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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1907
Page
3
Local correspondents gather daily notes on community events including accidents births and deaths as residents go about their routines. The paper emphasizes prompt reporting of marriages and other life events across the county.
The Shalla boys all turned out and worked up a year's supply of wood for their mother Saturday. Miss Rosa Kohblicek spent Friday with her friend, Miss Edith Kos. Clara Morhafer is working in Cedar Rapids. Dan Bopp's are entertaining friends who have recently arrived from the Fatherland. Adam Strabala successfully with stood an operation for appendicitis at one of the Iowa City hospitals. Albert Strabala and family leave for their new home in Arkansas Tuesday. Leo Lintz is home from Washing ton over Sunday. Joe Freund was called home from Hills by the illness of his mother. Grandma Lintz is also bedfast.
Elmer Bush and others from Richmond visited the town on business this week. Local residents attended Dee Work's sale where bidding was strong. A pavilion sale is planned for Friday January 18 with encouragement for a crowd. E H Sommers underwent an appendicitis operation in Iowa City and is hoped to recover. Mrs Dawson visited North English to check on her daughter ill with pneumonia. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Stutzman on Thursday. Glen Roup is walking on crutches and nearing full use of his leg. Joy Fry left for Tripoli to handle school duties. Adam and Clara Strabala are in Iowa City this week.
Local men led a long chase through Jeffrey pasture and beyond, crippling a large gray wolf twice before finally killing it after eight miles of pursuit. Several residents report encounters while shopping and traveling in Washington and surrounding towns.
The forecast calls for fair conditions in most of Iowa today and tomorrow with snow in the southeast tonight. Colder temperatures follow with a cold wave, except for the extreme northwest where it remains milder. Tuesday should be fair and colder.
Special notice states Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy remains exempt from the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. The statement endorses its safety for children and adults and notes it is sold by all druggists.
The Ilook and Ladder Co will stage a dance on the 26th instant at Phoenix hall with music and good times promised. Mrs. Howard Ross and Bennie Oliver, visiting the Ross home, were seen traveling to West Chester this morning. A letter from J B Watterman of Watertown Ohio touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for epilepsy with no seizures for over two years. Stewart's drug store advertises Best body cleansers and life giving toners for 25 cents.
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