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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
5
Local notices show Dougherty Bros advertising Panama straw hats at 490 while residents visit friends in Ainsworth Muscatine and Des Moines. Birth news mentions a son born to Mr and Mrs John Long of East Washington with dozens of travels and visits across towns like Cotter and Creston.
Last evening at Mrs Elizabeth Hopengardners home in North Washington Miss Kathryne Hopengardner married Frank C Beatty in a ceremony led by Rev W O Fisher First United Presbyterian church. A short ring service followed a wedding march by cousin Zenna Hopengardner.
Daddy tells Jack and Evelyn a bedtime tale about an animal party where children bring toy animals. The kids act out pretend play with a wooden hat rack tree and a missing toy cat blamed on Trixie the fox terrier. The dog wanders in and causes a ruse before the cat is recovered.
A reader with scissors and clipped want ads plans to search the paper for sale items. He will read tomorrow's issue for anything useful to buyers and urges sellers to place ads if their used goods still hold value to someone.
The Woman's Mission Circle of the Baptist church will hold an all day sewing in the church lecture room Friday with the quarterly missionary tea in the afternoon. All church ladies and friends invited. The Methodist Ladies’ Aid also plans an all day meeting tomorrow at the church with full attendance desired. Mr. and Mrs. Joe McGraw welcomed a nine pound daughter born this morning. Official thermometer read 86 above at noon. yesterday’s high was 85.
Rev J M Walsh received a message that Elizabeth McCormick a former resident has died in Chicago. The body will arrive tomorrow morning at 8 55 and the funeral will be held at St James Church Saturday morning.
The St James School held graduation exercises for the class of 1910 with two graduates Miss Loretta Walker and Miss Mary Eagle. The program featured piano duets and solos, recitations, a drama The Voyage of Life, essays by Walker and Eagle, and a prize distribution. Principal speaker J W Livingston urged four guiding life principles and praised teachers and parents.
The fire boys plan a real exhibition fire with a small house built for the act. Firemen will perform a rapid fireout demonstration for the public. Committees named include Wilson Hose Company Orie Turner Harry Ferguson and Hazelle Hose Company.
Henry Shields and Sitler Hook and Ladder Company with Art Minick George Reister and John Little report the Batdwitt loon people of Quincy Ti have received the contract today. Arrangements for balloon ascension parachute and a special program with four fireworks precede an expert show.
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