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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1908
Page
3
Ob Caddie McCracken announces a twelve lesson term on mandolin guitar and banjo starting June 1st. Please provide your name to W. L. Eichelberger and a call will be made.
After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, B F Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina says Dr Kings New Life Pills are the best pills ever sold. Sold under guarantee at Lemmons Pharmacy. 25 cents.
Miss Hicker of Wayland shopped in the city yesterday. Mrs. N. M. Anderson of Ainsworth arrived on the Firefly last evening. Miss Veda Stryker, recently teaching near Riverside, has returned home. Miss Marguerite McGugin left this morning for a two week visit with friends in Kansas City. The Misses Carrie Winter and Vera Alberson went to Keota to visit their friend Miss Naomi Stewart today.
The column reports residents visiting Muscatine and Harpers Ferry area. Mr and Mrs Pete Stein and Ira spent Sunday with friends in Muscatine returning home this morning. Children day was observed at the Christian church with a Sunday school program. Mrs J N Reinert leaves for Muscatine to assist her hurt mother after an accident at the Rock Island depot. Mrs Hetzel fell rushing to catch a train, injuring her head above the eye.
June social notes list Clara Sommers and Ina Lauser as Riverside visitors last night. Fay Maynard and Veldam Brown visit Kalona, Charley Brown has his West Barnes street home painted, Peter Huffman and family visited the Sy Sharp home, and Joe Selement from Richmond spent days with Muscatine friends. Bessie and Emma Triska called on Riverside, Miss Anna Fry of Iowa City visited her cousin Grace Fry, and Schelm, friend of Ethel and Edna Allen, came home for a few days.
June entries report a 7 o clock passenger train delayed from 7 20 until 10 Sunday morning due to the C B Q railroad bridge washout between here and Nobile. Various local residents and visitors are noted visiting relatives, attending church events, and school closures. The river rising yet not at peak levels. community updates include social visits and lingering aftereffects of the week.
June 9 reports W H Hancock of Bloomfield visiting his son. Dr H E Marr’s mother returns from a visit with her brother H Ross at Rockford Illinois. Miss Pearl Dickinson of Richmond visits Geo Askea. Chas McCreedy ships a car of hogs yesterday. Trains delayed by wreck three miles west due to a broken flange.
Mrs N M Anderson returned home last evening after visiting relatives in Washington. Dave Harding arrived for a visit with his brother Joe Harding. Miss Lelia Rhodes departed for a stay with friends in Muscatine. Mr and Mrs Sterling Holmes of Crawfordsville were in town on business. Miss Grace Cunningham of Crawfordsville is staying several days at the T J Easter home.
The Ladies' Aid society hosts an ice cream social on the Gardner lawn Thursday evening June 11. A Children's Day program is slated for Sunday morning at the church. Pearl McClure is improving after illness. Lora Martin returns from a Washington and Titus visit. The West Chester orchestra drew a good crowd at the church, taking in 827 at the door. W F M S meets Thursday at 2:30. Violet Gardner visited Mary Maud Timmons after church. School closed Friday with a kids’ program. Amy Folger returns to Washington. Lissa Adams plans a church musical event.
June 8 report states Miss Lottie Groendycke died June 5 at her home one mile west. She was buried Saturday at Grace Hill cemetery after a brief service at the house and cemetery. Pallbearers named Roy Mathers Harlow Engle Ralph Rehmel Ira Rehmel Harry Taylor George Hotle. Various relatives and visitors are noted including Mrs. Will Draper and daughter Helen of Chicago and others from Rubio Muscatine Washington and Iowa City. An Aid Society meeting is planned for Wednesday at 1 30 oclock with others visiting Henry Miller home. Edith Miller expected home from Cedar Falls and an ice cream supper at Pleasant school Friday invites all.
June 8 report details June McCaleb and her brother James returning home from a week with relatives in Ames. Local youths attended a dance at Seth Carris' last Tuesday night. Some traveled to Oskaloosa Saturday for a Holiness meeting. Jim Banks and John Mangold fished Sunday, bringing home a five pounder. Rob McCaleb attended the West Chester orchestra entertainment Friday night. Mrs Sidney Smith and Bessie Purvis of Washington visited J B McCaleb Saturday afternoon.
Continued on page 5 claims Foley's Honey and Tar is a well known remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles. It notes that more bottles are used than any other cough remedy as testimonial to its merit and urges choosing Foley's Honey and Tar from Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Admission is five and ten cents for a program of new pictures and songs showing at the Air dome tonight with likely audience appeal for local residents.
Col. D. J. Palmer, commander of the G. A. R. department of Iowa, departed yesterday for Cedar Rapids where the state encampment opens today. Miss Ethel Barger of Vinton arrived Saturday to visit her sister Mrs. Harry Ward after recently graduating from East Waterloo High School.
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