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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
5
Special weather forecast from Washington D C notes fair tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures.
A compilation of society visits travels and notices including W H Cress in Riverside Ab Anderson and Mrs R M Hamilton in West Chester travel from Chicago and Longford. Evalyn Carothers arrives from Stronghurst Ill to visit Miss Mabel Dunham. Esther Maxwell and Mary James arrive from the west on No 2. The court remodel progresses with arches lath in place ready for plasterers ahead of November 3 term.
In the House of Commons Premier Asquith proposed a 1.5 million dollar relief fund for the unemployed and an accelerated shipbuilding program. The Admiralty ordered nine torpedo boats destroyers and five unarmored cruisers at a cost of 12.5 million dollars. The war office offered 24 000 recruits for winter training in the special reserves, but labor members found the measures insufficient.
New York City faces a rising hobo problem as officials plan drastic measures at a special meeting. Robert W. Hebbard seeks aid from Police Commissioner Bingham and Magistrate Barlow to manage vagrants, while job seekers reject lodging house offers and farm and wood yard work, preferring to stay in the city.
Hastings Michigan October 22. Local men connected to alleged land frauds involving Governor Haskell of Oklahoma may face no prosecution if the rumors prove true. Walter Maton private secretary to Governor Haskell allegedly placed $100000 worth of Muskobee lots in Hastings friends names to reclaim property, dodging the law and allowing Eaton to hold excess lots. Fifteen locals have given affidavits to Interior Department officials.
In Petersburg Indiana on October 22 authorities issue warrants for two men Russell and Albourn over the disappearance of more than 100 turkeys valued at 200 dollars. A young man named Stevenson was arrested but had an alibi. The birds were fattened for Thanksgiving markets.
Springfield October 22 The grand lodge of Illinois Knights of Pythias rejected raising the initiation fee from fifteen to twenty five dollars for lodges with seventy five or more members. The body set next year’s meeting for Peoria.
Word reaches Chicago that the papal briefs creating the diocese of Rockford and appointing Bishop Muldoon as its first head have arrived at the apostolic delegation in Washington.
Buffalo reporter notes Mrs. James McConnell, longtime dreamer, described visions predicting Bryan’s 1900 election win and other events from a crowded crowd scene to a girl shouting Bryan. She cites past dreams of fires and accidents aligning with real events and says she would bet a million on Bryan.
An essay argues for a land owner maintained road network like European practice. Each landowner holds a defined road section, funds bridges via a small annual tax, and sheriff oversight enforces repairs within 15 days. The plan aims to give farmers pride in upkeep and improve drainage on hilly and bottom roads.
New pictures at Unique to Joe Lintz accompany a West Point Iowa business trip. Fruit slice and butter scotch snaps slated for Friday at the Vienna. T B Brinton and W S Downs of Brighton were in the city on business. Mr and Mrs T B Davison and sister Miss Kate Snyder visited from Brighton yesterday.
Reader letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for irregularities periodic suffering and nervous headaches after other remedies failed. Messages from Lillian Ross Katharine Craig Marie Stoltz man Ellen Olson extol the remedy for various female ailments and backache. Facts for sick women notes the product’s three decades of use and invites letters for advice from Mrs Pinkham.
Louis T. Larson of Stanton Iowa argues for a simple road system allowing land owners to pay a road tax up to one mile per dollar of assessed value to raise and drain bad bottom roads. County prisoners and poll tax could be used. legislators urged to support or introduce the plan for law.
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