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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
4
The column reports daily accidents deaths births and marriages with brisk items from readers and staff. Notable entries include local incidents and verified life events across the community with attention to timely updates.
Lula Tobin attends Charley Shaffer school while Dr. Chittum treats Shaffer to restore health. Alta and Silas Ford conduct a dehorning operation south of town. Holy Trinity church observes forty hours of adoration April 7 8 and 6 with Bishop Cosgrove visiting April 20 for confirmation. James Kneber makes a Kalona trip. Wes Reiner and John Welte excused from jury service. Mrs Johanna Marek improves. Emma Lehrer returns to Washington.
March 23 item batch notes Miss Lissa Adams returns from Drake University Des Moines after music study Miss Maud Nicola visits Miss Ora Henderson Lora Martin visits friends Ladies Aid to meet March 30 with Mrs Irene Oldfield Others report sick list and local visits including Mrs J M Mace Mrs Mary Bishop and Vera Page characterizes a small town bulletin.
The Baptist Ladies Missionary Society gathers this afternoon with Mrs. Molly Phillips leading. Mrs. Elmer Brimham and her son Rex return from a visit to Illinois.
They enjoyed their visit splendidly with Washington callers Isaiah and Elmer Bush. Mrs. Harve Knapp returned from Ottumwa. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pribyl drove to Kalona, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Palmer with Mr. and Mrs. Pribyl spent Wednesday evening at the Haines home.
Mesdames Elia Beenblossom Tris sie Hopping and Laura Birney attended a Sunday Washington meeting. Ross Van Nostrand announced plans to install a new pitiless farm scales at the site.
Mrs Sherman Benson arrives from Havre and visits the John Mitchell home. Several residents travel for work or visits, including Robert Young Jr to Burlington and James Ferguson to Washington. Church schedule details Methodist United Presbyterian and Christian Endeavor events with sermon topics and service times.
March reports a Washington business visitor list including Dr. L W Harding returning from the Pearson Jackson wedding at Solon. A reception near two and a half miles northeast for Chas Jackson and bride followed by a large dinner and well wishes. J W Teeter of Washington postponed a mortgage sale of hotel furniture to March 27 due to roads.
12 dot cream and coffee color lace stocks priced at 10c on regular 26c value. Entirely new goods and latest designs offered by I. Rothschild & Co.
March 24 reports include Mrs James Daniels traveling to Washington on business. Andy Simpson of Cedar township visited on business yesterday. Ray Sanders returned from Highland Park where he attends school. Mrs R Wells came back from Keota after visiting her sister.
March items include the Klopfenstein’s new baby girl born Saturday morning Ed Ball and family visit his father near Winfield Churches and funerals for David Benedict in Muscatine a kitchen built for Elmer Carmichael and woodcutting by Wm Miller Jr. School board approves eight month term paying Marion township teachers 270 per year and a neighborhood birthday surprise for Manuel 8th birthday Mr and Mrs Jim Fishburn visiting Frank Macon and Jim building a hog house for Frank Scranton hosts a six oclock dinner tonight plus several minor notices.
The piece promotes Wadsworth Bros Chicos a five cent cigar sold at J. E. Lemmon's drug store claiming it as a sensible habit for men. It touts Havana filler, easy burn and good taste versus pricier brands. The article briefly mentions Mr Worrel visiting city and a Washington move, plus section men returning from Eldon after repairs from No 43 derailment.
Advisory warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury as dangerous, urging prescriptions from reputable physicians. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation with testimonials available.
Guidance from Dr. P. T. Woode on incubator use covers warming start, temperature limits, turning schedules, and testing days. It warns against opening the incubator to aid hatching, advises ventilator management after hatch, and suggests moving chicks to a ready brooder after 24 to 36 hours.
The American Poultry Journal advises keeping ducklings dry until breast feathers show. Use a tomato can drinking fountain with a side hole to fill a pan, deep enough for full immersion to prevent nasal suffocation. Replace with a V shaped wooden trough as they grow.
The article notes the difficulty of hens sitting in winter and favors incubators to raise broilers for timely selling. It highlights growing farm use of incubators as a cheaper, more productive method, allowing more fowls from the same hens and improving profitability.
Cleaning the coop with hot soapsuds and whitewashing with a carbolic acid wash can kill lice and mites. After thorough drying, pests are reduced and continuous care helps keep the coop free of infestations.
The breed of turkeys raised matters little for market price if plump and fat. Bronze turkeys are regarded as the best all around breed, with blooded stock fattening more quickly and cheaply than common fowls.
Prairie Farmer asserts the finest meat quality in poultry comes from the breast. It advises buyers to choose breeds with the most breast meat for top table birds.
Do not use lime in the house it harms the hens eyes and feet and reduces the value of the drapings as fertilizer. Clean roosts weekly and pair them with lice paint to control pests.
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