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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1911
Page
7
Alpine lodge informally announces regular meetings of the Alpine Aerie No. 1948 held every first and third Wednesday evening each month. Visiting members in good standing are welcome. EK G Fox is Worthy Patron and R C Dubois serves as secretary.
I G White Post No 108 holds meetings on the first and third Tuesday each month in their Post rooms within the Temple building. Commander J W Scott presides and adjutant J J Kellogg handles duties.
Frank Rice, son of Mrs Belle Gray Rice, was run over by a bus near North Fourth avenue in front of Pauls lumber yard. He was riding a bicycle when the accident occurred and suffered bruises though no bones were broken as the driver Mr Rogers rushed him to a doctor and home thereafter.
A closing out sale at the farm residence 2 miles southwest of Letts on Wednesday October 4 1911 at 11 a m offers 20 head of horses including registered Percheron stock and standard bred mares plus 50 head of registered Short Horn cattle and 100 Poland China hogs. Household goods and implements are listed with terms cash or twelve months on notes. Dinner served by the Ladies Aid. Firefly train stops nearby. Auctioneers Col D F Macon O Johnson Clerk E R McCormick.
Valley Forge Camp No. 868 hosts weekly Thursday meetings in the North Side Square hall inviting all neighbors to attend.
Regular meetings scheduled for Masonics in Washington area lodges including Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M and Cyrus Chapter No 13 R A M with J W Morton as secretary. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 K T and Washington Chapter No 98 O B F S list monthly meeting nights and officer contacts. Visiting fraters welcome as noted.
Auctioneers CHAS. BROWN and BR. J. HOLMES advertise a sale at the Mrs A L Patterson place 2 miles east of Lexington on Wednesday September 20 beginning at 10 am. Readily described stock includes 18 horses and Hales 25 head of cattle and extensive farming machinery and harness with cash or bankable notes at 7 percent. Lunch by Lexington Ladies Aid Society. Clerk D C Patterson.
Referees announce sale of three parcels in Washington Iowa including a 320 acre farm near Pilotsburg with improvements, timber, spring and orchard, plus an unimproved 135 acre tract north of Pilotsburg and a city lot in Ashby's Addition. Sale may be entire or divided. details and prices available from referees in Washington Iowa.
Pure bred March and April farrow pigs and some fall yearling males. Sired by Junction Chief Black Giant and Longfellow. A trio of males hard to equal, over six feet in length with over nine inch bone. Hogs are big smooth type, guaranteed breeders. G B Van Albeck Keota Iowa five miles west of West Chester.
Among ancient mariners the Wildest superstitions ran high and the belief in enchanted spots lingered. Sailors spoke of Salypso the siren island and Sinbad likening certain islets to the Gardens of Paradise, more romantic than modern seafaring tales.
Workmen digging for a cellar in Bloomfield New Jersey uncovered a horse skeleton and two live turtles eight feet underground in a site once a mill pond, filled in 1850. It is believed the horse was in the pond when filled and the turtles fed on the flesh.
Decisive move from farming prompts sale at residence one mile east of Washington on Tuesday September 26 1911. Starts 10 a.m. featuring four horses four head cattle spring hogs hay and various farming implements with notes due in ten months at six percent interest. Auctioneers Macon and Dougherty.
A fragmentary note mentions Peter the Great and a figure described as the Spanish Condor Princess with a possible tie to Miss Emily, indicating a curious historical or literary crossover. The text reads as an OCR fragment with no clear event or date.
A show Jack weighing 1050 pounds and colored brown with white points is described as large of bone and a strong foal getter. Its sire is the famous Great SON OF CUSTER and all its ancestors are noted as premier male producers.
A public sale will be held at Milwanukee stock yards Washington Iowa on Thursday Sept 21 1911 starting at 1 30 pm. The sale includes twelve head horses and colts including brood mares draft stock road mares and a saddle pony along with one hundred head cattle 2 year old steers and three hundred head sheep with ewes wethers lambs and bucks. Terms cash or approved six month notes at 7 percent. Auctioneers J F Taylor and D F Macon with Ralph Dougherty as clerk.
This gray Percheron stallion, sired by Vaillant 56873 and out of Lisette 29285, was purchased from M. Fullard after the Paris show. Raised on a French estate with 200 years of Percheron breeding, he is portrayed as the finest imported stock in America with exceptional conformation and value to breeders.
The advertisement describes large feet and ponderous weight as a masterpiece of Perehean elegance in America. It presents actual photographs of animals and offers a 1911 season at a farm 2 miles southwest of Ainsworth. Price 14 dollars to insure cost to stand and suck. Insurance money due when mare is sold or removed. Contact J A Kolosick owner keeper via local phone lines.
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