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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1905
Page
5
The Twentieth Century Reading Circle will meet Monday night with Mrs. Wm. Wilson instead of Tuesday. The Queen Esther Circle meeting with Mrs. Merton Teeter on Monday evening is postponed for one week. Also a Vienna sale warns hurry for chop suey and cream sponge.
Monday voters in Iowa City Kalona and Washington face a single ticket on the franchise question for the Iowa City Kalona and Washington Railway. The Peoples party declined to field candidates and support a trolley line from the city southward with several street entries. Kalona and Washington residents express enthusiasm for the road potentially opening new regional transport opportunities.
The latest billiards fixtures show L M Sproull defeating M C Slocum 100 96 7 to 77 5. Edw Bowman beat Lloyd Neal 100 67 1 to 85 97 7. H C Hull defeated Lloyd Neal 100 80 7 to 4 79 5. Bowling Class A standings list Fred Smith 108 149 182 and A Cunningham 164 160 175. Barrett 145 135 134 and McCulley 150 177 162 logged results last night.
Notice announces a district E P convention in Ottumwa on March 29 with seven Southeastern Iowa counties invited and Grand Lodge officers attending. A day school of instruction and evening exemplifications will occur. Washington lodge members should attend Monday to appoint delegates. They buy them before they are baked at the Vienna.
Monday event features an armed umpire and music making an unusual indoor baseball evening at the Commercial Club gymnasium.
The city is buzzing with bakery items at Johnson's including ten cent cakes, jelly rolls, lager cakes, angel foods and devils foods. Numerous visitors and locals were seen throughout the day visiting shops and taking trips to Ames Muscatine Burlington and Keota.
The Hamilton divorce case details a hearing on temporary alimony of 2500 dollars set for Tuesday April 4 at 9 am. Judge Preston handled miscellaneous matters including the adjourned Hocking Coal Co. matter and overruled the defense claim challenging court jurisdiction. Etta Hamilton seeks 25000 permanent alimony or separate maintenance if divorce is denied. W T Hamilton of Wellman is the defendant. Eardley Bell Jr and Milton Remsey represent the defendant. H M Eicher represents the plaintiff.
Mrs. Mame C. Fisher wraps up two weeks of free cooking lessons this afternoon with a fine discourse on soups and sandwiches. Her popular series included open questions, lively demonstrations, and strong kitchen expertise guiding domestic science in high form. Fisher, representing Pillsbury-Washburn Milling Co., Minneapolis, resides in St. Paul.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Durst of Lexington visited town for the regular meeting of Chapter 1 P EB O society held this afternoon at Mrs EB T Wickham's East Main Street home. Ward Griffin, from Des Moines, has joined A Ward Creamery Co Davenport as engineer and will depart tonight.
A Talladega Springs man praises Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption after two doctors failed to help him. He notes the first dose improved his pneumonia and cough, with the product sold at Stewart s drug store for a price uncertain in the ad.
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