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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1911
Page
2
Train schedule shows arrivals and departures for No 12 22 46 50 2 30 88 1 49 21 11 36 29 89 and Washington Branch services. Local freight and passenger trains run daily except Sundays with agents H W Russel and J E Kunath noted. All trains operate daily except Sunday.
A fragmented timetable lists several trains with routes to South West and Milwaukee and Chicago. It includes times such as 12:44 am for No 6 and 1:31 am for No 12 along with morning departures around 8:15 am and 9:07 am.
Kalona notes list visits and travel among residents from Riverside, River Junction, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Goshen Indiana with guests and family moves. Lexington reports a child's recovery, festival success, a harvest display sold for church, a Lexington win over Prairie Flower, and local social events plus a fatal family tragedy in Muscatine linked to gas exposure.
Mrs Bertha Grady traveled to Muscatine on Tuesday. Frank Frieze upgrades his hotel with a large east window. Miss Addie Kempf attends school in Vinton. Don Rawson plans to move to the Flexner property vacated by Mr Wilson. Fred Sommers reports strong meat market business. Mr and Mrs Press Figgins host their daughter Mrs John Wray visiting from Hedrick. Miss Ada Enda returns from medical treatment in Iowa City.
A humorous column contrasts old fashioned paternal vigilance with contemporary courting scenes. It laments looser standards, notes fathers who monitor daughters and suitors, and comments on social shifts reflected in parlor scenes and headlines. The piece blends satire with local social updates from Havre and Washington, Iowa.
Crawfordsville reporting on October 9 details visits by Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCoy and daughters from Mt. Pleasant to J. B. McCoy's home. Merle McConnell of Ainsworth stays with relatives. Mrs. Shockley and daughter depart Washington after days at the Samuel Bailey home. A group including Mrs. Gertrude Clarke and others travels to Washington for a surprise party for Mrs. Mary Clarke on her birthday with Miss Blanche Laws of Galesburg visiting relatives.
George Kirkpatrick is improving his property with new cement walks. Mrs. Tom Adams visited recently with relatives in this place and lives at Wellman.
The Brighton dispatch notes Theodore Vanerus of Iowa City visiting relatives while a gasoline stove explosion at the R Harris home causes burns to Mr. and Mrs. Harris. Other items mention clergy visits, health-related school withdrawals, travel to Lawrence and Washington, a local play, a tree accident injuring Velda Alkier, illness of Mrs. Abe Diller, and relatives visiting from Maxwell, Twin Falls, Chicago, and Olds.
Pleasant Hill Oct 9. Mr and Mrs Sam Sigafoose spent Sunday at the Al Tomlinson home in south Washington. Mrs Frank Kephart spent Saturday night and Sunday with her mother Mrs Hiram Sickles in east Lewis Baker and son Howard and Karl Kephart returned Friday evening.
Multiple residents visit and travel between Crawfordsville Washington and nearby towns. Attendees include Mrs Fishburn Miss Talma Thompson Rev Rice and families visiting relatives and attending services. A 50th wedding anniversary and millinery business visits are noted along with local church Ladies Aid meeting.
Mrs. E. A. Salisbury returned from Europe and visited Keota friends. Louie Cripe is back after five to six months away in Wyoming and Canada and may not stay. St Mary’s Altar Society to host a Koffee Klatch on Oct 12. Pythian Sisters held a farewell for Mrs. C. O. Keiser leaving for Canyon City Texas. Keota to host an eight part Lyric Entertainers lecture in Methodist church with a five society committee. Season tickets $2. Fred Goldner home reunion in Talleyrand as Johnny Hay family visits prior to moving to Mexico.
John R. Walsh was paroled from Leavenworth today with a Washington report saying release would occur within hours. A birthday celebration for Hamil included relatives from Crawfordsville Columbus City and local families. A Squire reunion at Kilgore home drew out of town guests from Washington Ohio and Minnesota.
Quarrymen at Cheddar Cliffs, Wales uncovered a petrified prehistoric snail embedded in blue slate. The fossil, dating back millions of years, was found on boulders displaced by a landslip that occurred years ago and is of great interest to geologists studying ancient life.
Archaeological work about 20 miles from Kars in Russia uncovers a nearly intact stone fortress of prehistoric date. The fortress shows roughly but well laid masonry and bastions. Many finds include figures of heathen gods, mostly animal shapes, carved in hard baked clay.
No true viper species inhabit the New World though many snakes are called vipers. The viperine snakes here belong to a sub family Crotalian including rattlesnake copperhead water moccasin bushmaster and ferde lance.
Estimated receipts 16000 with 3539 left over from yesterday. Market prospects weak to 5 lower than yesterday's average. Light 6.05 to 6.75, Mixed packers 6.10 to 6.85, Heavy shipping grades 6.00 to 6.80, Rough 6.00 to 6.206. Cattle 760 prospects steady. Sheep 4000 prospects steady.
Estimated receipts today are 20000 with official receipts yesterday of 21881 and shipments 67433. Market figures show bulk 5 to 10 lower than Monday morning and cattle values steady to mixed with cattle and sheep prices detailed for beef, pork and sheep categories. A second Chicago run lists 25000 market with cattle slower and steady and sheep weak amid broad price ranges for various classes.
Market notes from Chicago dated October 10 1911 show grain prices for wheat corn and oats with opening and closing values. Wheat ranges around 98 to 104 cents for May and December contracts while corn and oats show modest shifts with futures quoted for December and May deliveries. Data supplied by Beach-Wickham Grain Co. Chicago.
Quotations from Reister and Son listing wholesale prices for produce including straw per load at 5.00 to 15.00, corn meal per tenth sack, brad per hundred, shorts per hundred, and assorted colored corn meal items. Also notes general market items and pricing for sack and load quantities.
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