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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
5
Mrs. Lee Ward and children depart for Mitchell Indiana to visit Mrs. Ward's sister Mrs. Pope. Various notices report relatives traveling, bakery ads, the Jersey Lily flour sale at Klein Warren, and community happenings including visits to Davenport Denver Muscatine Joliet and Cedar Rapids.
The Royal Store offers meat sales with sanitary handling and manufactured ice. Mr. Stuart has invested thousands of dollars to improve the shop and provide fresh, pure meat without old ice methods or germ concerns.
The 20th Century Reading Circle enjoyed a picnic at Sunset park this afternoon. The M M s of the Presbyterian church held a picnic in honor of Florence Barrett, former class member, Tuesday evening at Sunset park. About twenty five couples of the Younger Set attended a dancing party at Eagle hall last night with music by James Cunningham and others. Guests included Gertrude Ward of Oklahoma City and Lela Sense among others from Fairfield and Wisecarver.
Washington reports that Job Hedges Senator Depew and other Republican humorists may be invited to the White House in a few days to craft lighthearted efforts for the campaign’s second phase the presidential fight. Leaders aim for dignified humor as a campaign staple alongside speeches and pamphlets and recall past jests from the Jackson era. Quietly, jokesters will be recalled from vacations to “set things humming.”
The Baltimore American prompts readers with a rhetorical challenge on medical ethics asking if doctors have a right to end a life when cure is impossible, suggesting a longstanding practice. The piece frames the question as a moral dilemma in care.
Announcements note a Methodist ladies social Friday from 2 to 5 at 509 South Second Avenue, inviting all ladies and friends of the congregation to attend.
Ethel Conrad the chorus girl and acquitted co defendant in the attempted murder of millionaire hotel owner W. E. D. Stokes is hospitalized after being found unconscious in a vacant upper west side lot. A chloroformed handkerchief bound her, rope tied her wrists and ankles, and she later said a man followed her from a subway station before her mind went blank. She refused to reveal her name, being identified by Miss Graham.
President Taft named Tartther Conant of Acton Massachusetts to be commissioner of corporations succeeding Herbert Knox Smith who resigned. He also named Sherman Page Allen of Vermont as assistant secretary of the treasury replacing A Pratt Andrew. Postmasters appointed Edwin J Walton Centralia Wisconsin and Edwin P Ed sall Grafton DL.
I have sold my store and will be away. I thank my customers for their patronage and request anyone with a book account to call and settle during this month or the bills will be left for collection. 13113 MRS. W. H. ASHER.
The annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests opened in Pretton Woods. The organization recently acquired the Lost River tract for a reservation and will discuss stricter laws on automobile tours to curb campgrounds damage.
The Presbyterian church launches a joint plan by the relief board and the ministerial sustentation fund committee. It provides pensions or annuities up to 500 dollars for disabled ministers, scaled to service length. Hundreds of disabled pastors nationwide will benefit starting today.
A. J. Brooks, former button factory manager now farming in Canada, writes July 7 1912 about bountiful crops due to rain. He notes wheat oats and barley heading flax blooming and reports high profits from neighbors 49 acres 480 dollars and 60 acres with 876 dollars net. He recalls moving 21 freight loads 26 miles on improving roads and pleasant neighborly help.
A letter recalls selling animals and refusing cash offers, noting six years of settlement in a Canadian region. Families from Iowa ride the same train, praising Canada as land prices rise while homesteads become scarce and self guidance replaces worry over others. The writer, formerly in a button factory for thirteen years, celebrates personal freedom.
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