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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1909
Page
5
Especial to the Evening Journal reports Iowa will see showers tonight and tomorrow with unsettled conditions and cooler spells likely across the state.
City council in regular session with Mayor Dixon presiding. Fire department needs two new nozzles and 500 feet of hose. referred to fire committee. Sewer extension requests referred to sewer committee. Carnival address by W F Brinton. Bond of park commissioner Cook received. alley deed approved. Land for alley to be deeded. solicitor to draft resolution. Treasurer's report read. Roller skates and coasters petition tabled. Sewer petition from Corette et al. and $10 from multiple residents referred to sewer committee. Sidewalk inspection staffing approved. Adjourns to June 14.
A promotional note claiming superior coal for cook stoves and inviting readers to compare. It asserts confidence in their product and prompts customers to verify claims with more than one source.
John Kennedy Bryson aged seventy seven dies at his home on Green street Keota after a seizure following a day of ill health He leaves Harriet Bunner Bryson his wife and eight children four surviving John R Bryson H O Douglas Mrs Charles A Trumbauer Mrs R W Crawford plus others in infancy and Asa Howard Ida died funeral from Keota Baptist Church conducted by Rev John Hastie burial in Keota cemetery He had lived in Iowa since 1857 and was a charter Keota Baptist member An Obituary notice in the Keota Iowa press.
A crop of items at The Fair includes 98 31 Fancy market baskets and 98 3b millet seed from Geo W Stewart. Local residents Bert Tracy and George Dempsey arrived, while several visitors like Miss Beulah Stewart and Miss Mayme Jericho left for engagements and trips.
Pint tin cups sell for one cent this week with a purchase limit of five per customer at The Fair. 983 M. P. Donahey returns to Iowa City after weeks there. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Baird of Rockford Illinois welcome a son born Sunday. Miss Georgia Young takes a clerk job at Snouffer Hughes & Co. Ralph Burris and sister Kate visit Sigourney. F B Johnson of El Reno Oklahoma stays with W M Johnson. Tina Shields visits Monmouth to see sister Edith who graduates next Thursday. Margery Morrows arrives from Kalona and heads to Kansas for summer teaching. Walter Little leaves for Davenport to study shorthand at Brown's Business College.
Thirty men from Washing ton camp No 168 Modern Woodmen of America laid flowers on ten graves at local cemeteries Sunday. No program was held as part of the annual remembrance tradition.
Call up Phone No. 1 and leave orders, which will be promptly attended to by Frank Rogers. Give street and number. A good second hand organ for sale. Phone 589. 98-3t.
Baseball results from St Louis Cincinnati Pittsburg Boston New York Philadelphia and Western League games. Box scores note runs hits and errors with pitchers and lineups for each contest. Players named include Bell Bergen Beebe Bresnahan Graham Howell Cicotte Carrigan Summers Works Beckendorf and others.
Chicago June 8. Reverend John Stone Myers urged Professor George B. Foster to withdraw from the Baptist ministry and surrender ordination papers after criticism of his book The Function of Religion. The motion was tabled to June 14 after Professor A. K. Parker invoked constitutional delay. Foster was called an undesirable Baptist and a teacher who would dethrone the church and deify evolution.
In St Petersburg in June the Port Arthur Benevolent Society met and reported a deficit of 7500 in its accounts under Madame Stoessel the wife of General Stoessel who led Russian forces at Port Arthur during the capitulation. The matter will be referred to the crown prosecutor.
A large party of business men from Grand Forks and other North Dakota cities arrived by steamer to Winnipeg. It marks the first voyage from Grand Forks to Winnipeg in twenty eight years. The mission is to press Congress on the Red River as a viable commerce artery.
Max Morris, fourth vice president of the American Federation of Labor and famed organizer, died at St. Joseph's hospital in Denver. He was forty three years old.
Washington reports indicate Robert Bacon former Secretary of State has accepted the France ambassador post and will replace Henry White at year’s end. The news comes from private wires in Paris dated June 8.
Two mounted masked men blew open a saloon safe in Anaconda hall at the center of Butte and escaped with $600 in cash. The bold daytime heist occurred in Butte Montana on June 8.
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