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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1911
Page
7
A roundup of community notices from Havre and Kalona includes visits, travel, and family news. Tom Putnam dies after a long illness and is buried at Pleasant Hill. Other items mention guests, visits, and a 13 pound newborn boy born to I. D. Quinn and spouse.
Mrs. Ella Thompson spent Saturday at Washington visiting relatives. Miss Fayetta Chapel and others were shoppers at Washington yesterday. Mrs. S. R. Miller and daughter Winifred returned home from Bennett where they had been visiting relatives.
Local notes recount Mrs. Clark Mann visiting West Chester from Boise with son Lester from Missouri. Mrs. Lydia J. Smith buys forty acres west of her farm. Five loads of stock shipped to Chicago and cattle delivered to A. T. Augustine. Church dedication planned for November 5. In Rubio Winifred Stocker and Wilfred Crock visit. Italian departure to Kansas City ends.
A quirky column laments the waning Halloween carnival fun and notes childish mischief, then shifts to local notices from Keota and nearby areas. Mentions Zena Vandyke visiting relatives, revival talk, hunting reports, and community events at churches and with the Presbyterian orchestra fund drive.
The first number on the lecture course will be given in the opera house Friday night November 3. Grace Noe will present the play The Dawn of a Tomorrow. She is highly recommended and indications point to a successful course both intellectually and financially. Mr and Mrs M I Brown of Washington visited the B F Brown home. Lois Maxwell returned to work in Washington after a home visit. Lee Shaffer is a Washington visitor today.
Mrs. A McGuire and sisters visited aunt Mrs. Price Booth. Mrs. William Phillips was ill last week. Mr. and Mrs. B F Brown hosted sister from Chicago. An oyster supper at the William Phillips home was a social and financial success. Prairie Flower school held a program and pie supper last Friday. the program was especially good.
Shropshire breeding stock and bucks offered for sale or share arrangement. About 200 head with 150 yearlings and 50 aged one to four years. Also 17 Shropshire bucks. Two road ridden mares aged 38 and 8, trained for harness and saddle. Plus 3 Shetland ponies and a 6 month old colt. Gentle for children. J F H Taylor phone 608.
Public sale on Wednesday November 8 1911 at 1 30 PM on the Jane B McCreedy farm consisting of 236 acres located 11 miles northeast of Washington in Washington county 6 miles from Ainsworth 3 1/2 miles from Haskins and 8 miles south of Riverside. Property features tiled fields deep well never failing spring fruit seven room house two barns hog shed corn crib buggy sheds and wood-house. For information contact W G McCreedy Washington or J R McCreedy Ainsworth. Terms announced sale day.
The United States Steel corporation, formed in 1901 under J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie connections, faces dissolution suits by the federal government. It remains the world’s largest company by capitalization and stockholders, with about 100 000 on the books and an estimated 150 000 or more when overseas holdings split. The firm’s early bonds totaled 303 million, with preferred shares later reduced by 150 million to 360 281 100 outstanding. Net earnings peaked at 160 million in 1907, and payroll averaged 218 435 last year as the company expanded assets and maintenance outlays.
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