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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
4
Dougherty Pros offers warm weather shirts and straw hats. W K E Chilcote traveled to Oskaloosa on business. Watt Marboure visited West Liberty yesterday. Orders by telephone filled promptly. J E B Clark telephone 541 Green.
A lengthy list of visitors and residents highlights a busy period in the city. People from Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and beyond arrive or move about, with car purchases, travels to Keota, Brighton, and St Louis noted amid social events and household changes. An ice cream social is planned for June 28 to aid Franklin Center Sunday school, and Prof. Seth Thomas returns to Ft. Dodge to practice law after a stint in education.
Nellie Wilson expects to depart for Spokane Washington at week’s end for an extended stay. Mr and Mrs C K Mann of Kansas City return home after a several days visit with relatives here. Dave Martin resumes downtown duties after seven weeks at home with erysipelas. W Cherryholmes McElwain and Cherry and Charles Brown shipped a load of horses to Ottumwa yesterday.
Mrs John Burnside of Seattle and Miss Elizabeth Burnside of Oskaloosa arrive this evening to visit Mrs H F Steck. Merle Bidwell and Frank Casey went to Coppock for a week of fishing, reporting big hauls. Charles Brown shipped a trotting horse bought at Iowa City to West Liberty for training.
John Waymack closed the purchase of five acres in the south part of town today and has been living on the property for about two weeks. Frank Giesler plans a Muscatine trip then Gen Eva Island camp trip with Mrs. Giesler. Grocers consider 7 pm closing in summer except Saturdays. Charles Lemley takes a two to three week vacation from J W Lemley grocery duties, staying with his mother near Grace Hill.
A poet describes a photographic session with Uncle Walt Mason urging a bright, cheerful smile. The speaker recalls the lens as the camera captures a hopeful grin and reflects on how a pleasant face can lift spirits amid gloom and despair.
The conference between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt dominates Washington. Roosevelt is likely to be offered the chairmanship of an International Court of Arbitration with Roosevelt as leading figure for the nations. Costs are set at about 200000 dollars yearly with salaries 15000 for the chairman and 10000 for seven judges. Secretaryship to Root. staff costs projected at 75000 yearly.
The National Fence Supply of Wichita opens temporary Washington office in the Carr & Grush building. Mesars Silliman and Atkins promote concrete fence posts with machine and molds sold for 12.50. Local agents planned, samples available, no territory for sale, aim to place agents in townships.
Rumors claim illness rumors affect the King and attribute speech and hearing infirmities to the Prince of Asturias, with a growing belief that Don Jaime will succeed his father on the throne.
Leading legal lights of Iowa gather in the capital for the annual meeting of the State Bar association. A banquet at the Country Club is planned, with former Governor C. L. Thomas of Denver delivering the annual address on the topic Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied.
With 00 Annapolis midshipmen aboard, the battleships Indiana Iowa and Massachusetts arrived at Portsmouth. The visitors are expected to tour London and will be entertained in the capital. The war ships will stay seven days before sailing to Marseilles, France.
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