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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
5
Local shop notices advertise cakes and cupcakes at the Vienna tomorrow with assorted baked goods and new management updates. Residents visit relatives in Rockwell and Peoria while Crone & Forgey offer fresh fruits and sweets. the Typhoon washing machine and Was icing factory ads appear among meals and lodging notes.
Readable items note roller skating 15 cents and new Eldorado Hotel amenities at The Fair. Sightings include visitors from Chicago Crawfordsville Davenport and Bagley as trains run late on Enville branch with a general drop in local rail traffic and delayed eastbound arrivals.
The nursery offers a special proposition on evergreen stock and claims their apples are the finest grown.
Mr. L F Woodburn tells the Journal his son Dr Forh Woodburn’s condition is not serious and has never been critical. The fever has been light throughout the illness according to the report. J L Downs of Marshalltown was visiting friends in town. J B Crayne reports selling 326 hogs at R I stock yards, 93 from Nelson Thompson, spring pigs of substantial weight. Attorney Stockman of Sigourney was in town handling business.
Charles Durham of Leovington Illinois reports a positive cure for bed wetting in his boy after using Foley Kidney Pills. He states the child began improving within two days and was dry after two thirds of a bottle, about six weeks ago. For sale by all druggists.
Mrs Maud Reeves Cready will bring the body of Charles Reeves Cready three years old to Miller for a funeral Saturday afternoon at 3 o clock. Rev A S Smith will conduct the service at Miller undertaking parlors. The child died Sunday in Pocatello Idaho after a six week illness. Mrs Cready formerly lived here and is the daughter of the late Charles Reeves.
J. R. Drake of Oakville becomes new employee at Citizens National Bank starting next week. Drake comes from Oakville State Savings Bank where he served as assistant cashier and brings banking experience to the Brighton area. The article notes bankers face exhausting work and stresses the bank’s plan to hire more staff to ease labor and encourage public involvement.
Ernest Dixon an eighteen year old Fort Worth Texas native plans to propel a wheelbarrow from Los Angeles to New York starting today with an eight month deadline. He carries a letter from Mayor Alexander to May or Gaynor of New York for delivery at journey’s end. Dixon has lived in Texas since age twelve and has long pursued this pedestrian test.
Washington reports a second examination for civilian candidates to become second lieutenants will be held today at military posts nationwide. Successful candidates may be appointed to infantry cavalry field artillery or coast artillery. preference given to college and technical school graduates.
Sheriff McCarty reports Clarence Kendall who was jailed in Fowler on horse stealing after Thanksgiving broke jail in cold weather and hid before returning to jail. He had lived in Washington last year and moved to Indiana before the arrest near the Milwaukee train from Ottumwa.
Agent J E Kunath of Burlington reports the evening passenger train from Washington will depart Burlington at 650 instead of 635 starting Monday January 15. No other time card changes. Trainmen dislike the shift as they reach home in Winfield fifteen minutes later and shoppers from Havre Crawfordsville and Winfield face later home times.
The Matson versus Johnson case began yesterday afternoon just after the Park versus Blickensderfer verdict and continues today. The matter concerns a landlord tenant dispute with Brookhart Bros. and W. My representing the plaintiff while Livingston represents the defendant.
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