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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
5
Eac ee join Brinton Entertaining Company for the summer season. They will perform here Thursday Friday and Saturday nights with up to date specialties and singing illustrated songs, pleasing the local audience.
Daily parade of local movements lists L M Samson in Wyman and others, with travel to Crawfordsville, Des Moines, Keota, Winfield, and Chicago. Several visits, business trips, and social events noted. a wedding attended, medals awarded, and a fatal train collision near Normal Illinois reported for Andrew J Barr.
Mrs C M Keck hosts a spinster tea for Miss Emeline Warren while events unfold from the G T club to a large Junior League social. Invitations hint at a June 28 1905 wedding with Attorney Edmund D Morrison at Mrs Everson's home. A Lathrop Cocklin Ballou wedding follows three miles southeast with a small guest list and luncheon. A Cocklin family reunion at Cocklin home on South Iown Ave brings together five brothers two sisters from multiple states for the first time in 48 years.
Several new students joined today in A division Miss A Burich advanced Della Louck and Elwyn Latta and in B division Florence Randolph and Nellie E Wilson Supt Riddell spoke at chapel on the schools of England Rev Schreckengast will address students tomorrow morning All are invited to attend Supt Riddell's illustrated lecture on Europe tomorrow evening with no admission charged.
A list of Cocklin relatives from multiple towns gathered details include Adda Winterset J S Cocklin Nellie Lawrence Shepherd Livingston Wis L B Cocklin Karl Ainsworth Nellie Thomas Lisle Leona Fairfield L A Bunce Eureka George Brinton Mabel George Tay lor Mae and other Cocklins of this city through mentions of family connections and residences in Iowa Wisconsin Indiana.
A movement began today toward closing all city stores on the Fourth of July.Thirty eight businessmen have signified willingness to close if others follow their example. Since no celebration will occur the Chautauqua will be the main event.
The German Evangelical church organization completed negotiations for a church site buying the corner two blocks south of the Second WU. P. church from Charles Gorham. They plan to begin building soon and draw plans at once. Rev. Michels is noted as the town’s busiest man.
Mrs Hazen was in an evening gathering when an accident last night broke her collar bone. The fracture is serious and causing her pain with a difficult recovery expected. well wishes are offered for a speedy return to health.
The page lists holiday observances for July Fourth with a rest for grocery wagons and teams. It records a regular Rathbone Sisters meeting Friday evening with election and business report to Grand Temple. Also notes Mrs. W. B. Logan is ill and E R Burton from Kansas City visiting Dr. Jenkins home.
Mrs. LD Steinberger and her son Jack travel to Kansas City to stay with her sister Mrs. I Rothschild during a visit, staying at the relatives home as part of a family gathering.
In Adrian Michigan on June 21 a sedan water fountain in the Judson Mawkins drug store exploded while crowded with customers. Elmer T. Pocklington superintendent of Clayton schools was struck in the head and face and may be fatally injured though blood poisoning is hoped to be warded off. his life hangs in the balance.
Paul Morton announced the resignations of James W. Alexander as president and James Hazen Slyde as first vice president from Equitable directors in New York on June 21.
The National Interstate Independent Telephone association holds its first annual convention in Chicago, bringing together industry figures and members for discussions and networking.
A Houston woman testifies that Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her husband of Cuban diarrhoea contracted in Cuba after doctors failed. One bottle ended his severe attack, and neighbors corroborate. Sold by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
The Iowa Central Railway announces daily summer round trip tickets at one fare plus two dollars to Northern Minnesota and Dakota points, return limit October 31. Low round trips to St Paul and Minneapolis available after June 1. For details contact agents or A. B. Outts in Minneapolis. July 3.
Mrs Eli Neiswanger announces buttermilk for sale by the drink quart or gallon to raise funds for the missionary cause. The sale offers a healthful drink for public use and a chance to support a good cause. 7-31
C F Collier of Cherokee Iowa credits Electric Bitters with curing a severe kidney disease. He suffered extreme backache headache and low mood and could not sit without a cushion. He reports full recovery and recommends the tonic to others with weak kidneys liver or stomach. Guaranteed by J H Stewart Druggist.
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