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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
2
Community notes from the county cover events and social happenings across towns. Local residents attend gatherings, church functions, school activities, and civic meetings. Returns include brief reports on births, marriages, and notable visits.
South Prairie notes: Banks Mouser drove guests including Mr and Mrs Price Booth Ella and Mrs Ida Champe to his home for a day visit. Charley Palmer and wife and local residents stayed over weekend. Children day set for June 9 at 10 am. W MS postpones meeting to June 13. Ada Schwartz from Keota visited C F Fleming. Nurse Miss Brookhart cares for a new baby at Cave Bengon home. Snowball School closed with ice cream treat. Eldridge to depart. Press Figgins Jr Hammer and wife of Kalona attended Prairie Flower church.
June 3 1912 Clay Iowa reports next Sunday June 9 morning children's day exercises at the Clay church followed by a Story and Song service in the evening inviting all. Miss Martha Meachem visits from Correctionville for summer. Misses Lucy and Lotta Meacham from Washington stay over Memorial Day. Mr and Mrs H P Bosworth of Fairfield Iowa visit daughter Mrs LD Seymour. Claude Waterhouse and son Harold attend church. Editor A R Miller of Washington presides at Memorial Day address drawing a big crowd.
The funeral for George Trubbs, who died by his own hand last Friday, was held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Christian church with Rev. Durreen delivering a sermon on The wages of sin is death. Burial followed in Keota cemetery beside his father.
Mrs Ellen McCreedy and daughter Miss Effie left Saturday for Sigourney to visit their son and brother Charles for a few days. Mrs W T Trotter Jr returned home from Washington after a few days there with her mother Mrs Geo S Norton. Miss Jessie Hunt was a business visitor at Washington Friday morning between trains. Miss Ivy Leonard and grandfather Mr J F Leonard are visiting rei-
A poem depicts joyful brides in June under blue skies with bridesmaids and old watchers reflecting on past bridal days. It invokes hope for lasting happiness and peace, envisioning a future without sorrow as brides in New Sharon celebrate.
Mrs Alice Breen of Ottumwa visits relatives in Richmond for Decoration Day. Miss Cora Olds leaves for Centerville for summer normal course. Mr and Mrs R F West visit Brighton. Misses Pauline Helen Chihak and George Witte at Washington church. Grace Adams Theresa Chihak return from Cedar Rapids Business College. Theresa visiting Carrie Moore. Martina Swift and Leonard Bailey at W T Trotter home. Joe Marhofer Jack Robinson build cement block auto shed for Wm Chapek. Catholic schoolhouse dedication Sunday Bishop Davis present. Charles Casper near Washington visits Albert Lintz. Wm Keifer works lightning rods in country. Charlie Brown of Washington buys horse from Albert Lintz. Ladies of M B E church hold Sunday exercises.
June 3 1912 items note Nordyke and Hannah shipped four hog cars to Ottumwa. Keefover completes meat market painting and awaits new job. Fleming demonstrates Krit auto in town. Blacksmith shop closed for Thursday and Friday forenoon. Breitenbach from Washington spent Sunday in Valle y. Feltz, Rubio Savings Bank president, worked cashier duties. Henderson of Washington spoke here. Mrs Vern Wolf and daughter depart for Waterloo to visit relatives. J J Fleigg returns from Texas. plans land purchase. Rev Jackson returns from Texas. optimistic on land. W L Ireland new Ford for C M and St P railroad. Vern Wolf opens meat market. Ladies Roasting Club to host ice cream social June 4 to help Rubio band. crowd urged. Keefover and wife in Brighton Friday afternoon.
June 3 1912 Havre Iowa items note John Benson returning home to Diagonal after a two week visit with Norm Pratt. Visitors include Alliman of Illinois and families of Benson Long Jackson Moothart Putman and others. cars and a buggy are mentioned. A Sunday school picnic is planned for June 7 at Havre school house with all invited.
Mrs A Kallaus and Mrs Anna Kos of Washington visited Ernest Carlson's Saturday. Mrs Joe Wright went to Washington Pa for a visit. Fred Carlson was a Sunday visitor at Mediapolis. Mr and Mrs F A Kallaus stayed at Lone Tree visiting neighbors. A funeral for Mrs Wes White was held Monday. Mr and Mrs Ruebsam and Nellie visited Ernest Carlson's Sunday.
