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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1906
Page
6
Phillipsburg Kansas resident Sam Kendal proclaims Bucklen’s Arnica Salve can cure burns sores wounds and skin ailments by simply applying it. The product priced at 25 cents is sold at Stewart’s drug store with a guaranteed result.
The Iowa Central will sell round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Iowa the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest with first and third Tuesday options to the South and West. Fare one full fare plus $2.00 with liberal limits and stopovers. For rates and details contact A B Cutts G T A Minneapolis Minn.
The column records local accidents deaths births and marriages with prompt notes from our news gatherers. It highlights community events and notable life milestones across the county.
Sept 12 reports travelers leaving for Avoca LeMars and Iowa City to serve as stock judge principal of a LeMars school and assist at fairs. Families visit relatives in Washington while others attend reunions and conduct business.
Sept ll Reverend Filmer is at the annual conference of the M E church this week in Grinnell. Wes Carpenter left Tuesday to visit relatives in Nebraska for two weeks. Frank Mignon visits Riverside over Sunday. Mrs Carpenter returned home after a week with kin. Mrs A A Warner was called to Des Moines by her father's illness.
Sept 11 itemized local updates show Pete Shilley and family back from Canada. Mr and Mrs Henry Te Seckhorst celebrate a new baby born since Sunday. Fred Marhofer attends Kalona school. Mrs Zajiacek and Chicago relatives visit aunt Mrs Frank Telin. Mrs Aaron Bailey sick. Hia Reese and family visit Wellman. Harry Page files for Mike Wallrab. Slezak of Creston visits sisters Frank Wallrab and Sofourek. Edith Kelfer visits Washington last week. J D Patterson visits Frank Telin.
Sept 11 updates list Will Sankey and family Ase Robertson and family and Mr and Mrs J Wees Myers who visited Sunday with Mrs Rebecca Myers. Miss Leona Hotle plans to move to Kansas next Thursday night for a time. Harry Haifley began violin lessons this week with Tom Groencycke.
Miss Kila Belle hosts a friend from Muscatine with the writer unable to learn the guest’s name. Alvie Hayes and family of Davenport visit Mrs. Jane Richardson, his mother. Miss Emma Buxbaum traveled to Allison Iowa to teach school last week. news scarce this week.
Sept. 20 at 2:30 p m the annual mite opening and election of officers for the W F M society will be held at the J N Eyestone home Missora Henderson returns to Rothschild store after two weeks' vacation J H Tipton party joined a jandpeekers' trip to North Dakota Mrs J W Eyestone from Mt Vernon visits her parents Mr and Mrs James Gardner a Cedar and Seventy Six township boys match game on Robert Arm long farm School opens with Miss Pearl Montgomery of Washington as teacher Jandie Wallace and Bee Adams attend Keota high school Mrs Maide Bunker Church of Kansas City visiting in area Mrs D I Brindley and Mary Patterson reported sick
A brief note directs readers to contact the Iowa Land Company for arrangements related to departures to Canada every Tuesday. The fragmented line suggests a transportation or land sale ad context with no additional specifics.
I will sell at public auction my residence on South Marion Avenue four blocks south of the public square September 22 at 2 pm. A two story frame house with six rooms three closets barn and outbuildings cement walk shade trees good well fruit high drainage good neighborhood and strong rental or desirable home. Call to inspect anytime terms revealed sale day. Mrs D F Haynes Teeter and Lathrop Auctioneers.
I conclude to sell my residence on lot 5 block 7 Denny's addition known as the Dougherty property one block north of the Milwaukee freight depot on North Second Ave at public sale Thursday September 20 at 3 o clock p m This fine corner home has two stories eight rooms bath pantry large cellar cistern good well water piped to house Barn for four horses buggy shed granary Sealed bids may be made or the highest bidder at sale wins J E Bovee Chas Brown Auctioneer RK M Wilson has received two South American ring tailed monkeys from a friend Mrs Bert Crone and children Arthur and Mildred returned to Bloomfield after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Hugh Arthur.
During hot summer months the first looseness of a child’s bowels demands immediate attention to prevent serious illness. A few doses of Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil can cleanse the system. Reverend M Stockland of Little Falls Minnesota endorses the remedy for summer disorders in children and its value. Sold by Cook Sherman and Stewart’s pharmacy.
Hartford reports a Connecticut field near Fishfry Street owned by Over T. Mather towers over a shed and track, with corn stalks stretching high above the eaves. One stalk measured 17 feet 4 inches and weighed about thirteen pounds, illustrating remarkable yields in the 1.5 acre plot.
Dense smoke from forest fires covers upper Lakes Huron and Michigan and the Mackinaw and Sea channels. Fires rage in pine forests and spread continually. No rain has fallen for several days, hindering efforts to control the blazes.
The Muncie Indiana public works board issues a rule: a fireman found in a saloon outside official duties may be dismissed from the fire department.
In Carmi Illinois on September 12 a hunting accident left 11 year old Arthur Williams dead. William the elder brother fired thinking he was shooting rabbits while the boy crawled in weeds.
Peter K. Labrecque aged 64 a pioneer resident of Alpena Mich was found dead in bed by his nephew He was last seen Saturday and heart disease was the cause Police note he was an excessive drinker.
In Wabash Indiana on September 12 Harry Fosnough aged 15 drowned while swimming with a crowd of boys in the Eel river. School officials and local rescue efforts were conducted but the youth did not survive the incident.
Illinois cooler and generally fair. Indiana fair cooler. Lower Michigan fair cooler with northwest winds. Wisconsin fair cooler. Iowa fair cooler in east and south portions.
Chicago markets report broad price quotes across wheat corn oats pork lard and short ribs. Included are cash sale levels for winter and spring wheats, hog cattle and sheep receipts, live poultry prices, and hay values with varied bid ranges and closing levels.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for women with kidney trouble and female weakness. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Frake and Mrs. Lang praising relief from backache and other symptoms, and invites women to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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