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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
6
Special to the Evening Journal reports fair tonight with warmer west portion and frosts, and Sunday will bring increasing cloudiness and warm temperatures across Iowa.
A news brief reports the death toll reaching fifteen in a incident occurring in the evening with a time noted as six fifteen. Authorities have not released further details about the event or individuals involved.
Peter Fetes a longtime resident of Washington county died last evening at 6 15 at his home seven miles south of the city after sixteen years of ill health He was born in Belford France February 29 1828 came to America in 1840 married Mary Ann Mayer in Buffalo New York in 1857 and moved west In 1862 he settled in this city later relocating to a Eureka neighborhood farm He leaves seven surviving children four boys and five girls and a widow Emma Wolfer Rose Kuhn Celestine Louis Nellie and George Fetes one son Peter Fetes died in 1895 and a daughter Mary a sister of St Josephs in Attica New York He was a lifelong Catholic and a respected county resident.
Local brief items report Howard Hill's return to Winfield, visits by Mrs. Thos Craig and Miss Frances Anderson, and travels of Prof. R. D. Daughters, Miss Jean Hay, Mrs. Charles Stearns, Mart Swift, and Lulu Matthews. Mentions Vienna bakery items, Kellogg pension for Fred Howard, and a visit by Howard McCleery. Nursery ad for W. R. Stryker & Sons. Toledo ads note American Lady flour and Rocky Mountain Tea promotions.
Sincere regret is widespread as the community learns of the death. The funeral will be held Monday at 10 o'clock from St James Catholic church with interment at Elim Grove cemetery.
L C Corbett notes peach trees grow faster than apple or pear, so yearling peach stock is preferred. Prune to a single whip at planting, remove nonessential shoots, and avoid excessive root loss. Many fruit trees tolerate severe root pruning, while most ornamentals require minimal root trimming.
Forest expert Gif ford Pinchot prescribes puddle rooted stock for transplanting seedlings. Roots dipped in earth water then placed in parallel trenches with layers of trees buried in fresh soil until all are heeled in. For conifers foliage must not be buried and shade provided.
W P Hedrick notes by Bordeaux mixture spraying injury varies by variety. Highly susceptible types include Baldwin Ben Davis Gravenstein Jonathan Rhode Island Greening Twenty Ounce Wagoner Wealthy Yellow Newton and Yellow Transparent. Less susceptible types include Alexander Spitzenburg Fall Pippin Hubbardston Northern Spy Red Astrachan Red Ceonada Rome Roxbury Tolman Sweet Tompkins King and Yellow Bellflower.
Milo Adams of Kensett, after three weeks in Mason City, hanged himself at 4 am on a Wednesday morning to a coat rack in the Minor Commission company rooms. A letter to his wife asked pardon and blamed bad luck. He once lived in Sioux City as a druggist who retired with $20,000 but lost it in Albert Lea’s implement business. He had drawn $2000 from his daughter in Lockport, New York, on Wednesday. Adams’s wife has been married three times. her first husband is in prison.
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