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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
5
Local notes list visits and business in town including C P Nichols of Ainsworth and W W Wells of Dublin. Vienna bakery advertises fresh bread lager cakes devils food and angel foods as community activity continues.
The notice warns that winter closing extends to April and urges readers to stockpile additional coal before heavy snow returns. Local households are advised to plan heating fuel needs ahead, ensuring sufficient supply for the lingering cold period.
In Ainsworth on January 18 Mr and Mrs W A Goble left to visit friends in Washington. Leonard Trotter returned to Ames for school after vacation. Vernon Stickley visited Fred Spalding in Washington. W C White plans a horse sale at his Main Street livery barn Saturday. D W Martin was a business visitor to Washington. Charles Jackson returned from Washington after attending the Buster Brown production. Taka Art club met with Omi Funston. Beulah Easter named president.
Des Moines reports a progressive slate for the next Republican state convention. Governor Cummins is the top choice with W Hayward as secretary, W W Morrow as treasurer, B F Carroll as auditor, D J Palmer and Willard Eaton as railroad commissioners, and H W Byers as attorney general. Morrow and Palmer are standpatters. Eaton and Byers progressives. Carroll unclassified but acceptable. Likely no opposition except for governor and secretary of state.
Waldo Wells of Wyman was a business visitor here between trains this morning. John White returned from an overnight visit at Washington. Grace Robbins is visiting friends in Winfield. A. B. Orris traveled to Washington this morning. Mrs. E. R. Lease returned to Washington after visiting relatives here. Fred Bragg installed the church light plant yesterday. Allen DeLong was on a business visit in Havre this morning. T. W. Rickey, previously ill, is about the same today.
January items report Frank Duvall from Audubon county buying 100 head of cattle to haul home for feeding while corn priced at 30 cents. George Bishop from Lexington delivers hogs. Wm. Augustine of Dutch Creek returns from Chicago with a stock shipment. Revival meetings at the Baptist church draw large crowds. Mrs. Wm. Plummer leaves for Washington due to her grandson’s illness at Ed Wiley’s home.
Jan 1s Miss Ella Blackwood came back from Des Moines after a two to three week visit. Mrs R J Armstrong visited relatives at Pleasant Plains yesterday. Mrs J L Downs returned from Hot Springs with Mr Downs who is much improved. Fred Bidwell of Oregon visits relatives and will stay a month. Boyd Menefee returned home to Wapello after a relatives visit.
Iowa City man Alonzo Brown died at his home at 4 o'clock yesterday morning following a ten day illness. He was 55 years old, born October 15, 1850, near Solon. He was the son of Edwin A. Brown of New York and Martha McClelland of Maryland.
A Vienna bakery offers fruit sticks and marcaroons with kisses. The item list highlights confectionery offerings and customer favorites in a period dining feature.
Wholesale forgeries spark farmer concern near Des Moines after four forged notes signed by prominent local farmers and drawn on Capital Creamery Co are turned to Valley National Bank for collection. Notes list Frank Shrader and J A Schmidt as signers for 850 dollars. The creamery received the notes via an agent in payment for separators.
Iowa City on January 18 reports the O S Kelly Western Mfg Co meeting to raise capital from 150000 to 300000. The firm will continue gasoline engines feed mills and feeders and will add other farm machinery with a new factory to cost 35000? The source notes a manufacturing expansion and new facilities investment.
The annual meeting was held last Saturday at the Pauls Lumber Co office. Business was reported good at all three yards. All old officers were reelected for the coming year. W. Shanafelt was elected director. Rudolph Shulty and Carl Kipple of Sigourney attended as out of town members.
Des Moines Iowa Jan 18 Petition for rehearing of the soldiers' preference case was filed in the supreme court by City Attorney H VanLaw Marshalltown. The petition argues a citizen's constitutional right to compete for and hold office and equality before the law. It asks that the rehearing be set for the period beginning April 3.
