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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1903
Page
4
Mins Lou Stuskins hosted a noon dinner for grandmother Ohogemach daughter Mrs Noah Jacobs and granddaughter Mrs Lydia Zach man of Scranton la. A What is it social was held by Degree of Honor in the A O U W Hall. Prizes were sold for 2c to 5c, refreshments served, about 0 guests attended.
Keota items note the infant of Mr and Mrs C. Riesman is ill with cholera infantum. The column covers visits and travel from Sigourney Washington and Olds, with residents arriving or leaving town, including Mrs J Coder Mrs J D Dayton and Grace Robbins and Dr Kerr and Dr L Pyke.
Gen. Joe Wheeler of the McClean Arms & Ordnance Co. says Samuel McClean’s recoil free firearm may transform modern warfare. Russia England Turkey and Mexico seek tests and patterns while Wheeler campaigns for Dick law reforms to unify state militia under federal oversight.
Des Moines rabbi to publish a history tracing Jewish settlement in Iowa from 1872 when Russians entered Iowa City. The piece notes the 1876 Children of Israel synagogue, J B Cohen as first president, and early members who aided in gathering material for the volume.
Two candidates are scheduled for work tonight in the first and second degrees. All members are requested to be present by order of W Hl Minick M W.
Tomorrow Charles Reeves will sell twenty good horses after the convention at the Aey Bros river barn. Four are extra wood sad die horses and two are extra good cattle ponies.
Lost a finger when a belt jammed a pulley on a thresher at widow Smiths farm three miles east of West Chester. The finger was removed at the second joint and the injury will keep Mr. Ross hospitalized for some time. Charles Houck reports a successful Fairfield horse sale with total 4400. Reeves acted as auctioneer as Mrs Noah Jacobs and daughter Mrs Lydia Zachman return to Scranton, Pa after visiting Mrs Ohngemach.
The scenic comedy My Friend from Arkansaw will be staged at the Gra ham Tuesday evening September 29. The notice emphasizes remembering the date for theatergoers.
Construction progresses on the Neola Elevator Co foundation with the frame of the new Presbyterian church already raised and partially enclosed. The Wm Beardsley store is completed and goods for the new store are arriving as local activity continues. W P Warner of Milwaukee meets stock feeders and shippers near Staskins. Mrs A M Hillhouse returns from Greene County Iowa and C Mather starts a two week trip to Kansas.
Sept 23 report notes Charlie Hesselschwerdt drove to Wellman Sunday evening. Many will join the excursion to What Cheer next Thursday for the fair. River Junctions lost 7 to 8 to Kalona in a friendly game. Sylvester Sharpe in court. his wife improving after illness. Blanche Durst visited the Adams home. Rev George Filmer moves here to lead the church next year. Fred Skola expected to join the town.
Sept 24 notes Mrs G J Easter leaving for Bloomfield to visit parents J R Hardin and daughter Emma. T J Nicholson travels to Washington for Rev R D Eeblin ordination at the Baptist church. Jesse Marr G S Anderson and John Hamil return from Kansas City with three carloads of cattle and one of sheep. Mrs A L Wilkins heads to Brighton then plans a Colorado tour. W A Walker and companion on business in Washington. Mrs BE Thompson of Columbus City departs for Wapello after visiting Washington. Mrs John Stone visits son James Stone in the country. Mame Harding visits Washington yesterday. W B Gardner and W D McCon-
Mrs M L Miller visits brother Richard Malin in Washington. J J McGahey returns from Jamesport Mo where he rented a farm and will take possession soon. J W Gardner returns from Chicago after moving stock. Nellie Startwick arrives Davenport for visit with Pearson family. J N Sands public sale yields 376 15 coin sold at 4 percent per bushel. Frank Porter comes home from Loveland Colo after three weeks with relatives. Mrs K Stearns conducts business in Washington today.
On Sept 25 Mrs John Simpson spent time in Cedar township visiting daughter Mrs J Green. Mr and Mrs J Frazier visited relatives in Fairfield. Miss Maggie Iden of your city is staying with her sister Mrs Raymond Enn. Mrs Frank McKay returned home from a visit with relatives in Spirit Lake.
Sept 25 reports guests from Washington and Chicago visiting local families. Mr and Mrs J H Stewart hosted friends yesterday. Miss Mae Walker of Chicago visits at J S Walker home. her father is ill. Mrs J Green arrived from Washington to visit relatives. Miss Blanche Cunningham leaves for Washington for a brief business visit.
Sept 25 reports the infant of Mr and Mrs Kesseman died last evening from cholera infantum. S Moritz returned from Chicago and Mrs Moritz will stay in Davenport briefly. The city primary school will hold an entertainment this evening to raise funds for an organ. Mr and Mrs Sherm Welch and daughter return home after visiting Miss Tillie Levien.
Newcastle Indiana September 25 authorities investigate a probable murder of Samuel Criner's two year old illegitimate child near Spiceland. Neighbors report a fatal beating by the father after a week of abuse. Sheriff coroner and deputy prosecutor conducted an autopsy finding a frontal bone contusion and multiple bruises. Criner arrested at a farm near Spiceland and jailed awaiting murder charge.
In Grand Rapids on September 25 Professor Max Wright of Leland Stanford University ordered a plain funeral costing little. He directed $200 be used for a public fountain instead. No minister or expensive clothing, mourners in open carriages, body in a pine box. A second item reports little Mabel Tatler killed by a falling tree at Diamond Lake hotel yard.
For sale a house with four lots and four living-room rentals available. Inquiries at the Journal office. Also a Roman Stem apples offer by J. H. Humston Route 3 with contact details in the same notice.
Clarence Stafford of Muscatine and others are noted as visiting or passing through the area. Mary Grassel returns from Osceola after a sister-in-law's death. An 86 year old man from Clay is ill and unable to meet his son. Religious figures toured Kalona to fund Iowa Wesleyan University debt retirement, aiming for 100000 by October 1. California colonists excursion tickets offered weekly via Santa Fe System through Minneapolis agents.
On September 1 8 15 and October 6 the Iowa Central will run annual Home Visitors Excursions to Ohio and Indiana. Tickets on sale on given dates with a limit for thirty days from sale. For rates and details contact A. B. Cutts G P T A Iowa Central Ry Minneapolis Minn oct.
The Rock Island System extends low rates to California with a first selling date of September 15 and last date November 30. Prices include Chicago 33.00, Peoria and Rock Island 31.00, St Paul and Minneapolis 32.00, Cedar Rapids 31.70, Des Moines 29.25, Missouri river points 25.00, with corresponding reductions from all stations. Tickets are valid in Tourist sleeping cars and sales end before winter.
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