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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1909
Page
4
Public health advice stresses screening doors and windows, covering garbage and food, and preventing fly breeding near homes. Officials urge reporting unsanitary stores or stables, keeping sick rooms fly-free, and using formaldehyde and pyrethrum as fly killers.
You can find bad fresh tender home ressed Beef Pork Veal and amb. All you have to do is come to the Royal. Here on find everything in the meat line. Lord and Sausage, 'y them and you will buy no ider. Fish Oysters and Poultry ad the most complete line of fickles in the city. Hams and Bacon, that weet mild old-fashioned chary smoked flavor. You can get the best at its big city market for less ian you pay others for m inor goods. SOUTH OF P. 0.
Notice from Mayor B F Dixon of Washington condemns horse abuse and vows action. Public statement stresses intolerance of mistreatment by any teamsters and calls for compliance with city rules.
New Haven Sept 14 local items report Mr Flanders bought forty head of sheep Gus Strum at court in Washington Frank Smith visiting John Warnock family and many locals on sick lists and travel to Washington Muscatine and Calit for various tasks schools and church events noted plus a Royal English Hand Bell Ringers concert Sept 16 with season tickets and local funeral and reunion notices in this county update.
Rural Route Three reports carpentry work for Fred Stewart by A Keister and force. Starry Crone sold a team to Joe Simerman and bought one from Earl Simpson south of Washington. Sunday visits by local families, baptisms at Prairie Flower church yield twenty five immersions and about forty conversions. Several residents travel to South Dakota and nearby towns, with farm rentals and visits noted.
Miss Ruth Simpson left for Pella Iowa to undertake an eight week teachers course. Clayton Pearson traveled to Mt Pleasant to attend Iowa Wesleyan University. Paul and Charlies Marsh rode to Pella to attend college. Miss Martha Porter departed for Washington to resume duties at the Academy. Mrs Harold Philips and her two children, visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Edward Rhodes, returned home to West Liberty.
The funeral took place Wednesday at 2 30 PM from the Baptist church for R F E Wilkins assisted by Rev George Sneath of Ft Madison and Rev J C Giffen of the local Presbyterian church. Out of town relatives attended and floral tributes were many. A H Richardson J C Richardson Arthur Clendenning and A A Hulse sang. The high school was dismissed in his honor. Wilkins was 27 and leaves a wife.
Miss Nena Wilson of Washington, a former high school teacher, visited the local high school on Tuesday. Mrs. Julia Marshall of Eldon visited the Henry Gordon home Sunday, with Henry Menefee of Crawfordsville noted in attendance.
September 15 note states the ice cream social at the Baptist church is postponed. J. H. Walker reported two horses killed by lightning yesterday and valued at 500 dollars.
September reports from Crawfordsville record Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Moore traveling to Topeka to visit his son and planning a return via Winterset. Mrs. H. C. Hull departed for Kirkwood Illinois to visit Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Robertson. Reid Haines of West Chester visits. Mrs. Charles Hays of Washington visits local friends. The Cocklins of Washington spent yesterday with the Rickey family. Harry White attended the funeral of Mr. Wilkins in Keola. Mrs. Mary Maxwell and Mrs. Martha Wortman visited Mrs. Anna Jewel at Wilton June Gap.
An amateur fisherman boasts of catching a three-pound trout yesterday, only to have it seized midair by a hawk. The village grocer reassures him that such a slight misweighing cannot harm his standing in the Ananias club.
Registration for farms in Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Reservations opens October 4 to 23 in South Dakota and North Dakota. About ten thousand potential settlers may win 160 acre plots priced 50 cents to 86 per acre. Drawings occur October 26 in Aberdeen.
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