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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
5
The Central College Glee club of Pella will present an entertainment at Prairie Flower Baptist church Saturday evening May 4 at 8. It has twenty members eight teen singers one reader and one violinist. Admission is 25 cents for adults 15 cents for children. The article urges good patronage and attendance.
Local notes announce Frey’s fadeless forces and ad offers. Readers can request free Preventics samples and a booklet on colds from Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. Preventics are candy cold cure tablets without quinine and laxatives and claim to shorten colds when taken early. Sold by J H Stewart.
Daily notes from The County News recounts visits and calls in various towns. A. T. Reynolds from Washington shops in town. Miss Jennie Cook suffers a cold. Bruce Moore installs a new chimney at Ralston hardware. Several residents travel to Washington. Dudley Gray hosts a seventh birthday party with treats and silver cups for guests.
A stream of short items records people visiting, traveling, and making calls in Crawfordsville and nearby towns. Mentions include E Dean at Col umbus Junction, J B Fulton from Lincoln Nebraska visiting West Chester, and Miss Maud Haines visiting Cedar Rapids. Also notices of plays, baseball promotions, and shipments like Kelley engines arriving for Mason Transfer and Storage Co.
May 2 brief business notices from Washington cover Mrs. Georgia Turbott visiting on business, E. S. Freeland’s health improving slowly, the Rev and Mrs J M Acheson visiting her brother J T Matthews, Mr Smiley of Crawfordsville handling business and visiting son W I Smylie, and Bert Chapel stopping at Washington between trains.
May 1 reports Mr and Mrs Merritt Booth welcomed a baby girl. Henry Amert delivered a horse to Washington Wednesday. Elsie Booth Moore visits Prairie Flower neighborhood. Henry and John Blattner called on Henry Horning Monday. Bert Donaldson visited Washington Wednesday. Harmon Brinning narrowly escaped a serious head injury when a colt struck him. Dr Stewart said no bones were fractured.
May 1 report notes oat crop feared ruined by late cold snaps but now looks sound. Fruit crop fears also ease though a Wooster Ohio letter says near failure there. Local farmers plow ahead. soil suits seed bed. Several social visits and teaching assignments listed in Marquam and Pilotsburg areas.
May 2 local notes report Miss Kate Ferguson of Fort Madison visiting her father J. A. Ferguson. Miss Emma Hays returned to Washington after visiting Miss Nettie Hunter. Mrs. R. EB. Lease and niece Wilma traveled to Washington. Mr. Campbell of Washington returned home after a night in town. Dan Sullivan of Burlington was a business caller yesterday. Piano tuner Mr. Vogeldesant from Burlington spent several days in the city before departing for Wyman.
Town gossip lists Ruth Williams from Cotter visiting W Roberts home while Misses Porter arrive from Ainsworth. Local events include Crawfordsville Independents vs Crawfordsville BH and a Junior Academy play A Pair of Artists. John sons pies and cakes noted. Billy Sunday revival anticipated for Moline January 1909.
The regular meeting of Chapter 1 P B O will be held at Mrs Myrtle Anderson's home on Thursday evening May 2 at 7 30. Change of place is announced.
A hard time of year to provide for the table, Royal Market offers Roast Boiled Steak Pork Roast Chops Veal Roast Stew Cutlets Loaf Mutton Roast Stew Chops fresh Fish Poultry Mackerel White Fish Pickles Olives Smoked Fish Vegetables and a selection of sausages and cooked meats to assist in choosing.
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