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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1900
Page
3
A long list of residents and visitors visits Burl ington Mediap olis Keota and nearby towns. Notable names include John Good J A Guest J J Wilson Mrs T A Bailey Dr McLaughlin and many others. Citizens attend events travel to Chicago Monmouth and Des Moines, with garden and farming notes and a Rocky Mountain Tea ad.
The B A J I Club hosts an evening in honor of Miss Mable Morrow of Macon Missouri and Miss Nellie Bartholomew of Pilotsburg at Miss Mercy Howes home. Stewart of the Feather Washing Co will renovate feathers and buy and sell feathers with orders at Caseys Livery. Mrs Rev Gilkey learns her Indiana based father is critically ill and cannot travel. Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold offered at 25 cents with refund if ineffective. Mrs W L Ewing and daughter return to San Marcial New Mexico from her mother Mrs Wheeler. Great Rock Island Route offers Davenport round trip for G A R encampment with sale dates June 11 12 13 and 14 1900 and return by June 16 1900. See local agent for details. JON SEBASTIAN G P A Chicago IL.
Charley Means of the Heights raises Belgian hares in a partitioned rabbitery and reports rapid growth and rising demand. A buck and doe can produce about 42 descendants in a year, with sales of $45 last Saturday and prices at five dollars per pair for ordinary stock and 15 for pedigreed animals. Rabbiteries spread nationwide as investors join, and Means, a member of the American Belgian Hare association, claims the business is here to stay with best stock costing over $40.
The Friday Evening Club Dancing party is billed as one of the season’s best with an unusually large turnout expected from visitors from other towns.
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