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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal reports fair weather in Iowa tonight and Friday with cooler air moving in. Temperature expectations are mild with no precipitation indicated.
Harry Whittaker departed for Chicago with two hog loads while A. M. Turner and son Cecil tour southern Missouri. The Journal offers five cents a copy for ten November six issues. Visitors include Mrs. C. H. Sandros from Muscatine, Misses Dell Hollingsworth and Ruth Winter to Davenport, Effie O Loughlin at W B Rittenhouse in Brighton, and D. C. Donaldson returning from Garden City Kansas. Griffen family to arrive from Montezuma for a weekend visit with Frank and Florence Edworthy.
The county page reports on day to day events from several communities within the region. It highlights local actions, community notices, and brief items of interest affecting residents and neighbors.
Edward Veggy drew 225 in a land draw and traveled to Dallas. Residents and visitors, including Margaret Dautremont, Allie Ott, Mrs. Holtz, Neal Wilkins, Mike Rabbit, C W Busby, F A Skubal, Attorney Thorne, John Shrade, Dan Sullivan, Mrs. Frank Safourek, and others, are listed with movements, visits, sales, and weddings. Property sales include Tobin and Wieland parcels at referee's sale and timber tract at $106 an acre.
Nov 18 brings a Colorado land agent visiting for land interests. Miss Lucy Waggoner of Washington visits sister Mrs. Roy Robinson. Otis Sheldon of Sheldon Wyoming visits D C Waterman and old friends, noting twenty years since his departure and many changes. Miss Clara Meacham visits Grinnell relatives. E L Hamilton travels to South Dakota with landseekers. Miss Eva Waterhouse serves as clerk during his absence.
Mrs. Frank Wood spent yesterday visiting friends in Washington. Louis DeHarpoort, who has spent the last six years in Los Angeles.
Calif returned home yesterday for a visit with his parents Mr and Mrs John DeHarpoort. Joe Trotter and Clarence Easter were Columbus Junction visitors last evening. Mrs Griffith of Cotter was a business visitor here yesterday. Mrs Joe Rhea of Crawfordsville spent yesterday with relatives here. A E Sands spent yesterday tending to business matters at Wash W L Strader of Davenport attended to business matters here.
Nov 19 Crawfordsville notes show James Wooley of Washington as a business caller. W D Garmoe of Winfield traveled between trains. Roy Twinam and family moved into the Hagie house. Mrs John Brown and family plus Miss Nan Richie and Mr Coster rode to Washington. S P Gordon returns from Missouri trip. Mr and Mrs Mutter and family move to Washington.
Ralph Munro shows rapid improvement in recent days. Howard Augustine remains stable. Mr and Mrs Robert McFarlane of Washington visited Frank McFarlane home. Dave McLaughlin of Washington visited in the area. J D Dayton sold the James Porter 150 acres to Al Augustine. Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church met at the Barron home yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Finney left the city last night for Mansfield Ohio after several weeks visiting relatives and friends. Miss Anna Coulter accompanied them and will also reside in Mansfield.
Mrs. Wm. Applegate departs this evening for Aledo Illinois to visit friends for a three month span.
The Junior League of the Methodist church will meet this evening at Dr. E. T. Wickham residence with Miss Dorothea. A W F M S benefit box supper is set for December 3 at Mrs. Myrtle Foster’s home. Ladies bring a plain box with lunch for two.
Mrs Mahlon Smith entertained at 6 o'clock Tuesday at her West Madison street home in honor of Lotrip Smith's twelfth birthday. The guest list included twelve friends and after dinner the group enjoyed lively games, the surprise event delighting the celebrant.
The What I Can society will meet with Miss Bess Jones tomorrow evening at 7 30 at her home on East Madison street. Every member is urged to be present as there is business of importance.
Last evening about twenty five friends and relatives gathered to gether and gave Fred Long a complete surprise. Music was the feature of the evening. A four course luncheon was served by Miss Ada Lambert and Mrs. Fred Long. Out of town guests included Miss Ruth Lambert and Mrs. Wm Long of Deering Kansas.
The G. T. club met last evening at Mrs. Oren Helwick’s home for a social gathering with fancy work. Mrs. Amos Durst and Miss Clara Parkin son assisted in serving refreshments.
The Madison Square Garden in New York, now sold to a real estate firm, is celebrated for its Renaissance architecture by Stanford White and its iconic tower with Diana. Opened 1890, it hosts the arena and social events, from horse shows to rallies for Bryan and Taft, with famed past tenants and shows shaping the city’s cultural life.
A patient complains of severe eye distress to a physician, who retorts that life would be worse without sight, highlighting a blunt exchange about health and dependence on vision.
One essential for happy homes is a well of information on health and good living. The Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is pitched as a genuine, physician approved laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists worldwide.
A citizen who belittles local enterprises and mocks home improvements is highlighted as a critic who outsources tasks and prints to distant providers. The piece labels him a town buster, contrasted with community reliance on local shops and services.
A Chicago Record-Herald anecdote notes a black farmer who, unable to read or write or secure funds for a new year, humorously inspects a balance sheet and sings that all is for the white man and nothing for the negro. He pockets the sheet and walks away, content despite poverty.
Rock Rapids Iowa November 19 the Lyon county grand jury indicted the Standard Oil company of Indiana charging discrimination under a new state law banning price differences for same freight rate conditions.
Three people died in a fire blamed on children playing with matches at the home of George Newell the carpenter in Quincey Massachusetts on November 9 The victims include Mrs Frank Belcher the house keeper and Newell s young daughters Elsie aged four and Irene aged three The blaze destroyed the residence and prompted investigations into the incident
Mrs Glasgow, Mrs Roth, and others visit the city while Iowa poultry enthusiasts follow a circuit exhibition schedule. Washington hosts a show now, Davenport and Clinton next, Muscatine County set to hold its annual event from November 30 to December 4, lowering shipping costs by entering multiple contests.
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