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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
2
40 000 Italian soldiers depart to conquer Tripoli amid bold moves by Fox and Dewey who claim to offer complete footwear solutions. High top shoes boots jockey boots and shoes are available with best shoe repairing on the square.
Postmaster J M Lytle has ordered mail boxes and instructed placement on platforms at three local railway stations. Boxes may take months to arrive and will provide a long awaited convenience. Railway staff frequently ask where to find a mailbox, especially at the Rock Island station, where the box will likely be at the east end of the depot.
Community notes cover visits from Iowa City and Washington, lectures on health conservation, school and church events, hospitality at homes, business moves, illness updates, and travel between Wellman Crawfordsville and nearby areas. Major names include Cooper Fuller Snavely Booth Gardner Dodds Lantz England Ham ilton McKee and many local residents.
A humorous piece extols broom corn as a profitable crop not requiring seeds. It jokes about planting ordinary household items and mocks farmers who neglect machinery, calling laziness the real bad luck. References Michigan broom corn production and exaggerated crop yields.
J B Spencer made a business visit to Washington yesterday. Mr and Mrs G R Parkinson of Palo Alto Cal spent yesterday in town visiting friends. Mrs Er E Coffman of Washington has been staying with her parents. Mrs C A Shearer left for Columbus Junction after a week with her sister Mrs S S Wilcox. Fr G Sands left for Davenport for business. J B Spencer rode as a passenger to Rowley Iowa. Mr and Mrs J R McCreedy returned from Waterloo where they visited Floyd Love.
Last evening at 8:30 at 341 East Main street the wedding of Albert Widney Errett and Lucy Gray Wilson took place with Rev. H. V. Comin officiating. The bride wore a white crepe meteor gown and a tulle veil, and was given in marriage by her father. A reception followed for about ninety guests, with a two course luncheon and decorated tables in yellow and smilax. The groom, from Kewanee Illinois, is vice president of the Kewanee Water Supply Co. and the couple will reside in Keewanee after December first.
Potatoes offered at 75 cents per bushel if picked up from the car. Unclear location or date but advertises prices and seller J A Cunningham’s Sons.
The Burlington exhibit car tours towns in Iowa Missouri and Illinois this fall to attract settlers to irrigated lands along Burlington railroad lines in Wyoming and Montana. The government has spent 4700000 dollars on an irrigation system to water 150000 acres. It features the highest dam in the world and a tunnel over three miles long carrying water from the river to farms.
Estimated receipts 21 600 left over 3 955 market prospects slow from yesterday’s average light 5 956 685 mixed packers 6.00 6.70 heavy shipping ratios 87 Vs rough 5.90 6.10 cattle 6 500 prospects good strong others weak sheep 40 060 prospects weaken
Chicago cattle and sheep markets show steady to weaker tendencies with volume estimates around 40000 cattle and 7090 receipts. Bulk ranges 630 to 665 for cattle and 240 to 410 for sheep, with heavy shipping grades at 695 to 675 and lambs around 425 to 610. No grain market today.
PUD in inn dated nate adetene det 40 Mey AUF AGW. Prices listed include hay baled at 15 cents, straw by load at 5 dollars, gtraw baled at 2 dollars and 80 cents per sack, breas per hundred 66 cents, shorts per hundred 1 50, corn meal 10 pounds 25 cents, butter 20 cents.
A train exhibit car displays grains grasses fruits and vegetables from the Big Horn basin and Yellowstone valley aimed at guiding settlers toward new locations and potential investment. Immigration agent D Clem Deaver of the Burlington route oversees the car as it emphasizes tenant farmers moving toward farm proprietorship.
Mrs W W Gould of Pittsfield New Hampshire credits Electric Bitters with healing years of stomach and kidney trouble. She urges others to try the tonic promising it aids women and acts as a strong liver and kidney remedy. Available for 50 cents at Lemimon's Pharmacy.
Notice of sale of household goods set for Saturday October 14 at the northwest corner of the square in Macon. Auctioneer unspecified. Items to be sold in a public sale by an unknown party.
A witty exchange contrasts names given at baptism with their reputations. Reverend Hollers recalls baptizing Izaak Walton’s son George Washington, and Mr. Johnson explains the name change reflecting the boy’s notorious reputation for veracity.
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