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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1905
Page
4
Journal correspondents report daily events including accidents deaths births and marriages in their communities. The paper gathers local notices of interest and reports timely events and happenings with concise coverage.
Ainsworth June 10 Miss Bessie Kight of Cumberland Massachusetts arrived Saturday to visit her mother Mrs. J. T. Miss Martha Walker returned Saturday from Washington. R. R. McGill went to Chicago after visiting relatives. W. H. Campton of Washington arrived last evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stickley and son Armand left for Fessenden after weeks at J. W. Stickley home. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cocklin of Ridgeway Missouri arrived Saturday to visit relatives.
June 10 report notes Mr and Mrs Wal Cherry Holmes arriving from Washington to visit relatives. Funeral attendance as John Kurtz’s sister Mary Lease and family travel to Wayland. Open air band concert aided by Ainsworth band members. Prof. Yeager trips to Iowa City for business. Brinton Co staged U P church entertainment with Kings Daughters. Yeagers encounter storm near Columbus Junction. watch hidden. search started. Children’s Day observed at Presbyterian church with fine decorations and program. W J Reynolds from Washington makes a business call. Mr and Mrs W A Dodder visit friends and relatives in Washington.
Mrs EBil Neiswanger announces buttermilk for sale by the drink quart or gallon at a moderate price. Proceeds go to the missionary cause. Reading as a healthful drink, it offers public benefit and support for a good cause.
Tomorrow marks Dr. Howerth's final lecture at the Washington County Normal. The program invites the public with talks on Making the Most of Life at 9 10, Education as Adjustment at 10 00, and Education and Public Health at 2 10.
A park service held yesterday afternoon in the city park drew a large audience. Roscoe Henderson, a colored boy preacher from Missouri, preached to the people and the A. M. E. choir delivered several well performed selections.
A public-spirited exhortation warns that citizens who do nothing for the town help dig its grave. It condemns those who refuse to advertise or engage in enterprise as contributing to the community's burial, while urging active civic involvement.
Rev. L. D. Young will deliver the Fourth of July address in Columbus Junction. The event sets the tone for Independence Day celebrations and outlines local community remarks and patriotic observance.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will meet Friday afternoon at Mrs. J. B. Bergquist’s home on East Main street. Miss Jessie Crooks hosts the Fortnightly Club musical department this evening at her North Second avenue residence. The Barrett Bible class meets tonight at 7:45 in the M. E. church ladies’ parlor.
Ainsworth June 19 special: Mr. and Mrs. Sam LeMer and Rev. Miller met the Brown boys driving a buggy in darkness. LeMer suffered a four stitched forehead gash and scratches, Mrs. LeMer was badly bruised and unconscious briefly, Rev. Miller lost a tooth, the Browns uninjured, and the Lefflers drove home afterward.
Iowa Falls June 19 The first formal announcement for grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa is made by Sioux City lodges naming Past Chancellor F. L. Ferris. Ferris has served in grand circles since 1899 and sits on the grand tribunal. Other candidates listed include F. E. Iancan Des Moines Judge Rice H. Bell Keokuk and James W. Hunter Newton.
Four month old child of Mr and Mrs J W Showens died yesterday evening at their Cedar township home eight miles NW of town. Funeral at 10 tomorrow morning conducted by Rev Thee of Lexington M E Church. Interment in Elm Grove cemetery.
Reports say last night's rain was widespread with heavy zones. The Mississippi river rose at Muscatine by an inch hourly, totaling seventeen inches by the night of the seventeenth. The Drury levee on the Illinois shore flooded, 25000 acres of bottom land farms inundated, stock isolated, grain covered. Davenport suffered the heaviest hail storm in elder memory, leaving fields white with hail and likely extensive country damage.
Brinton opens a new tent for performances featuring a lineup of fresh attractions. The event marks the初 debut of the venue with several new features and an audience-friendly program.
J A Stuart, a carpenter working for Harry Shrader, was accidentally shot Sunday afternoon at about three o'clock. They were building a house on the Henry Vogel farm near Tallayrand when the Vogel boy, about fourteen, discharged a 22 caliber rifle. The bullet struck Stuart in the thigh and lodged beneath the skin. He was brought to the city and treated at his sister Mrs James Bickford's home. The bullet was located but not extracted. The wound is not dangerous and Stuart is expected to recover in a few days.
Mr and Mrs W A Dodder of Crawfordsville spent yesterday at the S P Kiefer residence.
A testimonial compares consumption to famine and praises Dr King s New Discovery as a quick and perfect cure after failed remedies. It claims relief for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and more and warns it prevents pneumonia. Available at J H Stewart s drug store with 50 cent and 1 00 bottles and a free trial bottle offered.
Maximo Gomez died at 6 p m Saturday in Havana after a long illness. He received a national funeral, following his operation in May in Santiago due to gangrene in his hand. Born in Santo Domingo in 1826, he fought Spain, joined Cuban rebels in 1867, and led forces until Cuba’s independence.
Judge Seaman ruled that General Paper must answer questions and disclose its books to government attorneys during a pending examination. Attorneys said the case would go to the circuit court and, if needed, to the supreme court. Upholding the decision would affect future trusts by enabling broad book and witness examinations.
Charles W. Jones is jailed in Fairmont on charges of attempting to extort $500 from farmer John Mason. A letter tied to Mason’s gate demanded the money and a late night meeting. Bloodhounds tracked Jones from the letter to his home, aided by Sheriff Furbee of Marion county.
Washington report states that cottonwood provides greater strength in box construction than New England white pine North Carolina and Arkansas yellow pine Michigan white pine western spruce western hemlock or red gum after a series of forestry bureau tests assessing species for box use.
Elgin June 19 Margaret Has dentufel aged 10 rushed in front of a fast train on the Northwestern road and pulled 2-year-old Frank I Hoover from the track just in time to save the baby. The rescuer was knocked down by engine parts and rendered unconscious but not seriously hurt.
Madison Wis June 10 the senate confirmed by a unanimous vote the nominations by Governor LaFollette of B H W Meher and Halford Erickson as members of the railroad rate commission. The nomination of N P Haugen was rejected by a 16 to 11 vote. An adjournment was then taken until next Thursday.
London reports the battleship Hibernia and armored cruiser Achilles, totaling 30 000 tons, added to the British navy. Hibernia built at Devonport dockyard and will be managed largely by Irish men, flying an ensign gifted by Ireland.
President Roosevelt dined with John R. Walsh proprietor of the Chicago Chronicle and Southern Indiana railroad president and Secretary of the Navy Charles E. Morton among railroad figures. The discussion centered on rate regulation and policy.
In Des Moines on June 19 John Hemmerslie a street car conductor killed Willim Estil after Estil insulted Hemmerslie’s wife. Hemmerslie resisted arrest and was beaten into unconsciousness.
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