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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1906
Page
6
Use of the few remaining opportunities to secure a free homestead of nearly good land comes this month when the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana will be thrown open for settlement. Every person entitled to take up government lands and desiring to secure one of these homesteads must appear in person on any day from.
Five contestants performed in the silver medal contest at Covenanter church with Mrs. Fannie McDowell presiding. Verne Tomlinson won first, Gladys Brown second. Mae Brookhart entertained with a reading, and a large program followed including recitations, songs, and prayers.
Local residents Maurice Steele from Riverside and Anse Hloudek from Sigourney arrive in the city. Many others travel to Muscatine Albia Iowa City Burlington Keokuk and Des Moines for visits funerals shopping and family events.
Miss Veda Stryker of Washington and Miss Zetta Carr visited during the commencement exercises last Thursday and Friday. John Bellville with wife and daughter of Washington visited Jim Starr's home yesterday. Dr. Carney and Clerk M E Logan were in Wellman last Thursday afternoon by automobile.
A Livonia Missouri pharmacist recalls three customers cured of consumption by Dr King’s New Discovery now in Graysville. He calls the medicine wonderful and notes its strong cough cold throat and lung healing powers. J H Stewart offers it with a money back guarantee. The Peoria excursion advertises a $1.75 round trip via Iowa Central Ry. Train from Brighton at 6 31 am.
The body of Ranson Kelley arrived from Peoria on No 29 after a P and P U railroad accident April 13. Four cars passed over him as he lay injured, and he died Thursday morning. Kelley once lived here thirty years ago and is remembered by old residents. The funeral proceeded from Rock Island depot to the city cemetery for burial.
Mr. M. F. Burroughs, a Bluffton, Indiana resident, declares Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the very best for bowel trouble. He has used it in his family for years and never is without it. sold by Cook & Sherman and Stewart's pharmacy.
The Woman's Relief Corps and families will hold a timber picnic southeast of town in Mr. Lemon's timber next Wednesday June 13. Conveyances depart the north side of the square at 8 o'clock with round trip fares of 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children.
Tomorrow Sunday June 10 at 4 p m. One duty of a Knight is to decorate the graves of his brothers. If you cherish the order's principles, come. Clifford Thorne, C. C.
In a claim from Bennettsville D C S A Brown says Electric Bitters restored his wife after long dyspepsia and liver trouble. The tonic promises cures for chills fever malaria biliousness and kidney bladder issues. Sold by Stewart druggist at price five e. Miss Kate Berdo and Miss Kathryn Kennelly visit Davenport to see Miss Blodwin Ones at St Katherines school and attend a musicale where she will sing.
Miss Grace Walker and Mrs Asa Jeffrey of Ainsworth returned to their homes last evening.
An alarming situation often arises from clogged bowels and torpid liver when constipation becomes chronic. Dr King’s New Life Pills are described as the best and gentlest regulators of stomach and bowels. Stewart, a druggist, guarantees them. price 25 cents.
Members are summoned at the hall to plan the decoration service to be held Sunday. They will travel from Buffalo N Y to Chicago via Nickel Plate Road on June 9 10 and 11 with return by June 25. Nickel Plate Office Chicago Room 298 113 Adams Street.
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