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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1912
Page
5
Local items report Charles K Needham returning from Montezuma publisher duties, Mrs Maud Morrow visiting in Ainsworth, and J J Bailey family visiting Davenport. Advertisements promote 125 boys knee pants at 1.98, Cyko paper touted by Frey Studio, and travel to Columbus City Burlington Chicago for various purposes.
Mr. and Mrs. Marsh W. Bailey spent the day with Mrs. Bailey’s uncle T. W. Barhydt in Burlington. The Barhydts plan to depart tomorrow for Pasadena.
Miss Blanche Merchant traveled to Ainsworth this morning for a brief visit and returned home last Sunday from Portland Oregon where she had resided for five months.
Mrs. W. O. Farrier travels to Brighton to visit sister Mrs. N. J. Griffin. Want Ads appear in Column 1 Page 7. Anscos film sold by Frey’s Studio. Mrs. H. B. McKeon and five children move from Lexington to Conenango Valley New York to buy a farm. Mr. McKeon motored goods. Fox and Dewey for shoes.
Misses Mabel and Hazel Moriarty left for Des Moines to visit their brother Jesse Moriarty. Hazel plans to attend West Des Moines High School while there.
Mrs A C Behrens of Champaign Illinois, a month guest at the U S Young home southeast of the city, departed this morning for a visit at Waterloo.
A long list of social visits, marriages, and community news dominates the Washington column. Residents such as Mrs. W J Todd, Miss Etta McFarland, and Mrs. A H Essley make brief trips. marriage licenses are issued to John L Roberts Cecile Guy and Ignatius C Shelangoski Lena E Florang. various church social events and a Boy Scouts formation are noted along with local business activity and travel updates. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Boyer plan a eastward trip after a quiet wedding at Rev S K Coats home.
Game warden O Bailey placed four dozen Hungarian partridges on S W J J Brookhart Marsh Bailey Gary O Loughlin W P Wells Ralph Dougherty and Al Wagner farms seven to nine miles west or southwest of town. Each owner bans hunting on their land and birds are protected by law for three years with a 25 dollar penalty per bird. Bailey also distributed two pair of ring necked partridges to Brookhart brothers and previously released 30 Hungarian partridges that bred 70 young birds with Abe Essley Dave Miller B F Crosby and S C Pearson. More birds and fish are likely to be released next spring in Washington county.
Announcements note postponement of a Ladies Aid meeting at the Lexington M. E. church. Poinsettia club hosts an afternoon gathering. An all day Ladies Aid meeting is planned in the church south room with full attendance requested. Degree of Honor pie social set for Thursday evening at the A. O. U. W. hall. M W A delegate reports on Chicago convention with expected full attendance.
A Washington Herald report notes a bridegroom suffered an electric shock after taking his place beneath decorative bells at a wedding venue. The incident occurred as 2,000 volts were released, causing a fatal or near fatal injury during the ceremony.
Des Moines on January 31 marks the launch of the Political Equality club and the Men's League for Women Suffrage campaign to recruit 2,500 members in Polk county. The groups seek a constitutional amendment for equal suffrage, with H. G. Gue of the Men's League guiding efforts. They plan to secure ante-primary pledges from candidates and pledge support to any man in the General Assembly who backs woman suffrage.
Garden City Kan Jan 31 Rudolph Myers age fifty vows to finish a lone railroad despite odds He has graded four miles of roadbed from Jetmore fifty miles northeast and plans to extend ten miles toward Garden City on the world’s only one man constructed line.
Myers, funding and labor his own, has four miles built with four mules for a road scraper. He aims to extend a line from Jetmore on the Santa Fe branch to this city on the main line within a year, spurning offers of aid. Land rights began three years ago, paid in cash, as skeptics call him eccentric while optimists hail a Napoleon of finance whose route could become valuable as a railroad is needed and expected to be built.
R T Val entine of Ottumwa Iowa, 18, was fleeced of 90 dollars in Omaha Nebraska after meeting a stranger on a train who claimed to make him rich and forced him to telegraph home for funds.
Public sale scheduled at the McElwain feed yard on Saturday February 3 1912 at 2 p m includes a standard bred driving mare eighteen full blood Poland China brood sows one male hog farm machinery list of items nearly all new this year and miscellaneous articles. Auction officials WM Karl Simpson Dr F Macon and ED Harvey clerk.
The text recounts a man and an unnamed stranger arriving in Omaha and visiting the post office. The stranger borrows $90 from Valen tine and asks him to wait for a return visit, but he has not come back yet.
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