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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
6
Advertisement lists loan amounts 50000 at 5 percent and 25000 at per cent with travel details on Nickel Plate Road. Butterfield and John Y. Calahan promote through Chicago offices offering through sleeping cars and meals, with ticket limits and dates in June. Contact Calahan for particulars.
The Rock Island System will start laying eighty five pound steel rails on the Perlee to Kansas City route replacing the seventy pound rail. Material is in the city and work will begin at once. The project will cost much but will yield a better track. A hundred men will be employed to start the work.
W R members are invited to the Charles Hebner home Thursday at 2:80 o'clock. Bring your work. Every body come. A good social time. O Greenwood of Keota was a business visitor in the city yesterday.
The column compiles brief notices of accidents deaths births and marriages from local recorders. It lists events with names dates and places as reported in community sheets and public notices.
Local arrivals and departures include Prof. Chas Yeager from Keota visiting relatives, Rev. and Mrs Tennant heading to Oskaloosa, and Mrs Minnie Dillon funeral observed with large attendance from Keota and Washington. Ainsworth prepares for a major celebration with committees forming after a Monday meeting.
Memorial day observed with Ian Hamilton of Sigourney as speaker. Howard Stewart, a driver for a large egg wagon, fell Saturday and broke both bones of his arm below the elbow. Miss Jennie Cook of West Chester visits. Funeral of Mrs. Sales Martin held yesterday at the M. E. church conducted by Rev. Hanley.
Miss Jennie Cook and Mrs. J. D. Dayton and son attend Memorial day exercises in Keota. A. J. Snider is not well today. Mrs. D Kilgore is shopping in Washington today.
May 30, 1965 saw the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Page. Kos visits Mrs. Jos. Sthalla in West Chester. Emma Shalla returns from Washington. George Brennan has a runaway accident with no serious injuries. Broz and daughter Elsie visit Anthony Chalupa. Mr. Broz seeks better heart due to lung trouble. Mrs. Jos. Reiner visits with her children. First communion attendees include the Flexners, Whitacres, Truxans, and Schnoebelens. Mrs. Schnoebelen plans a Europe trip. Father Weil heads to his boyhood home for vacation in June. Schools nearing closing. Clara Morhofer works for Mrs. Anson Small.
May 31 Mrs. Richard Malin of Columbus Junction visited the M. L. Miller home. Mrs. W. J. Reaney of Muscatine staying with her parents, L. A. Stephens, spent yesterday with relatives at Washington. Miss Sophia Donaldson and Miss
May 31 report notes Mrs W N Hancock and daughter Mayme of Bloomfield Iowa arrive by passenger train to visit sister Mrs J N Pickens. Howard Crozier and Emily Mathers from Washington arrive Tuesday. Mrs Dave Browning of Gladwin Iowa visits J E Emmons Tuesday. Mrs J P Wallace is quite sick.
A reader from Calhoun Ga cites Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds as a strict scientific bronchitis and La Grippe cure. The ad notes a wife finally found relief after two doctors failed and promotes 50c to 1.00 prices with a free trial bottle at J H Stewarts drug store.
Rose plants for bedding were listed at Keck Floral, item number 91 31. The supplier offered a selection of roses suitable for garden beds and public plantings.
Week ended May 29 1907 in Des Moines Iowa saw cooler than usual weather with widespread showers. Corn planting nearly finished despite wet fields and replanting due to floods. Rains aid grasses and small grains. pastures wheat oats and barley show favorable growth. apples drop reports, strawberries heavy, cherry crop light.
Advertorial note touts Wadsworth Bros Chicos as a superior straight five cent cigar with long Havana filler and even burn. Local agent ER Lemmon reports strong demand and universal satisfaction, urging readers to try the brand and thank him for stocking it in Washington.
A. C. B. Wainwright of Lemon City Florida writes manufacturers that Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy works faster when swallowed in hot water. He claims it reaches the stomach spot instantly and doubles the relief speed. Stewart's Pracy Cook & Sherman sell the remedy.
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