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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
2
Reports from correspondents detail a busy period of community life with various events across several townships. Highlights include social gatherings, civic meetings, small incidents, and other day to day activities shaping local town life.
The W. F. M. S. of Lexington will host a bank offering service at the Lexington M. E. Church on Sunday morning with W. Neal of Washington delivering a talk on Egypt and the Holy Land. Miss Lavanda Gardner, at Mt. Pleasant school, spent Sunday with her father Dr. W. P. Gardner. A class of fourteen will graduate from Lexington High School this year. Henry Squire visits his parents south of town. Mr. and Mrs. David Durst and daughter Mrs. Edd Burham of Webster spent Tuesday night at the Roy Gardner home.
May activities include baseball practice on the rented diamond, a Fourth of July park celebration planned by band members, and Holy Trinity church devotions on Wednesdays and Fridays. W. H. Warner and son shear sheep for local owners totaling about 1400 this spring while Laurence Doh! starts a new barn with Joe Shebek.
May 7 neighbors and visitors populate Wayland as John and Mrs Turner and children attend shopping. Miss Anna Essley visits Washington. Mr and Mrs George Hill celebrate birth of a baby boy. Families like Sellers Dawson Knerr Hesser and Kessel guest in Sunnydale Brighton attend gatherings. Will Ballard to preach at Wayland church. Merrick visited Wayland.
May 7 notes visitors and local errands in Rural Route No Two. Miss Schantz of Wayland visited her sister Mrs Wallace Darnell. George Fetes hauled hogs at Copock. The Misses Snider Bloomquist Waters Buntenbach visited Miss Lucy Wells after church. George Brown looked at cattle in Ainsworth with buying interest. Mrs Loie Lewis visits at Wm Hesseltine home. John Work bought a fine driving horse. Rev James Priestnan preached a Sunday sermon featuring a unison solo by Ethel Waters and Emma Bloomquist with local chorus members.
May 7 Miss Myrtle Guyer of Gridley Kansas visiting at the George Brown home. Mr and Mrs Earl Birney were Washington visitors last Saturday and Sunday.
An advertisement touts Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills as a cure for exhausted nerves and looming nervous breakdowns. It claims new blood and nerve force are formed by the medicine, featuring testimonial from Mrs Richard Torey and listing J E Lemmon Drugstore as a Washington Iowa seller.
Chris Horning attended the funeral of Peter Fetes at Washington last Monday morning. Miss Lou B Johnson, teacher at the Eureka school, visited friends north of Grace Hill last Sunday. Dale Lemley made a business trip to Ainsworth last Tuesday. W D Hesseltine and son, Harry, are Washington visitors tony. Isa Hoxworth has purchased a very fine single driving horse of Dick Work, of north of Washington. Jame Benda was a caller at the home of the late Peter Fetes last Sunday. Clint Scranton visited his father at Washington last Saturday and Sunday.
May and Mrs Fred Jackson and daughter shopped in Muscatine while Mrs A J Laird spent time in Washington. Mary Breed returned home from Perry where she visited relatives. Mrs Wm Hollen of Rubio came to visit her mother Mrs Kate Gray. C A Sprague of Columbus Junction attended the commencement. The smallest class produced Ruth Easter the sole graduate whose oration The Reign of Queen Elizabeth impressed all, followed by a strong lecture Modern Man.
Continued on page 6 notice states that April rental and toll charges are due and payable at central office. The item requests prompt attention and is issued by Washington Telephone Co.
Keota Eagle reports Isaac Schreckengast visiting his daughter Mrs. T. I. Bailey in Washington on Tuesday evening and planning a trip to Wilton to see another daughter. Winfield Beacon notes Ed Fox entering boot and shoe business in Washington, aiming to supply locals with footwear, with sardonic remark on shoe sizing and dealer shrewdness.
Des Moines reports show Iowa farmers face scarce seed corn of poor quality amid recent rains and drought in Audubon, Harrison, and Van Buren counties. Weather delays hinder planting while fruit crops suffer frost damage with Bremer and Franklin counties reporting significant losses.
The Post Office Department estimates half of rural routes cover public highways in states with rural delivery. Officials praise rising attention to road repair and road-building efforts. Local districts offer rewards to road supervisors for highway improvements as Good Roads movements gain traction nationwide.
Des Moines Iowa May 2 1889 a formal protest filed in City Clerk Poorman s office questions awarding council press work to the lowest bidder Three local non union firms Bowen Bremner Alberson Kenyon Printing George A Miller Printing and Globe Printing challenge the union label policy on public work while claiming current practice excludes monthly council proceedings printing from the rule The three firms argue the 1888 ordinance creates class legislation affecting non union shops without applying to this printing dispute
Ottumwa Iowa May 8 Leroy Edwards was sentenced Wednesday morning by Judge Vermilion to life imprisonment at Anamosa for criminal assault upon Mrs Clara Erwin last winter.
A notice invites the public to a Saturday night dance at Knupps hall featuring Caners orchestra. The ad calls everyone to attend with cordial invitation.
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