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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
2
Washington County boards split over closing a cross county highway. The court previously held both counties must concur to close or establish a road, and yesterday Washington County denied the remonstrators petition finding the road a public necessity. The case prompted local debate and may proceed to the district court.
The Crawfordsville high school graduation exercises were held in the Columbia opera house with crowd in attendance. Rev J Cotton gave the invocation, Miss Leon Maxwell played violin, Prof U B Shelton of Simpson College spoke on For Keeper. Diploma ceremony by Prof Ruggles followed with Rev Dowd delivering benediction.
May 23 Muscatine report says Irma Reeves daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Reeves of Fairport fell into a vat of boiling water and died. another Muscatine item notes Sidney Missell drowned near Clinton while working on the J W Van Sant and fireman fell overboard. The page also mentions a new trial request in a separate case and Creston undertaker Chas Emerson elected president.
A brief note announces a one dollar round trip to Burlington on June 3 with return at night after the opera. It warns the Standard Gauge will not run cheap excursions and invites a farewell jaunt on a ball bearing.
The full amount of subscribers for the stock bank has been secured, totaling $50,000. The bank is expected to begin operation within a couple of months, though the building site is not yet determined. Projectors hold a number in view.
City business leaders request an earlier start for the U T. D. band concerts with the new time of 7 30 on Tuesday evening. The fragment includes a quoted lyric and a brief literary aside about a kiss and a stern reminder to extinguish the light from a June Smart Set piece.
Robert Shields of Rock Island plans to widen the Narrow Gauge from Winfield to Washington. Work uses Shields’ Rock Island force and is to be finished by June 20, all in one day.
Baughman and Company report their new factory building is finished and a gasoline propulsion system is in place. They estimate annual sales between ten and fifteen thousand dollars. The enterprise is described as thriving. Dell H Duncan advertises hammocks and Dr Hobbs Sparagus Pills claim kidney cure. Sterling Remedy Co Chicago advertises. A public square fish sale is planned for ten o'clock every Thursday with lawn peddling on the same day.
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