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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
5
The column surveys daily life across communities in the county with brief notes on local events, gatherings, and notable residents. It sketches social happenings, church activities, school news, and neighborhood updates in concise summaries.
Nov 23 reports show Miss Edith Smith retiring home from Harper after a week with relatives, various visits to and from Harper, Eddyville, Ottumwa, Rock Island, and Amsterdam Ohio. Eastern Stars in Wellman honor Hazel Tagist with a wedding to Burrett Foster on Wednesday. Union Thanksgiving service at Presbyterian church with special music by a union orchestra. PEO Chapter CM held a schoolroom style meeting at Mrs. Clara Droz with a playful classroom program and a lesson in government. The teacher plans not to seek next term, opening the position.
The next regular meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. C. W. Edgington. Carpenters are making good headway with the new schoolhouse. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Armacost of Moulton Iowa visit daughter Mrs. Warren Bishop who plans to winter in New Mexico. William Thompson was here last week gathering a load of poultry.
Mrs. Wm. McClelland visits sister Mrs. Joe McClelland this week. Winnie Crossett moved near Joe Crossett's place Tuesday. Dan Elman visited Kalona one day this week. Emmett McDowell hosted Emmett's mother Sunday. Mr. Myers bought poultry worth 800 last week. Many fields of corn lie under snow. Louisa Ossman will attend German school in What Cheer this week. Boys are securing hunter licenses from the justice of the peace.
Mr and Mrs MecVicker with children and A M Miller spend the Thanksgiving holiday with relatives in Sigourney. Mr and Mrs N L Sanders entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Mr and Mrs W D Lyle of LaPort.
Nov 24 reports show Chas Johnson shipping hogs to Chicago and Augustine Bros delivering two loads to Chicago. Frank Mull of Muscatine visits town, Jacob Hotle from Dutch Creek delivers hogs, Manuel Grimes sheriff of Keokuk County tours Keota, and Mrs J D Dayton with son Davy visit. Telephone office closes tomorrow from noon to 2 PM.
Riota November 4 Dr B S Brice Keotas oldest practicing physician died at his home Tuesday November 23 after months of illness. He came to Keota in the early seventies and practiced medicine here for 16 years. He married Minerva Smith a widow with children Frank and Alice Smith and leaves a daughter Nellie Sheriff with her husband Mark Sheriff who came from Denver to care for him. Funeral arrangements have not been set.
Miss Hazel Hagist and Mr Burrell Foster marry at the bride’s parents home two miles northeast of Keota. Immediate relatives, question club friends, and local hosts attend with pink and white decor, served by Leota Richardson Ruby iluise Mable Stevenson Pearl Warrington. The couple will reside on a farm near Wellman. Foster is a young farmer and noted ball pitcher.
Nov 25 items note The King's Heralds meet Saturday at 2 30 at superintendent Mrs Lissa Timmons home and urge full attendance. Mrs Ida Patterson of Ainsworth visits. Lyle Oldfield from Quincy Ill over Sunday. Mrs Blaine Holmes Mrs Duane McClure and Pearl visit Ainsworth. Miss Lora Martin returns from school with Miss Lydia Eicher. Rev J A Boatman of Muscatine conducts quarterly conference. Communion Sunday. School closes for a week. W F M S meeting at Mrs Sam Schulty home with lessons by Mrs J N Eyestone and Mrs Schulty Mystery Box. lunch served by Hazel Schulty and Mary Maud Timmons.
On November 23 and 24 several residents travel to Washington including Mrs W A Nelson and daughter Edith Miss Carrie Hardin Eva Bitting J R Butler and wife Tressa Stephens Chas Johnson and wife from Columbus Junction Er B Porter David Love and A J Nicholson. On Nov 24 Eva Ruth Easter return from Cedar Falls Dorothy Gardner visits Mrs John Dellarpporte W B Davis and son become Washington travelers Mr and Mrs J E Webster welcome a nine pound baby girl Frank D Harding is appointed rural free delivery carrier succeeding J W Davis carrier number three.
Nov 24 notes H D Williams and son Gale returning from Idaho and Wyoming to their Idaho ranch. Mrs Leon Belt visits from Waterloo to spend Thanksgiving with her parents. Mrs Will Horning hosts sister Mrs William Libe from Washington. Rev and Mrs J F Robertson travel to Muscatine for a meal.
Nov 24 updates show Jeannette Wooley Frank McCoy and Howard Mouston returning from Cedar Falls for a week away. Mrs Clyde Robbins travels to Shannon City for a month with relatives. Several others depart for Washington and Havre for funeral and family visits. Crawfordsville Dramatic club to stage An Unequal Match on Nov 27 at the opera house with a large cast led by Ray Robbins Oscar Van Lane and others.
John Kenneth Turner exposes Mexican government complicity in slave labor traded by labor agents across the country. He details the Valle Nacional slave market, with 1908 prices at 45 for men and half price for women and children, plus a ten percent toll at Tuxtepec and officials who back the debt system. The article cites the Valle Nacional president acknowledging the debt as justification.
The advertisement touts Vinol as a dependable tonic combining cod liver and iron preparations. It claims Vinol is prescribed by reputable physicians and helps build up a run-down system faster than other remedies under the Pure Food and Drugs Law.
Lewis H. Austin of Mays Landing New Jersey received 150000 dollars under the will of John Caywood of Lewiston Pennsylvania as a reward for his kindness in old age.
The issue offers color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith in A Child's World and a wealth of Christmas fiction by Mary Stewart Cutting Gertrude Hall Margaret and Arthur E McFarlane Perceval Landon J O Cobb and Orr Kenyon. A lead article argues divorced laws harm public welfare. Other pieces cover Schluesselburg atrocities The New Germany and two explorers with a literary parson.
A New York World reader asks if it is proper for a seldom met young man to send candy to a girl. The columnist replies with playful skepticism about the social custom and the timing of such gestures.
An old style advertisement touts Foley s Ortho Laxative claiming it clears constipation and liver trouble by stimulating organs and cleansing the system. The ad names Timemon s Pharmacy and MefShinney Drag Co as suppliers.
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