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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1911
Page
7
Ir O Fe Alpine Aerie No 1943 announces regular meetings the first and third Wednesday evenings each month. Visiting members in good standing are welcome. E G Fox W P and R C DuBois Secretary sign the notice.
I G White Post No 108 meets on the first and third Tuesday in the temple building Post rooms J W Scott Commander J J Kellogg Adjt BM WWAe Valley Forge Camp No 868 meets every Thursday evening in the hall on North Side Square All neighbors are welcome
G C Mayer of Brighton rural route no 1 fell about twenty feet from a hickory tree while nut gathering. He suffered a broken back plus broken collar bone and shoulder blade. Though still living, physicians offer no hope for recovery. Mayer, about 40 and unmarried, has several brothers and a sister in various towns, and the community expresses deep sympathy.
News comes of the death of Dr. W. H. McMillan United Presbyterian minister and pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church Allegheny Pa Neuralgia of the heart is listed as the cause. He leaves his invalid wife six daughters and is about seventy. He was born and long lived in this city as the youngest McMillan brother. Funeral plans are pending.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday night monthly. Cyrus Chapter No. 18 R A M meets on the second Friday night. Bethlehem Commandery No. 45 KT meets on the third Friday night. Washington Chapter No. 98 C E S meets on the second Thursday night. Visiting fraters welcome.
Notice of a dark red sow weighing about 300 pounds missing since September 6. Report to Wm Jones. Reference R3 and 3-23 with contact at 806 Ee.
The speaker notes that Myrtilla was proposed but not accepted and vows to keep him on the rack for a period. A warning to Miranda follows to be careful or risk ending up on the shelf.
A summary of Bonnette and Larrey accounts in the Presse Medicale and New York Medical Journal describing soldiers’ indifference to pain during Napoleon’s campaigns. It notes amputations, rapid recoveries, and veterans’ endurance from Borodino to the Beresina, highlighting victory’s psychological power.
Rock Island passenger engine No. 935 that pulled the Golden State Limited into the wreck at Ainsworth was moved to a city track and drew many onlookers while awaiting trains. The engine showed no serious damage though the tender rear bore wreck marks. the forward section remained unscathed.
Brick has been laid on the North Iowa paving contract from Milwaukee depot to Sam Forman corner a distance of two blocks inspectors are now reviewing the work pulling out lead bricks A steam roller from Des Moines will roll the two blocks Monday then tar will be poured over the brick Contractor J J McKeone says with good weather the street could open by October 1 with October 15 completion deadline.
Corner of Iowa Avenue and Jefferson Street hosts Sabbath school at 10 a m and morning service at 11 a m with the topic Matter and Luke six forty golden text. Wednesday evening meeting at 7:45 p m free reading room over Crail's store open Monday Wednesday and Saturday 2 30 to 4 30 p m.
Uncle Jerry Eckerman forwards a Chambersburg Register note detailing several Fort Loudon area trees. A maiden tree at Squire Hoerner’s yard stands 40 to 50 feet high with a ribless leaf. a box-wood boxwood misprint is corrected to thirty nine feet. William Hoerner’s Cove Gap sugarberry reaches 100 feet tall with a five foot diameter trunk. Mrs Ehrhart’s Edenville pear tree, fifty years old, bears Bartlett Sickle Choke Bell and a mystery variety, producing ten to fifteen bushels yearly. William Ehrhart valued grafting skill for fruit wealth. Two sixty-year-old cherry trees on the same farm yielded $80 last year and 200 quarts when cherries were scarce this year.
A spectator gasps as a player reveals a royal flush, her hand trembling but not blushing, faces full of amaze and dismay at the unexpected hand. The moment captures high tension and dramatic luck during the game.
A discussion notes the old adage that without meat there is no pleasure and cites Maimonides praising healthful dishes. It mentions bread baked from fine wheat not too new or old and not ground too fine as part of dietary guidance.
At a public sale the auctioneer offered "Drew's Essays on Souls" and it sold to a shoemaker whose quip about more shoemaking works drew great amusement from the crowd.
A Deptford London market bullock aged 12 months was found to have two hearts. One heart was normal in size while the other was noticeably smaller. This extraordinary deformity has no known prior record in market annals.
A city group member praises a barn as pretty and the others joke about the surrounding small structures as barnacles. The exchange highlights a lighthearted moment during a farm visit.
G Stanley Hall introduced modern psychology to the United States by founding a psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1883, shaping the discipline's development.
Mrs Bjenks jokes a worm crawling up her skirt means a new dress, as Mr Bjenks retorts to hire a worm to sew and to send a hookworm to fix her back, expressing frustration with the task.
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