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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
3
The Journal notes improvements in permanent sidewalks as Geo Hl Carson and Son of Oskaloosa return to lay cement walks for L D Robinson and Chas Keck. They guarantee every foot, have fourteen years experience, and have filed a city guarantee bond. Rates are 25 cents per square foot.
Bran,Shorts and Flour at Buwer's tf. See the 5e novels at the Opera House News Stand. Harry Shrader was a business visitor in Ainsworth today. Ambrose Cunningham left last night for a visit in Wyoming Iowa. We get any book you want inside of a week. Mrs J Roberts returned home this morning after seven weeks visit in the Eastern States. Fred Giesler of Muscatine arrived on the Firefly last evening and visits Frank Stewart. 1847 Rogers knives and forks offered for $2.65 at L D Robinsons this month only. Miksch daughter Grace Hill 8315 Olive Miksch is dangerously ill. physician summoned. Mrs John Stevenson arrived from Thornburg to stay with her husband during the None-Such Washer trial. Your money's worth in smoke in D M C cigar at Columbia Pharmacy.
Stewart's Pharmacy and Anno Book Store advertise bargains on Bibles at half price and Masury paints. The listing highlights Kodaks and formaldehyde products by Dr. Geo Letninger. East-side Stewart's on the West Side invites shopping.
Local items report visitors and departures from Fairfield area, travels to Columbus Junction and Ottumwa, and social events. Readers are told of reunions, church events, and promotions at area stores, with many brief mentions of individuals and towns in Iowa in late September.
The region endures a wet August and September with more than ten inches of rain in six weeks. Lightning struck a New London drugstore starting a blaze, and Cedar Rapids long distance lines were down. Lysle Nicola leaves for Lake Forest to resume school, while Arthur Wead returns from Ohio and Miss Stormount visits Winfield.
Report from Galveston dated September 19 describes rapid relief efforts as supplies arrive and residents are fed and clothed. Officials plan rebuilding, estimating at least 5 million dollars needed to restart, with death toll projected around 6500 and some projections up to 7000.
Rock Island rail travelers headed to western and eastern points as excursion business thrived last night. Families and individuals boarded for Clarksburg Missouri Manhattan Kansas Rome and other locales with about twenty tickets sold.
Donald Maze Scofield, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Norman Scofield of East Jefferson street, died at 13 months after illness of cholera infantum and spinal meningitis. He passed away at 9 30 this morning, mourned by kinfolk and friends. The notice notes a bereaved family and extends sympathy. Also mentioned: S Palmer, formerly of this city now of Dexter, secured an $8 monthly pension through Kellogg's agency yesterday. Eva Dillange starts as new assistant at Bowman Broa
In Jas Conroy saloon in Montgomery mining town seven miles east of Washington Indiana a brawl left miner Lawrence Allen dead from a fractured skull and broken neck. Conroy and rival Tine Cole faced arrest but inquest testimony led to their releases. Allen leaves a wife and child. Also noted are storms in Bermuda and Newfoundland and a Winona Minnesota man finding a $2000 pearl in a clam shell.
The notice outlines a redemption program: 5 coupons plus 2 cents in stamps for a small children’s picture book, 10 for a medium book, 15 for a large book, 20 for a Colonial Dames embossed hanger, and 25 for a 14 by 20 inch lithograph titled The St. Clair Flats with a detachable calendar block, all for children.
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