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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
7
School children host a Turner art exhibit of about two hundred pictures in the kindergarten room from May 6 to 8. Sessions run 3 to 5 30 and 7 to 8 30 each evening, with 9 to 5 30 on Saturday. A 10 cent admission supports buying new pictures. catalogs and pictures also on sale.
Bids will be received for stand and dining hall privileges at the Chau tauqua from August 11 to 20, 1908, until May 16. Bidders must bid for both stand and dining hall rights as the grounds committee wishes to consolidate them. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
Funeral services for the late Mrs. J. L. Quinn were held privately at 10 o'clock from the family residence. Relatives arriving from distant places included W. H. Quinn, John Stuthelfield and daughter Lydia, and J. 3 B. Norris with wife from Shirley, Illinois. A brother from Oregon was expected tonight. Interment followed at Elm Grove cemetery.
Ralph Riggs and his company of dancers comedians and singers stage the three act comedy with music The College Boy at the opera house on May 9 This Paira season marks continued prosperity for Riggs and his unique talents
It f o u r s the oil of life into your system warms up and starts the life blood circulating makes you feel healthy and happy Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents Tea or Tablets Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co
We quit the cement business this year but due to many calls to do their work we will start again. We promise to maintain our reputation by using proper proportions and the best material for solid stone. Work will be neat and workmanlike. Leave orders with McCartney & Son. Phone 492.
The piece promises a clever comedy to lift spirits and provide a pleasant evening. It will be staged on May 9 featuring Katherine Witchie Rose Stillman D M Cross Bernard Riggs and the familiar crowd from last season. The production is billed as one of the most pleasing entertainments of the season.
Colds that linger into spring exhaust the nerves and weaken the system, paving the way for serious illness. Take Foley's Honey and Tar to stop the cough and expel the cold. Safe and certain in results, Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Reports from the Kansas Experiment Station detail sanitary, comfortable cement floor designs for creameries using cement heating and insulation methods. Experiments also test cement partitions, umbinge sinks, insulated icehouses, and blends of cement with asbestus fiber and sawdust. Recovery of buttermilk into value, producing casein for feed, and machine milking efficiency are explored.
Mrs. John Starr of Wellman visits her son W C Starr. Miss Jessie Neiswanger travels to Crawfordsville to visit Jasper Neiswanger. Mrs Will Goble and Grace return to Ainsworth after a city visit. QO B Cissell of Chicago arrives to join father C E B Cissell in local insurance and land business representing Big Horn Basin Wyoming.
Regulations place Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida South Carolina and parts of California Texas Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas Tennessee Georgia North Carolina and Virginia under quarantine. Cattle may move Feb 1 to Oct 31 by rath to market centers for immediate slaughter. Other tick free cattle movements have special rules. Also reports on lamb prices in Colorado and feed cost efficiency in Missouri. A shearer in Beardsly Arizona set a machine record by clipping 325 sheep in nine hours.
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