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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1902
Page
4
The Court of Honor contest for new members produced a tie between Jas Conger of this city and Mr Hoyle from the country. The prize will be awarded next week after further efforts by the two leading contenders. News of the Churches notes pastors to preach tomorrow.
The article notes the United States as the wealth leader with about 16.35 billion pounds and cites debts totals for major nations. It compares debt to wealth ratios, listing the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia with respective figures and percentages.
At the Boyd home southeast of the city last evening Mr Boyd and Miss Catharine Stevens hosted an oyster supper in honor of Robert Boyd of Stafford Kansas and Samuel Little of Logansport Ind. About 40 guests attended with many from the city.
Classifieds include a mail order sales pitch for lubricants from F. H. Penfield Cleveland Ohio a lost brown kid glove left at JOURNAL office a request for a second hand organ and hotel line orders by Frank Revere plus church notices Trinity Episcopal and First Church of Christ Scientist with service times and sermon details.
Evening subject The ible Precious to Young as Well as Old details an educational or moral discussion aimed at both youth and adults. The piece emphasizes safety, virtue, and guidance for younger readers with ancillary observations for an older audience.
The Presbyterian church will host morning and evening services with themes The Threshing Floor and Altar in the morning and Bad Bargains in History in the evening. Sunday school starts at 9 30 and BYP at 6 45. A missionary address by Rev Obas W McCleary is set for 3 o clock. no evening preaching.
Mr and Mrs Bordo hosted relatives at a dinner in honor of W OC Bordo of New Kirk Oklahoma and marking the seventy third birthday of Henry Bordo Mrs Hallie Bardo delivered readings as Mayme Parkinson and Henry Bardo offered recitations. Charlies Miller and Lillie plan to go to Deckrah Monday while County Supervisors continue work and will return Tuesday to finish this session.
Lincoln court adjourns for ninety days to take depositions in the Miles estate contest. Stephen B. Miles died in 1898 at Falls City, with a 1888 will leaving most to son Joseph. Contestants claim a later will from 1897 in St Louis. Paul T. Gadsden testified he drafted it, now living in Mexico.
A Samoa cable report explains the killing of Dr. Menke and his party by St Mathews island natives after they destroyed palm trees on the island. A German punitive expedition then landed and killed eighty one islanders, provoking criticism of colonial policy. Additionally a meteor was seen in Battle Creek, a new Clinton federal building is near completion, and William Stack died from a college shooting incident in Danville.
The house committee on territories schedules hearings on the Oklahoma statehood bill for the 23rd of this month, with venues possibly at Jerusalem as a humorous nod.
A humorous exchange between Mr Backward and Miss Coy features plans to consult a fortune teller to learn about future marriage. Miss Coy proposes saving the fortune teller fee for an engagement ring, while Pearson’s cites a proverb about great minds emerging from hardship.
John Brown of a New York store resigned last night and will join Marshal Field in Chicago on the 21st for a wholesale position. His brother Chas is a salesman there. Rev. B E Ely of Rockford reports Mrs Ely and child are much improved.
Kansas City witnesses testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission for six hours on grain rates from western points to the Atlantic and eastern destinations. John A. Robinson acknowledged a rate discount of 8 to 5 cents per 100 on export grain set by Missouri Pacific officials. The commission resumes hearings January 24 with expected attendance by major railroad executives and grain shippers.
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