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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1908
Page
5
Washington D C September 7 Special to the Evening Journal The forecast reads for Iowa today and tomorrow Generally fair tonight and Wednesday warmer in the east and central portions tonight cooler Wednesday afternoon
Geo H Craig and F L Kern of Riverside were in the city on business. Mr and Mrs Oren Helwick went to Ottumwa to attend the races and fair. Mrs J W Lemsey traveled to Richland for a few days visit. Ralph Junkin and Charley Baker headed to Rose Hill to represent Stewart Heating and Plumbing Co.
An item of local advertising highlights Lemmons Jewelry Store offering the best medium priced fountain pen. The note also mentions a custom suit service with a satisfaction guarantee and a Dougherty Bros sale event on Wednesday and Thursday, with a numerical line 74-56 accompanying the ad.
Sept 7 items recount visits and gatherings across farms and towns. Grace Hopping Emma Bloomquist and Gertrude Buntenbach spent Sunday at Hesseltine's. George Brown family at Ewing's. Ward Essley and son Hubert with Ad Lins near Havre. Columbus Junction fair visits by Lemley Tucker Buntenbach Wagner and Gordon families. Visitors include Mary Lease to Oskaloosa to see Will Lease family.
Sept 8 reports Misses Jennie and Frank Mize as passengers for Crawfordsville. Mrs Mort Farris and Miss Louise Farris were visitors in Washington yesterday. Miss Lelia Rhodes left Saturday for West Liberty to begin teaching. Ainsworth High School enrollment is so large that library seating is fixed for the Senior class and a new teacher is to be hired. Miss Blanche Adams returned to Academy duties after a weekend at home.
Sept Miss Myrtle Northup returns from Oskaolosa after a three week visit. The Misses Nelle and Estelle Fish and Gertrude Keiser spent Sunday with friends at Sigourney. Many locals attended the Gollmar Bros. show at Sigourney. Northolp and Hulse families noted recent trips. Grace and Velda Eaton left for Denver after visiting their sister Mrs. Joe Masters. The Rev. Mr. Vroom of Oskaolosa visits the Northup home. School started this morning though the new building will take time to be ready.
S D Coe, who has been visiting Crawfordsville for several days, departed this morning by way of Burlington.
The Rev K Michels, four years pastor of the German Evangelical church, has accepted a call to First Evangelical in Burlington. He preaches his last here next Sunday the 13th and at Dutch Creek on the 27th. Burlington church is large with about 450 families and 1000 communicants. His departure takes with it a beloved community member and Christian worker. The successor at this charge is not yet named.
A gentle female bird laments her lack of a mate while surrounded by paired birds. An experienced elder suggests she advertise her needs, teaching that to obtain what one wants she must inform the community. The tale equates love with being publicly known and pursued.
Mary Elizabeth Webb Ragan died at the family residence on North Marion Avenue after a two year illness of nervous prostration. She was born May 7 1863 at Plymouth Rock Iowa and lived here since age two. Survived by husband Wes Ragan and two sons Bert Charles and Harry. Bert died in 1906. Funeral tomorrow at 10 from the residence conducted by Rev A S Smith. private interment Elm Grove cemetery.
Rock Island passenger service on the Des Moines Valley division will restart next Sunday with direct connections to Des Moines branch trains. Trains currently running Keokuk to Ottumwa will extend to Des Moines, removing the seven hour wait at Oskaloosa and shortening morning and evening Branch connections to about forty five minutes. The traveling public will welcome the improvement.
Miss Maud Chilcote of Fairfield attends the funeral of her brother Arthur Chilcote yesterday. Poultry association meeting Wednesday at 3 p m at Marion T. Anderson's office. All members urged to attend. Dougherty Bros advertisement offers fall suit discount and free fitting.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Chileete and children, Mrs. Arthur Chileete, and the family express public gratitude to friends neighbors and the B. of RK. 'IT. boys for help sympathy and beautiful flowers in their sad bereavement following the death of their beloved son and brother and husband.
The funeral for the late Mrs Emma Wentworth was held at her mother Mrs Nancy Brinning’s residence in Dutch Creek township at 10 a m yesterday. The service was led by Rev F B Morrison with Bethel choir. Burial took place in Clay cemetery with pallbearers G C Mayer Henry Blattner John Luers L Barnes H D Luers and Henry Walderich.
The funeral service for Arthur Chilcote was held yesterday at 3 p.m. from his parents’ residence in the city. Rev George D Rogers of the Baptist church officiated. Interment followed at the city cemetery where B R T members accompanying the body held a service. Pallbearers included Walter Stephens Walter Straub C M Crim Joseph Canote R Johnson and Wil Flavelle with other railway men attending such as Conducta Fields Trainman Thrope and J L Dugger.
Foley's Orino Laxative is a new remedy advertised as gentler than former laxatives, not causing griping or nausea and described as pleasant to take. It carries a guarantee and is promoted by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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