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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1905
Page
3
Special to The Evening Journal reports that the forecast for Iowa calls for generally fair weather today and tomorrow with cooler temperatures tonight. The outlook suggests pleasant conditions across the state with no significant storms expected.
The column records numerous residents and visitors from Crawfordsville and nearby towns, including Dougherty Bros. shirts, license issued to Joseph Buzzard and Cora Porter, and travels for events in Monmouth Council Bluffs and Keota. It notes illnesses and family moves, church plans, and local commerce.
Des Moines Iowa reports show the best week of the season with below average rainfall and above normal temperatures. Scattered showers delayed some farm work but conditions remained favorable with good progress in replanting cultivation and corn cleaning. Late planted fields germinate well and overall corn condition is better than last year with dryer, cleaner fields and improved color. Moisture and heat support normal growth of grasses and crops, abundant strawberries being harvested, apples dropping in the south, light cherry crop, and grapes showing liberal fruiting.
Last evening the City Council met with Keck acting as mayor pro tem in Mayor Alberson’s absence. An ordinance vacating parts of North Second avenue and granting them to the Washington Illuminating Co. was approved, with Alberson authorized to convey the deed. A street in Conger’s Addition was accepted, and a committee of Keck, Bovee and Patterson was formed to study installing a septic tank at the creek and acquiring adjacent land.
A cautionary note warns of bad scares from abdominal pain and fear of appendicitis. It promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a universal cure for bowel and stomach ailments including headaches biliousness costiveness and similar complaints. Sold at J Hl Stewarts drug store.
A Davenport Times account of a Grand Lodge meeting notes P. G. Martin and Amos Alberson as Democratic mayors of Waterloo and Washington. Martin, Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter Order Eastern Star, is described as an authority on feminine frater nity while Alberson serves as Tyler, with entrants needing his approval.
George Julian of St Louis sculpted the heroic size statue Missouri which fronts the state building at the Lewis and Clark Centennial. The figure displays the state seal in the left hand and a Mercury staff symbolizing commerce in the right.
Link Hall of Washington shipped a carload of high grade draft horses last Saturday via Rock Island railroad to Buffalo New York. The load included a pair of gray mares weighing 3200 pounds. Hall visits this town often seeking fine horses and notes many in the area. Brighton News reports W. S. Blackwood and son returned from Mendota Illinois after visiting L. LD Blackwood.
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