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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
7
Reader item from The Evening Journal lists publication details and prices for a small classified or notice clipping, showing publisher Orville Elder and price marks 1.00 and 4.00.
Joe Knotek, top exam and work performer at the Washington county short course, wins a free scholarship to the State college short course at Ames. The award letter was delayed in the mail and arrived after he left. Two week course offers farmer training and notes on corn judging and live stock judging papers issued to owners.
The drama by George Middleton adapts E P Roe’s first novel Barriers Burned Away about a brilliant poor youth courting a rich woman. Set in Chicago around the great fire, the play aims to rival the novel’s popularity and appeal to both readers and theatergoers.
Trustees of the New York Store announce a public sale on the West Side of Washington Iowa to the highest bidder. The auction includes the store stock and fixtures plus 10 shares of American Pearl Button stock 100 par, 110 shares Motzorongo company stock of Mexico ten dollar par, and $1000 in promissory notes. All store accounts must be paid by noon sale day and inventory will be shown after January 6 1912 with notes and accounts viewable after January 9 1912 at noon.
On Saturday January 6 at 1 pm a public auction will sell the Ainsworth Iowa hotel to the highest bidder in front of the hotel. Lease announcements will be made at the sale. All property to be sold for cash with settlement immediately after. Dated Washington Iowa December 30 1911. Trustees G W Yates and Marsh W Bailey
E P Roe novel inspired by a Chicago visit after the great fire. The book’s success spurred a stage adaptation by George Middleton. The play, booked for Friday January 5, features an elaborate set and a strong cast under Gaskell and MacVitty.
A. H. Essley touts his 33 year old key wind watch bought from S. B. Dewey for 25 dollars in 1879. It has needed almost no repairs aside from two decades of daily winding and a periodic cleaning by a jeweler.
The London Chronicle notes juvenile mimicry of adult acts shows in boxing era street bouts and wrestling games. Youths imitate fighters like Jem Smiths and Hackenschmidt on pavement mats while others pretend to swim like Cant Webhh, at the Serpentine ponds.
English novelist James Payn recalls a stranger who praised his books and exchanged jokes with him. The exchanges grew playful until a dramatic moment when the reader revealed they were a woman, leaving Payn amused and puzzled by the correspondence.
In a humorous wake up call, Thomas Simpson Jr. calls to pull a hay for sale want ad after a night of interrupted sleep. The piece highlights the perils of misplacing a hay ad in the Journal want columns and ends with a moral to advertise in the Want Ad section.
The thermometer hit two below zero at 6 30 this morning and six below at 8 oclock. A cold wind from the north and west kept temperatures low and slowed moderation. In a few days ice men expect to begin picking as zero weather ripens ice for canning with the usual amount anticipated this winter.
The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor society will hold a social in the church basement Friday at 8 p.m. A charge of five cents for the first foot and one cent for each additional foot will apply. Everyone is invited to attend. The Younger Dancing Set moves its old time dance to Eagle Hall Thursday at 8 p.m. as a farewell for students returning to school. All Younger Set members and older people, plus parents and friends, are welcome.
Bids opened in Washington on September 5 for the French scrap filling the Panama route from the failed De Lesseps era. The junk includes locomotives dump cars tanks barges dredges and girders. Contractor to remove at his expense with Panama Railroad charging 2.25 a ton to seaports and a three year deadline.
Capt. C. G. Rawling reports a vivid native welcome as he enters Mimika proper in Dutch New Guinea. A flotilla of canoes paddled after his party while crowds along the riverbank shouted loudly. Women and children smeared with mud leaped into the water and danced naked save for a bark cloth strip.
A western woman questions how New York babies can get decent teeth without silver dollars to chew. She notes in Nevada and other western states babies bite on the newest silver dollar as early as the first tooth and claim only a dollar can resist being swallowed.
Omaha's Miss Anna Wilson dies at sixty leaving a 500000 trust to city charities. The former stage performer ran Omaha's famed dive for four decades and at death bequeaths 9000 to Dan Allen's brothers, with a large hospital gift already pledged.
Walter Scott known as Death Valley Scotty buys two adjoining acres near Sis Hopkins residence plans a 35000 dollar Los Angeles house to prove cash is still available He deposits the funds and vows a manly home with a Death Valley replica in the rear and his burro Salim to roam the acre site
County Treasurer J A McCoy and County Auditor Howard Benn report 332 927 38 to be collected in 1912 for personal property and real estate taxes. The figure, the largest ever for the county, reflects higher property values rather than higher levies. Anxious taxpayers flocked to pay in full, with deputy Miss Shearer assisting.
Theva will hold its annual dinner and social next Saturday at the church. Dr George Kendall of Moline Ill is expected to perform readings famed for humor and sublimity. George Wallace and his family provide instrumental music while children offer selections in a lively evening.
Local timetable shows arrivals and departures for trains 60 430 82 429 49 81 with daily operation except Sundays. Agent H W Russell notes freights 81 82 88 89 and passengers 49 60 operate daily except Sundays.
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