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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
5
Local and personal items including visits, travels, and errands. lists of shoppers and events at Rothschilds and The Vienna. funeral attendances. notable guests from Brighton, Des Moines, and Muscatine. remarks on weather, church services, and school activities. plus notices of sales and services around town.
In a child's tale Daddy reassures the sober siblings Evelyn Jack and others about their doll's injury. A dreamy nursemaid explains the idea of a doll hospital where broken dolls are repaired by a fairyland doctor, sent by a toy man, with dolls returning home well and loved.
A public officer asserts a firm stance that the truth must guide actions. He declares he will not hide if confronted, insisting the place should seek the man and uphold accountability.
Statistics show women are engaged in every occupation needed in house building. Women plumbers gasfitters boilermakers work in construction. In lumber regions women are said to perform rafting and wood chopping tasks as part of the industry.
John P. Custer died at six this morning from a brief heart failure attack. Born October 25, 1857, in Washington county, he spent his life there. Survived by wife, children Charles Fred David Harvey Mrs. Hazen Law Johnnie Edward Edith Wesley and one sister and three brothers. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
A popular sign reading Back in ten Minutes disappears from a home. The Boy explains the man next door borrowed it to take to the ball game, leaving the residence without the notice. Neighbors discuss the odd request and hope the sign is returned soon.
A lady shopper asks about deliveries for Mary the maid. Mary replies that a wagon with a cuspidore for the umbrellas arrived, delivering the new umbrella stand to the home late in the evening.
In Washington 18 branch pension agencies were closed under a wartime reform. The move abolishes about four thousand jobs and transfers records to the consolidated agency in this city. Alvah I. Thompson is named Distributing Clerk to pay out the roughly 180 million dollars once handled by the closed offices.
Ed Jackson and wife announce the marriage of their daughter Minnie to Cloyd Knupp. The ceremony was held Saturday January 25 at a M E parsonage in Burlington Iowa. The couple will reside on the Knupp homestead north of town and begin housekeeping around March first.
Announcements list a social in the A U W hall for Saturday evening. A regular W A meeting is set for Saturday at 2 39 with full attendance urged. The Woman's Auxiliary to Washington county hospital will meet Monday at 2 30 in the rest room for a regular monthly gathering. Mrs A Anderson president.
Iowa agricultural program will distribute free seeds and materials to farmers for tests of alfalfa red clover and grain varieties. Hundreds of progressive farmers across the state will cooperate through the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and the new Iowa Agricultural Experiment association. Prof. John Buchanan heads the effort and will send a circular explaining the test plan on request.
Iowa City high school rifle team defeated DeWitt Clinton high school of New York City 956 to 917 to reclaim the nation's lead with the week’s highest score. Luscomb was eliminated after tying Konvalinka, who led the totals with 1. The dramatic finish saw many teams fail to reach 900.
In a local sketch Rube recounts Zachary and his wife quarreling at supper. The postmaster asks what Zachary did, and the tale notes he left the table and raged until after nine, warning Reform is needed to spare the town a bad name.
In Frederick the Great era volunteers with keen noses joined the coffee smelling corps to detect roast odors and boiling coffee. The government built large roasters and set high prices. Germans later shifted back to beer, making coffee a luxury.
Col S W Brookhart traveled to Des Moines to join the Iowa National Guard advisory board. The session with General Lincoln Adjutant General Logan and regimental colonels will finalize annual militia activity plans including camps shoots and meeting dates and sites. Washington favors a Fifty fourth regiment camp, with a shift to regimental encampments this summer.
Old column lists sale dates and vendor names for Macon area trading posts. Names include E L Davis and Harry McConnell with Ainsworth as a location, Emmet Frame, Brook and Wright in Washington, and J A Kolosick among others. Dates shown: Feb 3 to Feb 20 with several entries tied to town names Crawfordsville and Winfield.
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