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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1906
Page
3
Fare offers include Chicago to Boston and return for 1.00 with Nickel Plate Road from May 31 to June 9 inclusive. Excursion rates available via New City. Address for inquiry listed as Gener Room 298 113 Adams ts.
Charles Means and Mrs. Alex Gibson arrived this morning from the east. Alva Sands of Ainsworth visited the city. Mrs Looney returned from Ainsworth. Etta and Stella Welch of Crawfordsville were in town. Mrs F M DeHarpoort and Mrs B F Spangler with children from Crawfordsville shopped downtown. Charles Mercer returned from Wapelio. A C Peterson came back from Crawfordsville. R F Hannum returned from Winfield. Miss Mariel Shanafelt arrived from Estherville for a visit at the Lins home. Cloyce Beard finished a year at Monmouth. his mother attended commencement.
On a June morning in 1906 the group reaches a forest island on Big Bear Lake Wisconsin. They observe a two week gathering of about forty Indians in a moonlit dance, note their log cabins and labor patterns, and comment on Wisconsin laws restricting fish shipment while hoping for muskellunge on future fishing days.
Charles Hensley formerly ran the Burlington union depot dining room and now leads dining cars on the Wabash system with headquarters at Moberly Missouri where he also supervises the railroad hotel. He is known to Washington insiders from visits to his uncle Jack Heath. George Barham of this city suffered a severe head gash at work near Fruitland when a bar hurled by a fellow worker struck him, leaving him unable to continue work for the day.
Voters cast ballots Sunday at Columbia locations including M E Teeters news stand and C B Lemmon jewelry store with withdrawals to be cancelled. Beula Eichelberger led with 5 291 votes followed by Hazel Mount 3 401 Bessie McClean 560 Lillian Norton 455 Alice Anderson 225 Kate Berdo 70. Mr T E Brown passed through town en route to Ollie to prepare for a large corn crop.
Chas. Oswald of Rensselaersville New York testifies Bucklen’s Arnica Salve prevented blood poisoning after injury and cured a severe neck sore in Seth Burch. The remedy heals cuts wounds burns and sores and costs 25 cents at Stewart's drug store.
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