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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
3
Dr. Orr preached to a large audience last night and seven people accepted Christ. He urged all to forsake sin with warnings from Scripture, the Sabbath, and the Holy Spirit. Tomorrow at four there is a Say-so service for young people, and a parents meeting is planned for Sabbath afternoon.
An Olid passenger conductor recalls a 19th century Ion Mountain railway robbery where a masked assailant looted a train. A long-haired express messenger, mocked as a coward, later killed two robbers and captured three others single handed after tracking them to a cabin in the mountains.
William Snyder, among five arrested by Deputy Game Warden Claude Fisher, was fined $300 by Judge H S Howe for twenty counts of illegal fishing in Muscatine slough. His attorneys will appeal to the district court, with four Snyder partners held on bond. Snyder to appear at the November district court term.
Hon Orlando H Manning ex lieutenant governor of Iowa died in Atlantic City New Jersey last Sunday night He served two terms in the Iowa legislature from Carroll county one term as lieutenant governor elected in 1881 He authored a famous schoolhouse on every hilltop and no saloon in the valley Manning founded the Carroll Herald He was 62 and a lawyer by profession He had lived in Denver Chicago Topeka New York and other cities and was the son of Rev Joseph Manning.
District court adjourned yesterday afternoon for the September term. A large number of cases were reviewed with the docket cleaned up as much as possible. There will be substantial business for the November term, with jury cases expected to be especially numerous.
Ministers in the city protested the Presidents planned talk at the Mormon tabernacle tomorrow and the school children review was dropped. Mrs. Robert Dihel and Mrs. C Lam bach of West Chester visit the George Eckerman home and with Mrs T J Montgomery.
The W C T U of this city pledged to raise $100 for the Benedict's home in Council Bluffs. Rev. Hoffman, who was here recently in the interests of that institution, represented the effort.
Keokuk Iowa Sept 24 Mary Schultz 15 daughter of junk dealer Harry Schultz created a scene at Wells school Wednesday afternoon. Superintendent William Aldrich had a warrant sworn for her arrest after she insulted staff in reaction to her brother's expulsion for insubordination. She was taken into custody, locked up, released on bond, and the information filed.
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