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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
5
The town greets Mrs. Fred Jones and children and Miss Lillian Orria from Ainsworth. Miss Mabel Morton returns from Cornell College. Mrs. J. C. Mathers and sons visit Has kins as does Mrs. Bryson with Dubuque trip. Strawberries at the Royal and Vienna bakery items abound as residents visit family, attend funerals, and shop for goods.
The vacation period is described as a new, gleefully lampooned escape from work and bills. It contrasts tranquil coastal retreats with rugged trips and points out how vacations can leave men tanned, scarred, or unsettled by domestic cuisine and wives cooking.
Mrs George Dowell and daughter Dorothy visited Davenport for the day. A dance at Phoenix hall is planned for Saturday night June 15 with free admission for ladies and 25 cents for gents. Prof FE Churchill and wife left for Iowa City to pursue advanced work at the State University. Mrs Belle McKnight of Blanchard Iowa left for Chicago after visiting S EE McElhinney. Will Kuhn returns from Lolo Montana where he taught this year and will teach there again next year. Mr and Mrs W A Cook and R S Cook visited Oskaloosa and Mrs Hannah Rickey’s home. Mrs Rickey's ninety second birthday. Roy al Market advertises 20 ounce Swiss Milk Baking Powder at ten cents a can. Dr Luella Shaw, specialist in women’s diseases, is at Congress Hotel. Ethel Dodson of Davenport, visiting Earnest Dean’s, departed for Oskaloosa. Mrs R C Ferguson and Miss Aicey Hopkinson returned home after a brief visit.
St Charles Sable of 30 Cook Street Rochester New York says Foley Kidney Pills gave prompt relief from long standing kidney trouble. His strong endorsement from a local resident and Lemmon's Pharmacy underscores the product's claimed curative qualities.
Miss Cora Porter hosts a dinner for friends at the Teeter home with Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Rothschild entertaining eighty ladies at a thimble bee on West Main. A quiet home wedding in East Main street ties Miss Dora Montgomery to Dr. William John Masson with a luncheon, pink and white decor, and departure to Chicago. The bride, a former Latin teacher, is praised as accomplished and the groom, a dentist, plans a local practice with his brother.
Theodore Roosevelt declared in Chicago that he will travel to lead the fight personally. He said leaders urged him to go and that delegates want him there to represent Republican principles, not as a candidate for now. Regis WH. Post, former Porto Rico governor, will accompany him to Chicago.
In Chicago on June 4 the Republican National Committee seated Taft delegates in Tennessee First District Oklahoma Third and South Carolina First. Taft now 165 Roosevelt 13. A near fist fight followed the Oklahoma hearing with detectives stopping a Taft supporter who struck a Roosevelt partisan and was then struck by a Roosevelt ally.
In Perth Amboy New Jersey a riot at the American Smelting plant left one striker dead and two wounded as deputies fired to stop arson and protect a ten million dollar facility. About two hundred attacked the plant with a dawn assault and militia call is expected imminently.
Cyrus chapter No. 13 Royal Arch Masons holds a regular convocation Friday evening June 14 1912 at 730 with Mark and Past Master decree in the program Henry C Hull H P urges large attendance The D of H to host a 15 cent social Saturday in A O U W hall Everyone invited Also a regular meeting Saturday at 230 pm with strong attendance urged
Mrs J E Henry of Akron Michigan explains kidney discomfort led her to try Fo ley Kidney Pills. She bought a bottle after a successful sample and believes they saved her a big doctor bill, as told by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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