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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1901
Page
3
A jumble of city and regional notices lists movers, travelers, and visitors. Steam laundry workers, railway officials, and residents like Alex Miller and J. McCartney are noted in transit or visits across Des Moines Burlington Chicago and Quincy. A health ad promotes Rocky Mountain Tea at Stewart’s for 35 cents.
Through the Kellogg agency a pension of $8.00 per month since April 1890 is secured for Mrs Eliza beth Townsend of Arrapaho Nebraska, daughter of Len Cahale and formerly of this place. Des Moines, May 13. The weather in the past week brought cooler temperatures and rainfall across the state with frost on mornings the 11th 12th and 13th.
The Hovok and Ladder Co will host a dance in Armory D on Saturday May 25 with all invited to Verdi. Sheriff Teeter visited friend W L Derby and others, John Davis of Grighton and H A McMillan with wife and Henry Gibson spent Sunday with TE McMillan. John Griffiths shipped two fine heifers to Shelby Iowa, paid $100 each.
The notice blends book promotion with vaccine products and pharmaceutical supplies, citing Stewart's Book Store, Stewart's West Side Pharmacy, Pasteur Vaccine Co. and Our Biological Products from French laboratories. It presents a promotional snapshot rather than a clear news event.
The Journal urges parents and readers to settle subscribers’ bills on May fifteenth as collectors go cityward with demand notices. Local items report travels, school construction, real estate photos, church services, and a Des Moines meeting for Reynolds gallery as photographers prepare for a State association event with lectures and showcases.
The hearing in Justice R T McCall is set for Saturday morning. Mrs H N Parker sues over $1860 wages balance by attachment. Defendant Miss Dicker runs the north side millinery and claims the plaintiff was an apprentice. The plaintiff says she worked as a saleslady. Kellogg and Bailey are the attorneys.
A new Rock Island time card will take effect next week starting Sunday. The Firefly schedule shifts to arrive around six in the evening from the east instead of 040, making evening passengers earlier and minor changes for freights. The change aids expressmen by providing more time at supper. A remedy claim lists eight percent permanent cures with free samples offered if not effective by J He Stewart.
Prof Harvey Barnes of Ainsworth, the first Company D volunteer from the county to seek a pension, has been granted a pension of 0 per month according to press dispatches.
J A Young visited Winfield. J A Guest travels to Muscatine by the Firefly. Garry Scebbling returns from Alnsworth. Walter Ayres leaves for Cedar Rapids on business. Mrs Jennie Park Latta returns from Tipton. Judge A R Dewey leaves for Oskaloosa to court. Judge Scott passes through city. Mrs A G Gault returns from Anmoworth. Engineer Baker arrives from Muscatine. Councilman Chas Hebener heads to Columbus Junction on business. Miss Kate McCormick arrives from Omaha as guest. Tom Shillioy goes to Ainsworth to supervise Bruty Hotel. Mrs Bowman and daughter Wilder depart for Chicago. L D Higgins, Alex Houck and four Kalona men travel to Fort Scott, Kansas via Burlington and Hannibal. Rev Jas R Logue leaves for Albia for Presbyterian missions meetings.
No better fishing place can be found anywhere than at the Lakes in Northwestern Iowa. Suitable accommodations at reasonable prices can be secured at hotels and boarding houses bordering the Lakes. A transfer bus meets B. C. R. & N. Ry trains at Spirit Lake to The Inn and Arnold's Park, with return service in time for trains. For rates and schedules contact a B. OC R & N agent or address No G Farmer, A. G PA, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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