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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1906
Page
5
A collection of brief items notes social visits and travel in Wellman Crawfordsville Washington and Davenport. Included are license issued to Ransom E Bestor and Ethel G White and several residents planning trips or returning home after events. An item mentions John Welch leaving for Shreveport La to work and C N Clarahan moving his family to Rock Island after a transfer on the railroad.
A brief humorous exchange shows a child asking about a money order and a parent explaining it as a letter from a mother on vacation. The caption credits Marion T. Anderson and touches on mail and coal money orders.
The Rural Route Three column reports social visits and travel. locals such as Charles Beatty buying horses near Lexington and families like the Andy Simpson clan hosting friends are noted. Visitors from Washington and Winfield and residents returning from trips are mentioned along with deliveries by Ank Harper and others.
Jan 15 notes show Blanche Adams spending time with aunt in Washington. A party at J. M. Stewart’s country home entertained area youths. John Riley returned to Burlington after visiting old schoolmates. Luella Sands celebrated her tenth birthday with twenty young guests. Various residents and visitors from Washington and nearby towns are mentioned alongside small social events and minor health note about James Strain.
In Crawfordsville Rev W G Robertson resumes services at United Presbyterian Church after two Sabbaths away. D Don Handy returns from Washington where he visited his parents. Miss Leona Colthurst of near Ainsworth also travels by train with Mrs Jin Melgman and daughter to their home in Win.
Jan 15 report notes Miss B Adams of north town secured the gold medal at a contest linked to the Farmers Institute in Sigourney last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Will Holmes hosted a gathering for their second wedding anniversary Saturday night. Church services were held at the Baptist church with Rev Catlin delivering sermons and drawing good attendance. Miss Gertie Swartz and Belle Stevenson visited W P Stevenson's Sunday. Roy Wells and his sister Allie had a runaway horse near the cheese factory corner but no injuries or damage occurred.
Col H F Bowers of Clinton Iowa possesses a rare Sponge protozoa found in a sponge while Milo J John washed it for display. Only two others are known, one in Berlin and one in London. The thimble sized specimen is valued as priceless by the collector.
Cedar Falls Iowa January 15 Chris Madsen 19 a Danish farm hand employed by Lona Fister five miles west of town struck a dynamite cap with a hammer five times to see the result He will lose the sight of both eyes He had been in America nine months and was learning English
In Burlington Iowa on January 15 nearly fifty cigarmakers are laid off with several factories at risk of shutdown. The Civic federation plans to enforce the mulci law prompting reduced cigar orders. Andy Dennher owner of the largest factory bears the largest decrease.
Bay Street Car System Muscatine Iowa January fifth indicates the Citizens' Railway and Light company assets including street railway electric light and gas plants were sold by H W Huttig and Will Musner to an eastern syndicate led by J H Brown and George Mayer of Chicago for 750000.
The regular meeting of the G. A. R. will be held tomorrow evening in the post room. A full attendance is desired. Hon. S. Gardner will deliver a lecture on that occasion.
Four new members were received into the Methodist church yesterday morning in a brief ceremony. The service united locals from the congregation and added entrants to the church roll.
The Temple Building Co held its annual meeting and decided to incorporate for 21000 in paid up stock. New board members J H Steck E G Wilson and W Marbourg were elected for three years. Officers named A N Alberson president H T Reynolds vice president E G Wilson treasurer and J W Morton secretary. The Masonic fraternity will hold one third of the stock with A H Wallace & Son owning two thirds.
Parsons Snyder & Co stock and grain brokers with Hollenden hotel offices assigned to J A Smith. Members of Cleveland Stock Exchange and Consolidated Exchange in New York. Denison Prior Co held about 73000 in securities as collateral, suspending the firm triggering its failure. Total liabilities believed under 150000.
Buffalo reports Isidore Schweizer manager for Bing and Nathan furniture centers swallowed carbolic acid in a hotel room after inviting two friends to witness his death. He died almost immediately as financial worries over stock losses were cited by a friend. Schweizer was engaged to Mrs Maude Gould of Grand Rapids Michigan.
Robert G. Erwin, president of Atlantic Coast Line, collapsed and died of heart disease in Saybrook Connecticut while walking his game preserve. He was with a friend, had traveled from Hartford, and intended to inspect the property.
The Louisville and Nashville offices report a collision near Repton Alabama between a freight train and a special carrying the Little Johnny Jones company. Several company members were injured and one said to be seriously hurt.
Julius Starr will be appointed surveyor of the port of Peoria IL in succession to Major R W Burt. Starr was presented to the president by Seawater Hopkins and Rep Graf of Illinois who urged his appointment.
In Traverse City on January 15 Mrs. George Beder left two babies alone in a house while she tended the barn. The home caught fire and both infants died. one burned, the other suffocated by smoke.
In Marquette Michigan on January 15 Rose Kasimer a Hungarian laborer arrested last September for wrecking tombstones in Roman Catholic cemeteries was declared mentally insane after a commission examined him and he was sent to the asylum at Newberry.
Minneapolis reports the death of W.W. Amsden, superintendent of the Pillsbury Ashburn elevators system, who was severely burned in the West Hotel fire last week and died from injuries. The death follows his hospital treatment for smoke and heat damage.
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