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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
5
Local and personal notes list numerous residents and guests visiting in town including Butterfield, Miss Nell Samson, Mrs. Owen Williamson, Miss Verna Lewis, and Miss Grace Coffman. The Louisiana opera house schedules performances June 8 9 and Now hosting gatherings with community notes on weddings church visits and school graduations.
A father shares a bedtime tale about Bert who, after a dream points to a hidden stash, searches a Mexican sofa and uncovers two lost diamond earrings. The jewels save a struggling family by funding a country home, while Bert earns a mother’s kiss. The children add their own dream anecdotes.
Two strangers posing as painters visited the Fred Mauthe home on East Washington Street and stole a $750 pocketbook from a trousers pocket. A similar break in at the Fred Anderson home on North Second Avenue left drawers rummaged and valuables sought. An umbrella mender seen nearby was detained but released after denying entry.
This afternoon at 2 30 the temperature stood %6 degrees above zero and noon reading reached 4 with a steady rise. The hottest day this season was 3 about a week ago. Ice cream shops boom and corn crops break June records as residents stay hot and hopeful. Yesterday morning rain measured .18 of an inch helping crops.
The Degree of Honor hosts an ice cream social at A O U W hall on Saturday evening June 8. Admission is 16 cents. The Pleasant Plains missionary society meets at Mrs. John Genkinger’s home on Wednesday June 7. Fortnightly current events meets Tuesday at 7 30 with Miss Kilgore. Modern Woodmen members gather Sunday at 2 PM to march to the cemetery for Decoration Day with music and addresses.
In Houghton Michigan on June 2 Laura Stannard is charged with first degree murder for poisoning her husband Charles F. Stannard by strychnine in his coffee on March 26. She was moved to Ontonagon county jail to await trial at the September term. Switchman Fatally Injured in Evansville. John Curnick, a switchman for the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, was run over by a train May 31 and probably fatally injured.
A shipment of new steel arrives for Turtington yards and will be laid along the track in front of the depot and to the Baxter coal sheds. Sixty six pound rails replace thirty five to forty pound rails as work continues. A large Mexican labor force unloads cinders and advances ballast, with extensive recent ballasting between WinNel d and Washington. New steel is planned toward Winfield and overall road improvements continue.
Postmaster General Hitchcock announced the designation of seventy four more second class post offices as postal savings depositories effective June 2. Locations include Blue Island Harvey Savanna Hl Alexandria Kedford Linton Ind Delweth Oskaloosa Spencer Ia Gladstone Sault Ste Marie Mich Hartford Tomahawk Wis.
Abraham Blattner ten suffers loss of sight in right eye and serious facial burns after a premature Fourth of July celebration. The firecracker exploded near his face when he examined it after a delayed spark.
The National and Iowa Holiness associations hold their annual camp meeting at University Park with several hundred in attendance. Meetings run through June 1. A drowning occurred in Cincinnati Ohio as a man believed to be Harry J. Gibson of Atlanta leaped into the Olio River.
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