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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal reports fair weather for Iowa with cooler conditions in the east and central portions tonight, including light frost. Friday will be fair with warmer conditions in the western portion.
Local brief notes show several visitors arriving in the city for visits of a few days. Mrs T W Pfaff of Chariton Iowa arrives for a stay with relatives. Wm Randal of Crawfordsville visits his son Thomas Randal for a week. Others include F Grady Kalona en route to Lincoln for weeks and Mrs Hotchkiss Columbus Junction returning home after visiting her mother. Grace Simerman West Chester heads to Crawfordsville for a new telephone exchange position.
A concise coal business message from Anderson and Wilson highlights steady year after year growth and reliable care for customers. It invites trials, claiming satisfied customers become repeat patrons.
Happenings in the county communities and other day’s news. Quite sick, will be taken to the hospital at Iowa City for treatment. Mrs. Chet Cress returned from Ottumwa visit with sister Mrs. Fred Holtz. Rev. B Jacobsmeier returned Tuesday from a relatives visit.
May 6 remarks show Mrs. Klein of Winfield arriving to visit daughter Mrs. H. Robbins. David Morehead of Denver visits relatives here. W. E. Walker came from Washington for a visit today. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Huston spent the day with friends in Winfield.
May 5 reports show W. T. Trotter visiting Burlington for business. Inez Salladay returns to W. A. Chapel home in Verdi. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chambers and son Millerd depart for relatives. L. A. Stephens leave for Hot Springs health trip. Effie Porter Carrie Hardin and Alys Fread shop in Washington. Mrs. Edward Rhodes visiting in West Liberty, Iowa. L. H. Van Houten eastbound passenger. Ora Orris of Washington visits Tressa Stephens. J. E. Adams a Verdi business visitor. Mrs. O. D. Chapel eastbound passenger.
Rob Gudgel s have moved into the Bennett and Day house. Mrs. Mary Bales visited Fairfield Wednesday. Baraca members and wives were entertained at Rev C C Davis home. Miss Edna and Hulalia Mer chant visited Brighton Sunday. Mrs. David Nordyke is on the sick list. Christian Endeavor members held a business meeting at Mrs Thomas Marshall s home. Roy McGuire visited friends in Brighton Monday. Presbyterian Sunday school had a social Friday night at Horton s home. Elijah Fulton, ill with typhoid fever, is recovering. Verne Madden visiting sister Mrs L D Hanlon in Washington this week. Rev S K Coates of Washington was in Brighton Monday.
May 5 notices show Emmet Louck visiting What Cheer. Mrs. J. W. Coffee of Iowa City visited the W. J. Snair family Tuesday. B. Z and B. Oldaker were Iowa City visitors last night. D. F. Miller returned from Chicago after selling cattle. Mrs. F. H. Kisor and Mrs. Enig with her son plan visits near Frank Pierce and West Liberty. KE. Dayton and Desil went to Iowa City returning Monday.
R T McCall Sr is gravely ill at his home on East Washington street. His condition has been described as very critical after a period of declining health, with the past few days marking a sharper deterioration.
Sheriff Black of Washing ton conducted business here Monday. Mrs. John Rath and Miss Ella Rath rode to Iowa City this morning. Harve Holtz and wife left for Washington to visit before returning home to Pawnee Oklahoma. Frank Mills came back yesterday from Muscatine. Cornelius Schneider heads to Chicago Tuesday with two carloads of cattle. Chas Overfelt visited Lone Tree overnight. Hubert Bauer travels to Laconia to promote Barnett Lightning Rod Co. Jos Barnett returns from a long Ohio business trip. May 5 Miss Waldschmidt returns to Matamora Jr. after visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reha and family head to Iowa City for Frances Reha’s wedding. Miss Mary Sanders arrives from the east. Mr. and Mrs. John Lohberger depart for Mooreland Oklahoma for a month with relatives. Emma Stranksy and May Reha go to Iowa City. Robert Shellady, previously detained, remains.
Miss Etta Whiting, delegate from the local Presbyterian society, sails for Grinnell tomorrow morning to attend the annual Eighth District Christian Endeavor union convention. The gathering opens tomorrow evening and runs through Sunday.
Miss Bessie Curran, who was operated on recently at Iowa City, is getting along nicely and doctors hope to bring her home Saturday. Her many friends here will be glad to know of her improved condition.
Ralph Shannon returns home from the south after a bout with malaria fever and shows signs of improvement and steady recovery.
Machinery explains a method to cut or etch through glass using hydrofluoric acid. The acid is applied with wax shielding around the target area and sold in wax bottles because it cannot be kept in glass. A rubber dropper similar to ordinary medicine droppers is used to handle it.
Eleven men were killed and nine oilers seriously injured when defective air brakes caused several dump cars to release and roll down an incline into the Culebra car in the Gold Hill section of Panama on May 3.
Gen Epke Rolf De Wal arrives en route to Pella to meet local Boers, intended to preach for Rev C Sprenger at Valley next Sunday. He plans to address a public meeting here next week. A former Transvaal state secretary and brigade commander banished after the war, he is well educated and ordained in the German church.
A loading facility is being built on the Wallace Lumber Co property near the yard track. A roof will cover the full 65 by 52 foot platform to improve unloading and storage of materials.
The Rev C Sprenger conducted the funeral for J F Temple near Keota yesterday May 5th. Interment followed in Valley cemetery. The young man died from injuries after a horse kick, as previously reported by The Journal.
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