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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
7
Five o clock tea is spreading through Wall Street offices in large banking houses where tea and wafers are served daily after banking hours. The custom began with younger bankers and gained acceptance by older heads, creating a new office ritual in major institutions.
A man wins affection by giving a car to a girl in a social tale. The lighthearted exchange questions if such a gesture would enchant many women.
Over 100 miles of track have been laid in South Dakota and North Dakota with new towns springing up along the line. Lemmon in Butte County is noted, Hettinger in Adams County will be county seat after October 24 1907 auction of town lots, Bowman will also become county seat with town site to be opened later. Regular train service connects MoBridge to Lemmon with Aberdeen links, offering mercantile and professional opportunities and farming prospects in the region.
Community box supper to benefit Bethel church will be held at the homes of G L Foster located about miles northeast of the city on Friday night October 18. Everyone is invited to attend.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness to inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining, often from catarrh, and offers a $100 cure via Hall's Catarrh Cure with circulars from F J Cheney Co, Toledo Ohio. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Auctioneers Fleeter and Lathrop will sell at public sale at the residence of the late E R Lease in southeast Washington 824 South Second Avenue on Saturday October 19 1907 starting at 2 o clock. The property includes two work horses seven head of cattle four milch cows one to be fresh in November a yearling heifer and last springs calf.
Mrs. James B. Blackburn of Xenia Ohio credits Dr A W Chases Nerve Pills with restoring her nervous system and heart regularity after severe nervousness sleeplessness and indigestion She reports steadier nerves better sleep improved digestion and renewed vigor recommending the medicine sold for 50 cents a box by all dealers of Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY
A catalog lists farming equipment including wagons, loaders, harness, plows, harrows, grindstone, buggies, lumber, and a celery plot 66 by 100. Terms offer 12 month credit on orders over ten dollars, cash discounts, and a health advertisement for Dr. Shoop's Restorative with free samples from Racine Wisconsin, sold by J. B. Stewart.
Mrs W L Ruplinger visits Keokuk this morning. A dance is planned at Phoen ix hall Saturday night October 19 with music by Caner and Baird. Pearl White travels to Ainsworth for a short visit with friends. Windsor Groceries advertises Saturday specials. Mrs P Shea and two children return to Cuba Kan after visiting Dempsey homes. Dougherty Bros offer made to measure suits Monday and Tuesday. Robert Coulter and son Homer depart for two weeks in Fairfield and southern state areas. Merton Teeter in Chicago recovers from appendicitis and expects a quick return home.
A Lemmon's Pharmacy advertisement promotes Hyomei as a natural remedy that soothes catarrh by medicating the airways with healing oils and balsams. It claims quick relief for nasal throat and chest symptoms and offers a money back guarantee if results fall short.
The article outlines Odd Fellows ideals of charity and country loyalty, urges timely lodge openings, and notes South Dakota raising 15000 for a home. It reports Ontario organizing fifteen lodges since last August, Wisconsin grand lodge debates, New York state membership numbers, a record attendance at a department council session in Binghamton, and a new Odd Fellows home dedication in Mason City Iowa. It also cites Victoria Australia with over ten thousand members.
A Pythian meeting notes the supreme lodge organization in Washington on Aug 1 1868 with Rathbone and Reed elected to top posts. George Hawkes serves as grand keeper of records in Pennsylvania since 1971. A Sythian temple rises in Hagerstown Maryland. Pennsylvania lodges hold 1 375 000 in treasuries. General Lyon recently died after one year as supreme outer guard. Panama lodges active and busy with initiations.
The order notes thirty nine years of benevolence with $161 million paid in death benefits and unspecified sick benefits. Washington jurisdiction lists 7,144 members in good standing. It claims California, Arizona, Arkansas and New Jersey do not pay their share of the fraternal aid fund and urges picking ripe candidates and reintegrating suspended members.
The Texas banner tent Dallas No. 23 reports 650 members as entertainment and social plans aim to attract new initiates. Virginia's state commander notes rate readjustments followed by a road on progress with renewed member effort statewide.
Michigan Woodmen exceed four thousand members while Nebraska reports nearly four thousand members in good standing for the Woodmen of the World fraternal order.
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