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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1906
Page
4
The County News lists local accidents, deaths, births and marriages reported by staff. News gathers brief notices from police, hospitals and county offices, noting names sparingly and emphasizing timely local detail.
William Simpson returns to Douds after visiting Ainsworth. F G Sands sells residence to N D Anderson for 800 with possession in March. J J Anderson of Washington visits. Ferguson of Stur devant Ferguson Cedar Rapids promotes new lighting in local business rooms. Chas Olds and wife return from Pleasant Plain. Harry Dye buys Patterson farm northwest of Ainsworth at 110 per acre with March 1, 1906 possession. sells 80 acres nearby to E G Rabenold at 5 per acre.
The Salem school held a shadow sale Thursday night raising cash for the library. About 830 was netted with praise for Miss St Hampshire and the school board. local residents attended, including Misses Viola Friese and Clara Shalla.
Mr and Mrs Jim Herring spent Sunday at Clay Lumston s. Mr and Mrs Ka Kulp spent Sunday at Ott Schiebel s. A neat surprise was planned for Mr and Mrs E R Kahn by friends and neighbors with about sixty present. They also presented Mr and Mrs Kuhn with two rocking chairs. Mrs Roy Dawson and Mrs FE Kuhn are on the sick list. A party at N Greens Tuesday night drew about forty five attendees for music games and a neat lunch.
Special to The Evening Journal. Weather forecast for Iowa today and tomorrow expects snow and a cold wave tonight and Sunday, with fair conditions in the western portion on Sunday.
Miss Hela Dawson of Brighton visits at her brother Roy Dawson's home. T A Jones's sale goes smoothly with all items selling well. F E R Kubo plans a sale at the List and then moves with his family to Marceline Missouri.
Mrs J B Crayne returns from Charlestown West Virginia due to her father’s illness and death. S K Statler delivers a cattle load to Munro and Lewis. Frank McFarlane plans to move to Canada at the start of March and has quit smoking for a pipe. Hogs shipped by Munro and Lewis to Burlington. Frank Duvall returns home to Audubon County after visiting relatives and buying cattle. Kethel meetings in progress will close tonight. Mrs Maxwell’s illness at John Hanna’s home shows some improvement.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Testimonials from Alding Kinnan Marvin and others, claiming Cheney & Co. are honorable. Internal cure said to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents a bottle. Also selling Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Teeter and Lathrop reported a strong turnout at Arthur Robinson’s sale in Clay yesterday with high prices. Corn brought 54 cents a bushel, cows topped $50 and brood sows reached $25. The sale was hailed as one of the season’s best.
Low rates to Colorado with return fare plus 2 percent for the Annual Convention of the National Live Stock Association and National Wool Growers' Association in Denver from January 20 to February 3. Tickets on sale January 27 28 and February 2 with return by February 15. Liberal stopovers allowed. Inquire at the nearest agent or write F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
Marion Turner and Otto Freshwater of Emporia Kansas say they found buried treasure near Phoenix Mound southwest of Kimporia valued at $100000. Part is gold coin and the rest gold bearing quartz. Reported as hidden in 1948 by three men traveling east from California when surrounded by Indians.
Guayquil Ecuador January 20 General Eloy Alfaro former Ecuador president and rebel leader has occupied Quito the capital after defeating government troops to seize control of the country authorities report dynamics of the uprising remain unsettled and ongoing calculations are in progress.
In Menominee Michigan on January 20 Hilmer Sherman wed a woman who vanished the next morning. Sherman had saved $800, and police suspect the wife married him to rob him and aid her lover jailed in Marinette County.
Maple Rapids Michigan June 20 John Britton aged 64 was killed at J B Jones sawmill where he had worked 25 years. A board brushed the saw and struck him in the side causing his death. Prairie fire in Nebraska destroyed two ranches and twenty head of stock. Loss estimated at 75000. Two men burned while combating the blaze near Lodge Pole Nebraska.
Stark county grand jury reindicts cashier Bachtel and William Davis vice president of the Canton state bank for embezzling funds and making false entries. They were previously indicted last September but a clerical error changed the date.
Helen Nicolay recounts Lincoln’s ascent from a five dollar justice of the peace suit to a five thousand dollar state supreme court fee. The piece highlights his industry patience honesty and refusal to engage in legal tricks, noting his frankness and insistence on justice over profit.
A collection of quotations praising theater as a powerful, influential art form. The lines assign to Euripides Sophocles Hazlitt and others views on stage as life’s chastener instructor and mirror. The quotes compare drama to oratory poetry and even a cigar in social appeal.
National Wholesale Dry Goods association backs the existing jobber model against selling directly to retailers. Also notes multiple deaths including Christian Brobst in Knoxville and Stanley B. Smith of Janesville, with other items on taxes, cotton pickers, a New York brewery plan, a $600000 Lincoln monument proposal, and a California to China tree parasite incident.
A woman with chronic insomnia travels with no fixed home testing sleeping conditions in many cities. She cites New York’s trains Philadelphia’s lights Boston’s milk carts Washington’s dog Buffalo’s cuckoo clock and seaside rooms with babies. She finally recounts a single quiet farm stay that frightened her with its ultimate quiet.
A St Nicholas note says ancient California oysters reached shells of 13 inches long and 7 to 8 inches wide with five inch thick shells. The animal and shell likely weighed 15 to 20 pounds. They are extinct now but fossil shells are common. If bred today such size could feed a church festival stew.
The passage notes that in late medieval England skates were crude with bones tied to feet. Evelyn writing in 1661 describes "the strange and wonderful dexterity of the sliders" in St James Park, performed by gentlemen using sheets like Dutch skaters, moving fast and stopping suddenly on the ice.
The Eskimo boy or girl savor a sugar lump by rolling it in tobacco leaf and placing it in the cheek. They smack their lips with delight as the morse dissolves, a delicacy called laloop and deemed the choicest morsel to the young stomach.
A fragment from Fliegende Blatter records a dialogue where a daughter is instructed by her mother to have the suitor William speak to the mother if he asks for marriage. The mother clarifies that if spoken to, she will require a conversation with William herself.
A sharp quote from Coleridge questions if souls lack sexual dimension, challenging the assumption and inviting debate on sexuality and spiritual essence.
A soldierly man declares fifteen years of his life in the service of his country. A shorter man volunteers to shake hands and asks what he was in for in a line from a Houston Post excerpt.
The Missus tries to explain to the speaker how he saw her kiss a young man in the kitchen last night. The Maid-Sure claims she does not know how unless someone looked through the keyhole.
A string of fragmented items runs through a busy Washington page. Notable bits include social visits from T. Y. Wickham and the Maxwell family, a love joke from Houston, a party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Chas Brown, and Irvin Gallagher buying Dave Wallingford's 120 acre farm for 125 dollars per acre. The mix of literary quips and local notices paints a lively, small town record.
Mrs Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place Poughkeepsie New York recommends Dr Kings New Life Pills as a reliable pleasant laxative. The ad claims best stomach liver and bowels and guarantees by J H Stewart druggist priced at 25 cents.
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