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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1911
Page
5
Local and personal notices recount visits, business trips, and social events in Riverside, Wellman, and nearby towns. Mentions include Rev W O Fisher in Xenia Ohio, C H Lantz Wellman visitor, Jenn Hayman and others, plus marriages, fashion sales, and new photography mounts at Frey’s Studio.
Special dispatch reports fierce street fighting in Juarez as General Navarro fled with Federal troops pursued by General Villa. Rebel forces threaten to capture or annihilate opposing units amid explosions and dynamite blasts in town. A U.S. Army officer, Major Kelley of the 11th Infantry, died in a Curtiss biplane crash at Port San Hou?ts.
Almost three hundred Moines school teachers are up in arms over salary boosts in recent contracts. They threaten an indignation meeting and potential strike unless demands are met, while principals warn of job cuts and heavier workloads.
Fort Dodge public school directors announced plans to introduce normal courses at the high school enabling graduates to obtain teachers certificates. The president C F Duncombe says Fort Dodge schools will become “poor boys and girls colleges.” Domestic science and commercial courses are already in progress.
Fire swept Highland Center destroying a large two story frame house stock barn out buildings five fine horses hay corn oats and farming implements Sunday afternoon between 3 and 4 o clock.
Iowa City May 10. Charles Steinacher, an 18 year old Solon farmer, was terribly mangled when pulled into a portable sawmill belt near Cedar Valley. His right hip was fractured the bones below the knee crushed and his head cut open. He may recover.
A Keokuk reader claims a cave under the west end of a local cemetery holds more than six million dollars in gold sealed in a stone vault. The note, printed with a condition to share half the find with the paper, cites an old Republican from St. Louis and a man named Steele as key figures.
Beginning Sunday June 4 Iowa Gas and Electric Co announces all day Sunday service for the balance of the fan season. Local customers will be able to access electricity throughout Sundays with no planned interruptions.
Notices tell residents to raise flags for ice wagon routes starting now from 7812 W Wilson.
The London Daily Mirror reports a shortage of clergymen in Switzerland. A German woman holding a doctorate in divinity seeks to be appointed to a long vacant pulpit in a canton's church.
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