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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
8
Sabbath school at 9:45 AM. Morning service at 11. Junior class at 4. Senior class at 5:45. Evening service at 7. All are invited. Rev. W. Fisher, pastor.
Sabbath school at 9 50 morning worship at 11 junior Endeavor at 4 senior Endeavor at 0 45 and evening service at 7 all are welcome Rev W R Sawhill pastor.
The pastor preaches at 1 and 7 with Sunday school at 2 30. An official board meeting is set for Monday evening. Morning sermon topic Following Fully and evening sermon The gospel that God is in will have its influence. Rev T R B Stoval is the pastor.
Corner of Zlon avenue and Jefferson street invites all to morning service at 11 with subject Matter. Golden text The world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever John 2 17. Wednesday evening meeting at 7 30. A cordial invitation is extended to every one to attend these services.
The notice lists a church day plan with Sabbath school at 940 hours and morning service at 11. Junior Endeavor at 3 and Senior Endeavor at 6 follow, with Evening service at 7 led by Rev. L. D. Young, pastor.
The revival at First Baptist remains well attended and sustained with thorough effort. Rev. J. Dr. Vanney of Centerville assists and will conclude his work tonight. The pastor will preach both morning and evening tomorrow with the chorus choir providing music. Rev. G. D. Rogers, pastor.
Sunday school at 9 30 a m classes at 10 30 public worship with communion at 11 Junior and Intermediate Leagues meet at 3 30 Epworth League at 5 45 evening service at 7 with theme Some Phases of the Temperance Question Rev A S Smith pastor.
Brinton showcases a fresh feature at the opera house tonight with a nuanced performance. The event draws local patrons and highlights Brinton's evolving artistry.
The Ottumwa trip sends a high school girls team to play the Ottumwa High outfit. The squad includes Mary Steck Bessie Den en Georgia Young Marguerite en Helen Dean Alice Denison Glen Work Mildred Wabnitz Alliene Bailey Bessie Kyle and the Misses Jamison Nichols. The girls have high hopes of winning.
Health officers report $63 330 contributed toward a $500 000 sanitation fund as San Francisco fights bubonic plague. Two thousand rats and fleas are managed daily, with 2 000 plus rodents killed per day and rat poison distributed citywide. 65 330 raised so far includes 30 000 from Southern Pacific and 15 000 from Santa Fe, as education and public school plague prevention expand through summer.
A pair of quarter inch steel brass knuckles with five sawteeth and two two inch spikes were found on Mike Polchesky of 19 Oakland Street Greenpoint. Lieutenant Jones called them the most murderous weapons seen. Polchesky is held on $1000 bail for general sessions. He was arrested for fighting.
The U.S. financial crisis triggers widespread job losses with more than 4,500 diamond cutters in Antwerp left unemployed, signaling a severe industrial impact and regional economic strain.
Poetic verse from the Atlanta Constitution celebrates springlike renewal as robin songs, buds spreading on branches, moss green, and a carefree mood dispelling winter sorrow. The speaker greets warmer days and anticipates a chorus of joy with nature waking.
An advocacy piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female illnesses. It cites Mrs. Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri recounting twelve years of illness, eleven doctors, and recovery after following Pinkham's advice and using the compound. The article frames herbal remedies as effective across cultures and eras.
A playful quip from the New York Evening Journal recalls Fer Bean-Say asking Bobby for a lock of his sister's hair and Bobby replying with a joking pledge that she is wearing it.
The text states that the current system of musical notation was invented in the eleventh century. It identifies the eleventh century as the time of origin for the modern notation system.
The practice, once used as punishment for theft, was noted in English and French statutes around the Crusades era. It describes tarring and feathering as a historical penalty referenced in old law.
Foremost among the minerals are gold, iron, coking coal, manganese, copper, platinum, emeralds, topazes, asbestos, salt and likely naplitra as sources of Siberia’s future wealth, according to early assessments by experts in the article.
A Baltimore American item notes persistent pursuit or chase involving dogs and shadows with a quoted exchange about catching them, reflecting a quirky local vignette or caption. The piece centers on pursuit and belief in catching elusive shadows, tied to the paper’s lighthearted columns.
The passage notes that radium acts on glass porcelain and paper giving a violet tint. It changes white phosphorus to yellow oxygen to ozone and alters photographic plates while causing numerous other chemical changes.
Bishop Charles H. Fowler of the Methodist Episcopal Church dies at 71 in New York. He led multiple congregations and universities, helped found Peking and Nanking universities, and chaired the open door emergency commission raising over 20 million. He played a role in the Lady Elgin disaster rescue. Born in Burford Ontario, death from multiple illnesses. Funeral planned for Monday afternoon.
In Belleville on March 21 Justice Wangelit faced Ewald Siefert who refused a carbolic acid option and attempted suicide with a revolver after being fined for St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Siefert first failed to fire then drank castor oil and quipped about the trick before settling with police.
Press representatives who covered the Reichstag have stopped attending sessions after an incident during the debate on the colonial budget. Center leader Herr Groeber called journalists swine as they jeered at a claim that negroes also possess immortal souls.
Des Moines March 21 Half of the men at Rock Island's Valley Junction shops have been released to cut operating expenses. Nearly seventy five are out of work. A further reduction may follow though officials did not confirm.
Lieutenant Stoessel, condemned for cowardice and treason in surrendering Port Arthur, had his death sentence commuted by Emperor Nicholas to ten years' imprisonment and has begun serving at the St. Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg.
New York reports a bumper Easter lily crop from Bermuda. The Bermudian steamer will bring about 10 000 boxes on its April 17 voyage, each box with five dozen buds sold at the pier for 3 50 to 6 a box depending on stem length. Last year’s crop failed and blossoms sold 1 to 1 50 each. Dealers expect prices to drop accordingly.
Reports from Nicholas county Kentucky say growers are tearing up tobacco beds to prevent night riders from destroying crops. No riders have visited Nicholas county yet, and farmers, panic stricken, try to deter them. One farmer posted a sign on his barn declaring he will raise no tobacco this year.
Indianapolis March 21 The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America finished reviewing the scale committee report by sections. The first section approved imposes a 30 cent per month assessment on all members.
Mrs A L Graham came back to her Keota home this morning after a short visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Sprague at Columbus Junction.
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