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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1910
Page
2
Local shoppers are invited to the last week of the pre inventory sale at Rothschilds with prices to win the trade and mentions of fur jackets, children’s cloaks, and chocolate dipped peanuts. Visitors include J H Pearson Ainsworth and others from Keota West Chester Haskins Dubuque Keota continue to travel to the city for business and personal visits.
Twenty five percent discount on nearly all underwear cloves shopping bags fleeced hosiery at Roth Mrs Willis Trotter returned yesterday evening to her home at Ainsworth after a brief visit with relatives in the city. J W Davis spent yesterday at the W Reynolds home enroute to his home at Ainsworth from Hutchinson Kansas. Mrs L H Shuman spent yesterday in the city enroute from West Chester where she had been visiting at the Orville Dayton home to her home at Colton Calif.
Rothschilds and The Fair run busy promotions as store rooms fill for spring. Shoppers are urged to buy dress goods and cloaks at low prices while sample china and outing gowns appear. Several residents and visitors travel between Crawfordsville Des Moines and Winfield with family and business matters.
Bowman's is running a special blanket sale as residents share news. W. M. Johnson and daughters Loa and Merle headed to Keokuk after the death of Charlies Johnson’s father. Joe Simerman farm near West Chester sold for 24500 dollars to Charlies Johnson, a 180 acre property. Mrs. E. S. Johnson visits in Des Moines then Denver with her husband. G. A. Jugenheimer and family from Havelock Nebraska depart for Sigourney for relatives. Carnest Lemmon adds a Boston terrier to his pharmacy equipment, a young cheerful dog with corkscrew tail.
Mrs. George Staples and children visited at the Welte and Strabla homes then returned to Des Moines. Rev. Father Weil led services in Washington in Father Walsh’s absence. Joe Eglin and children of Spring Hill visit Mrs. Eglin. Frank Welce’s family spent Sunday in Riverside at the Bhi home. Harry Figgens of Conesville visits his uncle Hial Reece. Kroes and Yeggy families from Riverside visited Dr J M Chittum. John Robinson becomes clerk at Little Iowa grocery. Joe Marhofer visits Kalona to see his sister Mrs J F Friese.
News across the town reports C W Mills died after a stroke at Milwaukee station where he waited for a friend. He was taken home, doctors called, but he died about two hours later. Various local notices follow including deaths, family moves, births, and visits.
There will be a pie supper following the literary program at the Gray school house four miles southwest of Washington next Friday evening January 14 1910. Everyone is invited. Leora O Taylor, Teacher.
The item notes light winter weather and sleighing in the northwest. It reports Ralph Ashby healing from a gunshot elbow wound, Art Enfield’s head laceration from a bucket incident, and Df Patterson’s horse killed after a fall. It also covers Marquam sale prices for hay poultry and a mare, farm rental to Sam Ramsey, sale of Mackey place at 500 per acre, 44 years on the old farm, and Mrs. James Haller recovering from pneumonia.
Stockholders met and reelected directors W. E. Anwyl T. E. Maxwell R. C. McCleary W. P. Davidson Elias Williams Hugh K. E. Davis Joseph Huston Gust Lunquist and W. K. Wooley. St Manners marked his sixty ninth birthday with a postcard shower of about sixty cards. Robert McElhinney of Morning Sun traveled to Washington this morning.
Long, John Briley and W Ki Walker were in Washington today as visitors. Miss Merle Strain of Ainsworth recently stayed here for several days and returned home this morning. George McElroy of Wyman came as a business visitor. Miss Frances Mize of West Branch Iowa visits relatives. Mr and Mrs Scott Rogers were in Ainsworth yesterday. Mr and Mrs James Martin returned home from a several weeks visit with relatives in Eskridge Kansas.
Jan 11 C TP Nichols and wife with daughter Vera returned home from visits in Peoria and Pekin Illinois. Miss Hattie Pratt shopped in Washington. W A Walker and wife departed for Washington to visit the Ab Anderson home. W T Trotter attended a fourth class Iowa postmasters meeting in Burlington. Jan 12 Miss Nelle Parsons and Jay Stapp of Columbus Junction visited W T Trotter. Mrs H B Hamilton rode to Morning Sun with her invalid mother. Mrs J B McClanahan suffered a stroke months ago and remains invalid. J S Pearson was a Washington business visitor. W I Smylie attended court in Washington.
In district court today the Swift v O Hara case on a claim Swift bought diseased hogs from O Hara. Plaintiffs are represented by Brookhart, Dewey. Richer & Lisington defend. Jury includes Reiner, Bennett, Kephart, Chalupa, Barnes, VanSickle, Longer, Britten, Kephart Jr., Wilson, Timmons, Guzeman. Other jurors excused until Friday morning.
An advertisement promotes LAXATIVE BROMO Quinina Tablets that claim to cure a cold in one day. Druggists refund money if it fails. Each box bears E W GROVX’s signature and costs 25 cents.
Washington dispatch reports President removes Gifford Pinchot for insubordination. Forest service to come under tighter Agriculture Department supervision under Secretary Wilson who aims to continue conservation efforts. Seth Bullock named as possible Pinchot successor while Albert E. Potter arrives to report for temporary duties.
The inheritance of Princesses Louise Stephanie and Clementine, daughters of the late King Leopold, is estimated at about 4 million dollars. It is reported that Princess Louise has paid off part of her creditors.
A humorous dialogue unfolds as a father urges his bashful son to propose to a young woman while recalling his own marriage, and the son declares a need to marry a stranger. The Boston Transcript caption frames the exchange as a light, witty exchange on courtship.
Matt Springman the Elm Grove cemetery sexton reports an unusually sparse December with only one grave in Elm Grove and none in the city cemetery so far this month. He notes thirty years of service with the district seeing no December so low in deaths and attributes it to people not being sick enough to die.
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