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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
3
The article notes art catalogs and picture orders available in kindergarten rooms, with a school commission on all sales. It promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy and Electric Bitters sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy, claiming health benefits and a money back guarantee at 50 cents.
May 6 items note Keisers leaving for Canyon City Texas with daughter Phyllis. Mrs D Dayton and son Dary visit sister Mrs James Nelson in West Chester. Van Winkle travels to New York City to stay with granddaughter. Tom Dupuis from Sigourney arrives to handle telephone interests. Grace Limerman of West Chester visits relatives. Mrs J J Welsh and Chicago baby visit. J Schreckengast departs for Washington then Wilton, Iowa for an extended stay. Dr J F Richardson spends day at Sigourney. O Gilbert spends week in Chicago on business. Miss Crawford of Washington visits town overnight.
May 5 reports show Miss Lucy Waggoner visiting sister Mrs. L. R. Robinson near Washington and sewing. Miss Mattie Talley of Mt. Zion attends church here and stays with Miss Frances Meacham. Little Pearl Dutweiler visits relatives at Pleasant Plain for a week. Mrs. Alicia Woodford returns from Grinnell. Rain slows farming and housecleaning this past week.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary society plans its annual bank offering service at the church Sunday morning during the preaching hour with S. W. Neal of Washington delivering the address. Also noted are social visits and local movements including Miss Mabel Batterson and Verne Anderson visiting the Bruce Gardner home and plans for a future fish wagon by W. E. Page.
May 6 obituary for Goldie Shaff second daughter of Philip and Media Shaff who died at home Wednesday morning after a brief illness of measles and pneumonia. Sympathy expressed to her father mother brother and sister. Nearby measles outbreak leads to Grand View school closure. Local attendees joined Dave McDowell’s funeral in Dunk.
Kinross neighborhood resident Joe Crossett was a regular presence in the community, with visits to Groff’s on Sunday. Doctor Downing has been tending Chas. Green’s sick children, while Joe Carter and Allie LeFerer hosted visits over the weekend.
May records show T B Thrasher and Ed Bishop visiting Washington on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Wm Beal and Hubert and Helen visited at K Beals on Monday. Mrs Myrtie Todd hosted the missionary society on Wednesday. Henry Brinning hauls cement to his farm. Grace Donaldson has been on the sick list. Maude McCreedy spent Tuesday at Newton Noecker’s. Moothart of Washington papers for Ralph Cherry’s. J K Beal and family attended preaching at Prairie Flower Sunday then visited Elmer Brinhall’s. Christina Brinning and baby visited Harmon Brinning’s Tuesday afternoon.
Illinois generally fair. Indiana generally fair and cooler. Lower Michigan possibly showers. Wisconsin fair and continued cool. Iowa fair with icing temperature.
King Manuel of Portugal swore allegiance to the constitution in Lisbon. The city was decorated for the ceremony as guns from inland and port forts fired at daylight. Bells summoned the populace to churches to hear Te Deum hymns proclaimed in honor of the event.
Fresh fish and vegetables daily at the Royal market south of the post office. Miss Laura Ingham returns from Keota. T. A. Jones returns to Wy man after a city visit. S. C. Gardner travels to Columbus, Ohio, for his brother’s illness. Kindergarten exhibit features about 200 famous pictures for ten cents to help beautify classrooms. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised with price. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McBehinney Drug Co.
Lucile Morgan, almost two, daughter of Mr and Mrs Morgan, died Tuesday evening after eating strychnine tablets from a shelf. Doctors Swazy and Dodds tried to help but she died around 4 pm. The family, including two siblings, is deeply grieved. Turner art exhibit at the Kindergarten room this week raises funds for schoolroom decorations. tickets are ten cents.
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