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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1907
Page
3
Des Moines report notes cool, wet start to the week with later sun and warmth. Weedy corn cleaned out, crops color improve. pastures and meadows show strong hay potential though overall yield below recent years. Potatoes and gardens perform well. fruit remains about 24 percent below last June's estimate with apples at about half a crop.
In Muscatine Iowa business leaders oppose evangelist Billy Sunday planned for October calling his meetings a menace to the city’s finances. The Retail Merchants' Association passes a drastic resolution to keep him away while church groups push ahead raising about $3,000 to build a chapel for 6000 seats.
Ellsworth Raines, a miner from Oskaloosa, Iowa, attacked his wife Nettie Raines with a razor after a quarrel, cutting her face and neck. She bled heavily and may die. Raines, who recently faced divorce on cruelty grounds, attempted to stab a policeman and was found with a loaded revolver at the jail.
J. P. Cragg a retired hardware dealer and capitalist of Webster City was found Sunday under a railroad bridge west of town with a badly bruised head and unconscious. Officials believe heat and alcohol contributed to the accident rather than foul play. Cragg, worth about 150000, had been an inebriate for years and was in serious condition with a grim prognosis.
Spinnie Nichols visited the city from Ainsworth between trains. Miss Margaret Dicken left for Davenport for a week or two visiting friends. Chas Cunningham returned from Yale in New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Rush Morris went to Chicago for the wedding of his niece, Ora Morris, and will visit relatives. Frosted creams and hermits advertised at the Vienna.
Practical advice on winter hoof care exercise and feeding for horses and yearlings. Instructions cover mallet and chisel hoof trimming, roomy oat boxes, properly fitting work collars, and avoiding discomfort from pigpen odor and hens. Breeding notes urge purebred sires, regular yard exercise, and early lice dressing to protect skin.
John Upton cites Country Gentleman advice on farm remedies. Calves with scours may improve with a raw egg milk and flour mixture or saleratus in milk. Lice in calves treated with grease and sulphur or kerosene spray. Prevent horse heaves by light feed and fresh water after meals. Arsenic doses six grains daily for two weeks. Worms treated with tonic powder iron sulphate and neutian root. Mange scoured out with sand washed skin and sulphur lard ointment. Carbolic acid solution as potent wound disinfectant and fly repellent in warm weather. Foul foot from mud cleaned between toes with rope and zinc sulfate solution. Caked udders may be aided by placing manure in the stall overnight with the cow tied nearby.
An expert warns against delaying water for working horses. Rapid surface cooling causes feet congestion, water founder, while adequate watering prevents tissue loss. Horses should be watered within two hours after feeds and more in heat, with morning hydration added.
A compact rail of city social items and travels lists many residents visiting or departing: John Sessler and daughter in Fairfield, Miss Edith Fox returning from Brighton, Miss Wilma Row and Fannie Harwood from Oberlin, Mrs. M. E. Siberts and Hazel to Uniontown, and others. A 10 cent social and thimble bee is planned by the M E church Women’s Home Missionary society with details for June 21. Florence Gardner named W R C delegate to Saratoga convention. Mrs. Bryson alternates.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with showers east and central portions. Wednesday generally fair with cooler east portions. Continuous text conveys a two day outlook for Iowa with a mix of showers and cooler conditions.
A. A. Herren of Finch Ark. endorses Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble claiming it cured consumption in early stages. Also mentions F Haight selling and repairing sewing machines at the old stand offering guaranteed satisfaction. Free trial of Dr Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy advertised with ingredients listed and an offer to mail a sample from Racine Wis. Sold by J. H. Stewart.
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