Farmers & Merchants State Bank Holds Annual Meeting
The Farmers & Merchants State Bank held its annual stockholders meeting in Knupps Hall. Directors named eight members including A White and S Thompson. officers elected include A White as president and R Thompson as vice president. The board outlined plans for a new building, with occupancy expected by mid November. preliminary work progresses well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
Knupp’s Hall
Raml. Thompson
R. L. Coulter
W. A. White
Judge Archbald Criticized for Lenient Sentences in Wire Case
Washington details show U S District Attorney Wise accusing Judge Archbald of leniency toward wire trust operators with a plea deal and fines rather than jail. Dainty fled to Europe as impeachment looms. Lehigh Valley executives described negotiations over a coal dump lease near Oxford washery. 500 000 tons coal cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Archbald
Wire Trust
United States
Wise
New York
House Committee On Judiciary
Jackson
Dainty
Europe
Wrisley Brown
Department of Justice
James R. Dainty
S. D. Warriner
Wilkesbarre
B. Thomas
Lehigh Valley Company
B. Smith
Philadelphia
Lehigh Company
Girard Estate
Oxford Washery
Thomas
Hans of Warriner
Smith
Chorister Boys Make Hit in Rome Concert
Paulist church choristers from Chicago gave their first public Rome concert to a mixed audience of prelates musicians and aristocrats including Sistine and Lateran chapel members. Their training and intonation impressed the crowd and they will perform before the pope at day’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Chicago
Sistine and Lateran
Cross Sea in Motor Boat Sets Atlantic Challenge
Thomas Fleming Day, editor of the Rudder, plans a 35 foot motor boat voyage across the Atlantic from Boston or New York to Queenstown Ireland. Last year Day sailed from Providence to Rome in the Sea Bird, a similar craft. The Kaee project aims to chart waters never before sailed by a motor boat keel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas Fleming Day
The
Rudder
Atlantic Ocean
Mr. Day
Providence
R. I
Rome
Knockout Brown Beats Leach Cross in Garden Showdown
Knockout Brown defeated Leach Cross in a ten round bout at the Garden Athletic Association venue in New York. Brown dominated the later rounds to claim victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
New York
Leach Cross
Garden Athletic Association
Claim Chamberlains Liniment cures rheumatism
Advertisement asserts that at most one in ten rheumatism cases need internal treatment and promotes free application of Chamberlains Liniment with massaging for rapid relief. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Roosevelt Rejects Elihu Root as Temporary Convention Chairman
After a seven hour Sagamore Hill conference Colonel Roosevelt dictates an eighteen hundred word statement opposing Root for temporary chairman at Chicago. He urges delegates to back an insurgent stand and clashes with Taft allies over expected convention control. Roosevelt signals he can rally enough Taft delegates to lose that majority and secure supremacy.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Taft
Elihu Root
Chicago
Root
Dixon
National
Ward
New York
George W. Perkins
Medill McCormick
Frank Kellogg
Prospector
National Committee
Mrs Cregier Critical After Accident in Ill Hospital
Mrs Mary 8 Cregier widow of Dewitt Cregier former Chicago mayor lies in critical condition at her summer home in St Charles after Decoration Day fall. The 81 year old mother of Dewitt Knapp and Fred Cregier of Chicago suffered a dislocated left shoulder a fractured left arm and sprains and bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
James
Mary 8. Cregier
Dewitt Cregier
Chicago
St. Charles
College Boys as Waiters
