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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1909
Page
5
Special report from Washington forecasts partly cloudy conditions for Iowa tonight and Thursday. Weather outlook notes no significant precipitation and mild temperatures across the state.
Two cars of thoroughbred horses imported from France passed through this morning by express, on the way to Keota. Purchased for Keiser Bros. by T. O. Davis who accompanied the shipment, with A. W. Hamil of Keota and Dr. Geo. Kerr meeting them in New York. Forty horses in this lot, with a second shipment of twenty five horses to follow in a month. Express charges from New York City run from 400 to 500 dollars per car.
R T McCall Sr, long ill, shows rapid improvement and was able to take dinner with the family today.
Community notes list commuters shoppers and visitors in Fairfield Iowa with names such as H T Reynolds W J Brooks Mrs I D Wilson and Mrs Martha DeWitt. Items cover travel to Burlington Des Moines Maxwell Brighton and Wyoming with social visits and club meetings plus a local sale of yellow seed corn and a Foley kidney remedy advertisement.
Local notes report activities at The Fair including screen paint carpet stretchers and clothes wringers. Atty Carlton C Wilson returns from Des Moines federal court and Gen E R DeWall plans a lecture tour and memoir gathering in Switzerland. Several residents travel to visit relatives or attend events across Iowa and nearby towns.
Keota news reports Rev. Joan Hastie resigns after years as local Baptist pastor to accept a post at Calvary Baptist in Cedar Rapids. The W M S of the Methodist church hosted a reception at J C Richardson home for nineteen new members. About fifty attended with games, nursery rhyme prize, pineapple ice and cake.
Rev I W Williamson of Huntington West Virginia writes that Foley's Kidney Remedy cured his nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble and that it will do all claimed. He says the remedy restores health and strength to many weak people and contains no harmful drugs and is pleasant to take. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co advertise. Plus 7 rolls toilet paper for 25 cents at The Fair.
City bus line offers prompt handling of orders by Frank Rogers. Call phone number 1 and leave your address with street and number for service.
Mrs. A M Cowden received word today of the death of her nephew Harold I Crawford of Centerville Iowa The cause was neuritis He suffered one week He was a son of Mr and Mrs James B Crawford of Sioux City Iowa
Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a widely known remedy, claiming its fame travels from sea to sea and even into the afterlife for readers to begin using now.
May 19 notes show Rev G Glenn Moore from Wichita Kansas arriving to preach the next two Sabbaths at the United Presbyterian church. Local social items include visits by Miss Elizabeth Ferguson Mrs T W Rickey and Mr and Mrs Hugh J Davis and daughter Marie and a pending wedding for Clyde Robbins and Miss Foster with a reception at the Robbins home tomorrow evening.
The Rev. Waltersmith of Farson Iowa arrived in West Chester this morning. He formerly served as pastor of a Lexington church. Mrs J D Dayton and her son Daryl visited Keota today. Ada Bailey of Pilotburg traveled as a passenger to Oskaloosa this afternoon.
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