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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1903
Page
4
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from small towns and cities. A Nebraska editor notes local sympathy for troubled editors and a branch conductor recalls a traveling man’s complaint about train speed. A New York girl responds to a steady’s “shop talk” with humor.
A cut of Jno M Work socialist governor candidate appears in today's issue. John Kilgore of East Washington Street is reported in very critical condition with death expected at any moment.
Joe Klobick of Colusa California reports long lasting rheumatism relief after trying Electric Bitters. He claims the medicine cured pain and also helps liver kidney and general debility. Stewart Drugstore guarantees satisfaction with a small price.
BA Martinson of Galesburg visited his wife's kin and celebrated the Fourth in Washington. Charley Johnson enjoyed the holiday in Onalaska. Reimel relatives from Grace Hill came Thursday. Route 2 residents flocked to Washington to hear Hobson. Godwins visited Johnwin near Havre Sunday. A lone thief stole meat from Jap Bidwell’s smoke house on the Fourth. There will be preaching at Shiloh Sunday.
July 0.3 W Eyestone sells his 200 acre farm to Tuber for 105 per acre and plans to move to Mt. Vernon soon. Miss Prissie Ashby is recovering from injuries from a runaway incident earlier.
Local residents and visitors listed include Mrs Wote Reynolds returning from visiting her sister in Monmouth, and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brown from Riverside guests of her parents. Mrs Leigh McNulty of Iola Kansas visits Samuel Richardson, with multiple church and family visits noted across nearby towns.
A Johnson bakery plans to offer ice cream squares tomorrow. The notice highlights a single product feature and a scheduled sale at the shop.
Commercial Club schedules its regular monthly meeting for tomorrow night at the Club House. Full attendance is desired.
Mr and Mrs Looney were Sunday visitors at the Samuel Anderson home in Verdi, sharing a brief family call and greetings with local acquaintances.
A local boy known as Willie Jones suffers a second fall after recovering from illness. He had been out with a cough and measles, then, just as school return neared, he fell from a second-story window.
A July storm in Dubuque Iowa saw a lightning bolt strike Will Dennison’s residence Fenelon Place and tear plaster from a bedroom wall. The bolt traveled around the structure igniting woodwork but caused little damage and no injuries. It also shattered the iron top of a nearby telephone pole induction box.
Des Moines News reports a Carroll County incident where a rural carrier delivered a small wrapped box that contained a live skunk. Clerks opened the box, fed the creature milk, and delivered it to the addressee amid questions of liability for sending animals through the mails.
Mr and Mrs Sam Cocklin spent yesterday at Eureka. License to wed issued today to O L Tucker and Mattie Fra vier.
President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt visited West Park in Ulster County New York to spend the day with poet naturalist John Burroughs. They departed Sagamore Hill aboard the naval yacht Sylph and returned to Oyster Bay after a highly guarded outing.
In Spokane July 1, a man named Nolan, about 85, eloped ten years ago with the wife of G W Sims of Walla Walla. She had a daughter then, now aged T years, and Nolan has deserted his first love for the girl. They have disappeared, leaving behind a trail of questions about his past and possible whereabouts. Emerson.
In Chicago July a transfer association discharged twenty two Kellogg Switchboard and Bell company freight handlers who refused to move freight hauled by union activists. Police faced a mob as workers clashed, with three arrests and threats of a wider rail strike. Kellogg remains under siege amid internal labor conflict.
Reports from Devon in Minnoc county describe a mob violence scene against a young white girl who was abducted bound and gagged. The assailant was captured, tortured, and executed by mob in a brutal sequence ending with dismemberment and burning.
In Knightsville Indiana a black man was discovered sneaking into a woman’s room. Mainie Goodhue raised the alarm and armed men pursued the suspect to his home but the man and his family escaped through a back door. July 18.
Chicago scores highlight a mound of results from national leagues and associations. Notable showings include Pittsburg, Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia in series play, plus Western and American League matchups across cities such as Des Moines Milwaukee Omaha and Kansas City with multiple game outcomes.
The national Young People’s Christy Union convention is in session at Akron. A Kansas City shooting left a woman dead and the shooter dead by suicide, believed due to jealousy. Levi A. Barber of Peyton Kimball Barber dies in Duluth at 67, a lumberman of note. Constantine Michigan plant fire destroys Michigan Desk Co. with 15000 dollar loss and 40 workers affected. Sugar prices rise ten cents per hundred pounds in New York markets.
The Lake Shore, Rock Island and Nickel Plate railroads inaugurate the LaSalle Street terminal in Chicago. The steel framed brick faced station spans Van Buren street to 1433 feet with a vast train shed and nineteen steel trestles, built at about 3 million dollars and touted as among the world’s finest.
Citizens may join guided trips to Southeastern Assiniboias Northwest Territory with departures on July 7 and July 21. Cost is $27.00 round trip. For details contact Cash Coldren CT Iowa City Iowa.
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