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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1912
Page
2
Valley Forge Camp No S68 meets every Thursday evening in hall on North Side Square. All neighbors are welcome.
Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday each month led by W M C A Dewey and Secretary J W Morton. Cyrus Chapter No 18 R A M meets on the second Friday with Mm Os Silt as HP and J W Morton secretary. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 KT meets on the third Friday with Wyatt B Marbourg B C and J W Morton secretary. Washington Chapter No 98 CE and Regular meetings on the second Thursday with Mrs J E Kunath W M and Mrs Myrtle Bragg secretary. Visiting fraters welcome.
Local correspondence reports on varied community events across the county. Brief notes cover people’s activities, church gatherings, school happenings, and civic matters shaping daily life.
May 1 1912 report from Brighton Route One lists carpenters at Cocklin house and Tobe Minnick leading mason work. Rev J W Carson to preach May 12 at Eureka. telephone line connected to Washington switch. Mrs Armstrong of Rock Island visits Buntenbach parents. Sunday school convention May 12 at Eicher church. Various local visits, moves, and travel notes from Washington, Muscatine, Davenport, and nearby towns. No major events. routine community updates and personal notices.
In West Chester on May 2 1912 George Lewis shipped four cars of stock to Chicago Tuesday. Al Augustine shipped two cars. Oren Helwick bought horses this week. Mrs Jones clerks for R C Ferguson. Dr BE Caldwell and D BE Brumbach bought Pete McColl property. John Hanna delivered twenty nine steers at $7.50 per hundred. Lydia Lewis and Isaac Marr wed at the bride’s parents home in Keota. About forty relatives and neighbors attended the ceremony with cigars and candy to celebrate.
Mrs Don Brindley and Mrs Tom Schulty were Washington callers Tuesday. Sam Schulty and John Blum visited Washington Saturday. A group including Charles Dunshee Blanche Wallace Frank Dunshee Eva Wakelee Warren Matthess and Hazelle Schulty were entertained at Maud Timmins Sunday. Don Brindley was a Wellman caller Monday. Mr and Mrs Harve Hightshoe welcomed a baby girl. Mrs Blaine Holmes visited her sister last Tuesday. Lex readers attended Wellman home talent show last Friday. Elsie Amlong was in Wellman on business Tuesday afternoon. Cecil Amlong works for Ezra Gardner.
Local society items include visits by Mrs. J F Buxbaum to Iowa Falls and John Wooley principal there, John Long family from Washington, Care-a-way circle officers elected led by Myrtle Griffith, Belle Anderson, Viola Walker, Anna Anwyl. Burlington visitors H DD Cherryholmes Helen, and Alice Swickard’s Columbus Junction trip. Carolinias and Wapello connections noted.
Keota May 2 1912 four senior girls hosted a 6 oclock dinner for seniors and instructors at J W Harding home. Guests included Alta Harding Irene Coffman Clara Palm Velda Hagist. young men Keith Hamill Milford Shader George Lyle Donald Mulhern. instructors Prof Charles Nevell Mrs Grace Wilkins Miss Estelle Fish Miss Gertrude Tyrrill.
The entertainment committee of the Christian Endeavor society says space is short for convention delegates starting Friday evening. All who can host delegates are asked to contact Miss Mildred Martin at the provided phone number.
A German airship, the Siemens Shhuckert, flagship of the aerial squadron, was completely wrecked near Rinsdorf after a motor defect caused an explosion that shattered the wheat bag and sent the craft crashing to the ground. The crew narrowly escaped.
Constantinople May 2 pilot boat Zeminder struck a mine in the Dardanelles and sank with eleven men lost. This second similar accident in a week likely leaves about five hundred ships bottled up by the closing straits.
Chicago May 2 Special to the Evening Journal reports no newspapers are published today due to trouble with the pressmen. The note also comments that flattery is rarely accepted as genuine praise.
A. H. Bode district naturalization examiner visited to inspect records. John C. Bowie of Scotland, manager of the Leader store, plans to obtain final naturalization papers amid delays. Bowie has lived in Illinois Centerville Ottumwa and Washington, needing five years residence and witnesses who knew him in Ottumwa and Washington. Witnesses must appear in person, deposits not accepted.
The article recounts Timothy Webster's undercover role in foiling a Maryland secessionist plot to burn bridges and assassinate Abraham Lincoln during his 1861 eastern tour. Webster infiltrated the conspirators, gaining trust in the cavalry circle and aiding Pinkerton in protecting Lincoln through Harrisburg and Baltimore.
Landscape plan by a designer will beautify the grounds of the new Jackson County Home with about fifty hard maple and elm trees, six hundred shrubs, one hundred climbing roses and clematis, forty one hundred hedge plants and beds of peonies, canvas and phlox. Roses and clematis will cover walls. privet hedges border north and east driveways. Work to start in early spring at a total cost well under one thousand dollars.
At a Washington florist club meeting prizes were offered to stimulate school garden ornamentation. The effort aims to develop gardening spirit among children, boost home and school garden programs, and foster social improvement despite funding and vandalism challenges.
A leading trunk railroad reports beautifying its right of way yields solid returns and funds more improvements. Manufacturers who spruced up their premises see gains in labor efficiency, per the Indianapolis Star.
The morning rainfall measured .14 of an inch and drifted with thunder and lightning as a warm day prior boosted spring temperatures. The 77 degree high drew many to lighter clothing, while farmers hoped for drier weather despite blooming fruit trees filling the air with scent.
Opening market notes from Chicago and Chicago NL dated May 2 1912 show hogs light mixed heavy and rough prices ranging 7.25 to 7.82 percent with mixed receipts about 30 000. Cattle receipts around 60 000 with beves cows and stockers and Western cattle prices steady to slow. Sheep receipts 18 000 with native and Western sheep and yearlings priced 5.00 to 10.61. Overall market mood weak and steady across livestock sectors.
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