Sioux City Iowa January 18 The boom of George D Perkins for the republican nomination for governor will be formally launched at a mass meeting of the citizens at the Woodbury county courthouse next Monday evening The call for the meeting was issued yesterday signed by Fred W Sargent chairman of a special committee of republicans FP M Corbett republican county chairman and Frank L Wirick republican city chairman
E. K. Larimer, pioneer businessman, died today in Cedar Rapids Iowa after a brief illness. He was aged 66 and had been ill for a short time.
The board of Supervisors adjourned today after completing their work for this session. They finished settlements with the Auditor and Treasurer and will reconvene in April.
Rev Newell Knight Hillis successor of Henry Ward Beecher sought a Missouri town lecture but due to delays missed connections. He wandered a weary night in Kansas City seeking lodging, finding only the Turkish bath at the Coates House after the Baltimore hotel was full. The proprietor arranged a room for him later with Dr Willie to share the bath.
After nearly six hours the Springfield jury found Dr. Charles A. Nichols guilty of using the mails for a defrauding scheme. He was acquitted on obscene letters charges and a claim of a common law marriage between Susan Kay and Nichols was rejected. Counsel moved for a new trial.
Berlin reports that Emperor William expressed strong confidence in the Algeciras Conference results during dinner with guests, stating everything feasible would be settled. The emperor had previously voiced similar sentiments.
Lawrenceburg Indiana January 18 Roy Meyers 21 employed at a livery barn will lose an eye from a practical joke. Unknown persons filled his pipe with powder and tobacco causing an explosion that burned his face and ruined one eye.
A large snake stack blown by high winds toppled onto the Christian Church during a double funeral service in Newcastle Indiana. Churchgoers endured a moment of panic as the structure was endangered and authorities secured the area.
Traverse City reports an unusually warm winter with a heavy rain storm halting lumber operations. Hauling is at a standstill and many crews are laid off until snow returns, affecting workers across the region.
Assemblyman Herman Ekern announces the legislative committee will expand its inquiry to cover fraternal insurance in addition to traditional insurance. He says the investigation will be thorough and continue in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
The board of directors announces a regular semi annual dividend of 2 percent on the first preferred stock. Whitelaw Reid has sailed for Liverpool after returning home for the holidays. The Presbyterian Church general assembly sets January 25 as day of prayer for schools and colleges. Hugh B Tuohy, veteran treasury clerk, dies after 44 years of service. A heavy snowstorm looms over the lakes with blizzard signals. One Moor at Algeciras questions why powers avoid Russia talks. Ex President Cleveland heads to Columbus for his brother's funeral but stops in New York due to illness.
Do not overak the feeding value of cottonseed meal for closely yarded fowls. This meal is an almost perfect substitute for meat scraps, which are so highly recommended by all who have grown fowls under close confinement. An ounce a day is food feed for a grown fowl. It should be mixed with cornmeal or some porridge or dough Farm and Ranch.
A New Jersey man Frank Banasik confesses to murdering his landlord Thomas Hoff to wed his widow. Two black laborers died from caisson disease and suffocation and two drowned when an air pipe burst in the East river tunnel. Mary Rowan dies in Minneapolis from injuries in the West hotel fire, making eleven fatalities.
A Motley group including A. H. Wallace B. F. Dixon Pulaski Maxwell Oliver Gray Claude Lemmon and James L Brookhart hunted in woods and fields with the aim of slaughtering rabbits. They planned to shoot any rabbit that exposed itself creating a sorrowful day for rabbits within their walving flair.
Fred Bragg came back this morning from Crawfordsville where he had been on business.
The Iowa Central Railway announces sale dates January 2 and 16 February 6 and 20 for homeseekers and settlers to Nebraska Colorado Kansas Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana. One way tickets cost two dollars above half fare while round trips run at three fourths of the regular one way rate with a twenty one day limit. Twenty one day tickets go on sale first and third Tuesdays to southwest west and northwest points at one fare plus 2 for round trip. Contact Iowa Central agents or write A. B. Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis for details.
The Iowa Central Railway announces weekend excursion deals valid until March 31. Half rates apply after noon Saturdays to points within 150 miles with return by Monday morning and a minimum 75 cent charge. Also offered are One Way Plus 1 50 and single fare plus 2 dollars to longer trips up to 160 miles.
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