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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
5
Special weather forecast notes rain or snow tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Washington report provides Iowa outlook for today and tomorrow.
Local items note Xmas pictures at the Star for band boys to raise funds for uniforms. Dougherty Bros advertises 500 new spring suit patterns on display Monday and Tuesday with measurement service and fit guarantee. Also Rev Jos J Silberman to appear in native costume and Passion Play at the Academy tonight. Band concert prices set for March 6 at Graham Opera House with reserved seats at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Earl Nicola moved to the McKay farm now rented. Ban Waters plans to move here to work for T. M. Been blossom. W. M. Johnson and friends visited Ward Essley this week. Mrs. Floyd Bickford visits from Kansas City to Elmer and Mrs. Bickford. Farmers drag the roads this spring. Wm. Petratz family move to Washington. Phil Shrader moves to his father's Sockum Ridge farm. Eureka church ladies plan a pie supper and short program March 10. All invited to attend and bring a pie.
Miss Edna and Eulala Merchant and Hattie Merrick visit with the Cochran sisters. Reuben Turner marks Mrs Turner's fifty first birthday with fifty guests and a bountiful dinner. Lydia Neff has been ill but shows improvement.
March 4 notes travelers and visitors in town. Mrs Will Marr of Ainsworth and Mrs J Wilkin host relatives. Mr and Mrs Edgar Wilson of Washington visit. B L Sanders leaves for Oklahoma to manage land interests. C O Davis and family move to a farm five miles north. Mrs Steve Reisman and Doyle travel to Eddyville for ill father. C O Keiser heads to Canyon City Texas. Mrs Harry Page returns from Sigourney. Elmer Hulse and John Hamilton attend a Sigourney convention.
Rudolph Bopp of Riverside called in Kalona yesterday. Harry Matthews moved into the Wilson property in eastern Kalona. Ira Wells finished his winter term at Snake Hollow last Friday. C. F. Hershberger left with household goods for Texas. Norval Snider of Des Moines visited family. Mr Shebeck will move from the Stewart place west of town to a farm southwest of Richmond this spring.
March 3 item roundup of residents and visitors across Dutch Creek Keota Dublin Kinross area. Mentions Nick Tinnes wife Mrs Trier caring for him, stock sale at Bart Gregorys east of Keota, Guy Engle starting work for Seth Carris north of Dublin, Crosset and Matt Koch passing through, Mike Koch assisting John Koch at Dublin, Otis Waggoner guest at Mike Times home over weekend, with the narrative breaking off.
Major G W Littlefield of Austin closed a deal selling his 300000 acre Texas Panhandle ranch spanning Lamb and Hockley counties to a Chicago syndicate. The sale includes about 20000 cattle and 500 saddle horses with the land. Purchase price is 3 million dollars with Swift & Co connections noted.
In Dubuque Iowa yesterday the county Democrats chose 31 delegates and 31 alternates for the July 7 Cedar Rapids convention. Harmony prevailed as they endorsed Bryan resolutions and demanded leaders untainted by corporate influence. Louis Murphy of the Telegraph-Herald head the delegation.
Tom Singmaster of Keota notes Monday work. Pete Keifer and wife relocate to the Keifer farm west of town. Nick Tinnes Jr joins the telephone line as a new member.
Miss Margaret Twinam returned home from several weeks in Washington while Miss Rose Minner came back and spoke on Egypt at the United Presbyterian church. J. R. Dunham went back to Winfield last night.
March 5. Mrs. Jim Love visited Washington. William Beard visits sister Miss Gertrude Beard in Monmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Rabenold spent yesterday in Washington. Miss Miller of Mt. Pleasant visits Chas. McCreedy home. Ralph Ray of Wapello is a business visitor. City dray changed hands from Harry Moore to his brother Fred who took possession.
A Kansas City designer predicts a spring trend with a collarless coat for men and waistcoats without backs. The coat offers lighter wear for warm weather and suits office use or outing flannel. A two inch strap connects the back of the waistcoat, with loops at the armholes, aiming for coolness.
In the Pittsburg Post a speaker rose to address the crowd but used tired phrases and failed to win applause, leaving the moment without the expected response.
The new arrival jokes about water temperature in the dressing room. A companion counters with a wry line about two kinds of cold as a playful exchange evokes Harper's Weekly humor.
Crone and Lehrer announce meat market cutters at Crone & Co. Esther McGugin visits Will Ker home northeast of the city. Cobble together tailor shop pitch promises satisfaction at low cost. Dougherty Bros. schedule for Monday and Tuesday. Cleveland Dayton of Barnum & Bailey’s circus to play March 6 with leading band and a solo. Remps Hlampsher buys Parks property on West Madison Street.
Local notices list daily offerings at the Royal and Vienna eateries including celery fish and poultry at the Royal and pumpkin chocolate custard and cream pies at the Vienna. Mrs C H Critz leaves for Keota to visit her sister Mrs Rev Coffman.
Notice warns defendants to appear before noon on the second day of the March term convening March 17, 1908 at the Court House in Washington Iowa. If no appearance, default judgment and decree will be entered as prayed in the petition. Notice approved and ordered published as required by law.
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