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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1906
Page
5
Having dissolved partnership Carr and Link urge those who owe them to settle promptly. The notice requests early payment and settlement of accounts as soon as possible.
Duncan’s offers wallpaper per roll. Sherman Crone visits Brighton for a day. I Rothschild Co promotes yard wide silks at 1 a yard. Mrs Nettie Bain and May attend funeral in Brighton. Eva Brinks heads to Wyoming then Oklahoma for a new home. George Alexander M W Welch and D M Young return from Crawfordsville after business.
Two purses were found and returned to their owners identified by Anderson receipts for coal. Marion T. Anderson noted that paying cash for coal aided identification.
Mrs Harry Pearson left Saturday for Paris Iowa to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs S R Miller and daughter Winifred returned to Washington after a brief visit. Mrs P Nichols suffers with tonsillitis. Miss Hattie Shaffer of Lone Tree visits at W A Gable home. Several Washington visitors noted including Julia Tripp Lorraine Diedie Baxter Maimie Sturdivan and others. J M Utterback and Pearl Knickerbocker are also mentioned in county notices.
Walker went to Des Moines on business. Arthur Romoser and Ina Murphy visited from Crawfordsville. The Maass family traveled to Butler county. Minnie Myers returned to Keota. Fitzpatrick from Chicago will trim for Miss Lewis this season. Om Funston and Margaret Turbott came from Ainsworth for a brief visit. Alma McCutcheon visits from Mt. Vernon. Wooley returned from Crawfordsville. James Ward faces possible hospital operation in Iowa City. Turkington, Allen, and Gormley, business visitors, returned home. Dora Thompson and Jomlinson attended Charlie McClintock's funeral in Brighton. Ethel Tillotson leaves for Burlington then Pender Neb. to begin millinery duties.
In Crawfordsville on March 12 1900 residents Mr and Mrs S S P Keifer return from an over Sabbath visit to Washington. Mr and Mrs Guy Tomlinson and children go home to Morning Sun after visiting N L Long. George DeLong arrives from the east for a visit with Ed McFarland. Mrs W A Harper and Clofield return from an over Sunday visit to Wm Huston in Wyman. Rev W G Robertson leaves for Washington for a United Presbyterian ministers meeting. W A Harper back from a Texas trip. Mrs W J Wagner of Kinross visits her parents Mr and Mrs Marion Neal. J A Martin of Burlington here for the Guest piano company. Florence Tennant celebrates birthday today in Washington Iowa.
Lucas County affidavits Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co of Toledo vows to pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm offers testimonials, notices notary A W Gleason Dec 6 1886. Sold by all druggists 74c Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
William John Kennedy describes methods used by Scotch stockmen to raise feeders. Calves are nursed by nurse cows or fed by feeders to reach market weight by age two. Heifers are purchased at about twenty months, bred in Calloway district or Ireland, and maintained economically until March. Bulls favor Shorthorn or black bulls to ensure uniform calf appearance. Heifers graze in summer with limited feed until calving, then receive hay roots grain and cake, with pasture and grain after grass season. Calves are weaned by September and three months more feeding finishes dams for butcher. The method aims to continually grow heifers while producing market fat heifers. typical purchase around 40 and sale 80–90.
A farmer explains pigs receive top attention and best scraps from kitchen slops and dairy droppings. They enjoy grain from the feed basket and the warm dry sleeping spots during cold damp weather.
President Watkins of the Michigan State Live Stock Breeders' association says feeders must increasingly raise their own cattle as free ranges vanish in the west, ending the era of supplying eastern feeders.
A short note on pork production emphasizing that wholesome flavor comes from both feed and breed practices. It suggests the feed quality equals the breed in determining pork quality.
Veterinary notes discuss leveling horse hooves to ease stance, plus experiments with dried blood aiding a KC calf’s rapid gain. It covers medicine administration via a hose, hog vermin control by washing or spraying, sheep care for discharge and throat swelling, and a pigs cough cure using oats to relieve costiveness.
Jed Stewart made a business visit in Des Moines this morning. Mrs. M. Ryan returned to Keota Saturday evening after a brief stay in the city. Mrs J A Ashby and son came back from Keota Saturday night after visiting friends there. Mr and Mrs G W Wallace and daughter Marguerite traveled to Havre Saturday night for a Sunday visit with friends. Mrs H R Wreen and two boys, visiting at J Yockey and J Creen homes, left Saturday night for Omaha. H Benn received word that Chas McCreedy and Grace Benn have left Kansas for an indefinite stay in Denver.
E R Mulford, lecturer for the Patrons of Husbandry in Watersboro Pa, reports a distressing piles case cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The item claims the salve heals burns, sores, boils, ulcers, cuts, wounds, chilblains and salt rheum for 25 cents at Stewarts' drug store.
The Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine convention prompts the Iowa Central Ry to sell tickets April 25 to May 5 with return passage valid until July 31 at one fare for the round trip. The rate applies on any direct route there and back via a different direct route with stopover privileges. For details contact agents or A. B. Cutts G. P. & T. A. Minneapolis.
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