Harvard students in Cambridge prepare to volunteer as strikebreakers for New York waiters. More than twenty men, seasoned by resort work, expect immediate deployment with college-mide promises of waiter jobs once college ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
N. Y
Cambridge
Mass
New York City
New York
When Buying Buy Only the Best Costs No More
H J Blomquist of Esdaile Wisconsin says his wife considers Foley's Honey and Tar Compound the best cough cure on the market. She has tried various kinds but Foley's gives the best result of all. Lemmon's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Blomquist
Esdaile
Wis
Foley
Lemmon
Died in Washington County Dr Woodburn 29
Dr F L Woodburn a popular young physician of Washington county died at his home from tuberculosis at 2 45 this morning. He leaves a wife Anna Brown and two children Marion and Ila with his father stepmother and four half siblings. Funeral tomorrow at 2 pm in the United Presbyterian church Ainsworth conducted by Rev J A Glendenning. He was born August 6 1882 and educated at Keokuk and practiced at Rubio Castana and Ainsworth prior to illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Woodburn
Washington County
Ainsworth
West
Monroe
United Presbyterian Church
J. A. Glendenning
Methodist Church of
Washington
Woodburn
Highland Township
This County
L. F. Woodburn
Keokuk
Iowa
Rubio
Castana
Sioux City
Anna Brown
M. E. Brown
This City
Obituary for Mrs. J. W. White of Washington area
Funeral services were held at 2 PM at the residence two miles southeast of Washington, with Rev. A S Smith officiating. She leaves husband J W White and nine children among a large family. burial in Elm Grove cemetery. Born April 4 1858 near Keosauqua Iowa, she lived in Portsmouth and later moved to farms near Nira Pleasant Plains and southeast of Washington. Surviving siblings and relatives are listed, with church ties to Prairie Flower Baptist Church and a noted Christian, loving wife and mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. White
Washington
A.S. Smith
Malcolm Montgomery
A. L. Young
Lowe McCaulley
G. L. Duke
John Warnock
Jake Lemley
Elm Grove
White
Nathaniel Squires
Keosauqua
Iowa
Ohio
Portsmouth
Sherm Brindley
Green Squire
William M. Squire
Social notes from Sunset Park and community gatherings
Mrs J G Maxwell hosts Sabbath school picnic at Sunset Park. St James choir plans sunset picnic supper. Mrs S F Dewey and Mrs J J Crooks host reception for Mrs T D Wallace of Chicago. Miss Ludawine Fulton of Marysville honored at Wilson home. Westminster guild finishes India Awakening study with missionary letters read. Women Relief corps to meet Keota Wellman Kalona Riverside, with Methodist reception and program. Numerous local social events, dinners, and small group gatherings noted along with a farm sale listing and auctioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. FR. Dewey
Mra J. J. Crooks
Dewey
Washington
T. D. Wallace
Chicago
Pleasant Plains society gathers at Mrs Foster home
The Pleasant Plains missionary society will be entertained at the home of Mrs Geor Foster on Wednesday June 7. An ice cream social is set for Work school Friday evening June 7 with everyone invited. Mystic Workers of the World hold a regular meeting Wednesday at 8 o'clock with special business. All members should attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Plains Missionary Society
Mystic Workers of the World
Closing Out Sale at T. E. Johnson Farm Near Washington
Sale on June 6 at the Johnson farm five miles SW of Washington and six miles NE of Brighton on the Washington Brighton road. Starts 1 pm with 40 trotting bred horses including Lawron and brood mares by Nuthurst Roslyn Wilkie Russell and others, 17 head of cattle, 20 brood sows with pigs, farm machinery, 500 bu corn 200 bu oats 8 dozen White Leghorn chickens. Also sale of a 220 acre farm 226 acres of land famed for corn with tiled fields, 9 room house, 3 barns and 8 wells.
