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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
2
Deaths and births are noted by local news gatherers with prompt reports. Marriages and other life events are listed in the daily notices.
Jan 25 residents report Wred Howard in Wellman on business Everett Rickey to Sibley Iowa to visit grandparents for about a month Frank Vodichka recovered from grip earlier Bertha Ott of Iowa City visiting Mrs Mineke and family and returning home Mrs H Kirkpatrick of Iowa City visiting this week J M Bonham visiting sister in Wellman and Washington couple Mr and Mrs Wm Orbin attended lecture and hosted at Brown’s Dr G F Niblock traveled to Washington for county medical association Mrs Jennie Bailey came from Washington to help with Mary Maxwell and Anna Wells and Huston of Wyman attended lecture and stayed with T W Rickey Presbyterian members visited pastor J S Cotton and wife and gave a gift purse to pastor at home with baskets of food remarks strong audience then I M Young went to Burlington this morning Dr N J Lease attending medical meeting K G Sommers and J F Thompson visited Wapello W R Brownlee arrived from Burlington Dr J W Hameher gave a lecture at M B church on The Real Boy and returned to Mt Pleasant
Wm Miller and son sawed wood for Elmer and Will CarMichael last Saturday. Charlie Darbyshire took Homer Coppock on route two for a route assignment. G M Hamble bought two year old steers east of Wayland. A new girl at Will Darbyshire's, two weeks old, congratulations. Edna Sigafoose visited the Hoppings. Orris and Beenblossom attended the Porter sale near Nayre. Glasgow visitors at Will Easter's. Van Nostrand sold fat calves to A B Carr and delivered them. Draper Rupp and Putman put up ice. Ada McDole of Washington visited Edna Rupp. Birney party postponed to next Wednesday night. Godwin and L Glasgow sales planned for February 9. Miller & Son did not saw wood Tuesday due to cold. Ethel Pittman celebrated her 12th birthday with about 40 friends. F T McKune is sick. Albert Simpson returned from Keota after visiting his sister.
Jan 26 note: Mr and Mrs Chas Olds spent a few days at Cy Timmins near West Chester. Miss Mabel Dunham returned to Washington with Miss Beulah Easter. A. B. Moore hosted friends for Harry’s Cedar Rapids homecoming. Mrs Hazlett’s health declined. W Woodburn, a Des Moines trained pharmacist, arrived to help Sands Bros. A fire at the Applegate house 70 miles NW burned Bert M Wilson’s home. stove and canned fruit lost, garret fire suspected from a defective flue.
A letter from K G Huntley of Oaklandon Indiana praises Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds claiming it cured his wife after three doctors gave up The ad asserts the remedy kills germs and offers 50c 1 00 price with a trial bottle free through J A Stewart druggist.
Patent report from Washington describes patent grants issued on the 24th to Iowa residents including G L Holt Des Moines for a mitering implement C F Kelso Des Moines for a mining car brake plus associates Spurrier Forbes Mills BE Forbes Jolley C M Hoeregott H Eby Carroll Ned Shockley Farragut William Angeler Des Moines William Martens Ackley R L McCartney Ottumwa Nicholls Mfg Co J A Limerman West Chester noted during his city visit.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Lewis have been in Carlsbad for months and planned to depart yesterday for a California tour. Sacred concert singers meet with Mrs. Norton at 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church. Henry Foot and wife of Pontiac celebrate their 52nd wedding anniversary and Mrs Foot's 72nd birthday, both born in England and emigrants in 1854. A light exchanged quip about a book rounds out this brief column.
A teacher asks a pupil for a familiar narcotic example. The pupil recalls his father’s pipe and the mother noting a scent like hayseed, but the pupil suggests leather.
Herman Stein of Pueblo Colorado recalls severe chronic diarrhoea during service in the Philippines. After three years of illness and failed treatments he used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, two small bottles cured him completely. Sold by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
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