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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
5
Local notes list births and social visits across Monmouth and surrounding areas. An eight pound girl was born Tuesday June 18 at 10 30 am to Mr and Mrs H J Griffiths. Several residents travel for visits, sewing machine sales and repairs are advertised, and local businesses promote bakery and pastry items.
Miss Mabel Morton returns from Cornell College Mt Vernon with an A E degree and will assume the role of college secretary for the Chicago Training School. She will travel to Methodist colleges across the United States to confer with students, lecture on deaconess and mission work, and promote the organization. Her first visit will be Syracuse University New York.
Marriage licenses were issued today to Leetie S. Deal of Winfield and Sedith Printon of Brighton, and to James A. Walton and Lizetta Vonlicent of Wellman.
The What I Can Society of First Baptist hosts a pro era meeting at Miss Kazel Meek's home in East Washington. T Y S girls hold a Sunset Park picnic for Miss Dorothy Salter of Norfolk, Nebraska, guest of Miss Lydia Eicher, with Helen Morton, Marie Chilcote, Elsie Minick, and Mildred Martin attending. A separate Sunset Park picnic honors Miss Mildred Walnitt of Davenport, guest of local relatives, followed by an entertaining visit at Miss Cecil Rogers' home with music and luncheon.
Mystic Workers of the World call a regular meeting for Wednesday at 8 pm to hear convention reports and handle other business. The W. C. U. will picnic Thursday at Sunset Park at noon. bring baskets, husbands, and friends.
Remodeling of the Washington National Bank will start Wednesday. After that date the bank will operate in the Gardner & Bridger clothing store room, one door south of the current location, until remodeling is finished.
Notice informs customers that the business has relocated to the Citizens' Savings Bank building at the southwest corner of the square. It invites old customers and a large number of new ones to visit. Washington County Savings Bank mentioned.
A Maine woman designed a lobster like megaphone with two mid level branches and two longer dorsal tubes. The device rests on the announcer’s shoulders and rotates for angle, delivering voice clearly to all directions including behind.
Augustin Filon recounts how Napoleon’s stuffed dog, once with the emperor at St Helena, was left at a chateau in Chateauroux and sparked local protests. Citizens demanded the relics, pressed ministers in Paris, and faced peril as they claimed the artifact amid separation Act tensions.
The list features a vertical horizontal and diagonal pattern of twelve names all starting with the letter E. The exercise challenges spatial rotation and letter sequencing across a grid.
A playful poem-style note describes a rabbit as cheerful with large ears and a habit of not gossiping or repeating ill talk. It contrasts his silence with the mischief of gossip and notes how friends hold him in high esteem.
Mrs. Kendingle Cook reveals in a public exposé that toy dogs are not a distinct breed but products of cruel practices. Inbreeding and selective feeding cause degeneracy, with smallest pups kept for show, given raw meat to provoke gastric ulcers, while weighing and starving days shorten their lives.
Walter W. White of Denver describes making a wrestling mat from six used bed mattresses due to high cost of store mats. He ordered a canvas bag 12 feet 3 inches by 12 feet 9 inches from a tent company, covered the mattresses, and laced the bag as illustrated.
A playful dinner table exchange features four year old Nellie asking why soup comes first before fish in meals and whether the fish can swim after it. The anecdote captures a quiet family moment with a child’s curiosity about food order and swimming.
A visiting child, Little Gertrude, asks Grandpa why a woods is always full of trees while traveling through a country grove. The exchange captures a simple, curious moment as they observe unfamiliar surroundings.
A child asks what charity means and a teacher explains. Stella replies with a childlike example about lending a bande chief when someone has a cold, illustrating kindness in simple terms.
In a rural dispute a sheriff arrives to seize a farm after a land conflict. A second man reveals the seizure is complicated by his wife’s elopement with the hired man, creating a personal complication for the case.
A lay critic questions the concert’s success while noting the conductor appeared to enjoy the performance, with an estimated 80 in the audience. The excerpt hints at a lively atmosphere and personal impressions of the event.
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and cannot be cured by local applications. It promises a $100 reward for any catarrh related deafness that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure and urges sending for free information from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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