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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1905
Page
2
Local staff report include accidents deaths births and marriages with timely notes on community happenings. Readers gain quick access to notable events across town and surrounding area without detail that distracts from the core facts.
Mrs. John Shalla tends her feeble father Mr. Malicky. Mrs. Simeon Work underwent surgery and is improving. Little Marguerite Kvening faces possible appendicitis. Miss Kate Shalla named most popular at Thursday show. Uncle Billy Arnold's health improving. Mrs. Kallous visited Jim Shalla home. Joe Novey visits from Iowa City to see relatives. Mr. and Mrs Albert Escher visited Washington on Thursday. Willie and Joe Bockhorst travel to Durant and Davenport for extended stay. A group visited Leo and Tresa Lintz one evening. Public schools plan a Friday entertainment on Feb 3. James Chalupa and Miss Jennie Prohaska wed announcements. couple known as up top young people. Mrs. Alton Hill leaves Washington county for Ames then Monmouth before moving near Fairfield. Marguerite Evening is seriously ill.
Mr and Mrs Ben Cherry spent the day at the Will Palmer home. Mrs Minnie Hole visits from Washington. Charles Faulkner Charles Palmer Belle Myra Simpson Bessie Rittenhouse Hattie Faulkner attended Salem school house entertainment last Thursday evening. Mr Horning improving. E N Helwick entertained Friday crowd in honor of Mr and Mrs Rathmel and Mr and Mrs Frisk before their move to Oklahoma. A fine time reported.
Jan 21 reports show B F Hochstelert visiting Wellman while C W Burnham travels to Washington. Uncle Jacob Fry ill at son in law Frank Huff's home and Mrs Frank Mellecker improves after illness. Cruz Mehatley visits Lone Tree and Muscatine. Dr H B Wescott in Iowa City on business. Emma Arnold of Keosauqua visits Hasty Arnold family. Henry Warren of Washington visits his uncle Tom Dewees.
Miss Becca Baker returned home Friday after a week at West Chester. Roy Thompson treated about sixty neighbors to an oyster supper Wednesday. Andy Gardner and Rob Dawson visited Lewis Baker Thursday evening. Wood sawers worked at Samuel Doran’s Thursday afternoon and Frank Lathrop’s Friday forenoon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Malin visited friends in Washington on Saturday. Mrs. Dr. J. Hynds returned home to Cedar Rapids after visiting her brother W. T. Trotter and family. Mrs. F. G. Sands entertained her Sabbath School class members.
Saturday afternoon several little girls prepared refreshments with each dish attributed to one girl. Mrs E G Wilson and son Lawrence visited the W T Trotter home. Mrs G A Carson shopped in Washington. Sam Stephens returned to Ames for school after vacation. Out of town guests included Mrs Mabel Dunham and Lawrence Wilson of Washington. Mrs W A Goble visited friends in Washington.
Jan 32 to Feb meetings mark church activities in the county seat. Arrivals include Mac DeLong from Washington, Miss Maude Murphy from Washington, Mrs E P McFarland Tina Randall, and Mrs Kelsey with baby returning home. Travelers from Keokuk Noble and Burlington visit and depart for San Francisco and Washington.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It claims the remedy works internally on blood and mucous surfaces and lists testimonials, price per bottle, and wholesale sponsors Walding Kinnan Marvin of Toledo. They mention F J Cheney & Co as makers and encourage use of Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A sale on Wednesday January 25 1905 at 10 am offers right head of horses cattle hogs and farm implements. Lot includes gray mare 6 1300 pounds two yearling and several colts, seventeen cattle two yearling heifers four milch cows, fifty hogs Poland China breed, hay 800 bushels corn in crib and gear like gang plow binder rake and wagon. Terms: cash under 10 dollars or 12 month credit on higher sums with note and security. Auctioneers Teeter Lathrop J A McCoy clerk. Also church revival notes and local bakery ad.
A reader from Oaklandon Ind recounts his wife’s battle with consumption. Three doctors gave her up until Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds cured her and she regained health. The product claims to kill germs and offers a trial bottle. Available from J H Stewart druggist with a 50 cent or 1.00 price guarantee.
Father Sueppel traveled to Iowa City this morning. The purpose of the visit was not disclosed in the brief notes.
The Rock Island plans to sell land to homeseekers in Oklahoma Indiana and New Mexico at reduced rates. The discount applies to areas where regular prices are higher with the exact date and agent to be announced.
The Rock Island will offer one way second class colonist tickets on Jan 11 Feb 21 and March 21 1905 to points on the Rock Island and Frisco Systems within Homeseeke Excursion territory spanning Missouri Arkansas Kansas Oklahoma Territory New Mexico and Texas and to points east including Calban Colo at half the first class limited fare plus a nominal service charge.
Beginning November 15 and daily until summer 1905 the Frisco System with Southern Railway will operate through Pullman sleepers between Kansas City and Jacksonville as part of the Southeastern Limited. The train will depart Kansas City at 6 30 PM and include electric cafe and observation car with berth reservations through Frisco or connecting lines Traffic Department Saint Louis.
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