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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
2
Des Moines public works report compiles city by city paving miles and population figures. Des Moines and Cedar Rapids show brick heavy paving while Dubuque leads in macadam shares and Sioux City areas show substantial asphalt and brick usage.
Large attendance as family and city citizens gathered for Uncle Ned Skinner’s funeral at the AM FE church. Services led by Rev. Bil Grant and Rev. A L Davidson with a male quartet performing. Pallbearers carried the casket to the city cemetery.
A transfer will occur on the Rock Island lines once the Narrow Gauge widening finishes to allow through traffic that would otherwise miss Washington. Freight cars for Keota will stay on Burlington tracks after Keokuk instead of being handed to Rock Island, with through service continuing to Washington. The Narrow Gauge corridor runs through rich farming country, and standard gauge is sought. Joeh Edgar of Germantown Cal cites fourteen years of aciatic rheumatism and credits Chamberlain's Pain Balm with relief and cure, recommending it. Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook & Sherman stock it.
Ill and improving reports for M Eogel. Mrs Hugh Draper of Ft. Scott visited Mra C Strohlem. M Foley traveled to Omaha to recruit workers for Milwaukee railroad. J Engel Ed Humm and Mra R M Lewie visited the county seat. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 Keighte Templar to meet May 12 for Red Cross work. M P Mitner EB O Trousers advertised as a Wilmet's tailor specialty.
The Brinton Entertainment Co gave a lively show at the M I church last evening with many in attendance. Net proceeds exceeded 26 dollars as the event drew full seating and applause. The Sunday school convention for Marion township is postponed likely until fall. A local shoe shining parlor ad lists D L Goodwin as Elks? proprietor and offers outdoor advertising and circulars.
The report lists square yardage for macadam and block paving in Cedar Rapids Clinton Ottumwa Keokuk Sioux City Council Bluffs Burlington and Des Moines. It records brick paving prices from 1.25 to 1.84 per unit, asphalt averages around 1.08, native asphalt in Ottumwa at 1.58, and macadam and granite block prices in several cities.
A Chicago report says Hingues LeRoux did not claim Dreyfus confessed his guilt in a lecture. He asserts no reference to Dreyfus was made and that widespread publication was not accurate. The piece notes a New York denial and calls the story an invention.
Lansing authorities obtain a preliminary injunction restraining the Lansing St Johns and St Louis Railway Company from suing to collect stock subscriptions along the line. Trustees say the company has not met conditions to earn subscriptions, but the court did not rule on the entire question.
Al Hummel, once reported killed in battle in the Philippines two years ago, has returned home to Pivansville Indiana. The mistaken report drove his elderly mother to insanity, though that claim remains unconfirmed.
Relatives of Paul Leicester Ford and Malcolm W. Ford met in New York as Worthington Ford announced a single funeral to be officiated by Bishop Burgess of Long Island and Rev Dr Stires. The service will precede interment at Livingston-on-the-Hudson. Mrs Ford rallies after the shock and Malcolm Ford's mother visited his home and saw her one year old grandson.
Danville Arkansas May 7 Robert Reed and Mrs Bertha Primmer were arrested at a boarding house by a Champaign policeman and county sheriff on a warrant for living together Reed from Decatur said he has funds to fight the case Primmer released later She is reported to be the wife of a railroad man and came here with Reed accompanied by two of her young daughters Reed was taken to Champaign for trial Missing boys may be alive Oshkosh Wis May 7 Charles Mathwig reports seeing three Neenah boys not named but matching missing boys description They were en route to Portage after staying at Island Park on Lake Winnebago
Judge Strimple of the common pleas court ruled for the city in the Scent fare street railway in junction case. The temporary injunction against the new line through Rhodes avenue is dissolved and William Reynolds petition claiming the city's franchise was illegal is dismissed. Appeal has been filed.
Special agents association, guarding 185000 miles of railroad in the United States and Canada, met at the Willard hotel in Louisville for their annual convention yesterday.
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