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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1905
Page
4
Journal correspondents record daily events in their communities highlighting notable occurrences, meetings, incidents, and civic updates. The report emphasizes local voices, printed in concise summaries that reflect neighborhood focus and timely updates.
A compact notice listing local accidents deaths births and marriages as reported promptly by our news gatherers, detailing recent incidents and life events within the community. It notes timely updates from area correspondents and standard notices of notable changes.
Mrs. Sarah Crozier daughter Laura and Mrs. Weaver drove to Washington Friday. A Milwaukee foreman for the M. and St. P. Ry. Co. was in town this week inspecting a witch attachment contrived by operators Monroe and Thode, who claim it works well.
June 3 report notes arrivals and visits from Washington and Martinsburg. Residents plan a celebration at the opera house appointing chairs for amusements grounds fireworks music and program with freedom to recruit assistants. Several travelers return home and visit friends in Ames Crawfordsyle and Riverside.
Mrs Luther May of Hedrick visited relatives on Decoration Day while Orville Davis traveled to Wayland. Clayton Brady stayed in Mt Pleasant and Alice Slaughter returned to Ottumwa after nursing Mrs J Kent. Arthur Williams went to Columbus Junction then returned for a concert. The park will soon be lit by a new pecal light. Wm Smith and family reside in a fine home. Mrs Henry Pringle visited Washington from Friday to Monday. Jesse Smith visited Winfield. Funeral attendance marked the Cowgill death. he was the father of Mrs E G Gardner. Mr and Mrs Tandy Jones left for Grimer then Brighton and on to Peoria for future residence. Rehmel visited Ollie this week. Dr Jesse Payne, G Logan Payne and family stayed at the Payne home. Mrs F J Fearis and Rebecca left for a Chicago visit. Attorney Wilcoxson was in town for a day. Dunbar visited Brighton and then left for Peoria.
June 3 report from Crawfordsville notes Guy Dillon riding as a Washington passenger. Lena Shaffer departs for Winfield for a few days with her uncle. Henderson McCall and sister Mary of Lowellsville, Ohio, are visiting their aunt Mrs. Lillie Lease and relatives for the weekend. M Klugh buys two fine horses from W A Harper and Lu Gormley forming a strong driving team. Jessie Anderson travels to West Chester to visit the John Hanna home. Stanley Logan of Washington is in town on business. Misses Carmeletta Trotter Bertha Marie Curran and Mabel Eva Morton visit Eliz beth Maxwell to view city sights, amid a journal reunion mood.
Jane J. J. Dayton visits Washington today while Rev and Mrs Dillon return from Pleasant Plain after attending a wedding. Chas Fitwater is also noted as a visitor in Washington today.
Sunday School at 9 50 Morning service at 11 preaching by the pastor Junior League at 3 50 Epworth League at 6 15 Subject The Making of a Christian Helping One Another Leader Miss Mabel Emmons Evening service at 7 00 Public is cordially welcomed
Sunday School at Eureka at 10 a m with preaching service at 11 followed by evening at 8 p m and a Children’s Day program by the Sun day School offering for the Board of Education Pastor J F Robertson invites all to Plains Sunday School at 110 a m and extended invitation to all in the community
Morning service at 1 Sunday School at 3 p m Evening service at 7 45 pm The Rev R Henderson the boy preacher will preach June 18 M Payton Pastor.
Sunday School at 9 30 A M with preaching in Illinois. Junior B Y P U at 6 50 P M. Evening preaching at 7 30 P M on the topic Education Christian or Pagan.
Sabbath School at 9 40 Communion service at 11 Junior Endeavor at 5 Senior Endeavor at 6 30 Con secration meeting Evening service at 7 30 Preparatory services held Saturday afternoon at 17 30
The Rev Miss Moose will deliver a sermon at the Franklin Center schoolhouse next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The event invites the local community to attend and reflect.
One half block south of post office. Regular services every Sabbath at 10:30 a m. Tomorrow’s subject God the Preserver of Man with Golden Text Psalm 16 1. Sabbath School at 9:15. Wednesday evening meeting at 7:30.
Sabbath School begins at 9 50 with a short lesson. The preaching service follows by the pastor. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 15 in the evening. All are welcome.
Church announces morning worship at eleven and no evening preaching service. Other services follow at the usual hours. All are cordially invited to attend.
Sheriff Teeter met the Milwaukee line train due at 8 21 AM and took charge of Clyde Collings of Vienna Scott county Indiana an insane man on board. His father was telegraphed for and arrived to take him home. The Masons and Sheriff Teeter have cared for him since yesterday morning.
A very large horse, weighing 2040 pounds and standing 1844 hands high, is brought to the city today from Fairfield by Asa Reid who will ship the animal to Buffalo on Monday.
George Carson of Iowa City paid 36500 for the Washington Illuminating Co gas and electric works. The cash price was 56500 and possession will be taken on the fifteenth. Carson, a principal instigator of the Iowa City Kalona and Washington Interurban Co., is a prominent local businessman.
State Geologist Frank A Wilder says Iowa holds rich cement deposits scattered across the state in commercial quantities. The survey, led by Geologist Bain with the U S Geological Survey, will publish in about three weeks. A linked NSF study by Professor Byers of Ames is being prepared for release in two years.
Des Moines June 3 The Louisa County Sugar company of Columbus Junction tied articles of incorporation with the secretary of state yesterday with a capital stock of 9000000. It did not pay a filing fee under the law exempting manufacturing institutions. Directors named are M. Rh. Edmondson J. E. Biebinger C. McDaniel T. H. Barnes E. R. Lacey E. F. Brockway and F. M. Mossberry.
Come one and all and get some thing for Sunday dinner at Johnson's offered in a local ad style urging shoppers to visit for the meals and deals this weekend.
Ray Huston from Spearfish South Dakota visited his cousin Mrs. B. J. Cocklin yesterday. He spent the day at her home before continuing to his residence in Winfield.
The coroner's inquest on Thos Snelson concluded with a verdict that he died from carbolic acid self-administered. Jury members were John Adams R Donaldson and Mr Moreland. Miss Ivy Durst returns home to Richmond for a brief visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs David Durst.
Sidney Coon of the Washington County Mutual Insurance Association paid 87 dollars and 78 cents to William Geret of Riverside to cover a horse killed by lightning.
A great storm swept over Pinetown in Natal causing the reservoir to overflow and drown fifty Hindu laborers. The disaster struck the tea and sugar plantations center, Durban area, on June 3.
The remains from France will be interred in Annapolis Mad. Plans in New York for a reconstructed Bellevue Hospital at a cost of 8,000,000 have been finally approved.
Mr J T Barber of Irwinville Ga keeps a bottle of Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for instant use as colic cholera morbus and diarrhoea strike suddenly He says it is one of the best medicines he has seen and keeps a bottle in his room Sold by Stewarts Pharmacy Cook Sherman
The document notes total liabilities amounting to 86,502.58 with a total of 1,018.75 for a bank’s balance. It mentions the amount of all liabilities owed to the bank by its directors, described as 5 ewe in the fragment, indicating a reporting anomaly or clerical error in the OCR text.
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