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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1902
Page
3
Special weather forecast for Iowa issued from Washington DC indicates partly cloudy conditions tonight with a likelihood of showers tomorrow. Forecast covers today and tomorrow with modest precipitation and mild temperatures.
Local brief items list visits by Rus McBride Grover Neiswanger and others to the city. Des Moines and Chicago connections and business interests with Standard Oil and Marshall Field described. Social calls include Mrs J A Bundy Eldon Mrs McAChurch at Ed Kaupp home and family arrivals from Brighton Burlington and Des Moines. Johnson the baker and Johnsons jelly rolls featured with ice cream sodas.
Dr James Watts chiropodist returns from Mt Pleasant and will greet patients at the Civic Hotel. He treats corns bunions and ingrowing toenails. Call or send a card and he will call on you. Johnson makes big pies for 10 cents.
Superintendent Pratt secures Matt S Hughes D D of Kansas City to deliver the commencement address for the Washington High School on June fifth He formerly preached in Portland Me and St Paul and will also speak at Lowd Wesleyan University Mount Pleasant Iowa Dr Hughes has held large pastoring positions and moved between cities over the years The article also notes a health warning about cheap baking powder made largely from alum and rock
A. B. Adams an express messenger on the Branch run to Knoxville will wed Miss Ida M. Mark of Muscatine tomorrow. After the ceremony they will return to this city to begin housekeeping in the Alberson cottage on East Jefferson Street. Adams is well liked among local express and railway workers. Ida is described as one of Muscatine’s handsome daughters. The Journal extends congratulations and wishes them happiness.
The town mourns May Gavin six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs C J Gavin formerly of Washington now Fairfield after a nine day illness. She was gentle kind and beloved by many. Her last words were Mamma and she was laid to rest at Mt Pleasant beside her grandfathers as family and friends gathered to pay respects.
Judge A R Dewey dispensed with several district court matters yesterday. Final reports approved for Mareden estate and others, guardianships settled, distributions ordered, and fees set. Notices include will admitted to probate for T Scott and Lucreta J Miller, executors appointed, and deposits extended for certain cases. A nursing remark notes a Chamberlain's Cough Remedy testimonial from Jessie Pinkey Hall of Springville Alabama.
Washington Iowa ad copy touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as preventing work stoppage for threshers in Plymouth Oklahoma. Five bottles sold yesterday with customers reporting no loss of time. Sold by Stewarts Pharmacy and Cook Sher with delivery and guaranteed effectiveness.
D A Chalmers and children of Navre arrived yesterday morning on the Narrow Gauge and are visiting with relatives.
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