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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
3
We will celebrate the Fourth by sending trains to Burlington and Winfield with one of the Washington bands. The new B and N W Ry line will offer wide track service and kick off on June 29, with rides starting July 4 at a rate of one and one third fare. Agent G. Fox notes the event and inaugural runs.
An old advertisement claims sacred cows defile temples and promotes Dr. Kings New Life Pills to cleanse the system. It touts lively livers active bowels and good digestion with a sale at Stewart's drug store for 25 cents.
The Iowa Central railway will sell excursion tickets to points within 200 miles at the rate of one and one third fare tickets on sale July 3 and 4, limit July 7. Apply to local ticket agent for further information.
The forecast for Iowa today and tomorrow calls for unsettled weather with showers and a chance of varying conditions.
Local snippet mentions Allen the candy man and moenns for ice cream. Unclear context or full details.
A flurry of callers and travelers including Ed Stewart from Keota, Jacob ameter, and Mrs. Law welcoming a new daughter. Several residents visited Davenport, Burlington, Fairfield, and Des Moines with numerous travel details and plenty of family and social notes. Miles Bradford was summoned to Des Moines to adjust windstorm losses for the Iowa Mutual Insurance Association.
A gospel tent meeting begins July 6 in Washington led by singing evangelists Smith and Colburn of Chicago. The plan unites U P Methodist Baptist Covenanter and First Presbyterian churches in Champaign Ill for a summer outreach. A tale explains how a megaphone attached to a church telephone let 500 people hear services, including distant towns and even a Champaign saloon patron listening nearby.
Washington County Normal Institute ends two week session with nearly 200 enrolled. Examinations continue today in the court room where teachers are tested. Primary activities featured a May pole dance and ribbons as teachers sang and marched. Mrs. Clark of Ottumwa delivered chorus, Prof. Gillan of Milwaukee spoke on reading, and Prof. Bronson’s concert band of 44 performed. the Chronicle of Augusta lauds the Wallace Shows band as top in the South.
Dr George Maresh becomes county physician at Riverside with certificate filed yesterday. Residents travel to Keota and Oskaloosa for visits and return home, including Miss Lou Cunningham Mrs Grace Uhi and two children visiting Cameron Missouri and East Washington street family. Abbie Pinkerton from Taylorsville arrives by Firefly to visit former schoolmates while Carrie Haughman returns to Oskaloosa from Boston. A prominent citizen questions a prophecy of three dryer years. Jessie Alberson departs New York for a European tour. Mrs Frank Johnson linked to a cyclone casualty list and Justice Folger kin. Mrs Kerr and J Isenhart plan West Virginia trip.
The Ft. Madison Republican notes a Keokuk effort to curb liting up with the dead warning that success could let Keokuk residents sleep at all hours. Also features a Virginia town happy tale about Araica Salve curing scald head and claims of relief for effects like corns burns ulcers eruptions and piles. Stewart's Pharmacy sells the salve for 25 cents.
H J Strickfaden editor of the World Herald in Watt Haven Washington credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with protecting his son from a pneumonia scare and multiple severe croup attacks. The product is sold at Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook and Sherman.
Ralph Stafford son of Dr and Mrs C L Stafford of the city has been elected science teacher at Marshalltown High School Iowa. He previously taught in Red Oak and was re elected there and also offered a post in Walla Walla Washington but will accept Marshalltown position.
The Womans Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church met Friday afternoon with Mrs Ab Anderson. Kate Wilson reported on the Burlington state convention held May 21 22. The society begins the new year June 1 and meetings are at the president's home. Officers for the new year are listed, with Ab Anderson as president and several vice presidents, secretaries, and treasurers. A life member was made for Ab Anderson.
A fragmented notice mentions hens and spring chickens and old roosters with a stray number 1213. The readable text provides no clear event or location.
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