Kalona June 3 1912 reports Mr and Mrs Emery Sharp visiting relatives in Iowa City. Miss Metcalf of Nichols visits Miss Bessie Cupp. Dan Bontrager and sister Mary travel to Chicago to visit a brother. Wm Hessel schwerdt home hosts guests Peter Lentz and wife from Iowa City. Katie Ebner from the mission visits G J Petersheim home. John Beck and mother join Phil Beck for Verge Beeney family visit.
Crawfordsville on June 4 1912 reports Mrs W G Robertson and daughter Margaret of Kirkwood Illinois visiting Mrs H C Hull. Mrs Louise Robertson of New Wilmington Pa also arrives. Will Newsome of Superior Wisconsin leaves for Washington after visiting locals. Several residents travel to Washington by train or automobile for leisure and family visits including Miss Bertha Miller and Miss Alice Swickard with a sunset park picnic.
Advertisement by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It argues deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous membranes and offers one hundred dollars for a counterexample. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Anna from Chicago visited her brother or relatives in Brighton for Decoration day, staying with Mr and Mrs Mike Hefflefinger. She departed Saturday morning for Eldon to visit her sister Mrs Alfa Owens.
Loochooan residents in southwestern Japan pawn graves of relatives during financial hardship and redeem them later. Turtle-back tombs on hillside fronts, built of stone and cement, can bankrupt families through high costs and upkeep.
Confederates abandoned Fort Pillow on the Mississippi river to protect Memphis. Federal naval forces attacked from the north bank as a defensive line formed above the city to repel the assault.
Physicians announced the crown prince to be ill and weakly valued by contemporaries. The emperor is over sixty and with two deaths in the royal circle the German public debates the succession amid anxiety.
American League leaders show W Chicago and Boston near top as standings include losses and percentage. National League and American Association teams list Detroit New York and Minneapolis with win totals and records. Western and Illinois leagues feature Columbus St Joe and Milwaukee with varied marks and percentages.
The Rock Island Independents announce home games starting June 8 in Iowa City on June 10 and 11 in Trenton Missouri hosting Merchants on June 12 and 13.
Rubio hosts Valley as the visitors win 15 to 14 after Heber Miller’s wild two innings. Valley chased Rubio to wrench a comeback, scoring late while forcing errors in the seventh inning to seal the victory.
The piece describes motorized uses from Mexican rebel concerns to a New York orphan treat at Coney Island hosted by Peter Doeiger, plus notices on India’s top roads near Calcutta and Bombay and a forthcoming Tacoma road race. It also covers Detroit police auto wagon plans and AAA Trail to Sunset updated maps and a new Long Island touring map with landmarks and bridges.
National League results list multiple games with teams such as Boston Chicago Philadelphia and Cincinnati. other leagues include Three Eye League Central League Wisconsin Illinois and Central Association with numerous matchups and postponed games due to rain. The scattered results show various scores like St Louis 13 Washington 4 and Pittsburgh 3 New York 4.
The Lexington King's Heralds plan an ice cream social at the Geo Amlong residence Thursday evening. A meeting at the Second United Presbyterian Church Thursday afternoon now starts at 2 o'clock to hear reports from delegates and visitors to the Chicago convention.
Ottumwa Iowa woman declares relief from chronic female trouble after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The notice urges hopeful women to try the remedy and offers confidential advice from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Grace asks what makes you happiest and George answers kisses and you. Grace says she likes to see other people happy, too.
The music master kindly explains that a march has four beats per measure to fit the steps. A girl in back adds that three feet would be a milking stool, or a yard stick, prompting light classroom chatter.
Mrs Louesa Grinter widow of Dr D P Grinter died at 12 15 this morning at 602 North Sixth avenue aged 79 years five months The funeral will be held tomorrow at 4 o clock at the home with Rev H V Comin interment in the city cemetery She was born Louesa Sixbey in 1834 in Sharon New York and married in Guttenberg Iowa in 1851 Two children survive Cora Mernaugh of this city and W H Grinter of Glen Haven Wisconsin Also note G A Regular post meeting tonight with J H Stewart P C seeking good attendance
Market notes show hogs and cattle with slow or steady demand and mixed price ranges. Receipts and shipments for today yesterday and projections for tomorrow are listed across hogs cattle and sheep in Chicago and Chicago NL markets with prices mainly in the 7.15 to 8.10 range and overall weakness in sheep.
A fragment shows estimated wheat at 10.50 and 10.60 with related estimates 18.62 and 18.72 for stock, plus a 50 percent figure and a 4276 reference. No context or entities beyond numbers.
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