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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal reports fair tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change.
Local brief notes record M W Bailey and Milton Sweet visiting Brighton, Arthur Wilcox Nort Corbin and Tom Bailey meeting relatives and doing business, Cloyce Beard resuming college studies in Monmouth, Miss Houdek and Mrs Skipton with children to Sigourney, and a Mt Pleasant study plan for Homer Coppock and Will Kuhn. Also mentions John Dodd’s illness and C E Mosier plus A A Hughes visiting. The Relief Corps picnic is planned near Verdi with Mr and Mrs J P Thomas.
Sept 15 notes Mrs. Jas Chambers returns from Brighton for sister Ed Ingham's illness and death. H H Wickham from Chicago visits relatives. Mr and Mrs Will Love of Centerville visit. W H Hunt to Jamesport Mo for a stay. Dr E W Spessard attends Muscatine. Jas Chambers takes job at Waterloo and will move family soon. Frank H Porter in Muscatine. Invitations out for the marriage of Myrtle Nicholson and Raymond Dix.
Sept 15 residents and relatives mingle as Mrs Will Henderson returns from Sigourney. George Lee and son head to Washington after visiting the Sanford Shaft home. Bower conducts business at Sigourney. Maud Erdice and Nelle Fish hosted the Question club. Ray Hulse honored before returning to Iowa City. Philip Hartman buys the Trumbauer residence for 2200 and plans to move in six weeks. Agent Fish family visit North English home.
Westchester Sept. 14. C A Knupp arrived home from a Texas trip. Geo Lewis was at Washington Saturday. Miss Belle Kilgore of Washington visits the D Kilgore home. Mr and Mrs Marshal Finney stay with W P Stevenson southwest of town. Moses Hay of Greenville Tenn visits his parents here. Hay is taking a mission vacation near Greenville. Ralph Munro is very ill with typhoid fever. Lessie Baker returns to Baldwin Kan after visiting here.
Sept 15. Ralph Munro of Fairfield is staying at his father D R Munro’s home, ill with typhoid fever and considered in serious condition. Ezra Gardner delivered a car load of hogs. Dan Mannhardt of Washington visited on business. Old corn is being shelled and delivered to the elevator. Methodist church members plan a all day picnic at M E Crayne’s grove north of town. Ladies Aid arranging a bazaar for the election night.
Crawfordsville reports the Reverend W. G. Robertson departed last evening for a two weeks break. Lee McCleary of Washington visited here yesterday.
S. W. Neal returned to Washington after an overnight visit. Miss Sarah Campbell Mrs. T H Hull Mrs. W G Robertson and Mr and Mrs Davie Griffith were passengers for Washington. Mr and Mrs John Cochran and Mr and Mrs John Long drove to Haskins for a visit at the A T Brown home. William Randall returned from a ten day trip through Arkansas. Mrs John Lee and baby left for Tennessee to visit her parents. Ralph Shannon of Washington was a business caller. Frank McCoy began teaching the fall term at Stanley yesterday.
Robert Bennett showed a basket of peaches on the street as neighbors watched a remarkable tree averaging 84 inch circumference. One limb bore six peaches packed together. Bennett plans to bud about 1500 trees from this seedling, while S. B. Dewey and Clarence Work reported large peaches and Carson Anderson displayed notable free stones. Local growers note a renewed interest in peaches and fruit, urging readers to plant peach trees for pleasing yields.
P. J. Daly of 1247 W Congress St Chicago shares a testimonial praising Electric Bitters as a tonic. He reports his elderly mother gained flesh, improved insomnia, and grew stronger, with the medicine said to quickly aid stomach liver and kidney troubles. Sold under guarantee at Lemmon's Pharmacy for 50 cents.
The Council Bluffs Grape Growers association finished shipping for the season with 100 000 baskets moved, far below last year’s 270 000 baskets. Prices have been low as midwest crops ripened together flooding the market, while hail caused only partial failure in Council Bluffs and nearby areas.
Miss Mary Martin of Lexington is spending a few days with relatives and friends in the city.
A wedding surprised the groom’s friends as Nellie Allender of Keota wed Ralph Junkin of this city last Saturday morning at Sigourney. Nellie is daughter of Mr and Mrs Harrison Allender. Ralph is a Stew art Plumbing Co plumber. They plan to set up housekeeping soon in the Rookery building.
The What I Can society of the Baptist church met last evening at Miss Emma McChesney's East Jefferson street home. They reorganized and planned winter work, electing officers: President Emma Mc Chesney, vice president Besse Jones, secretary and treasurer Olive White, and pianist Iola Mayo-Humble.
Des Moines Iowa September 15 Four weeks more of this kind of weather will give Iowa one of its best crops in point of quality The yield will be satisfactory and the price eminently so There is lots of corn in the state which has not yet matured The crop this year is very uneven but every indication is pointing toward a successful corn year and the farmers of the state are feeling mighty good over the prospects.
H Benn suffered injuries last Friday when a frightened cow jumped and threw him. He bruised his right arm and suffered other painful bruises though he is recovering. G R Black and wife from Iowa City visit in the city with his brother Wm Black.
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