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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1900
Page
4
A collection of small classified items including a lost pocket book with money and checks, a lost razor, and a request for a safe horse, all directed to the Journal office. Also noted are employment and real estate exchange notices seeking agents and property trade near Washington and Chicago.
Mrs Cline of Sigourney sister of W C Nelson is recovering from illness as reported in local notes.
Local residents with morning travel updates include Dee Scofield aboard a Brighton passenger and May and Bessie Watters heading Des Moines for ranch work. John Skipton rides Keota business while R H Walker returns from Peoria Illinois.
Local and personal notices announce W S Brinton will present a large collection of new moving pictures at an election night showing. Images include Paris Exposition scenes, English Boer War footage, China events, the massacre of Christians, and the Galveston storm. Returns will be projected with music and singing.
J. K. Bryson of Keota and Dr. Trumbar of Harper traveled home from Europe and China Paris World Fair. They found the grounds and exhibits well arranged and comparable to the Chicago fair. They could not gauge attendance due to unread foreign papers.
Tomorrow services at Pasa A M E with Sunday school and two sermons led by Rev Holley and Rev Brodie. Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches schedule sermons and hymns with choirs and communion at First United Presbyterian. All not attending elsewhere are invited.
The Card of Thanks expresses gratitude from Martha Washington Camp No 1315 R N A to all who aided Thursday evening supper. Special thanks are given to Woodmen wives A N Alberson Bowman and Younkie Mr Parrish Ralph Smith Harry McCall and Frank Brindley R N A committee.
Readers are invited to try Dwight's Complexion Beautifier free for a limited time. Each address sending 10c for packing and postage receives one full size box valued at fifty cents, with a limit of one free box per address from D W Custer & Co Huntington W Va.
Steelman shows Boss cases for Keystone Watch in the city to W C Nelson. S W DeLong of West Chester visits. William Lemon and wife of Winfield plan to return home tonight. Marsh Bailey and others attended Senator Dolliver’s address in Wellman. Laura Ingham displays a new Schiller piano at the county courthouse. County Supt Miss Hughes reports from county schools and Round Table meetings in Brighton Ainsworth Crawfordsville and Riverside with school visits in Marion Crawford and Highland.
Absalom Ketcham of Monroe County gives his nephew A. J. Mitchell a buckskin bag once used to hold war paint. The bag came from an Indian chief killed during a 75 year old Jackson County encounter where both Ketcham and Shields fired. the fatal shot was attributed to Ketcham. He scalped the chief and the scalp was kept then burned.
In Racine Wisconsin workers at J S Case Plow Works voted to strike after wage cuts from 80 to 50 percent. Company leaders H M Wallis and William Sobey were in Texas. workers plan to demand restored pay upon their return, or a walkout will occur.
Teachers in Oregon township gathered at the school house Thursday evening for a program. Blanch and Nellie Clege, students from Winfield, are home for Sunday with their parents, Edith Shannon and Mrs. Chas Olds. Josephine Babcock and Meda Chambers are visiting local residents, with Ora Rowan stopping by today.
Senator Dolliver spoke from a main street position to a vast Wellman crowd. The Republican talk covered current issues with noted eloquence and logic. Visitors from Washington, Keota, Riverside, Kalona, West Chester, Ainsworth, Crawfordsville and nearby areas attended the mass meeting.
Clyde Bailey, summoned to Omaha due to Lafayette Anderson’s death, returned home last night. Merton Bickford, his wife and Master George, traveled to Pleasant Plain this morning to visit her parents.
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