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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
2
The telegraphers strike conditions seem to be improving with service better now. Market reports for Friday and Saturday arrived too late for the morning issue but readers may call in the future for updates. Also notes a hoped settlement soon.
Free mailed trials of Dr Shoop Catarrh Remedy offered in Racine Wisconsin. Tests show the prescription’s value to the public at no cost. Sold by J H Stewart and widely known by druggists.
A Kansas man advertised for a lost five dollar bill and a stranger who had found a five dollar bill read the ad and returned it. A few days later the original bill was found in his pocket, proving advertising paid 100 percent according to the Utica Press.
In Bisbee Arizona and North Butte Montana mining firms cut copper production by 50 percent. The St. Louis machinists union aids Erie railroad strikers with a $1,000 contribution. Oklahoma Indian Territory polls close as candidates vie. The Central League ends with Springfield Ohio claiming the pennant. Palestinian languages remain Arabic and Hebrew.
The Yankee Regent musical comedy starring Toby Lyons wowed about fifty in the Graham opera house last night. Lyons, a witty ex politician and poet, drew tears of laughter with improvised verses while John Collins and Walter Smith impressed as Hopps and Schnopps. Edith Arnold and Edith Herbert led supporting roles with colorful makeups, and the show offered a rare, pretentious spectacle that the community enjoyed despite a modest crowd. The next bill is The Cow Puncher on September 21.
Grinnell scholar E A Steiner will speak at the Presbyterian church on the 27th, under the brotherhood’s auspices. He is described as a capable, well informed lecturer on immigration and a devoted Christian worker. A recent paper praised his devotion and eloquence.
The Ministerial association met yesterday at 1:30 PM at the home of Rev. George D. Rogers on West Madison Street. Rev. K Michels was elected president and Rev. W O Fisher secretary for the coming year. Revs. Fisher and A S Smith were named to the program committee. Discussion followed the election of officers.
Mrs. Ada Hloward and her daughter Lola arrived yesterday morning from Wyconda Missouri and are spending a short visit at the home of Ada's sister in law Mrs. James Cowyger.
Modern science shows catarrh is a germ disease and Hyomei cures it by medicating the air. The remedy soothes raw membranes and heals nasal and throat passages. Lemmon's Pharmacy offers an absolute guarantee to refund the money if Hyomei fails to deliver all claimed benefits.
The education column notes multiple students entering colleges and seminaries this fall. Edith Bailey and Maud Mc Creedy will attend the State University of Iowa, Agnes Coffelt trains as a nurse at University Hospital, Sappho Beamer and Lena Maxwell return to Oberlin, and Tom Miller, Ray Latchem, Lee Dowell, and Alex Lytle resume study at the University of Chicago. Cloyce Beard to Monmouth College, Alvin Godfrey to Allegheny Theological Seminary, Mills Taylor and Frank Galloway to Nenia Theological Seminary, and Bessie Wearbyshire, Mazie Stewart, Roy McFarland, Glenn Conard to Drake University. Alliene Bailey heads to special work in New York City. Edna Klein studies at Evangelical Institute in St. Louis, Mabel Morton and Edith Chilcote at the deaconess training school in Chicago, Beula Eichelberger trains for a nurse at St. Anthony's Hospital in Rock Island, and Bertha Young, Dessag Wabnitz, Hope Ott, Margaret Wallingford, Nelle Dowman attend the State Normal school in Cedar Falls. John Shuman and Harold McElhinney study at the Western University of Pennsylvania in Allegheny, Pa.
Mauretania has left Wallsend for speed trials off the Tyne before final fittings. At 700 feet she trails Lusitania sister ship Tasmanian in length and measures 33 200 gross tons. In Liverpool Cunard directors weigh winter rates in response to White Star line reductions, signaling a sharpening rate war.
Evansville Ind Sept 16 Asa Worley a street car conductor sues his wife for divorce claiming abandonment. He learned he had inherited a $40 000 Cincinnati estate recently but his wife left him days earlier taking most household effects.
Washington dispatch from Havana Governor Magoon cites four new yellow fever cases in Cienfuegos on Thursday and three on Friday. All patients are Spaniards except for Private William Foster of the Fifteenth Cavalry, a United States soldier.
Judge Smith McPherson of Iowa in Topeka orders the exhumation of L. H. Perkins of Lawrence to resolve a bid by Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York claiming Perkins died from poison and to determine payment of a $100,000 life policy.
Mrs Wyss quotes Justin as describing a bill collector and Mr Wyss responds from the library to give the collector all he can carry away per Leslie's Weekly.
Public sale announced for Thursday September 19 at 10:00 am at a living farm six miles northwest of Washington. Items include seven head of horses and mules and a variety of cattle hogs and hay with terms: cash under 10 and credit terms over 10 with 7 percent interest. Auctioneers Teeter and Lathrop. clerk J B Crayne.
Markets have improved over the last two days and readers are urged to call for regular market reports when available. The note expresses anticipation of receiving markets consistently and invites inquiries.
A Brooklyn lady asks where to buy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after using it to cure suspected cholera in South Dakota. She reports it helped her and her mother with dysentery. sold by Cook and Sherman.
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