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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
8
Daily entries are increasing for the poultry show and organizers expect a much larger event than last year. Enthusiasm runs high as farmers and townspeople are urged to attend, with Judge Russell, renowned as one of the finest in the United States, serving as this year’s judge.
Baltimore and Connecticut oysters sealships at the Royal. Chas D. Gorham from Garden City Kansas attends to business. Vienna offers largest pies for Saturday. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Friend from Salem Iowa at J A Friend home. Rev J H Taylor and wife visit from Crawfordsville. Theodore T Barhydt from Burlington visits Marsh W Bailey’s home. Scott Lampson Crail of Oskaloosa visits cousin Philip Crail and will solo at Star theater tonight. Marriage license issued to Chas H Pauls and A Blanche White, he a Citizens bank clerk, she a Brighton young lady.
A strong company staged The Devil last night to striking effect in the opera house. Edwin Forsberg as The Devil drew the audience to breathless silence with his sinister portrayal while John MacMurtrie and Kath leen Barry provided strong support. The tragedy ends with a ruined trio as a husband shoots a rival and The Devil pivots away to catch his train.
Mrs. A. W. Bonds confessed at the police station that she killed S. P. Craig after he insulted men. Police found Craig's body in a vacant lot as she described. Bonds said her husband had threatened to kill Craig and she acted to warn him when Craig pursued her. she fired as he followed to her home.
Manila's new water system costing 2 million dollars is finished. Water is turned on at the Mariquina valley source and travels twenty miles to the city. Major J. P. Case of Oregon directed the project, hailed as a major improvement by the United States.
Baltimore reports Dr William Keith Brooks professor of zoology at Johns Hopkins University and a lifelong servant to the institution died after a long illness He was born in Cleveland sixty years ago and was famed as a biologist known as the father of oyster culture through his book The Oyster.
Los Angeles prepares for a major balloon race with the balloons American and United States launching at 2 PM Sunday. Captain A F E Mueller sails the American with navigator, while Horace B Wild commands the United States with navigator. Both have competed internationally, and the United States previously won the James Gordon Bennett cup at Paris in 1906. The aviators aim to fly solo across the continent and set distance records.
President J. H. Bissell of Detroit at the state forestry association convention criticized the state for neglecting forests and taxing forest owners, which he blamed for improvident timber cutting and marketing. Charles W. Garfield of Grand Rapids echoed charges of unnecessary taxation and disregard for forest landowners in fires and road building.
John D. Sharpe ex-sheriff of the county has been arrested in Nashville charged with murder and aiding and abetting the murder of Senator E K Carmack. He is alleged to have been seen with the two Coopers before the killing and was present at the scene after Carmack fell.
New York dispatches on November 13 report divided sentiment among powers for selecting a US citizen to lead the court that will arbitrate the Casabianca affair. The proposal hinges on consensus amid competing interests and diplomatic considerations.
Mattoon Illinois reports the death of Nathan Collins age sixty five editor of the Arcola Record-Herald an authority on broom corn culture.
Des Moines readers will see the Daily Tribune continue as an afternoon edition of the Regis ter and Leader beginning December 1. The Tribune name will be retained.
Grace Bainbridge stars in Lincoln J. Carter's Just a Woman's Way with Susie the maid providing comic relief. Susie recalls wedding gossip, then dulls into a punch line noting the groom never showed up.
Vi enna bakery offers drop cakes cup cakes and sponge cakes fresh for Saturday. Local shop promotes variety and ready to satisfy sweet cravings with assorted pastries.
A. F. Hardy of East Wilton Maine reports fifteen years of success using Bucklen's Arnica Salve to cure sores boils ulcers and burns saving doctor bills. Available at J E Lemmon's drug store for 25 cents.
200 extra large Native Shropshire breeding ewes for sale. Sheep will be at the R. I. 8 Stock Yards on Saturday the 14th. For inquiries call 603 J. F. H. Taylor.
An advertisement claims Foley's Orino Laxative cures liver trouble by stimulating the digestive organs so they act naturally. It states the product does not gripe and is pleasant to take with no need for continual use after taking Orino. Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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