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Casey
Washington
Iowa
W .L. Johnson & Estate
T. E. Johnson
C. Cunningham
Chas. Brown
Brighton
Washington-Brighton Road
Lawron
Norval
Nuthurst
Roslyn
Wilkie Russell
Almeron
Wagner Bashaw
Verdi Boy
Sound
Absolutely
Blue Grass Prince
Quieting Title Suit Seeks Ownership of Washington County Farm
L F Woodburn files in District Court of Washington County Iowa a petition to quiet title to multiple parcels in section 3 township 75 N range 8 W. Unknown claimants heirs and devisees are named or described. adverse possession has run over twenty years. The suit asks cancellation of clouds and declaration of Woodburn as owner in fee simple with relief against all defendants and unknown claimants. Court notice warns appearance required by Sept 9 1912 or default will be entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch Ross
Sarah Ross
Wm. Braden
Thomas 8. McDowell
James H. Patton
Thomas Reed
Sarah J Reed
Boyd W. Dysart
William Calwell
William Caldwell
Mary Caldwell
Mary W. Caldwell
William P. French
Wm. P. French
Elizabeth I. French
E. 3S. French
John A. Genkinger
Joseph Faéacineton
Tweenh Fedeineton
Mary E. Edgington
William A. Hatter Willian
Hatten
Harriet M Hatten
Harriett M. Hatton
Francis Treblecock
Frank Trebilcock
Mary M. Trebilcock
Adam Genkinger
John C. Watson
Asahel Edgington
Josephine B. Edgington
Adam Ginkinger
John Gordon
Jun
John Gordon, Jr
Hattie Gordon
Hattie
Frank W. Roberts
Carl J. Roberts
Alexander Young
Mary Young
John Young
Nancy 8. Smith
Isaac N. Smith
Martha A. Jayne
Robert H. Young
A. H. Young
Mary M. Jayne
John Jayne
John D. Young
Maria Young
Jane Dc. Young
James Young
Nancy Smith
Maria T. Young
Mary J. Young
John Maughlin
Alexander Knox
J. N. Smith
Maria I. Young
Nancy Maughlin
James Balley
M. A. Anderson
David ©. Anderson
Martha A. Anderson
D. C. Anderson
John W. Baker
Robert C. Anderson
Nancy A. Anderson
Margaret A. Bailey
Effie A. Miyers
Washington County
Iowa
District Court
L. F. Woodburn
Court House
City of
Washington
Richer & Livingston
Washington Loan and Trusted Incorporation Filed
Articles filed in county records establish the Washington Loan and Trusted company with F B Sage as vice president and secretary and C H Keck as president. Directors include R S Dix and plans call for farm and city loans, debenture bonds, estate management, and insurance under state supervision with operations starting around August first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Recorder
Washington Loan
Washington
Ccompany
Frank B. Sage
Charles H. Keck
R. S. Dix
Crawfordsville
Banking Department of
Washington County
Europe
Washington County Savings Bank
Tramp Quips About Cold Drink Freezing Stiff Neck
A humorous dialogue features two tramps discussing a stiff neck and an icebound last drink. The exchange relies on slang and playful banter to convey a rough urban moment.
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East Main Street
Washington, No. 6
Mutual
Northwest
the Journal
al Horsey
Benz Hotel
D. A. Chalmers
FORD
W. M. Terry
Iowa Ave
T. J. Neiswanger
Harvey, Iowa
J. FE. E
Upper
Mississippi
Davenport
Rock Island, Ill
Saint Paul
Stillwater, Minn
Morning Star
P. m
W. H. Lamont
Archgald
U. S
Marquis Confalonieri
Marquis Cusani-Confalonieri
Columbus Memorial
Pope
Thomas Fleming
New Yorker
Mrs. Cregier
J. G. Maxwell
Sunset Park
St. James Choir
C. J. Wilson
Helen Wilson
Lloyd Lytle
Wilson
Washington Street
Ludawine Fulton
Marysville
Kansas
Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian Church
Katherine
Gertrude Smith
India
Japan
Woman'’s Relief Corps of
Keota
Wellman
Kalona
Riverside
Methodist
Tmes
Howard MccCleery
Joe McElhinney
Homer Stephen
Claire Dewey
T. W. Harwood
Fannie Harwood
Genevra McCaw
Ruth Winter
Vera Rogers
Dora Clapper
Willis Trotter
McCleery
Hosteas
Presbyterian Church
Romola Latchem
A. C. Fuller
Mary McElroy
Ds.o
W. Scott
Emily Edgington
Mary Simons
Hopengardner
Miss White
W. H. Hughes
H. W. Comin
Carl Roberts
Willis
F. R. Sage
Citizens’ Savings
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