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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1913
Page
4
Judge George D. Alden delivered the lecture Needs of the Hour to a receptive audience in Northwood. The Index lauded him as clean bold and practical with Yankee wit and conviction. The talk capped the Monday program at the opera house drawing praise from locals.
Miss Jeannette Bailey returns home to Crawfordsville after a visit at the George Hesseltine home. Dr J A Boatman district superintendent travels to Muscatine after a brief stay. Judge Geo D Alden to speak on The Needs of the Hour next Wednesday at 8 15 at the opera house. Mrs E G George of Eldon attends funeral of her father Charles Jacoby and returns home. Mrs Eva Cocklin guests at the Al Cocklin home southeast of the city returns to Ainsworth.
George Henry Goethal a broker who would not reveal banks in the California Petroleum Syndicate to the house money trust committee faces potential contempt proceedings. The committee will ask the house to prosecute him.
Mrs Flora Ross of this city died at her daughter’s home in Ottumwa. Funeral arrangements are pending with the service likely held here Thursday unless plans change. She was 49, born in Washington, survived by husband W B Ross and many children and siblings, and active in local Baptist church and fraternal orders.
Mrs. J M Sessler died last night at ten, four days after her husband’s death on January second. She was over eighty, born August 19 1832 in Baltheim Bavaria, came to America in 1848, married Sept 2 1850, lived in the city about forty years, survived by eight children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at two at 529 West Third Street, Rev Chr T Rasche presiding.
The January term of district court opened about 11 o clock with Judge Henry Silwald on the bench. The grand jury was drawn and impaneled to begin deliberations, and staff including D. C. Kyle as clerk, J. W. Scott as bailiff, W. H. Warner as court bailiff, and J. A. Lindabury as court reporter were listed. The term’s docket and weekly assignments were not yet set.
Shenandoah January 7 J A Armstrong seedsman and Tampa winter resident found his Florida home occupied by strangers after the housekeeper rented it and fled. He arrived to halt sale efforts and spent a month in court to regain possession.
The C. E. S. will hold their regular meeting Thursday evening, Jan. 9, at 7 30. Installation of new officers, balloting and other important business. Lillian L. Kunath, W. M., and Susie B. Edgington, Secy note a strong start to the new year. Prayer meeting at Second United Presbyterian church Wednesday will begin at 7 15 due to opera house lecture course.
John G. Woolley, candidate for President in 1900, abandons the Prohibition Party. He says the public rejects national prohibition and the party has outlived its usefulness after losing votes in the recent election. He plans temperance work through new channels and expects no Prohibition ticket in 1916.
The Sapith of Company D held the first drill in the new armory with about forty of sixty members present. The spacious floor of over four thousand eight hundred square feet impressed officers and members. The armory, once cramped, is now a central site for dances basketball gym classes and public meetings. It will be dedicated February 14 with a grand ball and preparations are under way.
An old newspaper ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure 75 cents per bottle. It includes testimonials from local bankers and asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A drugstore advertisement promises cure for piles with PAZO OINTMENT within six to fourteen days. It offers a money refund if itching, bleeding, or protruding piles fail to heal in that period. The ad emphasizes 50 cents price.
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