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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
4
President Roosevelt visits the arctic steamer Roosevelt anchored near Sylph. He shakes hands with crew, praises the ship’s deeds, and thanks Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett in a jovial aboard visit at Oyster Bay New York.
President Roosevelt tours the Roosevelt deckhouse engine room and galley with Commander Peary aboard. He meets the crew on the forecastle, offers encouragement, and wishes success as the ship weighs anchor at 5 30 p m to New Tedford Mass then Sydney Co B where Peary will rejoin.
Dayton July 8 The National Cash Register company at Dayton reports June shipments of 8 270 registers. This surpasses May 1908 by 1 058 and marks a new high after a previous peak of 6 808. President Patterson calls the figure a sign of improving prosperity.
A city hall meeting in Atlanta on July 8 calls for organizing a national campaign to erect a Joel Chandler Harris monument. Subscriptions will be sought nationwide and an appeal prepared for broad circulation.
Official forecast shows fair skies with rising temperatures across Illinois Indiana lower Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa through tonight. higher readings expected as evening progresses with no precipitation anticipated.
Chicago grain and livestock quotations dated July 7 show mixed prices with Wheat near 87 cents, Corn around 72 cents, Oats in mid forties, and Pork, Lard, and Short Ribs trading in the upper teens to low twenties per hundredweight. Cash sales list No 2 red and hard wheats, No 2 yellow corn, and assorted oats, while live stock receipts at East Buffalo reflect steady hogs and varied cattle values with prime steers and calves quoted.
Colebrook grange crowns the youngest master at seventeen in New Hampshire Hollis ST Whittemore. Roosevelt named honorary president at the American Bison Society meeting in New York. Garfield shuns silk hats for business attire. Russian mutton king Gustav Jovanovitch drives vast flocks across Siberia with 35,000 dogs for aid. 1,750,000 sheep. Oklahoma rep Bird S McGuire, born in Tinois, wanders through Missouri Kansas Indiana and finally Oklahoma. Treasury Secretary Cortelyou enjoys organ and piano playing in leisure. Florida senator William James Bryan, the senate’s baby, shares a quirky trend where many new members’ last names start with the letter B.
Detroit Tribune prints a witty exchange about fortune and fate with Tom declaring a desire to fly away in an airship and Jack replying that an heir would bring fortune, illustrating a playful reflection on wealth and aspiration.
St Paul likely hosts the largest good roads gathering in Minnesota and neighboring states next December. State highway engineer George W Cooley plans a weeklong event with exhibits of road making machinery, materials, and practical talks by experienced builders to replace empty rhetoric with concrete instruction. The plan aims to draw farmers and officials from across the state, featuring a question box and demonstrations of crushers, rollers, bridges, culverts, and related equipment.
The Southern Cultivator urges better rural highways as essential for farmers. Improved roads ease transport of farm products shorten travel times to markets, lighten horse draft, and support rural mail routes while boosting business, community credit, and national prosperity.
Farmers of Pleasant View district ten miles south of Eureka Greenwood county Kansas organize a good roads club with 8 F. Rocky president and M. C. Tlannison secretary. Eighteen charter members. Eleven miles of road in district. Club aims to grade and drag each mile regularly and hold meetings to discuss improvements and methods.
Alvin H. Wilcox, a longtime Frazee resident and Becker County pioneer, died on the train en route to Brainerd after severe liver disease. Born January 22, 1835 in Napoli New York, he held roles as county surveyor, treasurer, auditor, and legislator, built a lumber empire with Wilcox Lumber Co, wrote a county history, and was a steady Republican. He leaves a widow and siblings in New York and California. funeral in Frazee was led by Masons with broad community mourning.
Columbus Junction July 8. Gordon Wamsley, 30, was badly injured while attempting to board a moving freight near the depot. He was dragged under the wheels, one foot mashed off and the other severely lacerated requiring amputation. He was taken to relatives’ home for care.
St Clair Lewis and D A Chalmers departed this morning for Ottumwa to attend to business matters.
Miss Josephine Babcock travels to St Paul Minnesota for a two week stay with friends.
Word from Ed Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Hiram Johnson says he is employed in a tile making plant near Seattle Washington. He is earning large wages and enjoying himself. He is a boy of splendid habits and will make his way successfully wherever he is.
Rock Island Trainmaster Walker visited the city on business Monday. Ray Coulson, longtime Milwaukee depot night operator, has been transferred to Round Lake Wisconsin, with J E Wells of Mystic Iowa taking his place. Wells inherits service-right seniority. Rock Island No 2 is now running near on time as Kansas City water issues ease. Evening No 2 and other eastbound passenger trains are closer to schedule.
J B Eckerman of Havre received word that his sister in law Aunt Martha Matthews died at the United Presbyterian home in Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania on July 3rd after a stroke of paralysis. She was about eighty, had lived at the home two years, and is survived by a brother Samuel Matthews of Pennsylvania and sister Mary A McFarland of Lincoln Kansas.
Hiram Johnson learned today of his brother George L Johnsons death in Norway New York. He died July 1 from rheumatism at over eighty years of age. Hiram had visited him in his New York home several years ago.
Charley Howe, formerly a mail clerk on eastern Iowa trains, leaves rail work to resume law practice at Albert Lea Minnesota. A full fledged lawyer for months, he joins an established firm and reports bright prospects ahead.
Last evening Mrs. E. J. Stewart tripped on South avenue while en route to the cemetery and fell. She suffered a badly bruised hip but no bones were broken and she is resting comfortably after the incident.
The paper prints the full text of Theodore Bell's speech delivered at the Democratic convention yesterday. Readers who missed the live posting can now read the remarks in full in today’s edition.
Huntington West Virginia clergyman Rev I W Williams testifies that Foley's Kidney Remedy cured his nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble, stating the product does all claimed. The testimonial appears in Lemmon's Pharmacy advertising copy.
W F Brinton and his wife came home from a Chautauqua circuit and plan to stay a week before resuming the season. They gave three performances in Sac City where crowds filled the new five thousand dollar pavilion. Sac City and Iowa Falls are praised for scenic settings along the Coon river. The Brintons will return next year after a second season. Foley's Kidney Remedy is advertised by Lemmon's Pharmacy, claiming it cleanses the blood by aiding kidney function.
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