, reading postal cards, is swept by a cyclone through an east window and ends up perched in a tall tree three miles from his office. He watches the shanty he fled approach the grove, then safely descends. The tale ends with a moral about the office seeking the man.
A Iowa mother credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with saving her child's life. She purchased it in Goodwin South Dakota and gave it as directed every ten minutes until the boy expelled phlegm and began to recover. For sale by Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook and Sherman.
Twelve hundred Nebraska teachers attended sectional meetings at Tenevin Nebraska January 4. Prominent educators from abroad spoke on scientific teaching. A daily spelling school proved popular among the attendees. An amendment for direct teacher vote failed and a committee to pick officers was appointed. President W M Beardshear of Iowa State College gave the evening address on teaching attitudes.
Central board of scrutiny releases Dec election tallies in Cuba. Nationalist candidate Thomas Estrada Palma holds fifty five electors while Democratic rival Bartolome Maso has eight. Palma wins unanimous provincials in Pinar del Rio Havana Matanzas and Santa Clara with other electors split among Puerto Principe and Santiago. Civil governors named include Dores Nunez Lecuona Gomez Recio and Kehevarria.
Johannesburg reports General Botha urges continued fighting to spur another war vote in Britain. General DeWet orders delaying blockhouse expansion. General Bruce Hamilton seizes a Boer laager and 22 prisoners on the Swaziland border.
Anne Johnson, a colored woman, accosted stockman Y. J. Graham in North Omaha and stole $230 after forcing the money from his pocket. Graham, new to the city, was bitten when he tried to detain her. She was arrested later and the money recovered.
The Minnesota Supreme Court, in a majority decision, affirms that the state board of control holds full authority over normal schools. The normal school board had challenged the board of control to intervene in normal matters, ending a notable contest of interest across the northwest.
Charlea Q Dawes United States Senate candidate will speak to the Retail Merchants and Business Men's association of Elgin Wisconsin on January 7. A banquet will be served and politics barred with Judge Sherwood as toastmaster.
Misa Estelle Reel, federal superintendent of Indian education, will hold the annual convention of Indian education educators and teachers in Minneapolis next July in conjunction with the National Educational Association session.
Judge Eugene B. Elliott of the Milwaukee circuit court died suddenly from heart failure at the Milwaukee Whist League rooms where he was spending the evening. He was 60 years old and widely known across the state.
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