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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1908
Page
8
Local correspondents report on community events across the county. Details cover social gatherings, civic notices, farm updates, and notable happenings from towns and neighborhoods. Readers gain a snapshot of daily life and emerging local stories.
Sept 28 Miss Mellie HBeitel visits brothers Else and Frank Beitel in Chicago. Ben Hamm has engaged in house painting. Brice Flanders family spent last week at Mt. Pleasant and attended their nephew’s funeral after a sawmill accident. J T Foster and aura Foster of Haskins attended Mrs Taylor’s funeral. Jane Richardson visits Davenport to assist with newborn grandson. Dessa McNees of Rubio stayed with sister Pearl Hayes. J E B Harvey of New Mexico visits daughter Mrs Earl Burroughs and son Ray. Adam Libe and Wild Libe family joined Ed Libe home for Sunday. C J Johnson reported in poor health.
Sept 28 notes show John Hillhouse visiting Burlington Friday and several families attending the Wagner Davison wedding on Wednesday. G D Collins of Kansas visited Hillhouse Friday night. A surprise birthday event for Art Hazen was hosted by Mrs Hazen with music by Halda Putman and Art Hazen. Others, including Steele, McBride, and Caldwell families, visited Will Easter, John Davison, and Roy Davison events. John Caldwell’s house remodel is underway with Wallace from Washington handling the work. Cora Porter, county superintendent, visited Havre school Tuesday.
A Illinois pottery company offers to purchase forty acres of Catholic church timber at 600 an acre to build a Kalona factory. The land reportedly holds blue soil needed for production. Raymond Pieper displays a new Shetland pony.
Ainsworth residents note visitors from Tennessee Indiana and Davenport. Frank Walker and Mrs Walker arrived for a visit at W A Walker's home. Cloud Willits suffered a sever cut from a slipping axe requiring seven stitches. Al Crone pair welcome a newborn baby. Casse1 and J W Davis are in Rock Island and Washington respectively for day visits.
Mr and Mrs Earl Lucky welcome a newborn child as the couple celebrates the arrival of their baby. Mrs A Carson spent yesterday in Washington and is noted in society notices from the same posting.
Sept 24. Vern Dolph returns home to Cedar Rapids from the barber shop. Miss Margaret Johnston heads to Gibson to visit her parents. United Presbyterian church to be papered soon. Crawfordsville lost to West Chester 17 to 11 in Saturday’s ball game.
Mrs. Kate Davidson and son from Pawnee Okla and Mrs. Sam Anderson with Grace arrive from Washington to visit A Davidson. James Ferguson returns from Kansas City. J Kinnick leaves Huntly Mont for home. Gormly Crooks Cherryholmes head to Kansas City to buy stock. D C Griffith arrives from Washington. Manners off to Tarkio Mo for Iowa synod meeting. Rev J H Taylor aids evangelistic meetings at Mt Union. Earl Young heads to new home in Kansas City. Mrs Luther Gormly with Mrs Yeager and Miss Crone travel to Washington. Change of program tonight The Star.
Mrs Susan A Day died at her Brighton home after a lingering illness. She leaves her husband and five children W R Day Joe Day Anna Swisher John Day and Lulu MecMackin. Funeral will be in the M E church Wednesday afternoon. She was born January 9 1834 and the family long resided in the area.
The bridge and building department of the Milwaukee railroad under Foreman Anderson is now located in Milwaukee yards in this city. It will focus on building concrete tops for ballast top bridges using a new system of bridge construction. Milwaukee aims to supply its entire system with these concrete tops from this location.
If any person suspects kidney trouble they should take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once to avoid Bright's disease or diabetes. Delay gives the disease a stronger foothold and you should not delay taking Foley's Kidney Remedy. Lemmon's Pharmacy.
The Washington Baptist association observes its fortieth anniversary at Prairie Flower church northwest of town on September 30 to October 2. J B Crayne will lecture at 11 a m Thursday on Forty Years of the Washington Association with Rev George D Rogers Mrs Grace Bishop Edgar Waters and John Jay listed among speakers. Several missionary addresses are planned and the three day meeting is expected to be of interest.
Chicago rundown of league standings and daily baseball scores across New York Philadelphia Boston Brooklyn Cincinnati Detroit Cleveland and St Louis with game results marked by hits errors and batters for each matchup. Notable outcomes include Chicago beating Boston 9 to 2 in darkness and New York sweeping St Louis 12 to 1 in the nightcap.
Joseph Wheelock aged sixty five veteran actor died of heart disease in Highlands of Navesink New Jersey on the eve of a train to New York. He helped found the Actors Home of America and served as its first president. His son Joseph Jr is currently in the west and has been notified of the death.
Cholera continues to decrease in St Petersburg with 265 cases and 102 deaths reported in municipal hospitals for the 24 hours ending at noon yesterday. The daily toll reflects ongoing relief efforts as authorities monitor the outbreak.
A brief exchange between Edith and her twin sister Tommie reveals a playful method to tell them apart. When the mood is pleasant the name Ethel is used, while a crankier moment signals the caller is addressing Tommie.
A raw cavalry recruit named Murphy is forced to ride as a harsh drill tests him. He is tossed from the saddle, nearly breathless, after dismounting without orders. The sergeant exposes the miscast rule, and Murphy answers with a quip about orders from headquarters versus hind quarters.
The passage argues that early weakness or dullness in boys does not predict future greatness. It cites Napoleon, Wellington, Grant, and Stonewall Jackson as examples of individuals who were not remarkable as youths but achieved prominence later, encouraging patience with slow learners.
A child asks why the sun sets and rises again. The mother offers a bedtime explanation that the sun sets so it can hatch all the days, prompting the boy to seek a clearer reason. The tale closes with the boy's playful interpretation and the nightly ritual.
The Westminster Gazette notes an old Cornish game revived at Newquay beach each August. A handball like form of football, players throw and pass a small solid silver ball bearing St Columb Major and Minor Do your best. No goal is allowed in the first forty five minutes.
The future Queen Victoria, a high spirited princess, enjoyed donkey rides at Tunbridge Wells with Jim Langridge, who often lent his donkey for her gallops. She urged him to start with a shout, while ladies in attendance feared accidents. Langridge lived to eighty four, outliving the queen by a year.
A dated paragraph notes that many operations on women are unnecessary and that numerous procedures could be avoided, reflecting a concern about medical practices in hospitals and the prevalence of surgery as a feared experience for women.
Letters from Barbara Base of Kingman Kansas and Arthur R House of Moorestown New Jersey praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing severe female troubles and avoiding surgery. The ads claim the remedy has helped thousands with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains and backaches and invite women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn MA.
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