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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1906
Page
5
The forecast for Iowa calls for showers and cooler conditions tonight. Thursday will be fair with cooler temperatures in the eastern portion.
Cumming and Wm Busby of Riverside attended court today. Joe Link left for West Point on a brief business trip. Rev W C Allen went to Wyman for a presbytery meeting. Alfred and W A Chilcote fished in Mediapolis for a day. W A Moore returned home from a brief city visit to Ainsworth. D Nichol of Albia rode to Wyman to visit relatives. Glen Burham attended the funeral of P R L Van Horn in Columbus Junction. A group including S W Neal and others traveled to Winfield for a Senatorial convention.
An old catalog style claim states Foley’s Kidney Cure will cure any kidney or bladder trouble not beyond medicine. It asserts no other medicine can do more and directs readers to buy from druggists.
J P Thomas leaves last evening with a party of landseekers for Canada. Numerous residents travel for business or to visit relatives in the city, including A B Folger shipping sorghum evaporators, Mrs J F Frain en route to Wyman, and Miss Mabel Morton bound for Chicago for training. A lecture on Christian Science is announced with free admission, and policies update with Will E Chilcote paying $1000 on a late husband’s life policy.
Mr Bicknell Young of Chicago a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship will speak on Christian Science at the Graham opera house Thursday evening September 13 1906 at 8 oclock Admission free All are invited to attend and be instructed and entertained by his presentation
Enrollment at Crawfordsville High School stood at 145 on September 3 with several new pupils since. The literary society elected President Howard Huston, Vice President Edna Young, and executive committee members Frank McCoy Nina Wooley and Lois Maxwell. A strong program for September 21 1906 includes recitations declamations orations songs.
Adjourned meeting of Commercial Club set for Thursday evening September 15 at eight o clock with directors convening at 7 30. Important business on the agenda. Please be present.
The regular prayer meeting service of the Methodist church will be held this evening marking the first service of the new year. Be there.
A. J. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold with hay fever symptoms improved rapidly by Foley’s Honey and Tar in the yellow package after other medicines failed. His wife later used it with the same success. All druggists.
Iowa Central announces its last popular excursion to Minneapolis and St Paul on Saturday September 22. Bus departs Brighton at 9 19 p m and arrives Minneapolis 9 25 a m with St Paul arrival at 9 00 a m the next day. Round trip fare is 4 00 with return tickets valid until September 25. A tourist sleeper is attached and double berth for two costs 1 00. Tickets available from agents.sept22
Car Keck returned from Muscatine. West Chester caller Bunk Ralston and Wellman residents Mr. and Mrs. Struble and Mrs. Durst were in the city for business or calls. Kathryn Kennelly heads to Nashville to enroll at Belmont College. Doctors Smith Maddux and Thorne visit for church and presbytery meetings. Fred Neiswanger ships a second car load of monuments to Cambridge, Nebraska, signaling growing reputation there.
In Socorro county New Mexico a vast ruin network near Tule Rosa north of San Francisco hosts the so called Ruinas Encantadas or haunted ruins. The Mound of Mystery yielded hundreds of relics skulls beads and tools showing a sudden depopulation of a vanished mound people. Skeletal remains suggest a unique non modern Indian type and scholars debate whether Toltec or Anahuac links explain the site.
The London Spectator cites Napoleon praising the civil code at St Helena as vital to his glory, while Savigny and Austin condemn it as derivative and trivial. It notes the code’s view of women as fickle and mindless, and Napoleon’s quip that Eve was ordered to obey.
A Carlyle inspired reflection asserts that every object, from a withered leaf to paper and corn litter, participates in a vast, transformative process. All things serve as windows enabling the philosophic eye to glimpse infinitude through action and metamorphosis.
Chicago dispatch notes a labor dispute on the Burlington railroad after a new rule sets eye sight standards for engineers. Glasses wearers are demoted to lesser runs, affecting veterans and new hires alike. Grand Chief Warren S. Stone seeks talks with James J. Hill. engineers lodge protests, a Lexington conference failed to resolve the issue.
Fire in Hunt's restaurant sparked at 3 yesterday morning causing about 25000 in losses. Volunteers battled the blaze with buckets as rapid flames destroyed Hunt's restaurant Reid & Son and Whistler properties along the east side of the street. Insurance coverage could not be confirmed.
Theatregoers will welcome Uncle Josh Spruceby and the renowned company as they tour with a strong cast and new scenery. The New England drama blends comedy and pathos with songs like Sally Dutchy and Out o Sight while preserving the Hayseed Band and an elegant orchestra.
A boy reports his dark lantern lost last night near the High school building. He is anxious to have it returned and asks that the finder leave it at The Journal office for return.
Pension attorney W H Brown of Pittsfield Vermont endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills for health, citing they keep his family in splendid health. Pills aid headaches constipation and biliousness. 25 cents guaranteed at Stewart’s drug store. West and Northwest rail rates cut to California and North Pacific Coast with half rates for children. Tickets valid in tourist sleepers. For rates routes and service see agent or write F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
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